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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...
Performing Arts
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
October 23, 2026Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Movies
Movie Review: Tangled
October 23, 2026Tangled isn’t too cool for school, it’s just really cool, and once the film stops apologizing...
Theatre
Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
October 23, 2026Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Thanksgiving Dinner Edition!
October 23, 2026In this edition of The Weekly Listicle, we take a moment to be thankful for our...
Art & Design
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 22, 2026The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
Sociology
Book Review: Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield
October 22, 2026One element of the gaming industry that will surprise some readers is the billions of dollars...
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...
Art
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
October 22, 2026On October 6, 2010, Kathleen Folden, identified in the media as a 56-year-old truck driver from...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Nemesis by Philip Roth
October 21, 2026Weequahic has been particularly hard-hit by the summer’s polio epidemic. Bucky, stuck supervising his school playground’s...
Movies
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
October 21, 2026With the Potter books, J.K. Rowling fashioned one of the most intricately detailed fantasy lands in...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: A Science Ficsticle
October 21, 2026Color me unimpressed based on the trailers for Skyline. This week’s big release Skyline looks…well, it...
Movies
Movie Review: Unstoppable
October 21, 2026The story is just substantial enough to tie all the screeching, sparking train chases together. We...
Movies
Movie Review: Morning Glory
October 21, 2026Morning Glory is a film about morning people. I hate morning people. They’re chipper in the...
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The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
October 20, 2026A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
October 20, 2026Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Heroes Who Suck
October 20, 2026Heroes don’t HAVE to be boring stand-ins for the audience (I’m looking at you, everyone who...
Art
Christo in Colorado
October 20, 2026"Over the River" would consist of 5.9 miles of silver fabric draped like an intermittent canopy...
France
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
October 19, 2026A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me by Jeff Dunham
October 19, 2026Jeff Dunham’s YouTube videos have been seen over 400 million times, his comedy DVDs have sold...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: 127 Hours
October 18, 2026It’s these moments that comprise the film’s greater theme, that in his final (127) hours even...
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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
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...
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...
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...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
After Image
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
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...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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