Sheriff Walt Longmire favors a Ford Bronco on duty instead of a horse, but the cable series bearing his name has such a strong Western presence that he’d seem equally at home solving crime from a saddle. Passionate fans of the Wyoming-set…
Penny Dreadful: Horror with a Literary Past
Black- and blue-tinged images unfurl to the low bass of a violin. A rosary. Drops of blood. Tarot cards. A scorpion curling its tail. A scalpel slicing into a cadaver. An insect flailing against a spider’s web. Showtime’s new series…
“Breaking Bad”: Hubris, Blood, Meth and Tears
With Sunday’s series finale, the acclaimed AMC crime drama “Breaking Bad” wraps up a modern-day Greek tragedy. Over five seasons, this Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series has watched Walter White (Bryan Cranston) evolve from an Albuquerque chemistry teacher…
Great take on the antihero of “Breaking Bad” and his powerful wife
This is a well-written and well-argued breakdown of “Breaking Bad” — how to view not only Walt but his wife, Skyler, who gets a lot of online backlash. http://openseasonreviews.tumblr.com/post/56255159700/so-you-think-skyler-white-is-a-bitch
Waiting on “The Walking Dead”
Why does “The Walking Dead” have to release such an amazing Comic-Con trailer but not start again until October? Sigh.
Richard Matheson, you are legend
Few writers intertwined word and film better than Richard Matheson. The prolific author, who died Sunday at age eighty-seven after a long illness, was a multimedia writer before anyone coined the term. Perhaps most famous for the apocalyptic vampire tale…
4 Hidden Netflix Gems
I’m a child of the ’70s, so is it any wonder that “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” is a hidden gem to me? On a more modern note, so is “Archer.”
See you at the movies…
Four reasons I prefer movies over TV shows (aside from the ticket price). My top one? They provide an experience and a community with which to share it. The first films I saw in a theater were “Peter Pan” and…