Video Games
Video Game Review: Diablo III
April 23, 2026Herein dwells the problem. The treatment of your combatants as mere faceless fodder makes gameplay as...
Movies
Trailer Watch: Django Unchained
April 22, 2026After countless musical and stylistic hints in films like Kill Bill and em>Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino...
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Television
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
April 22, 2026You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 22, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap – Series 2, Episode 1
April 22, 2026You know what’s good about Merlin? (No, not that, we’re leaving that ‘til the second paragraph,...
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Satire
Trailer Watch: Wreck-It Ralph
April 22, 2026What sounds funnier: a genre-hopping quest across the video game spectrum by a generic galoot drawn...
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Movies
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
April 21, 2026Safety Not Guaranteed is a movie that creeps up on you, in a very friendly and...
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Music
EP Review: Sara Bareilles’ Once Upon Another Time
April 21, 2026Opening with such an incredibly slow track, melodic but free of refrain and rambling, is a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 21, 2026But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Music
The Cunning Little Vixen, Live-streamed from Glyndebourne Opera House
April 21, 2026It has not been an altogether popular production, not least with the huffy Glyndebourne reactionaries who...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Phantom” (Season 5, Episode 13)
April 21, 2026Don Draper has a rotten tooth that’s causing him immense pain. He refuses to have it...
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Movies
Movie Review: That’s My Boy
April 20, 2026That's My Boy opens with a teenaged Donny Berger (thankfully not played by a CGI'ed Adam...
Music
Ben Vereen Opens Up About Fame, Addiction and Love
April 20, 2026I love my public, and if I’m walking down the street and someone wants to take...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 20, 2026Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Nightmare Begins’ (Season 2, Episode 3)
April 20, 2026Unsympathetic spectators might hazard that her unquiet slumbers have something to do with her invariable habit...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 7
April 20, 2026In other words, he’s committed a terrible crime, not by stealing information, but by stealing attention....
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 19, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
Music
Album Review: Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
April 19, 2026Yet there is power in childishness, and strength in it as well – there is innocence...
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Dance
Bay Area Dancers Perform in a Benefit for Cancer Prevention
April 19, 2026On Wednesday, June 6, thirty-three dancers from or associated with twelve San Francisco Bay Area dance...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killers, #71
April 19, 2026Ernest Hemingway hated Hollywood. Or, more to the point, the great American author hated Hollywood’s treatment...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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