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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Chords of Strength by David Archuleta
September 27, 2026It's no surprise that David has musical talent in his DNA. His father is a jazz...
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Whole Lotta Lovecraft: del Toro on deck?
September 26, 2026An adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness is in the works, with...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
September 26, 2026The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Crackdown 2
September 26, 2026Playing as a cloned super-human "Agent," Crackdown 2 immediately introduces you to Pacific City, two-time winner...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Sparkle-Free Vampire Movies!
September 26, 2026The Weekly Listicle presents this list of Sparkle-Free Vampire Classics as selected by Julia Rhodes and...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Transformers: War for Cybertron
September 25, 2026All is not well on Cybertron, home of the Transformers. A Civil War has been raging...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
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Movie Review: The Last Airbender
September 25, 2026Isolated moments allow the old “Avatar” magic to sink back in, usually in smaller scenes with...
Movies
Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
September 25, 2026Meanwhile, Edward proposes marriage to Bella, whose broken family has made her leery of the institution....
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: When in Rome
September 25, 2026Romantic locations are a perfect fit for romances of any sub-genre, so why bother going all...
Art & Design
Art Review: Late Renoir at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 23, 2026In the case of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, some were even put...
History
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
September 23, 2026The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Hilarity FAIL.
September 23, 2026Rock, Spade, James, Schneider, and Sandler: A veritable explosion of funny. Or not? For every Superbad,...
Art
Art Review: Dr. Lakra at the ICA, Boston
September 23, 2026A quartet of anatomical drawings from Munich, printed perhaps a hundred years ago, are especially lovely....
Art
Paul Emmanuel: Transitions: Identity Construction in South Africa
September 23, 2026As Emmanuel watched black and white soldiers go through the same seminal moment of transition, he...
Art
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...
The Fourth Wall
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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Writers
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
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
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