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  • TV Episode Review: “Breaking Bad” “Rabid Dog” (05.12, 2013)

    Written by Sam Catlin (Previous Episodes: “Down,” “4 Days Out,” “Green Light,” “Fly,” “Half Measures,” “Open House,” “Hermanos,” “Crawl Space,” and “Fifty-One”) Directed by Sam Catlin (No Previous Episodes) After last episode’s cliffhanger, I really wasn’t sure what to expect here. As I said last week, I was not sure whether the White home showed…

  • Movie Review: “Amour” (Michael Haneke, France/Germany/Austria 2012)

    Amour won the National Society of Film Critics Best Picture award and seemingly every foreign-language film award there was for 2012. While Michael Haneke’s last film, Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (Germany/Austria/France/Italy 2009) was a pretentious, lackluster effort, his Cache (France/Austria/Germany/Italy/USA 2005) was a truly excellent film. As a result, I went into…

  • TV Episode Review: “Breaking Bad” “Confessions” (05.11, 2013)

    Written by Gennifer Hutchison (Previous Episodes: “I See You,” “Cornered,” “Salud,” and “Buyout”) Directed by Michael Slovis (Previous Episodes: “Kafkaesque,” “Cornered,” and “Live Free or Die”)  Breaking Bad has typically been a show that has burned slowly, building up tension before explosive bursts of activity. This half-season has been positively teeming with activity compared to…