Vietnam
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
August 28, 2026Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
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The Great Music Videos #1: “On Your Mark” (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
August 28, 2026Music videos have also of course been a spawning ground for great motion picture directors, from...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry
August 28, 2026The Extinction Clock is counting down. Time is short—10,800 minutes (just seven days)—and if the clock...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-9-10
August 27, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
Art
Sex in the Vienna Secession – Because Airplane Bathrooms are so Passé
August 27, 2026The Vienna Secession, which was designed to display works by Gustav Klimt and his contemporaries, recently...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William and Julia’s Revised Best/Worst Lists of 2009!
August 27, 2026This week in honor of the Academy Awards – traditionally the last opportunity to discuss the...
Art
Art Review: 2010, Whitney Biennial
August 27, 2026It is undeniable that the reduction, which was largely brought on by budget constraints, has created...
The Fourth Wall
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
Movies
And the loser is… William Bibbiani!
August 26, 2026Hey everyone. Well, I screwed up. I stand by my picks as logical predictions, but as...
Sociology
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
August 26, 2026Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland
August 26, 2026The mythology behind the Wonderland books is so complex, there are sure to be disappointed diehards,...
Movies & TV
And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
August 25, 2026Well, folks, I type this through a haze of last night’s bubbly. The Academy Awards ceremony...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Creepy Kids Movies
August 25, 2026In honor of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (watch for the review on Saturday morning), this...
Movies
William and Julia’s Oscar Wager 2010!!!
August 24, 2026With the Academy Awards coming up this Sunday, March 7th, Julia Rhodes and I – William...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
August 24, 2026It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...
Games
Video Game Review: Heavy Rain
August 24, 2026This contrasts strikingly with next chapter which follows Ethan and his family to the mall, where...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner
August 24, 2026If the book were a movie, it would be rated R; the author’s got a dirty...
Movies
Movie Review: The Crazies
August 24, 2026Horror film is enduring a period of what some would call “rejuvenation” and others would dub...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-2-10
August 24, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
The Fourth Wall
Natalie Portman to do a Stoner Comedy
August 23, 2026Natalie Portman and her production company Handsome Charlie Films have signed on to make a stoner...
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
African American
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
The Fourth Wall
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
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