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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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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...
Art & Design
Art Review: A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings at the Denver Art Museum
September 23, 2026Student and then teacher at the legendary Bauhaus school, Bayer exercised his talents in fields as...
Movies
Heat Wave: Movies that make us feel
September 23, 2026Dreamy, steamy summertime: Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides. I’ve no idea how the rest of...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #3: “Blue Song” by Mint Royale (dir. Edgar Wright)
September 22, 2026Fielding doesn’t have a watch… “Not that I read too good,” his defense… and asks for...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Ten Sequels We Actually WANT To See!
September 22, 2026Any sequel that gets us thinking about our lives, loves and futures is already a good...
Movies
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
September 22, 2026The toys have to employ numerous Rube Goldberg-style methods of escape—one imagines that board meetings with...
Movies
Did Alfred Hitchcock Invent the “That’s What She Said” Joke?
September 22, 2026In this clip, poor (yet fiercely adorable) Anny Ondra confesses that she "cannot speak well" while...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
September 21, 2026Justin Cronin has written an epic here. Like Stephen King’s The Stand and Robert McCammon’s Swan...
Movies
Movie Review: Jonah Hex
September 21, 2026Any audience member unlucky enough to find themselves in a theater showing Jonah Hex will soon...
Movies
When Movie Marketing FAILS: Cats & Dogs 2, Knight & Day, Babies and Grown Ups
September 21, 2026You could not pay me to see Babies. Well, strike that, you could pay me, but...
Art
Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
September 21, 2026Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Remakes We Love
September 18, 2026Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in June 11’s remake of The Karate Kid. This week’s release...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
September 18, 2026Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Movies
Movie Review: The A-Team
September 18, 2026It would be foolish to say that Carnahan reined himself in, since these are some of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz
September 18, 2026Charles Schulz (1922-2000) started out simply wanting to draw for a living. He never had any...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Object, Image, Collector at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 18, 2026It’s the photoetching, a 1974 work called “The Train,” that is really breath-taking. It seems to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 18, 2026In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Hispanic American
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
September 18, 2026It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Movies
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FILM?: Barry Caillier’s Daredreamer!
September 18, 2026If you've seen Daredreamer, particularly around the time it was first released, I'd love to hear...
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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...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
After Image
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Art
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
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