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Movies
Movie Review: Dark Horse
April 17, 2026Dark Horse is Todd Solondz' most accessible movie since his masterpiece Happiness, but that doesn't mean...
Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 17, 2026At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Valachi Papers, #70
April 17, 2026While the acting is choppy and sometimes overly dramatic in The Valachi Papers, the story stays...
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Dance
Wepa! It’s Aqua Zumba!
April 16, 2026“The way I see it,” says Solano, “is that the endorphins kick in and make you...
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After Image
Landscape and Memory: Wildfires Threaten Colorado’s Built Heritage
April 16, 2026As environmental writer Bill McKibben noted on Twitter, the evacuation of the nation’s center for research...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...
Books
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 16, 2026Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 2
April 15, 2026It rather sums up the problem which I noted last episode (and which will appear even...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 1
April 15, 2026Still, nice to know the BBC’s independence is sufficiently robust (despite the continual brickbats cast at...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 3
April 15, 2026There’s a fine line between criticising a show and simply describing the show you think it...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Lollipop Chainsaw
April 15, 2026The game’s main protagonist, zombie hunting high school cheer leader Juliet, is, like, totally blonde and...
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Movies
Movie Review: Magic Mike
April 15, 2026The genesis of Magic Mike came from conversations between Tatum and Soderbergh while filming Haywire. Tatum...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast II’ (Season 2, Episode 6)
April 15, 2026“Fair is foul and foul is fair” as the witches in Macbeth chant. The only person...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 4
April 14, 2026But this is the source of Boris’ power (the power pertaining to Alexander Boris de Pfeffel...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 5
April 14, 2026One of the key questions they’ve agreed to ask the candidates is what exactly they think...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Witchfinder’ (Season 2, Episode 7)
April 14, 2026I can’t believe I seem to be suggesting that Merlin is better than The Crucible but...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: News Night 2.0 (Season 1, Episode 2)
April 14, 2026While last week’s episode straddled the line of fairness between liberal versus conservative ideology, tonight’s episode...
Biography
Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
April 14, 2026He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
April 13, 2026When I first left the theater, I was ambivalent about this movie but hopeful about the...
Music
Album Review: Chris Brown’s Fortune
April 13, 2026It fails as a sexy album, a dance album and definitely as any kind of character...
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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...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Television
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
September 7, 2026Music is the heart and soul of New Orleans: Wendell Pierce in a publicity shot for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
September 12, 2026Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
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