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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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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 & Design
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...
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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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
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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
Is a Taxi Driver remake really “getting organizized?”
August 19, 2026The Guardian reported today on a new rumor emerging from the Berlin Film Festival which suggests...
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...
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...
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?”...
History
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...
Performing Arts
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...
Video 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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