Close Encounters of the Third Kind
I said it before and I'll say it again, but Steven Spielberg is a freakin' movie-making genius. Even in the infancy of his career, you could see he was destined…
The Spy Who Loved Me
The James Bond franchise is one of those franchises that will never die. It has been going strong since the first movie rolled out in the early 1960's, and new…
Season 1, Episode 5 “Gray Matter” (February 24, 2008)
Welcome back to another review for another solid episode of the fantastic series, Breaking Bad. This fifth episode is once again entertaining and very fun to watch, but we actually…
A Bridge Too Far
An admirable effort. That is what I can call this 1977 Richard Attenborough feature A Bridge Too Far. This movie had all the ingredients to become a war classic. A…
Season 1, Episode 4 “Cancer Man” (February 17, 2008)
Well, we finally go back down to earth in this fourth episode of Breaking Bad. The first three episodes were crazy, non-stop fun but now we need a quieter episode…
Smokey and the Bandit
If you ever wanted to see what The Fast and the Furious would look like in the 1970's, look not further than this 1977 feature, Smokey and the Bandit. The…
Season 1 Episode 3 “….And the Bag’s in the River” (Feb 10, 2008)
If you have noticed, last episode and this episode share interconnected titles. I will say an interesting piece of trivia on the origins of these titles, which is a good…
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
A cultural revolution. That is what perfectly describes Star Wars: A New Hope. Movie historians have longed said that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas gave cinema a rebirth. The early…
Season 1 Episode 2 “Cat’s In the Bag” (Jan 27, 2008)
What I normally find about television shows after a powerhouse premiere is that the quality tends to go downhill. Not to say these episodes are bad, but they tend to…
Annie Hall
Annie Hall was 1977's Best Picture winner at the Oscars. I don't think it should have been. It was a solid movie for sure, but I couldn't buy the movie…
Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot” (Jan 20, 2008)
Breaking Bad, over the course of its five seasons, has often been given the praise as "the best television show in history." Quite frankly, that is actually a sentiment I…
Network
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." This is the most famous line in 1976's Network and could possibly be one of the most famous…