No one wants to say goodbye, but Walt White's reign on cable TV definitely ended with a bang. Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and his posse of writers gave fans almost everything we could have asked for. Eli Glasner takes a last look and bids farewell to one of TV's favourite anti-heroes.
Bidding farewell to Breaking Bad
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Tags: Breaking Bad, series finale, Walter White
Last night's Emmy telecast had its share of predictable winners (Modern Family, Breaking Bad) and losers (Jon Hamm, Kerry Washington) but there were some surprises in the oddly lumpy and long awards show. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights.FILM REVIEW: Enough Said
Categories: Movies
The sophisticated rom-com Enough Said, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the late James Gandolfini, finds two actors at the top of their game, says Eli Glasner.
Each year, the Toronto International Film Festival begins front-loaded with powerful prestige titles and, after a summer of bubblegum blockbusters, it can be quite the shock to dive into new worlds of addiction, pain, wonder and more. After the 11-day frenzy, however, a group of films inevitably rise above the rest, says Eli Glasner. Here are his picks for the toast of TIFF 2013.
In his first U.S.-set film in years, Woody Allen offers his most serious -- almost sinister, in fact -- efforts in years. Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett in an Oscar-worthy turn as a delusional, vodka-soaked Wall Street wife whose world comes crashing down around her.
Though The Wolverine is actually Hugh Jackman's second solo adventure as the adamantium-clawed, mutant Canuck hero, we now have a film worthy of one of Marvel's most enduring characters, says Eli Glasner.
As the Trayvon Martin case divides the U.S. along race lines once again, Ryan Coogler's film Fruitvale Station -- inspired by another controversial death -- puts audiences squarely in the shoes of a young black man caught between his potential and his past.
Another stab at a vampire film by director Neil Jordan, Byzantium tells the tale of two women born centuries ago but frozen at the age when they turned. Dark, brooding and almost noir, the film has a bittersweet bite and a tale worth watching, says Eli Glasner.
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt presents the distinctive Danish actor in a battle he can't win, a kindergarten teacher drowning in a sea of suspicion. A simple tale, starkly told, says Eli Glasner.
It's strangely fascinating to watch a star of Adam Sandler's magnitude -- with the power to recruit half of Hollywood -- churn out the laziest comedy in recent memory. A cavalcade of stars join him in the race to the bottom that is Grown Ups 2.
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