TV Review: The Strain 1×10, “Loved Ones”

Evan has a problem with The Strain’s wasted potential! *Gasp!* What? Again?! This week on The Strain we have episode 10, “Loved Ones”, providing, in some capacity, what I pretty much wanted in the first place. We have our gathering…

TV Review: The Strain 1×9, “The Disappeared”

This summer’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 is one of the worst offenders I’ve ever seen of plot convenience (as has been detailed over the internet since its Blu-ray release), but in terms of a plot-point-to-runtime ratio, this week’s episode of The…

‘This Is Where I Leave You’ 40+ New Film Stills

We are excited to share new film stills and behind-the-scenes shots from THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, and Jane Fonda. The dramatic comedy “This is Where I Leave You” is directed by Shawn Levy,…

TV Review: The Strain 1×8, “Creatures of the Night”

If there was any episode of this show so far to mark with a SPOILER ALERT, this would probably be it. That’s my indication of saying this week’s installment of The Strain was actually worth watching to preserve such a…

TV Review: The Strain 1×7, “For Services Rendered”

The Strain’s Episode 7 has the most interesting opening of them all. We see a new guy introduced who doesn’t feel suddenly out of place or forced, but directly related to characters we’ve already seen, namely the lawyer Joan Luss,…

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…

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.…