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  • Breaking Bad’s Cuddly Cousin

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    Hung Review Watching HBO’s new series Hung it’s difficult to shake the feeling that AMC’s Breaking Bad is currently mining similar territory to much deeper and stronger effect. Both shows feature washed-up, middle-aged protagonists who are currently dying inside as they teach high school. Like Bryan Cranston’s Walt White, Thomas Jane’s Ray Drecker has a…

  • Lamenting the Silent Death of Killshot

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    What if I told you they had made a movie adapting a pretty decent Elmore Leonard novel (Killshot), and that it starred Thomas Jane, Diane Lane, recently Oscar-nominated (and a good pick to win) Mickey Rourke, rising actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rosario Dawson and it had been sitting on the shelf forever. Oh yeah, and…

  • Despairing in advance of The Punisher

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    My colleague at the University of Maryland demolished Ray Stevenson’s The Punisher in his review, and most critics have been similarly ill-disposed towards the new film. http://media.www.diamondbackonline.com/media/storage/paper873/news/2008/12/04/Diversions/A.Punishing.Viewing.Experience-3568157.shtml I for one had marshaled some hope, after the goofball camp of the Thomas Jane Punisher, that this seemingly more serious incarnation might be worth seeing. This does…