
Video Games
Video Game Review: Diablo III
April 23, 2026Herein dwells the problem. The treatment of your combatants as mere faceless fodder makes gameplay as...

Movies
Trailer Watch: Django Unchained
April 22, 2026After countless musical and stylistic hints in films like Kill Bill and em>Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino...

Television
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
April 22, 2026You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...
Television
The Killing Recap: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 22, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap – Series 2, Episode 1
April 22, 2026You know what’s good about Merlin? (No, not that, we’re leaving that ‘til the second paragraph,...

Satire
Trailer Watch: Wreck-It Ralph
April 22, 2026What sounds funnier: a genre-hopping quest across the video game spectrum by a generic galoot drawn...

Movies
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
April 21, 2026Safety Not Guaranteed is a movie that creeps up on you, in a very friendly and...

Music
EP Review: Sara Bareilles’ Once Upon Another Time
April 21, 2026Opening with such an incredibly slow track, melodic but free of refrain and rambling, is a...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 21, 2026But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...

Blog-Theater
The Cunning Little Vixen, Live-streamed from Glyndebourne Opera House
April 21, 2026It has not been an altogether popular production, not least with the huffy Glyndebourne reactionaries who...

Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Phantom” (Season 5, Episode 13)
April 21, 2026Don Draper has a rotten tooth that’s causing him immense pain. He refuses to have it...

Movies
Movie Review: That’s My Boy
April 20, 2026That's My Boy opens with a teenaged Donny Berger (thankfully not played by a CGI'ed Adam...
Music
Ben Vereen Opens Up About Fame, Addiction and Love
April 20, 2026I love my public, and if I’m walking down the street and someone wants to take...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 20, 2026Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Nightmare Begins’ (Season 2, Episode 3)
April 20, 2026Unsympathetic spectators might hazard that her unquiet slumbers have something to do with her invariable habit...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 7
April 20, 2026In other words, he’s committed a terrible crime, not by stealing information, but by stealing attention....

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 19, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)

Blog-Music
Album Review: Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
April 19, 2026Yet there is power in childishness, and strength in it as well – there is innocence...

Dance
Bay Area Dancers Perform in a Benefit for Cancer Prevention
April 19, 2026On Wednesday, June 6, thirty-three dancers from or associated with twelve San Francisco Bay Area dance...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killers, #71
April 19, 2026Ernest Hemingway hated Hollywood. Or, more to the point, the great American author hated Hollywood’s treatment...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 21, 2026But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
Movies
Best and Worst Movies of 2012 – The First Half
April 10, 2026The Fourth Wall Presents A Look At Our Five Best and There Worst Movies of the...

Art
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 1, 2026But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 19, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)

Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 20, 2026Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast II’ (Season 2, Episode 6)
April 15, 2026“Fair is foul and foul is fair” as the witches in Macbeth chant. The only person...
Television
The Killing Recap: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 22, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)

Television
Merlin Recap: ‘The Lady of the Lake’ (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 11, 2026That which will be given to Freya must be stolen from Arthur, and so Merlin goes...

Television
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 8
April 18, 2026Tucker’s resignation is the two-headed calf or woman giving birth to rabbits of the modern era:...





























