‘Better Call Saul’ Recap: A Sexualized Cobbler Makes for a Sticky Situation
As it’s surely been stated, unlike Walter White — the antihero who transitioned from complete law-abiding meekness to egomaniacal cruelty in Breaking Bad — Better Call Saul‘s Jimmy McGill has always...
View ArticleBob Odenkirk Sells the Heck Out of Some Canned Peas on ‘Conan’
Bob Odenkirk may now be best known as a dramatic actor thanks to Better Call Saul, but that didn’t stop him from getting back to his sketch comedy roots with his old pal, Conan O’Brien. Conan and...
View Article‘Better Call Saul’ Recap: How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Make a Saul?
The fifth episode of Better Call Saul‘s second season is called “Rebecca,” named for the wife Jimmy’s brother Chuck once seems to have had. We’re introduced to Rebecca in this week’s opening scene, a...
View ArticleBob Odenkirk to Star in Another AMC (Mini) Series — as David Carr in ‘The...
AMC loves Bob Odenkirk — and for good reason; he was part of the show that, alongside Mad Men, solidified the network’s status as a leader in post-HBO-reigning prestige cinema, and was so amusing as...
View Article8 Things We Learned at Bob Odenkirk’s SXSW Panel
AUSTIN, TX: One of the best things about SXSW’s “Conversation with…” panels, at least from the viewpoint of a curious festivalgoer (and, as long as we’re being frank, an entertainment journalist...
View ArticleThis Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you...
View ArticleWatch the Fabulous First Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Post’
All the President’s Men is a lot of things: great ‘70s movie, great journalism movie, great political movie, great Redford movie, great Hoffman movie. What it’s not is a great Katharine Graham movie....
View ArticleBob Odenkirk: Action Star?
One of the nicest surprise of this 21st century, entertainment-wise, has been the discovery that Bob Odenkirk can pretty much do anything. When the Mr. Show and Larry Sanders Show alum was cast in a...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Post,’ ‘6 Balloons’
Remember last week, when we were all, “Oh, finally, the last of the Oscar movies?” Whoops, forgot about Best Picture and Best Actress nominee The Post. (Sorry, Steve.) It’s out this week on disc and...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ ‘Incredibles 2’
If you’d like one more bit of evidence that Netflix’s much-vaunted user interface is absolute nonsense, chew on this: a new Orson Welles movie and an accompanying documentary appeared on the service...
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