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TV Review: BREAKING BAD – Season 5 – “Fifty-One”

By EGAN BRUMLEY 08/10/2012

Bryan Cranston and Anna White in BREAKING BAD - Season 5 - "Fifty-One" | ©2012 AMC/Ursula Coyote

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn Writer: Sam Catlin Director: Rian Johnson Network: AMC, airs Sunday Nights Original Telecast: August 6, 2012 “Fifty-One” is perhaps the most harrowing episode of BREAKING BAD this season, as it deals primarily with the toll Walter White’s (Bryan Cranston’s) year-long transformation has taken on his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn). Since Walt’s become a power-hungry madman, we were aware that this toll was heavy, but this episode features several gasp-worthy moments that is notable not only for the depiction of Walt’s depravity, but for its abject sadness. Some of those difficult domestic moments include: […]Read On »

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TV Review: BREAKING BAD – Season 5 – “Hazard Pay”

By EGAN BRUMLEY 08/02/2012

Bryan Cranston in BREAKING BAD - Season 5 - "Hazard Pay" | ©2012 AMC/Ursula Coyote

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn Writer: Peter Gould Director: Adam Bernstein Network: AMC, airs Sunday Nights Original Telecast: July 29, 2012 Having convinced Mike to handle the business side of their new drug operation, Walt and Jesse begin to cook meth again, and they begin to fill the void left in the underworld by Gus’s death. But Walt’s ego is already creating fissures in the new partnership. Again this week on BREAKING BAD, Mike (Jonathan Banks) gets the best line, as he tells Walt (Bryan Cranston) “Just because you shot Jesse James – don’t make you Jesse James.” […]Read On »

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TV Review: BREAKING BAD – Season 5 – “Madrigal”

By EGAN BRUMLEY 07/24/2012

Jonathan Banks and Laura Fraser in BREAKING BAD - Season 5 - "Madrigal" | ©2012 AMC/Ursula Coyote

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn Writer: Vince Gilligan Director: Michelle MacLaran Network: AMC, airs Sunday Nights Original Telecast: July 22, 2012 The bomb that killed drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) in last season’s BREAKING BAD finale had, for better or for worse, a liberating effect on Walter White (Bryan Cranston). The success of Walt’s plot to kill Gus not only removed the sword of Damocles from above Walt, and his family’s, heads, but also validated the image he’d been nurturing of himself as a cunning, ruthless drug lord. But for Gus’s former “Head of Security,” the world-weary […]Read On »

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TV Review: BREAKING BAD – Season 5 “Live Free or Die” – Season Premiere

By EGAN BRUMLEY 07/18/2012

BREAKING BAD - Season 5 poster | ©2012 AMC

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn Writer: Vince Gilligan Director: Michael Slovis Network: AMC, airs Sunday Nights Original Telecast: July 15, 2012 BREAKING BAD’s creator Vince Gilligan has described the remarkable metamorphosis undergone by the show’s protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston) as a transformation from MR. CHIPS to SCARFACE. And for four seasons now, we’ve watched this play out in fits and starts, as Walt’s lung cancer diagnosis served as the catalyst to a chain of increasingly morally dubious decisions that would change him from an endearing family man and talented high school chemistry teacher into a vain, manipulative, and […]Read On »

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Exclusive Photos from THE THING World Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 10/20/2011

Mary Elizabeth Winstead at the World Premiere of THE THING | ©2011 Sue Schneider

Universal Pictures held the World Premiere of THE THING at Universal Studios Hollywood AMC Citywalk Stadium 19 in Universal City on October 10th. THE THING is a prequel to a remake of an adaptation of the novella “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr., published in 1938 and the 1982 film starring Kurt Russell. Seen walking the carpet were the stars of the film, which included: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kim Bubbe, Kristofer Hivju, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Matthijs van Heijningen (Director), Eric Heisserer (Writer), Gabrielle Neimand and David Foster (Executive Producers), Mark Abraham (Producer), […]Read On »

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TV Review: BREAKING BAD – Season 4 premiere – “Box Cutter”

By PETER BROWN 07/19/2011

Bryan Cranston and Aarol Paul in BREAKING BAD - Season 4 | ©2011 AMC/Ben Leuner

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Giancarlo Esposito Director: Adam Bernstein Writer: Vince Gilligan Network: AMC, airs Sundays at 9 p.m. Original Telecast: July 17, 2011 Well, if that isn’t the way to get a message across to your employees, I’m not sure what is on BREAKING BAD. Of course, I’m talking about meth boss Gus Fring’s (Giancarlo Esposito) brutal and methodic disrobing of his suit and tie, slowly putting on a chemical suit in the meth lab, stalking about the lab in absolutely silence and ultimately slitting the throat of one of […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: BREAKING BAD creator Vince Gilligan breaks down Season 4

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/17/2011

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in BREAKING BAD - Season 4 |2011 AMC/Ben Leuner

AMC’s series BREAKING BAD begins its fourth season tonight, Sunday, at 10 PM. Since the show debuted in 2008, Bryan Cranston’s Walt White has gone from a cancer-stricken mild-mannered high school science teacher who starts manufacturing crystal meth to provide for his family to an in-remission criminal drug dealer who is willing to use violence to further his ends. Cranston has won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for all three previous seasons; Aaron Paul took the Supporting Actor in a Drama Emmy in 2010 for his work as Walt’s former student/current drug partner Jesse Pinkman. […]Read On »

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Exclusive Photos from the 37th ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS Red Carpet

By SUE SCHNEIDER 07/07/2011

Lance Reddick, Anna Torv, John Noble at the 37th Annual Saturn Awards | ©2011 Sue Schneider

To see who won THE 37th ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS, CLICK HERE, to check out the photos, look below. Why the delay? What you don’t know, while at the Saturn’s an extraterrestrial came down to the red carpet and gave me an alien flu, which as I write this, I am still sick! Seen walking the carpet, at THE 37th ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS, which were held at The Castaway Restaurant in Burbank, CA were the nominees and guests from the World of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, which included: Michael Pare’, Bert I. Gordon, French Stewart, Dana Melanie, Larry Cohen, Laurene […]Read On »

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BREAKING BAD: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON is one of the Blu-ray and DVD picks this week

By PETER BROWN 06/07/2011

BREAKING BAD THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON | © 2011 Warner Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. MOVIES JUST GO WITH IT – When it comes to Adam Sandler movies … you pretty much know what you are gonna get. He’s a lovable loser with some strange tendency or has been lucky in love or unlucky in love or what have you. He meets some […]Read On »

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