First Spiral: From The Book Of Saw Reviews Tease An Exciting New Chapter
Saw saga has never been the kind of thing to receive universal praise, though, and sure enough, fans should know that this ninth entry in the series is likewise being met with a mixed reception. However, the more positive reactions are hyping it up as a “legitimately frightening” thriller that acts as an exciting new chapter.
From Darren Lynn Bousman, who previously gave us
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Spiral brings in the franchise’s two biggest stars to date – Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson. Rock features as Detective Zeke Banks, who’s been living in the shadow of Jackson’s legend on the force, as he leads the investigation into a series of grisly murders that recall the dark crimes of the infamous Jigsaw killer. Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols also feature.
New look, new style: Ashley Monroe shoots for a full-on rebirth with
Rosegold. She dons pink hair on the album’s cover and dons electronic music on the album itself, both new guises that come as a surprise because Ashley Monroe doesn’t have a reputation as a chameleonic performer. She’s stuck pretty consistently to her image as a traditional country music star, both on her solo albums and with the Pistol Annies. Her consistent tendency is to lean on her exceptionally pretty voice to make her stand out from the crowd, rather than experimenting with musical forms like Kacey Musgraves has done, or expanding into ambitious conceptual territory as Miranda Lambert has done (on her double album
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The show was supposed to be filmed in California, not Albuquerque (pictured).
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In an interview with Slant Magazine, the show s creator Vince Gilligan said he had originally planned for Breaking Bad to be set in Riverside, California.
However, Sony approached him with the idea of moving it to New Mexico due to financial incentives. They said New Mexico has a tax rebate for film and television production, and it s a pretty substantial one, Gilligan recalled in the interview. And really, it s a hard [carrot] to turn down . and so New Mexico very quickly became the place we decided to shoot our show for strictly financial reasons. We wanted our limited production budget to go that much farther, he added.