Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner
August 24, 2026If the book were a movie, it would be rated R; the author’s got a dirty...
Movies
Movie Review: The Crazies
August 24, 2026Horror film is enduring a period of what some would call “rejuvenation” and others would dub...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-2-10
August 24, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
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Natalie Portman to do a Stoner Comedy
August 23, 2026Natalie Portman and her production company Handsome Charlie Films have signed on to make a stoner...
Movies
R.I.P. Andrew Koenig, Star of Batman: Dead End
August 23, 2026To some, Andrew Koenig was "Boner" on "Growing Pains." Walter Koenig and Judy Levitt called him...
Movies
Johnny Depp, Nick Cave cover “I Put a Spell on You” for Haiti Relief
August 21, 2026In the 80s, there was “We Are the World,” a recording and video jam-packed with celebrities...
Art & Design
Art Review: Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
August 21, 2026If Salon Cubism pleased nobody in 1912, the recreation of the gallery from the Salon d'Automne...
Movies
Tavis Coburn’s Resplendent BAFTA Posters!
August 21, 2026The BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards have come and gone, but before...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William’s Bruce Willis-ticle!
August 21, 2026With this weekend's Cop Out, Bruce Willis earns his 76th acting credit (!) on IMDb, making...
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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Bruce Willis-ticle!
August 21, 2026In honor of this week’s release Cop Out, the Listicle is All Things Bruce. When researching...
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“Ah, nuts!”: A Warner Bros. Blooper Reel from 1936
August 21, 2026I grew up in the era of videotapes, the advent of which changed the film industry...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 2-23-10 – UPDATED
August 21, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
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The I Spit on Your Grave Remake: Why?!
August 21, 2026Slasher movies took a gruesome turn in the 1970s, with flicks like Wes Craven’s Last House...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks!
August 21, 2026Fiction hasn’t been terribly kind to mental institutions. In movies, books, TV, comics and more these...
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Cameron Directs Bigelow in Bill Paxton’s Music Video…come again?
August 20, 2026One of the editors at my favorite non-movie blog Jezebel posted this video featuring Oscar nominees...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer
August 20, 2026Garrity is an archetype, an ill-understood and imperiled hero who after overcoming every obstacle, exits hand-in-hand...
Movies
Movie Review: Shutter Island
August 20, 2026Martin Scorsese’s newest picture Shutter Island is a creepy cinematic passage into paranoia, guilt, and insanity—a...
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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks
August 20, 2026Cinema has always been big on crazy people. Drama and comedy have portrayed the descent into...
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Julia’s Most Anticipated 2010 Movie Releases
August 20, 2026It’s mid-February, 2010, and I’m only just getting the year right on checks (I’m one of...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Wolfman
August 20, 2026Werewolves in cinema have had many incarnations, but most modern lore stems from the 1941 Universal...
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Biography
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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