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The Weekly Listicle vs. The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER!
October 5, 2026Julia Rhodes, Dan Fields and I (William Bibbiani!) are devoting this Weekly Listicle to some of...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: The Bounty Hunter
October 5, 2026Certain films are so pedestrian, so middle of the road, so damned mediocre that they’re not...
Movies
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...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
October 3, 2026The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Other Guys
October 3, 2026Original, laugh-out-loud comedy films have been in short supply the last few years. At some point,...
Movies
Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
October 3, 2026Scott Pilgrim may be a “ladykiller wannabe” with no cash, aspirations of rock stardom, and a...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: Dancing, Dancing, and Additional Dancing!
October 3, 2026Throughout the history of film and television, characters have been expressing their hopes, desires, and hang-ups...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Movies
All Of This Has Happened Before: Step Up Revisited!
October 3, 2026So why, exactly, did Step Up become the success it is today? As easy (and fun)...
Movies
Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks
October 2, 2026Obviously the message of the film is that making fun of others is cruel, unfair, even...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: Animated/Animatronic Animals Galore!
October 2, 2026This week’s Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore looks, frankly, cringe-worthy—but you can bet...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Walks With Men by Ann Beattie
October 2, 2026Beattie, like in so much of her earlier work, leaves a lot to the imagination. Between...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Lucy by Laurence Gonzales
October 2, 2026Lucy, half human, half bonobo monkey, was genetically engineered by her scientist father, so that “humans...
Movies
Out of the Ashes: John Carpenter back in the game?
October 2, 2026As of July 24th, we are two months away from the release date set for John...
Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
October 1, 2026The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
Espionage
Movie Review: Salt
October 1, 2026No one walks away unscathed from a chase that involves semi-jumping, a fifty mile-per-hour car crash,...
Games
Video Game Review: LIMBO
October 1, 2026It really isn’t the most interesting of games, and if approached with traditional expectations, can be...
Movies
You Can Quote Us: SyFy’s Sharktopus Trailer!
October 1, 2026SyFy's Sharktopus trailer has everything: Surf music, government conspiracies, a sharktopus, but it doesn't have any...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: San Diego Comic Con Edition!
September 30, 2026So for all of you geeks who couldn't attend the convention because the Twilight fans couldn't...
Movies
The State of Celebrity and Meltdowns: Lindsay Lohan and Mel Gibson
September 30, 2026The sign on the hill. Is Hollywood truly the den of iniquity we mortals perceive it...
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...
Television
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...
Historical Fiction
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...
The Fourth Wall
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
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...
After Image
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
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...
Movies
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...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
June 29, 2025Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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