Great Characters in Television: Walter White

AMC’s series Breaking Bad has been buried under heaps of awards and praise in its three seasons so far. Among the accolades, the show has garnered 3 consecutive Emmy awards for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Bryan Cranston’s turn in role of Walter White, and for good reason. Breaking Bad is a showcase of great television in almost all aspects, from editing to cinematography, but it’s the development of White that makes the show so fascinating. Cranston embodies a character unlike any I’ve ever seen before on TV, and acts the part with such conviction it’s hypnotizing to watch.

Occasional Movie Review: Super 8

In a small town in 1979, a group of kids shooting an amateur film accidentally document a suspicious train crash that nearly gets them killed. As they recover from the experience and naively try to put their movie back together, they find the event has not only affected their film project, but their own friendships and, to a larger extent, the entire town as well. Caught up in the mysterious occurrences and the responding military presence, tensions rise and the children find themselves at the heart of the conflict. 

Occasional Movie Review: X-Men: First Class

 

In the Second World War a young Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his mother in a German work camp when a Dr. Klaus Schmidt takes interest in his remarkable ability to bend metal to his will. Isolating him to work on his powers, Schmidt kills Lehnsherr’s mother right in front of the boy when he realizes he is unable to control his powers on command. Meanwhile in America, a similarly young Charles Xavier finds a blue-skinned runaway named Raven stealing food from his kitchen and takes her in to live with him. These events mark the first step in the development and eventual founding of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and The X-Men, but not before setting in motion a winding story that weaves itself into the events of the Cold War in the 1960’s.