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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Movie Review: Machete
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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...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Going the Distance
October 8, 2026After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: What… The Devil?
October 7, 2026A fascination with the supernatural, and particularly its dark side, dates back to the earliest days...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Movies
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...
Movies
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...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Monday Night Combat
October 5, 2026For while the game is about a futuristic death sport, it’s light and upbeat, full of...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle vs. The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER!
October 5, 2026Julia Rhodes, Dan Fields and I (William Bibbiani!) are devoting this Weekly Listicle to some of...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: The Bounty Hunter
October 5, 2026Certain films are so pedestrian, so middle of the road, so damned mediocre that they’re not...
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...
Great Britain
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
October 3, 2026The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Other Guys
October 3, 2026Original, laugh-out-loud comedy films have been in short supply the last few years. At some point,...
Movies
Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
October 3, 2026Scott Pilgrim may be a “ladykiller wannabe” with no cash, aspirations of rock stardom, and a...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: Dancing, Dancing, and Additional Dancing!
October 3, 2026Throughout the history of film and television, characters have been expressing their hopes, desires, and hang-ups...
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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...
After Image
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...
The Fourth Wall
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
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...
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...
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...
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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