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  • Anatomy of a Scene: “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1954)

    This week, Fathom events is showing Rear Window in theaters across the country. The first round was yesterday; the rest are Wednesday. It’s one of the greatest films of all time, so I suggest going, and in its honor I’m posting an edited version of a paper I wrote in my freshman year in college…

  • TV Episode Review: “Better Call Saul” “Bingo” (01.07, 2015)

    Directed by Larysa Kondracki After “Five-O” put Mike’s backstory into sharp relief, that entire plot thread basically got shut down in the first few minutes of “Bingo.” We already knew that Mike was going to get away with it from Breaking Bad, but it was still interesting how the series essentially shut it down immediately…

  • TV Episode Review: “Better Call Saul” “Five-o” (01.06, 2015)

    Written by Gordon Smith Directed by Adam Bernstein Last episode, we finally got some more definition of the secondary players in Better Call Saul‘s drama, but this episode we got essentially nothing but a fill-in of Mike Ehrmantraut’s back story. Like “Hermanos” on Breaking Bad (04.08, 2011), this is an episode that gives us a…