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Jude Law is magistral as huffing, obese Henry VIII
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Ever since Discovery finalized its acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T (previously Time Warner) for $43 billion, I’ve written several times...
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The new version of the 1989 Disney classic The Little Mermaid is much better than the re-dos of Aladdin and...
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The Best Movies of 1973 You’ve heard me before (no doubt to the point of annoyance) beating the drums about...
It’s important to keep expectations in check at all times, but especially with beloved TV series. There are so many...
A Brief History of Hannibal the Cannibal Doctor Hannibal Lecter was first introduced in the 1981 novel Red Dragon followed...
Panic feeds on fear. For whatever reason, very few auteurs have emerged from the genre of the found-footage film. The...
Six films into his career, it’s clear that Paul Thomas Anderson’s ambitions outstrip those of almost all of his American...
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At this point in its run, it’s plain that there is no better-made show around than Breaking Bad. In terms...
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Season Five hits a bit of a pacing snag with “Buyout,” which takes a long time to reach a crisis...
Remember “Live Free or Die,” the fifth-season premiere of Breaking Bad, and its nifty but slight little magnet-powered heist? In...
How criminal is it that Anna Gunn has largely been left out of the accolades Breaking Bad has received over...
“Hazard Pay” is a classic get-the-pieces-moving episode, of the sort that serialized dramas generally need to make their season arcs...
And so the end begins. The most acclaimed drama around kicks off its last, bipartite season with…a scene in a...
This year, Fantasia pulled out all the stops to kick off the Festival with a bang – several bangs. They...
As though he’s been reading Breaking Bad threads online, Walter White has had a few moments of honesty this season,...
Now here’s an hour of television that had a lot to do. First, it had two incredible season finales to...
