HST… Best Music of 2013

Day 3 of the Best Of 2013 lists brings the writers here at HST… to music. What songs had you singing along this past year?

HST… Best Movies of 2013

Day two of HST’s Best Of lists brings us to Movies. Be sure to come back tomorrow for Music!

HST… Best Books of 2013

Seems like just yesterday the writers here at HST… were compiling our favorites in different forms of media for 2012. Turns out another year has already passed and it’s time to decide everything from 2013 we feel worth mentioning, starting with a new category to us, books. Apparently only Heather and Lauren know how to […]

TV Review: Sherlock: Series 3 – The Sign of Three

The Sign of Three breaks the episode 2 curse for Sherlock with, very likely, the best episode of the show yet.

TV Review: Sherlock: Series 3 – The Empty Hearse

Sherlock kicks off its third series with a stellar entry into the series that, sort of, realigns the show going forward while getting some fantastic performances out of Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Book Review: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

How the heck do you write a sequel to The Shining? Is some other family going to be haunted within the walls of a new hotel that was built on the haunted grounds of The Overlook? Because that’s how horror sequels usually go.

Gaming Review: Assassin’s Creed IV DLC: Freedom Cry

I’ve never been blown away by the Assassin’s Creed DLC packs for all games in the series (though I never played those for III, which looked way cooler than the rest), and Freedom Cry continues this trend by being far from “need to play,” no matter how promising the protagonist is.

Book Review: Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

Diane Setterfield set the bar pretty high for herself with her first novel, The Thirteenth Tale, which is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Now she’s back with Bellman & Black, a ghost story of sorts that isn’t as haunting to the reader as it is to the protagonist.

Film Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street is DiCaprio as good as he’s ever been and Scorsese takes it up a notch to a level we rarely get from him.

Gaming Review: Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

While playing Sid Meier’s Pirates! did you ever wish that you could take a microscope to that world to get a closer look at all the pirating going on? Then Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is the game for you!