T. Dawson

Trevor Dawson is the Executive Editor of GAMbIT Magazine. He is a musician, an award-winning short story author, and a big fan of scotch. His work has appeared in Statement, Levels Below, Robbed of Sleep vols. 3 and 4, Amygdala, Mosaic, and Mangrove. Trevor lives in Denver, CO.

9 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Better Call Saul: “Breathe”

T. Dawson August 14, 2018

Margaux and I reunite to talk about last night’s predictably great installment of Better Call Saul. Trevor: One thing (of many) that I liked about “Breathe” was that it allowed Giancarlo Esposito to show just how...

11 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Better Call Saul: “Smoke”

T. Dawson August 7, 2018

Margaux and I get the band back together to talk about last night’s stellar episode of Better Call Saul. Trevor:Better Call Saul (and its parent program, Breaking Bad) gets a lot of attention for...

6 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Luke Cage: “All Souled Out”

T. Dawson July 4, 2018

“All Souled Out” is a strange episode, because, on paper at least, it does a lot of things that I usually ding Luke Cage for: it’s overlong, meandering, overly expository, the title is a terrible pun,...

6 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Luke Cage: “I Get Physical”

T. Dawson June 26, 2018

“What’s new in the zoo?” Captain Ridenhour asks an informant. Well, it’s tough to say: a lot and a little. “I Get Physical” only serves to continue the place-setting begun in “Wig Out,” but...

6 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Luke Cage: “Wig Out”

T. Dawson June 24, 2018

Luke Cage is so frustrating to review this season. On one hand, “Wig Out” features what may be the best scene not only in this show’s run, but in any Marvel show (give or take...

5 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Luke Cage: “Straighten It Out”

T. Dawson June 24, 2018

The pacing on Marvel TV shows can be truly maddening. There are stretches of “Straighten It Out” wherein it feels like Luke Cage is seriously spinning its wheels, repeating points it’s made already. (We get it,...

5 Minutes

Television | Reviews

Luke Cage: “Soul Brother #1”

T. Dawson June 22, 2018

The smartest thing that Luke Cage does in its season two premiere, “Soul Brother #1,” is start in the middle of the action. This has always been a show that embraces its setting more than most...

6 Minutes

Movies | Reviews

Avengers: Infinity War – Review

T. Dawson April 28, 2018

Avengers: Infinity War truly feels like a movie that has been a decade in the making. Ever since Samuel L. Jackson showed up at the end of Iron Man in 2008, all of Marvel Studios’ output has...

5 Minutes

Movies | Reviews

You Were Never Really Here – Review

T. Dawson April 26, 2018

After watching You Were Never Really Here, I found myself wondering just what it is about Joaquin Phoenix that makes him such a compelling actor. He is talented, to be sure, but it’s more than that....

6 Minutes

Movies | Reviews

Kodachrome – Review

T. Dawson April 21, 2018

You’ve seen this movie before. Maybe not Kodachrome specifically, but you’ve definitely seen movies like this. The only thing more common than movies about estranged fathers and sons are movies about road trips; Kodachrome is both. It’s either...

5 Minutes

Television | Reviews

A Series of Unfortunate Events: “The Austere Academy: Part Two”

T. Dawson April 9, 2018

In “The Austere Academy: Part Two,” Count Olaf (disguised as Coach Genghis) has the Baudelaire siblings – even Sunny – run laps. Over and over, all night, in an attempt to exhaust them. He...

5 Minutes

Television | Reviews

A Series of Unfortunate Events: “The Austere Academy: Part One”

T. Dawson April 4, 2018

A Series of Unfortunate Events has such a well-established patina that it takes no time at all to reacclimate to a new season. There’s no sense of unfamiliarity, because few shows on TV look like...