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The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
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When Film Critics Lose a Bet, Part 2: Tommy Wiseau’s The Room!
September 7, 2026My clearest thought while watching The Room was that the film plays like a screenplay Neil...
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William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 4-13-10
September 7, 2026This week’s “That’s Barely A Movie!” award goes to Oh My God, a documentary dedicated to...
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The Weekly Listicle: Antiheroes!
September 7, 2026Aaron Johnson as Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass This week’s most anticipated release is Kick-Ass, directed by Matthew Vaughn...
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Movie Review: The Runaways
September 6, 2026“It’s not about women’s lib, kitties, it’s about women’s libido!” manager Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) screams...
After Image
Where’s the Love? Robert Indiana Sued by Former Business Partner
September 6, 2026With the possible exception of Milton Glaser's I love New York, no single piece of typography...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
September 6, 2026In the Nashville of the 1960s, songs were typically recorded in an hour or less and...
Art
A Match Made in Heaven: Jeff Koons’ BMW Art Car
September 6, 2026Jeff Koons: design sketch for the 17th BMW Art Car 2010 © Jeff Koons, Image Source:...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Worst. Dates. Ever.
September 5, 2026From Travis Bickle’s unfortunate taste in movies in Taxi Driver, to history’s second most ill-fated prom...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
September 5, 2026Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
September 5, 2026There are cases in which even though relatives of the victims have argued against death for...
Movies
Spoiler Sensitivity: What’s the deal?
September 5, 2026Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: replace “evil” with “spoilers” and you’ve got...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
September 4, 2026I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Kaboom by Matt Gallagher
September 4, 2026Gallagher has a lot of conversations with his platoon’s interpreter (“tarp”), a man his men call...
Art
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700
September 4, 2026Saint Serapion (1628) by Francisco de Zurbarán A new show at the National Gallery of Art...
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
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 4-6-10
September 4, 2026For all the money thrown at Wolfgang Peterson’s remake of The Poseidon Adventure, I find myself...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: SPOILER ALERT
September 3, 2026In honor of April Fool’s Day, The Weekly Listicle issues a SPOILER WARNING as we describe...
Mythology
Movie Review: Clash of the Titans
September 3, 2026Some films were meant to be viewed in three dimensions, but this one wasn’t. Clash of...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-30-10
September 3, 2026Hot on the heels – or shall we say paws – of Alvin & The Chipmunks...
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...
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...
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...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
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 & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Art
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
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...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
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