TV Review: Outlander 1×06 – The Garrison Commander

Critics and viewers have given overwhelming praise to episode six of Outlander. I am here to tell you that the hype is real. This well-executed, tense and riveting episode is the easily the best we’ve seen all season. Last week’s…

TV Review: The Strain 1×5 “Runaways”

This week’s fifth episode of The Strain suffers from the exact thing I detailed in last week’s recap of “It’s Not For Everyone,” specifically about its attempts to balance so many characters that the episode feels like it is wandering.…

‘Into the Storm’ Cast Talks Real Life Tornadoes

If you are having Sharknado withdrawals, then head to the theater this Friday to catch an even more epic tornado in Into the Storm. The movie takes place in the city of Silverton, where in a span of a couple…

Ally’s Movie Review: Calvary

The virtuous, the evil and the damned, the faithful and bedridden, the devout and the defiled; all are represented, all are given their moments in the sun in this extraordinary look at life and forgiveness and all that falls in…

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…

Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here Opens This Friday!

Wish I Was Here is the first movie directed by Zach Braff since his indie breakout hit Garden State. The original screenplay is by the director and his brother Adam. The new movie tells a funny, touching, universal story of…

Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ brings new hope this summer

The sun falls on the age of human dominance, much like the collapse of the Roman Empire. No one ever thought it would ever happen, but that’s what made us so ill-equipped for when it finally did. When homo sapiens…