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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Movies
Oscars 2011: And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
July 21, 2025Ms. Kunis brought it–and we spent the whole night wondering if we’d see more of her...
Dance
Interview with ASFB’s William Cannon
November 11, 2026I recently had a chance to talk with dancer William Cannon of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet,...
Movies
Oscars 2011: A Beaten Critic Speaks
November 10, 2026Congratulations to Julia Rhodes for her excellent Oscar picks, which leveled my own, 15 to 9....
Movies
Oscar Leadup – Ladies in Film: Female Agency and Pleasure in 2010 Movies
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Movies
Movie Review: Drive Angry
November 10, 2026Taking into account all the casual profanity, copious T&A, comic book violence, awesome cars and impossibly...
Movies
Movie Review: Unknown
November 10, 2026Liam Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, who is in Berlin with his wife (January Jones)...
Games
Video Game Review: Stacking
November 10, 2026Set against the background of the Industrial Revolution, Stacking puts players in the role of Charlie...
Theatre
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
November 9, 2026Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
Video Games
The Ballot Box Beat Down – A Hard Corps look at DLC
November 9, 2026Here at the Metro City Reform Committee we take a look at the issues going on...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Justice For Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
November 9, 2026Dworkin believes firmly in “cooperative” interpretation, reinforcing ethical precepts with insights from history, literature and philosophy...
Dance
Company C Contemporary Ballet: Pulse, Appalachia Waltz, Ominous Rumblings of Discontent, Indoor Fireworks
November 9, 2026The most anticipated was the world premiere of Indoor Fireworks set to music by New Wave...
Games
Video Game Review: Marvel Versus Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
November 9, 2026Narrative in games like this is a rather inconsequential thing, and perhaps fighting game plots are...
Psychology
Valentine’s Day Fallout, Chapter Two: Love Most Peculiar in My Dog Tulip
November 8, 2026It is difficult to describe the feeling that My Dog Tulip leaves in one's heart once...
Art & Design
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
November 8, 2026In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Crime Fiction
The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
November 8, 2026Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
Movies
The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
November 8, 2026Happy arbitrary and consumerist holiday from CLR and The Fourth Wall! Richard Phillips’s album artwork is...
Dance
Golden West College Professional Dance Invitational
November 7, 2026Now in its sixth year, the Golden West weekend offers Southern California audiences the opportunity to...
Video Games
“I’ll Buy That For A Dollar!” – A Public Service
November 7, 2026Anyway, here at the Metro City Reform Committee, we're familiar with hard times, we know that...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: Giselle Redux
November 7, 2026Many dance companies would kill for the depth of talent present at San Francisco Ballet. Take,...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Germany
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
Movies
The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
November 8, 2026Happy arbitrary and consumerist holiday from CLR and The Fourth Wall! Richard Phillips’s album artwork is...
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