TV Review: HBO’s The Leftovers 1X10, “The Prodigal Son Returns”

Episode 10 is the last episode of the season and, most likely, the last episode I’ll ever watch. Throughout the season I’ve experienced a series of emotions; from curiosity to confusion to frustration. The characters frustrate the hell out of…

Listen: Fall Out Boy Releases New Single, “Centuries”

Since their reunion in February 2013, Fall Out Boy hasn’t spent any time resting on its laurels. After the release of “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark,” the rock-pop-emo outfit has released the full length album Save…

‘I’ll Give You the Sun’ Blog Tour: A Guest Post from Jandy Nelson

Jandy  Nelson, critically acclaimed author of The Sky is Everywhere, is touring blogs during September to enlighten the web with her new book, I’ll Give You the Sun. From giveaways to guest posts to other awesome content, I challenge you…

The Film Canon: Blue Velvet (1986)

[Warning: Contains spoilers!!] A green lawn, red roses, and a white picket fence. Red lipstick, a pink sweater, and beautiful blonde hair. Yellow curtains, a yellow suit, and a roll of yellow police tape. Green, rotting flesh, black, crawling ants,…

TV Review: Outlander 1×04 – “The Gathering”

The fourth episode of Outlander opens with a focus on two Scottish guards overseeing the forest, as we see a woman, likely Claire, running breathlessly through the trees. Is she escaping already? Not quite yet. Claire is playing with the…

TV Review: HBO’s The Leftovers 1X08 “Cairo”

It is episode eight of The Leftovers and there still aren’t any new developments.   In the beginning of the episode, Nora joins the Garveys for dinner and Jill doesn’t make light of the event. Then Aimee brings up what Nora…

The Film Canon: The Ascent (1977)

Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent is one of the most tactile of films. The soundtrack submerges the audience in harsh, overbearing sounds: the heavy creak of wooden floors, the sharp crunch of snow, the popping of seeds being chewed by starving…