This Week in Film (8/25/13 - 8/31/13)

It's Master Post time once again! The offerings this week are as eclectic as always and that's the way I like it. Film is a smorgasbord that has you eating fruit one day and a car tire the next. Lets tally it up:

Breaking Bad: "Confessions" - The show may be winding down but it feels like it's just getting started. Few shows go out on a creative high; Breaking Bad is prepared to hit one that is every bit as good as anything it has ever accomplished.

It's Always Fair Weather (1955) - Gene Kelly and MGM had produced some striking musicals for years but few were as dark as this story of former army buds who discover a decade later that their friendships might have been a sham.

La Ronde (1950) - Round and round storymaking and lovemaking go, and La Ronde explores both with coy awareness, self-referentiality and elegant, stately allure.

Frankestein (1931) - Boris Karloff's iconic performance as the monster draws a deeply sympathetic hold over you and makes Frankenstein more sickening than his creation.

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - One of Alfred Hitchcock's earliest and best films about a killer named Charlie (Joseph Cotton) and the quiet, little hamlet he preys upon.