AMC announced yesterday that the second half of the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad will premiere Sunday, August 11. But with a year-long gap between the season’s first eight episodes and the final eight, it’s easy to lose your place. With that in mind, we’ve scoured the Internet to collate everything we know so far about what we can expect this summer. Refresh your memory, read through some mild spoilers, and make your predictions below. … Read More
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Flavorwire's Flick of the Week: 'Argo'
It was called “The Hollywood option” inside the Agency, and it went like this: Six American consulate workers had barely escaped the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador. In order to rescue them, the CIA needed to send in an operative (or “exfiltration” specialist) with a viable, believable cover story that could get them out. What he came up with was, in the words of his boss, “the best bad idea we have” — that the six Americans were a Canadian film crew, scouting locations for an upcoming science-fiction/adventure film in the Star Wars mold. It was titled Argo, which is also the title of Ben Affleck’s terrific new film about the operation. … Read More
Flavorwire’s Guide to Movies You Need to Stream This Week
Welcome to Flavorwire’s streaming movie guide, in which we help you sift through the scores of movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and other services to find the best of the recently available, freshly relevant, or soon to expire. This week, we’ve got titles from Liam Neeson, Richard Gere, Ben Stiller, Juliette Binoche, Adrian Brody, Josh Brolin, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Mary Tyler Moore, and Adam Sandler, a must-see documentary, and comedy from Patton Oswalt and Zach Galifianakis; check them all out after the jump, and follow the title links to watch them right now. … Read More
10 of Our Favorite Quotes from ‘Breaking Bad’ Season Five
As we prepare for the yearlong, mid-season break of AMC’s utterly captivating Breaking Bad, there seems no time quite like the present to look back at some of the first half of the final season’s best quotes. Vince Gilligan’s series has moved in some interesting, new directions — including a few startling attempts to make the audience hate Walter White — but the writing is as crisp and clever as ever. Few shows on television do dialogue like Breaking Bad. There are no throwaway lines, every conversation is filled with hidden meaning that reveals things to come, or offers us extra insight into the characters. This has been true from the beginning, but this season has featured no shortage of memorable dialogue (most of it belonging to Walter and his reluctant partner Mike Ehrmantraut). Join us in remembering ten of the best moments so far. Here’s hoping that Hank and Saul get an opportunity to shine in the finale. We’ve missed them this year. If you’re still playing catch up with season five, consider this your spoiler alert. Drop your favorite quotes in the comments, and tell us how you’ll be “breaking bad” this Sunday. … Read More
‘Breaking Bad’s’ Bryan Cranston Will Direct an Episode of ‘The Office’
The Office returns to NBC for its ninth season on September 20. If you’ve been feeling lukewarm about the Scranton gang due to a bland host of unfunny moments — and the leave of series regulars Paul Lieberstein and Mindy Kaling — you may still want to tune in for one episode in particular.
‘Breaking Bad’ Actors Before They Were Stars
Two episodes into Breaking Bad‘s final season, the Internet is still having a field day with the show. Here at Flavorpill, we’re just as obsessed as everyone else — in the past week alone, we’ve celebrated its many Emmy nominations, peeked inside its writers’ room, and even ranked its characters by moral reprehensibility. But few Breaking Bad-related items have amused us more than the handful of amusing clips that have emerged of the show’s actors before they were famous. After the jump, we round up a few that have already made the rounds — Gus Fring on Sesame Street, Jesse Pinkman on The Price Is Right — along with some hilarious videos we tracked down ourselves. Click through to find out which of your favorite Breaking Bad stars were in Gremlins and Total Recall. … Read More
Bryan Cranston Is Terrifying in New ‘Total Recall’ Clip
Anyone who has ever drunkenly enjoyed the masterpiece of cheesy retro futurism that is Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 cult classic Total Recall already knows that it should not have been remade. But since the new version of Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” is coming whether we like it or not, we can at least appreciate that Bryan Cranston is playing Chancellor Vilos Cohagen. With the movie due out August 3rd, io9 points us to the first clip of Cohagen, which may actually convince us that Total Recall 2.0 is worth watching. It finds Cranston — who looks more like Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black than Walter White — giving some tense orders to Kate Beckinsale’s Lori Quaid. See the short video after the jump, and let us know whether it affects your position on an Arnold-free Total Recall. … Read More
Video of the Day: Bryan Cranston Transforms into Walter White
Do you remember the moment when you realized that the dad from Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad’s cancer-stricken, meth-cooking antihero Walter White were the same guy? Although he doesn’t have horns protruding from his head or even any elaborate facial scars, the criminal mastermind known as Heisenberg looks almost nothing like the real Bryan Cranston. So, what kind of process does the actor undergo to transform into Walt?
In a clip unearthed by Warming Glow, Cranston appears on The After After Party, a local Albuquerque talk show hosted by his cast mate Steven Michael Quezeda (Breaking Bad‘s Steve Gomez), and brings his makeup and hair team with him. In just a few minutes, his head’s shaved, his goatee is secured, and he’s talking about how he lost 16 pounds in ten days to portray a man ravaged by cancer. But the full, chilling transformation doesn’t happen until Cranston — or, rather, Walter White — sits back down on the couch and growls, “Who’s Bryan?” Watch and psych yourself up for Sunday’s Breaking Bad Season 5 premiere after the jump. … Read More
TV’s Most Random Vacation Episodes
Fresh off our mid-week holiday, we began reminiscing about some of our favorite TV vacation episodes, whose details will probably remain in the “useless pieces of information” part of our brain until we die. These episodes usually weren’t great, but they’re hard to forget because they were so bizarre. Like the time Married with Children went medieval-fantasy in London, or when the Russo brothers got their own international black market sub-plot in the four-part special “Blossom in Paris.” And when, in one of the most commonly misremembered episodes in TV history, the Tanners went to Hawaii and got trapped on a deserted island. As The Onion pointed out a few years ago, the Beach Boys were not, repeat not there — although the musical denouement “Rock-a Hula” is more than worth re-visiting. Click through to see Uncle Jesse’s island concert, as well as the TV-vacations so random we swore they were conjured by the imaginations of our younger selves, until we did some fact-checking and discovered that yep, they all happened. Got a favorite you’d like to share? Let us know in the comments! … Read More
James Franco, Backstreet Boys and Jane Lynch To Join the Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced the 24 honorees who will be bequeathed a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year — if, of course, they shell out that $30,000 celebrities are asked to pay to, er, cement the honor. Some of the choices make sense to us — Javier Bardem, Helen Mirren, Jane Lynch all definitely deserve stars, even if the whole thing is a racket that ends up with gum trod into your name — but some seem a little bizarre. After all, if the HCC was going to give the Backstreet Boys and NKOTB stars, why do it in 2012 at the peak of their irrelevance? And you’re only just noticing Janis Joplin now? Click through to check out the complete list of honorees, and let us know what you think in the comments. … Read More
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