AMC has released yet another promo for the final episodes of "Breaking Bad." While keeping mum on footage from the series, this teaser trailer features Walter White (Bryan Cranston) eerily reading the ...

Poetry has dropped so far out of the cultural mainstream in the U.S. that even seeing a great poem mangled, manhandled or misunderstood almost makes us smile. Every time a high-school commencement ...

Percy Bysshe Shelly turned the despot Ozymandias into a memorable sonnet about tyranny and time. Inspired by the poem, sculptor Douglas Kornfeld created a monumental red figure named Ozymandias that ...

If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still efficacious to remember bits and pieces, to treasure up and produce at need. Into every life, at some time or other, will surely ...

Last night wasn’t the first time Breaking Bad has used a ten-cent word for an episode title (see: last week’s mouthful, “To’hajiilee”) but, for those who didn’t pay attention during English Poetry 101 ...

While the nature of Oz's true parentage is still up for debate — we have a strong feeling his "real" mom is Ivy, but who's the father? — the meaning behind his full name is crystal clear. So, where ...

There’s a crucial moment in Breaking Bad when Jesse, unsure of his partner’s motivations, asks Walt a simple question: “Are we in the meth business or the money business?” Walt’s chilling reply: ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo are two gigantic legs in ...

Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, is the smartest man in the world in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen comic, and the primary antagonist behind everything that occurs. In the HBO series he’s declared ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...