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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
June 15, 2025For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
Mystery
Hammer to Fall? Not This Year, Horror Show Fans!
June 15, 2025After years of silence, Hammer Film is returning to active production in a big way this...
Movies
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the Horror and Beauty of Ballet
June 14, 2025Portman has never looked quite so spooky: the Black Swan poster. Once upon a time, I...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
June 14, 2025A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!
June 14, 2025Well, here we are… 3/4’s of the way through the year and the Academy Award nominees...
Movies
Movie Review: Machete
June 14, 2025Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: What… The Devil?
June 14, 2025A fascination with the supernatural, and particularly its dark side, dates back to the earliest days...
Movies
Movie Review: Going the Distance
June 13, 2025After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Mafia II
June 13, 2025The story is secondhand Scorsese, hitting all the familiar tropes even the most casual audience member...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
June 13, 2025The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
June 13, 2025Former criminal compatriots Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus and James Seth Lynch are brought together again after spending...
Movies
Movie Review: The Last Exorcism
June 13, 2025To this end, he brings a documentary crew along to an isolated farm, where a troubled...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Man vs. Nature–Deathmatch!
June 12, 2025This week marks the release of what’s sure to be the masterpiece of 2010 (aside from...
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...
Fiction Reviews
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 & 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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Art
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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