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Movie Review: The Crazies
August 24, 2026Horror film is enduring a period of what some would call “rejuvenation” and others would dub...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
The Fourth Wall
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...
Crime Fiction
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...
Movies
Erector Set: The Movie. In 3D. This idea is as bad as you think it is.
August 19, 2026Erector Set will require Helix Films to do all the heavy lifting in the creative department....
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...
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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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