After episode upon episode of pointless filler, we’ve finally gotten to the good stuff. Episode nine opens with Barbie, who was captured by the guards in black in the previous episode. He’s being held in a small room and is…
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TV Review: The Strain 1×6 “Occultation”
They should have gotten Alfonso Cuarón to direct the opening shot of the eclipse over earth for this episode, but then they would have blown their whole season budget. Remember how with the last two weeks of The Strain I had…
Ally’s Movie Review: “The Giver”
The Giver fails because it doesn’t try to be anything extraordinary, happy to settle for a simple retelling that doesn’t show us anything that goes beyond satisfactory. It is a classic example of a missed opportunity, and with such rich, innovative…
TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×6, “Door Number Three”
For me, the best part about having all of the main characters back together again revolves around my notes. Rather than having to divide up the page of notes I have been taking on Falling Skies every week, I can…
Growing Up on Film: A Top 10
There’s a reason films about growing up have galvanized the cinema’s attention for so long, and there’s a reason we keep returning back to them. Everyone has gone through it: the first steps, the juvenile ecstasies, the aching disappointments, the…
TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×5, “Mind Wars”
“Mind Wars” is an appropriately on-the-nose title for a very on-the-nose episode, in terms of the messages it wants to get across. While we are now down to only three main storylines, I cannot say this was a stellar episode,…
Women in Film Wednesday: Little Women (1994)
Jo March: I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels…