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  • Movie Review: “Whiplash” (Damien Chazelle, USA 2014)

    First point: The director has a truly awesome name. Anyone named Damien is awesome. The ballroom at the student center at the University of Colorado is named the Glenn Miller ballroom, after one of the most prominent swing and big bandleaders in history who briefly attended the school in the mid 1920s before dropping out.…

  • TV Episode Review: “Better Call Saul” “Alpine Shepherd Boy” (01.05, 2015)

    Written by Bradley Paul Directed by Nicole Kassell Better Call Saul has, in its first four episodes, been a series so focused on its protagonist that no one else has really had a chance to show much definition. Kim Wexler is a mid-ranking attorney at a big law firm and good friends with Jimmy, but…

  • “Better Call Saul” episodes 1-4 review

    When Better Call Saul was first announced, my memory is that it was announced as a comedy spin-off of Breaking Bad. Apparently there was talk along the way that the show had morphed into more of a drama, but I avoided news about the show so that I wouldn’t go in with any preconceived notions,…