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  • TV Episode Review: “Breaking Bad” “Buried” (05.10, 2013)

    Written by Thomas Schnauz (Previous Episodes: “One Minute,” “Abiquiu,” “Shotgun,” “Bug,” “End Times,” and “Say My Name”) Directed by Michelle McLaren (Previous Episodes: “4 Days Out,” “I.F.T.,” “One Minute,” “Abiquiu,” “Thirty-Eight Snub,” “Shotgun,” “Salud,” “Madrigal,” and “Gliding over All”)  One of the elements of Breaking Bad that has always been unusual (perhaps even unique) is…

  • Movie Review: “Arbitrage” (Nicholas Jarecki, USA 2012)

    Much of the publicity related to this film was about the Academy Award chances of star Richard Gere, who had been a significant star for over three decades without getting a nod from the Academy. It was rarely mentioned that the reason he never got a nomination is that he is barely even an actor,…

  • Movie Review: “Fatal Attraction” (Adrian Lyne, USA 1987)

    This film is a great example of what I mean when I talk about films needing to have a unifying point rather than being about narrative. It’s a film whose point, to the extent that it does have one, is the power and strength of a loving family. However, it is so busy following the…