After a brief midseason hiatus, Better Call Saul is back for the home stretch of its final season. A review of this week’s episode, “Point and Shoot,” coming up just as soon as you get me a new fridge…
“Big talk. You done?” —Lalo
“No. Not yet.” —Gus
Both Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad have well-deserved reputations for their narrative patience. Major events tend not to happen until the creative team has slowly but surely laid all the groundwork necessary for these events to make sense and have the maximum possible emotional impact.
“Big talk. You done?” —Lalo
“No. Not yet.” —Gus
Both Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad have well-deserved reputations for their narrative patience. Major events tend not to happen until the creative team has slowly but surely laid all the groundwork necessary for these events to make sense and have the maximum possible emotional impact.
- 7/12/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
Quentin Tarantino’s favorite cut in movie history arrives two hours and 45 minutes into Sergio Leone’s 1966 Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Three gunslingers have been competing to find buried Confederate gold and their search climaxes in a Mexican standoff inside a bullring at Sad Hill Cemetery. Blondie (Clint Eastwood) writes the name of a tomb that houses the gold on the bottom of a rock and places it at the center of the bullring. Ennio Morricone’s score sets the tension as Blondie, Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), and Tuco (Eli Wallach) get into formation and prepare to draw their guns. When the music peaks, Leone cuts to a wide shot of the Mexican standoff in full view.
Quentin Tarantino’s favorite cut in movie history arrives two hours and 45 minutes into Sergio Leone’s 1966 Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Three gunslingers have been competing to find buried Confederate gold and their search climaxes in a Mexican standoff inside a bullring at Sad Hill Cemetery. Blondie (Clint Eastwood) writes the name of a tomb that houses the gold on the bottom of a rock and places it at the center of the bullring. Ennio Morricone’s score sets the tension as Blondie, Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), and Tuco (Eli Wallach) get into formation and prepare to draw their guns. When the music peaks, Leone cuts to a wide shot of the Mexican standoff in full view.
- 6/10/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“Breaking Bad” scored seven nominations in Best Drama Supporting Actor during its run, but sadly none of them were for Dean Norris. He may finally get recognized for his portrayal of Hank Schrader this year in another category and via a similar path of that of another star in the “Breaking Bad”-verse.
Norris is contending in Best Drama Guest Actor after reprising Hank in two episodes of “Better Call Saul” this season — the first time we’ve seen Hank back in the flesh since his gut-wrenching death after that iconic line — “My name is Asac Schrader, and you can go f— yourself” in the iconic “Breaking Bad” episode “Ozymandias.” If he makes it in, it would not be unlike Michael McKean, who was snubbed in supporting in 2017 for the third and his final season of “Better Call Saul,” in which Chuck dies, but bagged a guest bid last year...
Norris is contending in Best Drama Guest Actor after reprising Hank in two episodes of “Better Call Saul” this season — the first time we’ve seen Hank back in the flesh since his gut-wrenching death after that iconic line — “My name is Asac Schrader, and you can go f— yourself” in the iconic “Breaking Bad” episode “Ozymandias.” If he makes it in, it would not be unlike Michael McKean, who was snubbed in supporting in 2017 for the third and his final season of “Better Call Saul,” in which Chuck dies, but bagged a guest bid last year...
- 6/3/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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By John M. Whalen
Do the names Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Frank Kramer, Sartana, Sabata, Tuco or Trinity mean anything to you, amigo? If they do, it’s probably because you’ve seen a few too many Spaghetti Westerns. "Spaghetti Western," for those tenderfoots that might not know, is the name given to a host of western films made in Italy and Spain during the sixties and seventies featuring an international cast usually headed by an American actor who had seen better days. Cowboy actors like Rod Cameron, Edd Byrne, and Guy Madison went to Europe after their TV and film careers petered out to battle outlaws, rustlers and ruthless killers who looked more like they just stepped out of a pizzeria in Palermo than a saloon in South Texas. These movies are wild, violent, and weird, but there was a certain something...
By John M. Whalen
Do the names Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Frank Kramer, Sartana, Sabata, Tuco or Trinity mean anything to you, amigo? If they do, it’s probably because you’ve seen a few too many Spaghetti Westerns. "Spaghetti Western," for those tenderfoots that might not know, is the name given to a host of western films made in Italy and Spain during the sixties and seventies featuring an international cast usually headed by an American actor who had seen better days. Cowboy actors like Rod Cameron, Edd Byrne, and Guy Madison went to Europe after their TV and film careers petered out to battle outlaws, rustlers and ruthless killers who looked more like they just stepped out of a pizzeria in Palermo than a saloon in South Texas. These movies are wild, violent, and weird, but there was a certain something...
- 5/16/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad and its prequel sister series Better Call Saul are fundamentally shows about change. Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s vision for the original series was succinct and straight-forward. He wanted to “turn Mr. Chips into Scarface.” Better Call Saul has operated on a similar level, taking a young legal clerk with a penchant for petty scams and turning him into the most powerful criminal lawyer in New Mexico.
But Walter White and Jimmy McGill aren’t the only two characters that undergo seismic changes in the Breaking Bad universe. Just about everyone who has occupied Gilligan’s Albuquerque since 2008 has undergone the complicated chemistry of change. One tertiary character’s path, however, may outstrip them all. Domingo Gallardo Molina a.k.a. Krazy-8 has had one of the most turbulent arcs of any background character to appear on...
Breaking Bad and its prequel sister series Better Call Saul are fundamentally shows about change. Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s vision for the original series was succinct and straight-forward. He wanted to “turn Mr. Chips into Scarface.” Better Call Saul has operated on a similar level, taking a young legal clerk with a penchant for petty scams and turning him into the most powerful criminal lawyer in New Mexico.
But Walter White and Jimmy McGill aren’t the only two characters that undergo seismic changes in the Breaking Bad universe. Just about everyone who has occupied Gilligan’s Albuquerque since 2008 has undergone the complicated chemistry of change. One tertiary character’s path, however, may outstrip them all. Domingo Gallardo Molina a.k.a. Krazy-8 has had one of the most turbulent arcs of any background character to appear on...
- 3/21/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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