Month: April 2015
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TV Episode Review: “Better Call Saul” “Marco” (01.10, 2015)
Written and directed by Peter Gould Albuquerque is a bright city. It’s full of hot colors and bright sunlight. It’s full of browns, yellows, oranges and reds. It’s a soulless, radioactive Georgia O’Keefe hellscape, but it’s one that’s full of bright-line clarity. Everyone and everything is clear and sharp in the constant sunlight. Chicago is…
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Movie Review: “It Follows” (David Robert Mitchell, USA 2014)
The modern slasher film is one of the more rigid and popular genres in film, and it has spawned no end of parodies and self-aware revisions because of that rigidity and popularity. At its heart, the slasher film is about the dangers of underage and/or premarital sex, with a plot that breaks down simply as:…
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TV Episode Review: “Better Call Saul” “Pimento” (01.09, 2015)
Written by Thomas Schnauz Directed by Thomas Schnauz The big question left after the last episode of Better Call Saul was exactly what Chuck dropping that box meant. Was he shocked to realize that his “illness” had gone away, and about to celebrate? Was he panicking at the realization that he had gone outside and…
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