Breaking Bad: The Complete Fourth Season If Breaking Bad‘s current fifth and final season goes south (not bloody likely), at least season four delivers a climax that could have serves as a satisfying serious closer, were it not renewed. But it was, and no wonder: Bryan Cranston may have the tube’s richest character arc, as […]
True Blood
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The Killing: The Complete First Season
That’s the question posed by the first season of AMC’s The Killing, and also one famously answered — and then infamously not — by its finale (an extended cut of which is on the three-disc Blu-ray set) that incited the Internet equivalent of a riot. Whereas so many viewers were angry, I was elated: Seriously, […]
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Blood alcohol
Grabbing a bottle of Vampire Cabernet Sauvignon on the way to a costume party won’t cut it. A little ingenuity goes a long way. Bill Compton wannabes perfecting their vampiric smolder just got a boost from HBO’s marketing department in the form of Tru Blood, the blood substitute on the series “True Blood.” The nonalcoholic […]
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Blood
It’s called “Blood,” but it’s not to to be confused with the “Blood: The Last Vampire” anime or its live-action adaptation. In “Shinobi” director Ten Shimoyama’s 2009 film, the murder of a maid in the home of a woman named Miyako (Aya Sugimoto) remains a cold case for several years until hotshot Detective Hoshino (Kanji […]