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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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What happened to teen movies?!
August 28, 2026“On Wednesdays we wear pink!” (Mean Girls: a frightfully accurate portrayal of peer pressure and conformity.)...
Art
A Case for Warhol’s Jews
August 28, 2026Since its in 1980, Critics have lambasted Warhol’s “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century”...
The Fourth Wall
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-16-10
August 28, 2026Confession time: I did not see the Academy Award-nominated The Princess and The Frog. In my...
Vietnam
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
August 28, 2026Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #1: “On Your Mark” (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
August 28, 2026Music videos have also of course been a spawning ground for great motion picture directors, from...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry
August 28, 2026The Extinction Clock is counting down. Time is short—10,800 minutes (just seven days)—and if the clock...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-9-10
August 27, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
Art
Sex in the Vienna Secession – Because Airplane Bathrooms are so Passé
August 27, 2026The Vienna Secession, which was designed to display works by Gustav Klimt and his contemporaries, recently...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William and Julia’s Revised Best/Worst Lists of 2009!
August 27, 2026This week in honor of the Academy Awards – traditionally the last opportunity to discuss the...
Art
Art Review: 2010, Whitney Biennial
August 27, 2026It is undeniable that the reduction, which was largely brought on by budget constraints, has created...
Movies
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
Movies
And the loser is… William Bibbiani!
August 26, 2026Hey everyone. Well, I screwed up. I stand by my picks as logical predictions, but as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
August 26, 2026Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
Movies
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland
August 26, 2026The mythology behind the Wonderland books is so complex, there are sure to be disappointed diehards,...
Best Movies
And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
August 25, 2026Well, folks, I type this through a haze of last night’s bubbly. The Academy Awards ceremony...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Creepy Kids Movies
August 25, 2026In honor of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (watch for the review on Saturday morning), this...
Movies
William and Julia’s Oscar Wager 2010!!!
August 24, 2026With the Academy Awards coming up this Sunday, March 7th, Julia Rhodes and I – William...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
August 24, 2026It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Heavy Rain
August 24, 2026This contrasts strikingly with next chapter which follows Ethan and his family to the mall, where...
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 & 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
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
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
After Image
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
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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