Tag: Bryan Cranston

  • Jerry and Marge Go Large to win the lottery and save the town

    Jerry and Marge Go Large to win the lottery and save the town

    Jerry and Marge Go Large is based on a true story about a couple who found a flaw in the lottery and used it to make enough money to revive their entire decaying town and help their community. Beware the spoilers.

  • Review: Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

    Review: Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

    Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams is a science fiction anthology of 10 episodes streaming on Amazon. Instead of reviewing the anthology as a whole the way I normally would a TV season, I’ll briefly discuss each individual episode. Various writers took the short stories of Philip K. Dick and made them into the individual tales…

  • Watch This: Trailer for Electric Dreams

    Watch This: Trailer for Electric Dreams

    Electric Dreams, or more correctly Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, is an anthology sci-fi series based on the short stories of Phillip K. Dick. It has 10 stand alone episodes. It’s coming as an Amazon Prime original.

  • Review: Larry Crowne

    Review: Larry Crowne

    I saw Larry Crowne back in 2011 when it was first released. I remembered enjoying it. When it showed up on Netflix I watched it again. I enjoyed it just as much the second time.

  • Review: Trumbo

    Review: Trumbo

    Trumbo is a fact-based story about Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter who was blacklisted during the Communist scare of the 1940s and 50s. Bryan Cranston is brilliant as the chain-smoking, hard-drinking writer who lead other Hollywood writers in a quiet but effective revolt against blacklisting. Trumbo served time in prison for his liberal beliefs, as did…

  • Watch This: Trailer for Trumbo

    Watch This: Trailer for Trumbo

    Trumbo is a slice of American history written through the lens of pop culture and Hollywood. The film details the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted as a Hollywood writer in the 1940s for being a Communist. It’s based on the biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Cook. The film stars Bryan Cranston…