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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
September 28, 2026As designed by Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer and David Grossman, Monkey Island 2 represents the height...
The Fourth Wall
Perspective and Retrospective: Paging Nicolas Cage
September 28, 2026Cage is content and comfortable playing over-the-top oddballs. He's not the picture of versatility we once...
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The Weekly Listicle: Supervillains of Evil Evilness
September 28, 2026Despicable Me‘s Gru (Steve Carell). This week’s Despicable Me features two supervillains battling it out in...
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Movie Review: Despicable Me
September 27, 2026Despicable Me is a wonderful piece of entertainment: witty, spry and capable of eliciting its fair...
Movies
Movie Review: Predators
September 27, 2026In the original Predator, and to a limited extent in Predator 2, the backdrop of all...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Chords of Strength by David Archuleta
September 27, 2026It's no surprise that David has musical talent in his DNA. His father is a jazz...
Horror
Whole Lotta Lovecraft: del Toro on deck?
September 26, 2026An adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness is in the works, with...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
September 26, 2026The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Crackdown 2
September 26, 2026Playing as a cloned super-human "Agent," Crackdown 2 immediately introduces you to Pacific City, two-time winner...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Sparkle-Free Vampire Movies!
September 26, 2026The Weekly Listicle presents this list of Sparkle-Free Vampire Classics as selected by Julia Rhodes and...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Transformers: War for Cybertron
September 25, 2026All is not well on Cybertron, home of the Transformers. A Civil War has been raging...
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
Movie Review: The Last Airbender
September 25, 2026Isolated moments allow the old “Avatar” magic to sink back in, usually in smaller scenes with...
Movies
Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
September 25, 2026Meanwhile, Edward proposes marriage to Bella, whose broken family has made her leery of the institution....
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: When in Rome
September 25, 2026Romantic locations are a perfect fit for romances of any sub-genre, so why bother going all...
Art & Design
Art Review: Late Renoir at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 23, 2026In the case of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, some were even put...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
September 23, 2026The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: Hilarity FAIL.
September 23, 2026Rock, Spade, James, Schneider, and Sandler: A veritable explosion of funny. Or not? For every Superbad,...
Art
Art Review: Dr. Lakra at the ICA, Boston
September 23, 2026A quartet of anatomical drawings from Munich, printed perhaps a hundred years ago, are especially lovely....
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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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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Music
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Art
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...
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...
Writers
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
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art & Design
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...
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...
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