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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...
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Movie Review: Resident Evil: Afterlife
October 10, 2026Resident Evil: Afterlife is releasing in 3D, and in this movie 3D works. Everything from throwing...
Art
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
October 10, 2026Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
Games
Video Game Review: Metroid: Other M
October 10, 2026No matter how much you might want to love the game out of nostalgia or give...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
October 9, 2026Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
Mystery
Hammer to Fall? Not This Year, Horror Show Fans!
October 9, 2026After years of silence, Hammer Film is returning to active production in a big way this...
History
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
October 9, 2026For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
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Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
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Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the Horror and Beauty of Ballet
October 8, 2026Portman has never looked quite so spooky: the Black Swan poster. Once upon a time, I...
Movies
Movie Review: Machete
October 8, 2026Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to...
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The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!
October 8, 2026Well, here we are… 3/4’s of the way through the year and the Academy Award nominees...
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Movie Review: Going the Distance
October 8, 2026After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
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The Weekly Listicle: What… The Devil?
October 7, 2026A fascination with the supernatural, and particularly its dark side, dates back to the earliest days...
Music
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
October 7, 2026The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Mafia II
October 7, 2026The story is secondhand Scorsese, hitting all the familiar tropes even the most casual audience member...
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The Weekly Listicle: Man vs. Nature–Deathmatch!
October 7, 2026This week marks the release of what’s sure to be the masterpiece of 2010 (aside from...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
October 6, 2026Former criminal compatriots Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus and James Seth Lynch are brought together again after spending...
Movies
Movie Review: The Last Exorcism
October 6, 2026To this end, he brings a documentary crew along to an isolated farm, where a troubled...
Art
Art Review: Energy Effects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
October 6, 2026The exhibition brings such elements together to form a compelling meditation on the extreme reaches of...
Horror
A Watchful Eye On… Ti West
October 6, 2026Barely on the edge of thirty, filmmaker Ti West has four feature films - with more...
Movies
Movie Review: The Expendables
October 6, 2026Overkill is the name of the game in this gleeful throwback to the shoot-em-up favorites of...
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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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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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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...
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...
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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...
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...
Photography
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...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
After Image
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
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