The troubling and intriguing "Breaking Bad" returns for a second season on AMC at 10 p.m. Sunday, with sad sack anti-hero Walt White sinking deeper into desperation, paranoia and darkness. Not for the faint of heart or those looking for happy endings, "Breaking Bad" is a character study of a good and unassuming man who, when faced with a terminal illness and financial ruin, turns to crime and murder. ...more

March 6, 2009

What Just Happened Based on the memoir by producer Art Linson ("Fight Club," among others), this mild inside Hollywood tale stars Robert DeNiro as a movie executive struggling to save two troubled pictures (an arty thriller in which a dog dies, and an action movie starring Bruce Willis) as well as his marriage to estranged second wife Robin Wright Penn. Catherine Keener and John Turturro also star. ...more

February 26, 2009

Retro '60s drama "Mad Men" and legal thriller "Damages" were poised to take a shot at making Emmy Awards history Sunday as basic cable's first best-series nominees. ...more

September 21, 2008

The old Southern term "breaking bad" means to behave in a violent, wanton or outrageous manner for no discernible reason. ...more

January 17, 2008