Pan’s Labyrinth opens with a shot moving in a reverse: It’s night and a young girl lies on the floor as blood streaming from her nose begins to shrink back in. It’s striking, haunting, horrifying and tragic, when you see…
Ally’s Movie Review: Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak would have been a wonderful silent film. It makes me think of the 2013 film Blancanieves directed by Pablo Berger and how it took the silent film model and updated it, providing the audience ample footage of visually…
TV Review: The Strain 2×12 “Fallen Light”
After a climactic month of episodes on Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain, the train slows the pace this week just enough to establish where our characters are at, and tie up loose ends until it’s full steam ahead into…
TV Review: The Strain 2×11 “Dead End”
We got left with a pretty severe cliffhanger last week that I desperately didn’t want to spoil for you guys, but you had all week to watch it so here it goes! You have two characters of good and evil…
The Strain Q&A with Kevin Durand
Vasiliy Fet is taking New York City back from the vampire horde one block at a time. With his knowledge of architecture, explosives and extermination, Fet has been the fan favorite character since the beginning of season one. Kevin Durand…
TV Review: The Strain 2×10 “The Assassin”
The Strain is raising the stakes, and this week we’re given more than a simple climactic battle to let us know it’s on to bigger and better things. In “The Assassin” we reach a couple of pivotal plot moments, with…
TV Review: The Strain 2×09 “The Battle for Red Hook”
Oh, how this little virus has grown. When compared to the convenience store shootout in season one’s episode “Creatures of the Night,” one can really understand the scale to which this series has grown as the people of New York, and…