In the final installment of his video essay series, Dave Bunting analyzes the visual style of the second half of the final season of “Breaking Bad.” Scott Eric Kaufman provides a written commentary.
Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor talks about growing up in a famous acting family, the growing audience for Indian cinema in the United States and his latest film, “Besharam.”
In this excerpt from the book “Superheroes!: ” Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor discuss the transformation of comic books that started with new creators in the 1970s and led to Hollywood blockbusters.
A defense of “Boardwalk Empire”; Wes Anderson and manic pixie dream girls; Phillip Garrel’s “Jealousy”; seconds on “Seconds”; a real-life Gustavo Fring?
Searching for David Chappelle; Susan Faludi on “lean in” feminism; Jonathan Franzen’s cranky nonfiction; Judging TV on its own merits; David Bordwell on the changing VIFF.
Shutdown blues; “El Paso” in the “Breaking Bad” finale; reconsidering Ron Howard; All Female Directors for “Call the Midwife”; reconsidering films is part of growing up. Plus: Senator Elizabeth Warren is as awesome as ever.
“Breaking Bad” ends with closure, sort of; “Muscle Shoals” and the GOP’s queasy quest for purity; Eddie Izard was the victim of hate crimes in both London and New York; more “Chucky” for Jennifer Tilly; “dinotoys” in space.
A lost John Lennon interview; Goodreads’ growing pains; 41 books a sexist professor should read; breaking down the visual composition of “Breaking Bad”; a letter from Steve Albini to Nirvana.
Film
Journalist Katherine Tulich interviews “Rush” director Ron Howard and the
film’s stars, Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl.
Ian Grey reviews a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey” with a live symphony orchestra providing the score.
With incredibly strong central performances and thematically dense subject matter,
“Masters of Sex,” a drama about sex researchers Masters and Johnson, serves as a nice partner to Showtime’s returning
“Homeland.”
Our fifth posting of endings written by fans for the science fiction
story Roger was playing with when he passed away. Vote for your
favorite!
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Greg Salvatore.
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Mike Renn.
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Martin Pitt-Bradley
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Jackie Meyers.
An ending to Roger’s “The Thinking Molecules of Titan” by Gary Bowers.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt discusses “Don Jon,” his first film as a writer-director.
