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August 9, 2018

BETTER CALL SAUL [Season 4 Premiere Review]: Burning Down Bridges.

With a cold black-and-white opening that throws us into present-day -- or, as some keen-eyed viewers suggest, the future -- Better Call Saul is back in its fourth season, finding Gene Takavic (nee Jimmy) being carted off to the hospital after collapsing, picking up right where season 3 ended. A close, tense, paranoid moment between a …

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May 22, 2018May 22, 2018

CARGO [Movie Review]: Zombies Are the Windows to the Soul.

It’s a shame that Netflix spoiled a key moment for Cargo in the trailer. All you need to know about the film is Martin Freeman is trying to protect his infant daughter from zombies in the Australian wilderness. The film is based on a 2013 short also by Australian filmmakers Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke …

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December 15, 2017

THE SHAPE OF WATER [Review]: A Fish-God Out of Water.

Guillermo Del Toro seems to make his best films while he’s at his lowest and in the darkest places in his life. He bounced back with The Devil’s Backbone after Harvey Weinstein and Miramax nearly destroyed his initial vision for Mimic, the Oscar winning Pan’s Labyrinth was Del Toro’s response to questioning who we are, …

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March 1, 2017March 1, 2017

TABOO [Season 1, Finale Review]: That’s My Boat.

Distraught over James rejecting her, the season finale opens with Zilpha (Oona Chaplin) narrating a letter she wrote to James saying that hopefully they’ll meet on the other side and that maybe someday he’ll want to swap half-sibling saliva of the heart with her if he ever sees her again. She jumps off of a …

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