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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
May 6, 2022A 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
May 6, 2022And that little black dress worn by Catherine Deneuve is as much an idea as a...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Reichenbach Fall’
May 4, 2022Now, this is the premise of the episode. What it asks us to accept in order...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Christmas Waltz” (Season 5, Episode 10)
May 4, 2022The Christmas episode of Mad Men always feels strange, as the show airs in spring and...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
May 4, 2022And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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Movies & TV
Interview: Yvette Nicole Brown Discusses Community and Her Positive Outlook
May 4, 2022For Brown, the fans are one of the most satisfying aspects of being on the show....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part III, #75
May 4, 2022The problem with Godfather III is that . . . it’s not Godfather I or Godfather...
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Books
Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
May 4, 2022Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...
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Movies
Movie Review: Men in Black III
May 4, 2022Smith, in his first role in four years, appears refreshed and re-energized as an actor. His...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: The Shallows from I Like Trains
May 2, 2022If ever there was a soundtrack for a party held on the oil-drenched shore of a...
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Games
Video Game Review: Minecraft XBLA Edition
May 2, 2022The inclusion of drop-in drop-out multiplayer allows for friends to build settlements together, wage war on...
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Movies
Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries
May 2, 2022What it is, though, is a robust specimen of a very particular kind of movie. It...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
May 2, 2022A recap/review of The Killing: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
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Blog-Music
Album review: Silversun Pickups’ Neck of the Woods
May 2, 2022The Smashing Pumpkins themselves were not the sort of people who listened to Melon Collie on...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Other Woman” (Season 5, Episode 11)
May 2, 2022I’ve known a lot of men and women who quite simply can’t watch Mad Men. Watching...
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Best Books
Trailer Watch: Les Misérables
May 2, 2022This is, in showbiz terms, the textbook definition of "a big deal." After all this anticipation,...
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Games
Video Game Review: Max Payne 3
May 1, 2022The Max Payne series has always been about contradiction. On the one hand, each game is...
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Movies
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
May 1, 2022After a kiss reawakens Snow White (though it may not be the kiss you’re expecting, which...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Roaring Twenties, #74
May 1, 2022Warner Brothers owned the franchise for gangster films in the 1930s. The studio capped the decade...
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Biography
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
May 1, 2022But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 25, 2022But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 15, 2022That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 12, 2022So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Blog-Video Games
The Finale Solution – Three of Them, Actually.
May 11, 2022End Errors: Game, Postscript For the last month or so, I’ve been talking about how terrible...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 15, 2022Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 14, 2022Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
May 4, 2022And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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Nature
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 15, 2022The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 22, 2022At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Lancelot and Guinevere’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
April 23, 2022One of the real points of interest in Merlin is watching the way the show takes...
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