Music
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
February 5, 2024For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
Television
The Weekly Listicle: Action Heroines!
February 5, 2024For some reason Ridley Scott decided another retelling of Robin Hood was a good idea, and...
Movies
Movie Review: Iron Man 2
February 5, 2024Jon Favreau’s first Iron Man was a snazzy little number, cherry red and rocket-fueled and brimming...
Photography
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
February 5, 2024Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
February 4, 2024Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
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...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
May 9, 2025The 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”
May 11, 2025Is 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!
May 18, 2025Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Thrillers
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
May 9, 2025Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
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...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William and Julia’s Revised Best/Worst Lists of 2009!
May 4, 2025This week in honor of the Academy Awards – traditionally the last opportunity to discuss the...
Art
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
May 8, 2025In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Movies
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
May 4, 2025Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
The Fourth Wall
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
May 14, 2025Music is the heart and soul of New Orleans: Wendell Pierce in a publicity shot for...
Art
Art Review: Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
April 30, 2025If Salon Cubism pleased nobody in 1912, the recreation of the gallery from the Salon d'Automne...
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