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The 10 Best Episodes Of ‘Breaking Bad’ 10 years ago tomorrow, a show with no discernible qualities of longevity aired on AMC, a network that was only a few months into its first tentpole series,Mad Men, and not yet an established ratings and awards player.Breaking Badarrived without much fanfare; it was midseason, January, a dreary time of year for a show so propulsive and colorful. And though immediately critically acclaimed – Bryan Cranston won a Best Actor Emmy for the first season – it took years to crystalize as a full-blown hit....

The Best & Worst Sketches From Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Last night brought another first-timeSaturday Night Livehost to Studio 8H withHamiltonco-creator and starLin-Manuel Mirandataking the stage. As expected, there were plenty of musical jokes to be made (including an incredible opening monologue rap from our host), but the episode turned out to be rather average, despite the presence of some fantastic sketches throughout the night. There were even two surprise special guests at the Weekend Update desk....

The Best Movies And Shows Coming To Amazon In November 2020 Picture this. The clock has just ticked over from October 31 to June 12, 2025. You’re sitting on the coach, stuffed from eating all of the Halloween candy that was supposed to be for neighborhood children, but that you secretly knew you were going to eat the whole time. It’s just days before one of the most significant American presidential elections in history....

The Book Of Boba Fett Featurette: Temuera Morrison Brings Back The Bounty Hunter How many impressionable young viewers first became genuine “Star Wars” fans during the sequence in “Attack of the Clones” where the father/son duo of Jango Fett and Boba Fett fend off an attack by Obi-Wan Kenobi on a rainy Kamino platform? Off the top of my head, I’d wager the answer to that question is, “a lot,” which perhaps partly explains why the premiere episode of “The Book of Boba Fett"brings audiences backto that era of “Star Wars” prequel history with a blink-and-miss-it flashback....

The Die Hard Stunt That Left Bruce Willis Partially Deaf Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way, “Yippee-ki-yay, mother f*****!” “Die Hard” was kept on regular rotation in my childhood home. It was one of my dad’s favorites, along with “Road House” and “Fire Down Below.” To me, Bruce Willis has always been the kind of guy to blow up elevator shafts with C4 and a computer monitor or propel down a massive building with a fire hose around his waist, but that’s far from the image he had in the early ’80s....

The Future Of The ‘Terminator’ Franchise Is Uncertain Paramount Pictures and Skydance were really hoping thatTerminator: Genisyswould be a hit to reinvigorate the popular but struggling sci-fi franchise originally launched byJames Cameronin 1984. But despiteendorsement by theAvatarfilmmaker, the flick hasn’t really impressed fans or critics, and withjust $278 million at the worldwide box officeso far (only just over $81 million of that from the US), it’s not nearly as successful as the studio hoped....

The Morning Watch: Behind The Animation Of The Witcher Anime, Jungle Cruise VFX Breakdown & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, go behind the scenes of the animation and character design for the upcoming anime series “The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf” from Netflix....

The Morning Watch: The Evolution Of Pixar’s Human Characters, Adam Savage’s ‘Kill Bill’ Sword Replica & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, see how Pixar’s animation of human characters has evolved from their first feature filmToy Story....

The Morning Watch: THR Actor’s Roundtable, The Puppets Of Aardman Animation & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch the nearly hour-long Actor’s Roundtable discussion from The Hollywood Reporter. Plus, spend some time learning about the stop-motion puppets fromAardman Animationin their new filmThe Early Man, and take a closer look at the anatomy of makeover movies likeShe’s All That....

The Munsters Made Finding Work A Struggle For Fred Gwynne Part of the allure and excitement of becoming an actor is the ability to take on roles that give them a chance to live in a different existence than their own. In some instances, actors transform themselves so well that their identity becomes synonymous with the character. For some people, Daniel Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter, Mark Hamill will consistently be known as Luke Skywalker, Jamie Lee Curtis is our forever Final Girl Laurie Strode, and Fred Gwynne is the golden-hearted ghoul, Herman Munster....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Centrifuge Brain Project’ Fights The Forces That Hold Us Down (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:The Centrifuge Brain ProjectWhere You Can Stream It:YouTube (and below)The Pitch:A short film following Dr. Nick Laslowicz and his experiments with physically impossible amusement park rides and their effect on cognitive function.Why It’s Essential Quarantine Viewing:The summer is halfway over, and let’s face it: things aren’t going to magically get better....

The Quarantine Stream: I Finally Watched ‘Better Call Saul,’ And You’re All Right That It’s The Best Show On TV (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series:Better Call SaulWhere You Can Stream It:NetflixThe Pitch:What if sleazy criminal lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) had his own tragic backstory? The prequel series toBreaking Badtakes on the impossible task of following up one of the most revered prestige dramas ever, and in the process, creates a rich and layered character drama about a man at war with his better self that even manages to outstrip its predecessor....

The Up Subplot That Didn’t Make The Cut According to an interview atMTV,Pixar’sUpwas originally an even more overt adventure movie, as a subplot featured Carl Fredricksen protecting a giant egg (laid by the bird Kevin) that is believed to be a sort of fountain of youth. The fact that a subplot was dropped from the film isn’t a big deal, as it happens all the time in many films of all types during development, but this detail provides an interesting glimpse into the film as it was originally conceived....