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Tavis Coburn’s Resplendent BAFTA Posters!
April 30, 2025The BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards have come and gone, but before...
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The Weekly Listicle: William’s Bruce Willis-ticle!
April 29, 2025With 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!
April 29, 2025In honor of this week’s release Cop Out, the Listicle is All Things Bruce. When researching...
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William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 2-23-10 – UPDATED
April 29, 2025Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
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“Ah, nuts!”: A Warner Bros. Blooper Reel from 1936
April 29, 2025I grew up in the era of videotapes, the advent of which changed the film industry...
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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,...
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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...
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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 & Design
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...
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Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,”...
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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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