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Movie Review: The Vow
October 28, 2025Seeing The Vow primarily through Leo's eyes is probably the film's biggest problem. Paige just had...
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Movie Review: Safe House
October 27, 2025Safe House is the latest CIA shoot ‘em up to come out of Hollywood and although...
Theatre
Neighbourhood Watch by Alan Ayckbourn. Pre-West End Tour.
October 27, 2025Neighbourhood Watch never feels like an “issue” play, but the London riots, the increasingly draconian Law...
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The Office Recap: Special Project (Season 8, Episode 14)
October 27, 2025A Recap/Review of The Office- Special Project (Season 8, Episode 14)
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Alcatraz Recap: Guy Hastings (Season 1, Episode 5)
October 27, 2025A recap/review of Alcatraz: Guy Hastings (Season 1, Episode 5)
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Yes Academy, We Do Need To Talk About Kevin
October 26, 2025This film will upset you. This film will follow you home and haunt you. This film...
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Movie Review: Chronicle
October 26, 2025So if you want to try a telekinetic tragedy for today’s times, your only real option,...
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House Recap: ‘Nobody’s Fault’ (Season 8, Episode 11)
October 26, 2025As promised, we get something different this week. We open with the camera panning across a...
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Movie Review: The Woman in Black
October 26, 2025And what better place for sustained periods of quiet dread than an abandoned child’s nursery, truly...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killer, #90
October 25, 2025To some fans, The Killer represents the apex of his career—before he went too commercial. It’s...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
October 25, 2025Obsessed with the idea of apocalypse, the child whose world is on the verge of unwinding...
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The Office Recap: Jury Duty (Season 8, Episode 13)
October 25, 2025A recap/review of The Office: Jury Duty (Season 8, Episode 13) as well as thoughts on...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet’s Dazzling Onegin Opens the 2012 Season
October 25, 2025From the luscious Santo Loquasto sets and costumes, to the Tchaikovsky musical pastiche, and the brilliant...
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The Weekly Listicle: Giants v. Patriots
October 24, 2025The Weekly Listicle focuses on movies with giants AND patriots.
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Art
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
October 24, 2025This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Gloria, #91
October 24, 2025This is a gangster movie without a memorable gangster. But it has one of the all-time...
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Movie Review: Man on a Ledge
October 24, 2025The heist movie is one of the most beloved genres in cinema and its great legacy...
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House Recap: ‘Runaways’ (Season 8, Episode 10)
October 23, 2025This week’s premise – “A Different House,” in which we see House caring for a patient...
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Alcatraz Recap: Cal Sweeney (Season 1, Episode 4)
October 23, 2025A recap/review of Alcatraz, Season 1, Episode 4, Cal Sweeney
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Movie Review: Albert Nobbs
October 23, 2025Albert, says Garcia, is “beyond the closet.” It doesn’t matter what his sexual orientation is (or...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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