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Video Game Review: Mass Effect: Leviathan and Extended Cut DLCs
March 19, 2026The premise itself is sinister; an elusive entity called the Leviathan proves all too tempting a...
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Heat, #59
March 19, 2026This is an organized crime movie in the literal sense of that term. It’s not about...
Movies
Movie Review: The Master
March 19, 2026The Master's really an existential voyage where The Cause, alcohol, sex, and loyalty serve as poor...
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Mythology
Blu-Ray Review: The Cabin In The Woods
March 18, 2026© 2012 Lionsgate This super-secret brainchild of screenwriters Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon came shrouded as...
Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: Pilot (Season 1, Episode 1)
March 18, 2026A recap/review of Revolution: Pilot (Season 1, Episode1)
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Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘A Town Called Mercy’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 3)
March 18, 2026Indeed, why has he bothered to dress the part at all? After all, you’re never really...
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Theatre
Laurie Anderson Surveys the Wreckage
March 18, 2026Appearing in a loose-fitting white shirt and tie, black slacks and white shoes, and sporting a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Jackie Brown, #58
March 18, 2026The cast is major league. Pam Grier reestablished her career playing the title character and Robert...
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Dance
How Social Media Has Energized Small Arts Organizations — An Interview with Diablo Ballet’s Dan Meagher
March 18, 2026For small companies like Diablo Ballet, social media has come into the forefront as a cost-effective...
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: Pilot Episode
March 17, 2026Dr. Grace Devlin (Jordana Spiro) has promised her services to Southside crime boss Paul Moretti (Michael...
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Blog-Video Games
Setting Fallout 4 Pt. 2 (of 2) – On The Road Again!
March 17, 2026For what I'm discussing today is nothing short of pure, unadulterated (but hopefully still informed) speculation!...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The New Guys (Season 9, Episode 1)
March 17, 2026A recap/review of The Office: The New Guys (Season 9, Episode 1)
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: NW by Zadie Smith
March 16, 2026By calling her newest novel NW, Zadie Smith follows in the tradition of other writers, including...
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Movies
Movie Review: End of Watch
March 16, 2026End Of Watch is a perfectly serviceable drama. It is also a bait and switch job....
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 3
March 16, 2026The Thick of It neatly sidesteps the continual temptation to set off squibs about thought-space and...
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Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Power of Three’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 4)
March 16, 2026The idea of the cube invasion was interesting, and the picture of the Doctor moving in...
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Movies
Movie Review: Dredd 3D
March 16, 2026Please forgive the crassness because there is no more eloquent way to say it: Dredd 3D...
Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: Chained Heat (Season 1, Episode 2)
March 16, 2026A recap/review of Revolution: Chained Heat (Season 1, Episode 2)
Sports
Game of the Week: Florida State vs Clemson — The View from England
March 15, 2026The structure of the college game provides terrific narratives because it squashes the entire career of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
March 15, 2026The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...
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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