Now we’re getting somewhere. Where last week we dealt with a slew of cliches, this week’s episode of The Strain gave us some higher quality melodrama, but also successfully fleshed out some vampire moments it had been building up to.…
TV Review: The Strain 1×2 “The Box”
The second episode of The Strain did a select number of fascinating things, while achieving equal amounts of cliches that put a strain on my brain. Speaking of which, I forgot to mention that last week’s premiere episode, “Night Zero,”…
TV Review: The Strain Premiere 1×1 “Night Zero”
Let’s get this out of the way: Corey Stoll’s wig is slightly ridiculous, and we need to get beyond that to enjoy the murderously intricate toy box that is Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain. I’ll try not to bring it up…
Your Kid is Smarter Than Michael Bay: A Transformers Franchise Critique
I saw the first Transformers film when I was in high school. I enjoyed it for what it was. My friends and I had a nostalgia for the cartoons and toys. Naturally, we kept going to see them. They were…
First Look at Marvel Studio’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ – 17 Minute Preview
On Monday night, Marvel Studios and theaters across the country hosted packed theaters of fans and skeptics to share 17 minutes of the film that is asking the biggest question of this summer, “Will people go see a Marvel movie…
‘The Giver’ New Posters and Foreword by Author Lois Lowry
The term “Young Adult” has taken on a new meaning since these dark times of overdosed dystopias, pale sparkling men and tattooed, leather clad teens. There was more “Adult” to the genre; we grew wiser from stories, as opposed to…
Best of Xbox’s E3 2014 – Here We Go Again… Again…
After a year of backtracking their goals for launch, a steady competition with the PlayStation 4, a recent price drop and seeming to finally give up on the lumbering brick that is the Kinect, (which is revealed to reserve processing…
