Espionage
The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
September 1, 2025The fact that it can now boast of being the longest-running comedy currently in the West...
Horror
A Brief Apology To Final Destination 5
September 1, 2025My recent review awarded Final Destination a moderate "star" rating - for the benefit of the...
Satire
The Weekly Listicle: There Goes The Neighborhood
August 30, 2025Forget good fences, and forget good neighbors. Characters in movies and television are far more compelling...
Movies
Movie Review: Final Destination 5
August 30, 2025Final Destination, however, is no celebration of torture. It is a series of horror films playing...
Humor
The Weekly Listicle: The Art Of The Heist
August 30, 2025This week, I join forces with Brett Davinger to chronicle some of the best heists, rip-offs,...
Video Games
“Summer Loving, Had Me A Blast!” – A Quick Look Back
August 30, 2025So if you’ve been following the world of video games during the last couple of months...
Art
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 30, 2025Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
Movies
Movie Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
August 30, 2025The fantastic Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies and King...
Art & Design
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
August 30, 2025Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
Movies
Movie Review: The Devil’s Double
August 30, 2025Uday is a prince who has everything and can get away with anything. He rapes, he...
Movies
Trailer Watch: Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist
August 29, 2025How does Tower Heist look to all you out there? Will it be in-your-face fun from...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Will Return In 10 Years
August 29, 2025Some franchises come out with a new installment every year (Saw). Others make us wait a...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
August 29, 2025The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Catherine
August 29, 2025In Japan, things are a bit different. There, the Dating Sim genre (itself a subset of...
Movies
Trailer Watch: 2012’s Battleship
August 28, 2025The epic board game becomes a certainly not epic movie. This week, Hasbro released the trailer...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Two Roles, One Schlup
August 28, 2025Buster Keaton as Mr. and Mrs. Buster Keaton, as well as several other Buster Keatons, in...
Dance
Dance in the Desert Festival: 3 Questions with Choreographer/Festival Director Kelly Roth
August 28, 2025Now known as a venue for the introduction of innovative work, Dance in the Desert showcases...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
A Watchful Eye On… Marvel’s Animated Avengers
August 28, 2025Marvel's animation division, together with cartoon grand masters Film Roman, is on a roll with The...
Mystery
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
Dance
Post:Ballet – Seconds
August 27, 2025In many cities and towns across the U.S., once the local ballet company completes its schedule,...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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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