Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Time Travel At Its Best!
September 1, 2026Since there are relatively few “Hot Tub” movies to recommend, Julia Rhodes and I (William Bibbiani)...
After Image
Museums: Attracting a Younger Crowd
September 1, 2026Brooklyn Museum iPhone Application Museum-goers today are very different than they were one hundred years ago. ...
Gay and Lesbian
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-23-10
September 1, 2026Frankly, after three Free Willy movies I can’t help but wonder if maybe the universe is...
Movies
A CLR Interview with The New Year Parade Filmmaker Tom Quinn
September 1, 2026The New Year Parade: A taut, small-scale family drama from independent filmmaker Tom Quinn. Tom Quinn’s...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Iran
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Movies
Movie Review: Repo Men
August 31, 2026The only way it could be more topical is if there was a subplot about Sandra...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: Dystopian Futures
August 31, 2026The March 19 release Repo Men is about a near-future in which organ transplants are simple,...
Movies
When Film Critics Lose a Bet, Part 1: The Oscar!
August 30, 2026(The Oscar) has a reputation as one of the biggest turkeys in Hollywood history, in large...
Fiction Reviews
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
August 30, 2026A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
Fiction Reviews
A Separate Country by Robert Hicks
August 30, 2026A Separate Country tells the story of Confederate General John Bell Hood, who moves to New...
Photography
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
August 30, 2026Contemporary sculptor and print maker Kiki Smith has been photographing and exhibiting her work for three...
Art
The Art of Japanese Internment Camps at the Renwick Gallery
August 28, 2026An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC titled The Art of Gaman: Arts and...
Movies
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”...
Movies
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...
Military
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...
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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
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...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Classics
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...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
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...
Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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