>Hank having to keep quiet about the truth….
True - Hank's so compromised that he'd probably have to break the law himself, to take down his brother-in-law…

Here's MY ending of Breaking Bad (well, a coda), in a nutshell: Holly, now a young woman, travelling into Mexico…to a rest home, where an 80-year-old Walter White sits in a chair, watching whatever form of TV exists at that time (the parallel with old Tio Salamanca is a bonus, unintended)…

And Lars von Trier has also been shooting something minutes-at-a-time for years, I believe…

I'm with you, B…

I'm with you, B…

That original AV Club review of Killing Them Softly didn't mention that the "portentious conversation piece" material was taken from the source novel - and that it was a *good* decision for Dominik to stay faithful to and to keep that material (but, as the novel takes place in the '70s, there is no political backdrop…

That original AV Club review of Killing Them Softly didn't mention that the "portentious conversation piece" material was taken from the source novel - and that it was a *good* decision for Dominik to stay faithful to and to keep that material (but, as the novel takes place in the '70s, there is no political backdrop…

[Batman sample in "Electric Chair," on the beat] "I'm gonna go to work…work, work…work, work…"

[Batman sample in "Electric Chair," on the beat] "I'm gonna go to work…work, work…work, work…"

I want to believe that this show could hold a candle to the great Carnivale - but that's impossible…

I want to believe that this show could hold a candle to the great Carnivale - but that's impossible…

I love Biskind's book, and have read it, like three times—but he's obstinately dead-wrong in a few cases: he's wrong regarding Friedkin, and overplays the critical reception of Sorcerer; and he's dead-wrong regarding Robert Towne's Personal Best (a really good film which still plays well)

I love Biskind's book, and have read it, like three times—but he's obstinately dead-wrong in a few cases: he's wrong regarding Friedkin, and overplays the critical reception of Sorcerer; and he's dead-wrong regarding Robert Towne's Personal Best (a really good film which still plays well)

I have that Segaloff book! Read it years ago…

I have that Segaloff book! Read it years ago…

"I would argue that technology fucked up modern films" - C'mon—you know that's not possible. Cinema is and has always been highly technological, as it is: even *reduction* in scale of the spectacle, or mobility of the camera (as e.g. in Breathless) is made possible only through technological breakthroughs. And the…

"I would argue that technology fucked up modern films" - C'mon—you know that's not possible. Cinema is and has always been highly technological, as it is: even *reduction* in scale of the spectacle, or mobility of the camera (as e.g. in Breathless) is made possible only through technological breakthroughs. And the…

Great interview. Bug was a really good film, and stuck with me for quite some time after: Friedkin has always been first and foremost an expert teller of stories involving psychopathology (I'd argue that even Cruising is an expert study in one man's sickness; and the low-budget Rampage, as well). It is indeed…

Great interview. Bug was a really good film, and stuck with me for quite some time after: Friedkin has always been first and foremost an expert teller of stories involving psychopathology (I'd argue that even Cruising is an expert study in one man's sickness; and the low-budget Rampage, as well). It is indeed…

I agree - case in point: Bill Burr pissed in the mouths of a rowdy Philly crowd, pissed generally on the city of Philly, back in 2006—smashed them over their heads with invective, woke them out of their lazy complacency…and won them over. He killed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4…