
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part III, #75
April 28, 2026The problem with Godfather III is that . . . it’s not Godfather I or Godfather...

Movies & TV
Interview: Yvette Nicole Brown Discusses Community and Her Positive Outlook
April 27, 2026For Brown, the fans are one of the most satisfying aspects of being on the show....

Video Games
Video Game Review: Minecraft XBLA Edition
April 27, 2026The inclusion of drop-in drop-out multiplayer allows for friends to build settlements together, wage war on...

Blog-Music
Album Review: The Shallows from I Like Trains
April 27, 2026If ever there was a soundtrack for a party held on the oil-drenched shore of a...

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
April 27, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)

Crime Fiction
Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
April 27, 2026Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...

Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Other Woman” (Season 5, Episode 11)
April 26, 2026I’ve known a lot of men and women who quite simply can’t watch Mad Men. Watching...

Movies
Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries
April 26, 2026What it is, though, is a robust specimen of a very particular kind of movie. It...

Video Games
Video Game Review: Max Payne 3
April 26, 2026The Max Payne series has always been about contradiction. On the one hand, each game is...

Movies & TV
Trailer Watch: Les Misérables
April 26, 2026This is, in showbiz terms, the textbook definition of "a big deal." After all this anticipation,...

Blog-Music
Album review: Silversun Pickups’ Neck of the Woods
April 26, 2026The Smashing Pumpkins themselves were not the sort of people who listened to Melon Collie on...

Movies
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
April 25, 2026After a kiss reawakens Snow White (though it may not be the kiss you’re expecting, which...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Roaring Twenties, #74
April 25, 2026Warner Brothers owned the franchise for gangster films in the 1930s. The studio capped the decade...
Writers
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
April 25, 2026But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...

Theatre
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 25, 2026It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...

Movies
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
April 25, 2026These off-realities of Wes Anderson's movies also enable him to create gorgeous works, and Moonrise Kingdom...

Great Britain
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
April 24, 2026Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...

Music
Dance to the Music: National Youth Orchestras of Chile
April 24, 2026My father, Hugo Domínguez, had been Hen’s assistant, and one day they were walking in a...

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 24, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)

Music
Album Review: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Here
April 24, 2026This is the music of firepits and families, and tells the story of the everyman trudging...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 21, 2026But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
Movies
Best and Worst Movies of 2012 – The First Half
April 10, 2026The Fourth Wall Presents A Look At Our Five Best and There Worst Movies of the...

Art
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 1, 2026But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 19, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)

Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 24, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
April 27, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 20, 2026Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast II’ (Season 2, Episode 6)
April 15, 2026“Fair is foul and foul is fair” as the witches in Macbeth chant. The only person...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 22, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)































