Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 2, Episodes 11-13
Breaking Bad is a dark, evil show, and these last three episodes epitomize it. Nobody gets off easy. Walt suffers. Everyone who knows Walt suffers. Everyone who so much as meets him suffers.
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Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 2, Episodes 8-10
“All the lies. I can’t even keep them straight in my head anymore.”
Precious Few Words On Sam Raimi’s Crimewave
I now count myself among the small number of people who have seen Sam Raimi’s second film, Crimewave (’85), the follow-up to his surprise success Evil Dead, written with Joel […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 2, Episodes 6 & 7
“That homey’s dead. He just don’t know it yet.”
World War Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Are the zombies in World War Z even zombies? Or merely disease-carrying jerks? Nerds across interwebworld are arguing the finer points. I’m afraid those on both sides of the argument […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 2, Episodes 3-5
In his hospital room, Walt stares at a watercolor on the wall: a man in a rowboat pushes away from shore, his family waving to him.
Mind Control Double Feature #49: The Killer In The Picture
Say! Look at that! A small piece of cheese has been discarded on the sidewalk. You know what that means, don’t you? Surely you know how to “read cheese,” as […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2
The first two episodes of Breaking Bad’s second season are one hell of a wild ride. Nothing in season 1 is this intense. The show takes off running and doesn’t stop.
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 1, Episodes 6 & 7
In these last two episodes of the short first season, Walt takes his first stab at becoming a somebody in the drug business. He comes by a new look, a new name, and a new meth recipe. But it doesn’t come easy.
Man of Steel: Bad News From Outer Space
Has there ever been a good Superman movie? I’m beginning to think not. I have a fondness from days of yore for the first two Christopher Reeve versions, but they […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 1, Episodes 4 & 5
“I’m thinking Albuquerque might just have a new kingpin.”
This Is The End, And The Pointlessness of Reviewing Average Movies
There’s nothing exceptionally bad about This Is The End. There’s nothing exceptionally good about it either. It’s got just enough laughs to offset its thinly thought-out story, so when it […]
Mind Control Double Feature #47: Death of The Dream, American Style
If there’s one thing we’ve got here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., it’s roads. Roads and freedom, the two things we’ve got in America. Or at least the […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 1, Episodes 1-3
The southwest American desert. A blue sky. A pair of pants, fluttering to earth. So begins Breaking Bad’s pilot episode, and what an episode. Just shy of an hour, and it lays out a roadmap for everything that follows.