Godard said all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun, but did he ever really consider the cinematic possibilities of a sloth with a sword? The minds behind the horror-comedy Slotherhouse did, and we thank them for it.
As Golda Meir, Helen Mirren gives a showy but shallow impersonation, in a disappointing historical biopic more emotional than illuminating.
My choices for who will win, who should win, and who must not be allowed to win at the 96th Annual Academy Awards.
In which I look back on my preposterous (and predictably failed) attempt to write about every movie that opened this summer.
Denzel Washington eats, prays, loves, maims, mutilates, and murders in Anton Fuqua's The Equalizer 3 (2023), a dumb and dour action thriller that is both unpleasant to watch and bad for the world.
As Mad Men ponders the future, the emptiness is a problem.
On Game of Thrones, people used to fear their governments. Now, governments are learning to fear their people.
Holy doodle, here we go: Orphan Black is back. Nobody said it was going to be easy.
Moving from poop jokes to relationship wisdom to exploring the essence of comedy itself, Louie refuses to be locked into any one model.
Regrettably, Matthew Weiner saved one of the worst Mad Men episodes to be one of the last.
The good lords are dead, and the rest are monsters. But in the new world order, individuals have the freedom to choose what kind of world they want to live in.
As I begin my coverage of the fifth season of Louie, we learn—not for the first time—that life is a shitty pot luck.
At the beginning of the end of Mad Men, the characters—and we—are already asking: is that all there is?
In which I foolishly commit to reviewing way too many shows in the Spring and Summer of 2015.
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair. My long, strange journey through Breaking Bad comes to an end.
As we enter this final season of Breaking Bad, it's no longer even a question whether Walter White is redeemable: it's just a question of how he will ultimately be punished, and how many lives he will destroy before he is.
"To be or not to be?" When everything is horrifying and hopeless, that is the question. But a struggling man has got to move on…
"'If you can paint, I can walk.' Well, he can't paint. And, by the way, that's not how science works, bitch!"
Murders in the Arctic Circle, musicians in Manhattan, superheroes in Starling City, and Nazis in America: this week's TV roundup has something for everyone.
Business gets personal as Season Four of Breaking Bad comes to an explosive end.
This week the Unaffiliated Critic kept it 100 with The Nightly Show, speed-watched The Flash, tried on The Hollow Crown, gleefully suffered Slings & Arrows, and endured about as much of Backstrom as he could stand.
This week I catch up with Jane the Virgin, check out the pilots of Togetherness and Man Seeking Woman, and recommend some British shows you've never heard of.
It's become clear that Breaking Bad is a critique of male empowerment fantasies masked as a male empowerment fantasy.
A quick round-up of what The Unaffiliated Critic has been watching this week, including Agent Carter, Empire, The Americans, and more…
My Breaking Bad Binge Watch resumes, as the beginning of Season Four finds Walt and Jesse both trapped in hells of their own making.
At turns merry, scary, and melancholy, Steven Moffat's "Last Christmas" gets at the real heart of the holiday.
My obligatory year-end list of my 15 favorite shows of 2014.
"Santa, just get your moody ass up and do your job! It's your job!"
Episode Eight of The Affair grapples with a key question: it it better to stick it out, or let it go?
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