Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
August 16, 2024The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
A Watchful Eye On… Ti West
June 12, 2025Barely on the edge of thirty, filmmaker Ti West has four feature films - with more...
Art
Art Review: Energy Effects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
June 12, 2025The exhibition brings such elements together to form a compelling meditation on the extreme reaches of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Monday Night Combat
June 12, 2025For while the game is about a futuristic death sport, it’s light and upbeat, full of...
Movies
Movie Review: The Expendables
June 11, 2025Overkill is the name of the game in this gleeful throwback to the shoot-em-up favorites of...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: The Bounty Hunter
June 11, 2025Certain films are so pedestrian, so middle of the road, so damned mediocre that they’re not...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle vs. The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER!
June 11, 2025Julia Rhodes, Dan Fields and I (William Bibbiani!) are devoting this Weekly Listicle to some of...
Great Britain
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
June 11, 2025The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
June 10, 2025Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Movies
Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
June 10, 2025Scott Pilgrim may be a “ladykiller wannabe” with no cash, aspirations of rock stardom, and a...
Movies
Movie Review: The Other Guys
June 10, 2025Original, laugh-out-loud comedy films have been in short supply the last few years. At some point,...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
June 10, 2025Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Dancing, Dancing, and Additional Dancing!
June 10, 2025Throughout the history of film and television, characters have been expressing their hopes, desires, and hang-ups...
Movies
All Of This Has Happened Before: Step Up Revisited!
June 8, 2025So why, exactly, did Step Up become the success it is today? As easy (and fun)...
Movies
Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks
June 8, 2025Obviously the message of the film is that making fun of others is cruel, unfair, even...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Walks With Men by Ann Beattie
June 8, 2025Beattie, like in so much of her earlier work, leaves a lot to the imagination. Between...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: Animated/Animatronic Animals Galore!
June 8, 2025This week’s Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore looks, frankly, cringe-worthy—but you can bet...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Lucy by Laurence Gonzales
June 8, 2025Lucy, half human, half bonobo monkey, was genetically engineered by her scientist father, so that “humans...
Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
June 8, 2025The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
Movies
Out of the Ashes: John Carpenter back in the game?
June 8, 2025As of July 24th, we are two months away from the release date set for John...
Espionage
Movie Review: Salt
June 7, 2025No one walks away unscathed from a chase that involves semi-jumping, a fifty mile-per-hour car crash,...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
August 16, 2024The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
May 18, 2025Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
May 23, 2025Movieline 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
May 27, 2025In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
May 14, 2025While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art & Design
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
May 24, 2025Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
June 2, 2025For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
June 3, 2025How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
May 27, 2025While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
June 10, 2025Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
May 21, 2025Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...