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A Look Back: The Expendables
March 28, 2026A Look Back at The Expendables in preparation of The Expendables II
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Movie Review: The Expendables 2
March 28, 2026The Expendables 2 operates as a parody of a sequel to an already outrageous film, but...
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Movies
Movie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
March 28, 2026Along with energy of place, comes a specific manifestation of that energy in the person of...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Deadlight
March 28, 2026Deadlight has impressive aesthetics surrounding a center that’s almost non-existent; a perfect example of people who...
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Theatre
NYC Fringe Report: Murder and Mayhem, California Style
March 27, 2026East Coasters rarely think of Los Angeles as a great theater town. But, as two ambitious...
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Theatre
NYC Fringe Report: Domestic Disturbances
March 27, 2026Two of the standouts, Michelle Ramoni’s June and Nancy and Camilla Ammirati’s In the Ebb take...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: The Blackout Part 2-Mock Debate (Season 1, Episode 9)
March 26, 2026Hopefully, the season ends with something more exciting than “Mock Debate” which feels very much like...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Buyout’ (Season 5, Episode 6)
March 26, 2026Back at the pest control garage, Mike is in for a nasty shock – the methylamine...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Layer Cake, #62
March 26, 2026The movie’s title refers to the various strata of the chaotically violent, multibillion dollar world of...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Apparition
March 26, 2026In bad horror movies, even women who are supposed to be educated and independent wear very...
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After Image
Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
March 26, 2026On another note entirely, the eighth and final episode offers the enduring pleasures of Hughes’s prickly...
Asian American
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 26, 2026As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Blog-Dance
Summertime Digital Dance Quiz
March 26, 2026Which was more important to you in Billy Elliot—the dancing or the plot?
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Movies
Movie Review: Cosmopolis
March 25, 2026The short shelf lives of even the best individuals. The apathy towards one’s surroundings. The vibe...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Say My Name’ (Season 5, Episode 7)
March 25, 2026Mike’s murder isn’t just scary because it’s pointless, it’s upsetting because it’s not in Walt’s own...
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Television
The Newsroom Recap: The Greater Fool (Season 1, Episode 10)
March 25, 2026Photos courtesy of Melissa Moseley/HBO Last night’s episode of The Newsroom was the season finale, a...
Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Horror
True Blood Recap: Season 5 Raises The Stakes
March 25, 2026True Blood has tightened up considerably since the meandering adventures of Season 4, despite the fact...
Books
Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
March 24, 2026As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Things Change, #61
March 24, 2026When the courtly Ameche saw that the script required him to curse, he held up the...
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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