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Movie Review: The Dictator
April 30, 2026What differentiates Sacha Baron Cohen from the vast majority of his contemporaries is his willingness to...
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The 2012-2013 Television Season: An Overall Look
April 29, 2026My final thoughts on the 2012-2013 fall season.
Music
Album Review: Iggy Pop’s Après
April 29, 2026To those unacquainted with Iggy Pop's vocals let it be known that they are not merely...
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The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 29, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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Art
Art Review – Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, Denver Art Museum
April 29, 2026And that little black dress worn by Catherine Deneuve is as much an idea as a...
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Mystery
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Reichenbach Fall’
April 28, 2026Now, this is the premise of the episode. What it asks us to accept in order...
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Mad Men Recap: “The Christmas Waltz” (Season 5, Episode 10)
April 28, 2026The Christmas episode of Mad Men always feels strange, as the show airs in spring and...
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House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
April 28, 2026And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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Movies
Movie Review: Men in Black III
April 28, 2026Smith, in his first role in four years, appears refreshed and re-energized as an actor. His...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part III, #75
April 28, 2026The problem with Godfather III is that . . . it’s not Godfather I or Godfather...
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Interview: Yvette Nicole Brown Discusses Community and Her Positive Outlook
April 27, 2026For Brown, the fans are one of the most satisfying aspects of being on the show....
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Minecraft XBLA Edition
April 27, 2026The inclusion of drop-in drop-out multiplayer allows for friends to build settlements together, wage war on...
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Music
Album Review: The Shallows from I Like Trains
April 27, 2026If ever there was a soundtrack for a party held on the oil-drenched shore of a...
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The Killing Recap: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
April 27, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
April 27, 2026Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...
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Mad Men Recap: “The Other Woman” (Season 5, Episode 11)
April 26, 2026I’ve known a lot of men and women who quite simply can’t watch Mad Men. Watching...
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Movies
Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries
April 26, 2026What it is, though, is a robust specimen of a very particular kind of movie. It...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Max Payne 3
April 26, 2026The Max Payne series has always been about contradiction. On the one hand, each game is...
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Best Books
Trailer Watch: Les Misérables
April 26, 2026This is, in showbiz terms, the textbook definition of "a big deal." After all this anticipation,...
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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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In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
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All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
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The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
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