Movies
Halloween Home Video #1: Joe Dante’s The Hole
March 11, 2026Halloween Home Video (2012 edition) is your guide to the unsung scare flicks, thrill pics, and...
Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘All That Glitters’ (Season 1, Episode 3)
March 11, 2026Three weeks in, I’ll admit that Vegas is growing on me, even though tonight it displayed...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Borderlands 2
March 10, 2026At some point, perhaps in the middle of a gun battle against bandits protected by shields...
Mystery
Halloween Home Video #2: Pascal Laugier’s The Tall Man
March 10, 2026Halloween Home Video 2012, for your spooky holiday enjoyment! Today's pick: Pascal Laugier's moody thriller The...
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Change of Heart’ (Season 1, Episode 4)
March 10, 2026We end with Moretti planning his triumphant return to Chicago, but we’ll have to wait to...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Office Girl by Jay Meno
March 10, 2026Chicago is the city, 1999 is the year. This book is a love story but one...
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Here Comes the Boom
March 10, 2026Mixed Martial Arts/Ultimate Fighting Championship has certainly hit the big time when it becomes the subject...
Sports
Game of the Week: Texas vs Oklahoma — The View from England
March 9, 2026I mean, they might blush a little when contemplating the way their run defense allowed Williams...
Movies & TV
Halloween Home Video #3: V/H/S
March 9, 2026Check out the best in horror on video of 2012. This weekend, press play on the...
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Movies
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...
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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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Thrillers
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
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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Movies & TV
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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Books
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...
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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