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Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
October 12, 2026Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
October 12, 2026To label How to Live Safely as a human comedy is a bit of a stretch...
Television
The Weekly Listicle: Claustro-MANIA!
October 12, 2026Take some deep breaths, movie fans – we’re going in. This weekend’s new shocker, Devil, appears...
Movies
Movie Review: The Town
October 11, 2026The movie is a suspenseful heist-romance with complex characters, brilliant action, and masterful performances. Affleck plays...
Movies
Movie Review: Devil
October 11, 2026But instead of leaving the audience to enjoy the slow build of supernatural terror, the director...
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,...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Halo: Reach
October 11, 2026It’s time to say goodbye to the Halo franchise because, if nothing else, Halo: Reach proves...
Movies
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 1: I Remember Sleeping Beauty
October 10, 2026In this article, and several to follow, I hope to stir up your fondest movie-watching nostalgia,...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Resident Evil: Afterlife
October 10, 2026Resident Evil: Afterlife is releasing in 3D, and in this movie 3D works. Everything from throwing...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Franchises that REALLY should have quit while they were ahead!
October 10, 2026First, there was the Resident Evil video game. The people were satisfied with their zombie killing...
Art
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
October 10, 2026Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Metroid: Other M
October 10, 2026No matter how much you might want to love the game out of nostalgia or give...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
October 9, 2026Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
Mystery
Hammer to Fall? Not This Year, Horror Show Fans!
October 9, 2026After years of silence, Hammer Film is returning to active production in a big way this...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
October 9, 2026For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
Movies
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
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the Horror and Beauty of Ballet
October 8, 2026Portman has never looked quite so spooky: the Black Swan poster. Once upon a time, I...
Movies
Movie Review: Machete
October 8, 2026Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!
October 8, 2026Well, here we are… 3/4’s of the way through the year and the Academy Award nominees...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Going the Distance
October 8, 2026After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
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
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...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Classics
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...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
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...
Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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