Season 6 Of The Vampire Diaries Will Be Nina Dobrev’s Last

Nina Dobrev announced on her instagram that she was saying farewell to The Vampire Diaries at the end of season six. Julie Plec, the writer and producer of the show, then confirmed it with well wishes for her career. Nina…

Love in a Time of YA – Interview with Claire Legrand

This week, Claire Legrand, author of Winterspell a young adult retelling of The  Nutcracker, sat down with us to talk about romance in YA. Between book recommendations and fictional crushes, she tells us about what makes a healthy YA romance,…

The Best Science Fiction Films of the Last 10 Years

I love science-fiction. I love it even more when it’s at its absolute best. In recent years, science fiction has been substituted for dystopian teen dramas or superhero fanfare. While both have their merits (avid superhero fan right here), science…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans 3×11, “A Day In The Life Of Anton Baklanov”

If looking back on this season and seeing “A Day In The Life Of Anton Baklanov” as the low-point means anything, it is the fact that this superb season of The Americans has rarely made a misstep and when it…

‘Outlander’ Mid-Season Premiere: Thoughts on the controversial “spanking scene”

Outlander returned for the second half of its first season this past weekend. I was both highly anticipating and dreading it. Why? Because it was going to have that scene. As a fan of the book series, I knew the…

First Look: ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’

The summer movie scene usually means blockbusters, action, and superheroes, but thanks to the popularity of young adult adaptations like The Fault in Our Stars and If I Stay, summer is also beginning to mean contemporary dramas. Based on Jesse…

The Film Canon: It Happened One Night (1934)

It was a movie that shouldn’t have worked. Who in their right mind would try and make a romantic comedy where the lead actor and lead actress hated each other? Who in their right mind would ask Depression-era audiences to…