100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Animal Kingdom, #55
March 9, 2026We place Jacki Weaver, as Grandma Smurf, on the Mount Rushmore of female movie gangsters, along...
Movies
Movie Review: Sinister
March 9, 2026Sinister has its flaws; it’s all a little too neat, the ghosts too visible. The “twist”...
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Movies
Movie Review: Argo
March 9, 2026As the eyes of the entire country are watching news reports of the hostages, the CIA,...
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Movies & TV
The Walking Dead Recap: “Seed” (Season 3, Episode 1)
March 8, 2026Not quite singing Kumbaya. Photo credit Gene Page/AMC. The third season of The Walking Dead opens...
Movies
Halloween Home Video #4: Alexandre Courtès’ Asylum Blackout
March 8, 2026Welcome to Halloween Home Video (2012 edition), a special series of home video reviews for this...
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Art & Design
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 8, 2026It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...
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Dance
Mariinsky Ballet: Swan Lake
March 8, 2026Asked why there were no secondes, the general director gave the curious response that “not everyone...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 5
March 8, 2026Back at the plot, the death of Tickel is becoming even more of an issue than...
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Horror
Halloween Home Video #5: John Poliqiun’s Grave Encounters 2
March 7, 2026Read on as Halloween Home Video brings you the horror highlights of 2012. Revisit a haunted...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Work Bus (Season 9, Episode 4)
March 7, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Work Bus (Season 9, Episode 4)
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 7, 2026The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killing, #54
March 7, 2026There are two great reasons to see The Killing, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 caper film about a...
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Art
Art Review: Graphic Design: Now in Production, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
March 7, 2026Lovers of advertising, of the internet and interactivity, of reading and the media, sit back and...
Movies
Halloween Home Video #6: Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones
March 6, 2026Halloween Home Video (2012 edition) is your one-stop shop for Halloween rental recommendations. Sean Byrne's The...
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Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 4
March 6, 2026For those who came in late: Paranormal Activity is the continuing saga of a family whose...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: You & Me by Padgett Powell
March 6, 2026You might enjoy your own shot of bourbon to compliment the liquor these two “weirdly agreeable...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 6
March 6, 2026The scenario is a brilliant way of watching each figure respond in almost laboratory conditions, offering...
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Blog-Dance
Shaping Flamenco: An Afternoon with Cristina Hall
March 6, 2026“The head follows the hand.” Now smiling broadly, she demonstrates slamming the back foot onto the...
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Movies
Halloween Home Video #7: Darren Lynn Bousman’s The Barrens
March 5, 2026Today's Halloween Home Video - Darren Lynn Bousman's The Barrens - a contemporary fable casting the...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘(Il)Legitimate’ (Season 1, Episode 4)
March 5, 2026Savino’s got surprises for everyone. His expansion plans have been nixed by Angelo back in Chicago,...
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
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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