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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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The Great Music Videos #1: “On Your Mark” (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
August 28, 2026Music videos have also of course been a spawning ground for great motion picture directors, from...
Horror
Book Review: The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry
August 28, 2026The Extinction Clock is counting down. Time is short—10,800 minutes (just seven days)—and if the clock...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-9-10
August 27, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
Art
Sex in the Vienna Secession – Because Airplane Bathrooms are so Passé
August 27, 2026The Vienna Secession, which was designed to display works by Gustav Klimt and his contemporaries, recently...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William and Julia’s Revised Best/Worst Lists of 2009!
August 27, 2026This week in honor of the Academy Awards – traditionally the last opportunity to discuss the...
Art
Art Review: 2010, Whitney Biennial
August 27, 2026It is undeniable that the reduction, which was largely brought on by budget constraints, has created...
Movies
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
Movies
And the loser is… William Bibbiani!
August 26, 2026Hey everyone. Well, I screwed up. I stand by my picks as logical predictions, but as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
August 26, 2026Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland
August 26, 2026The mythology behind the Wonderland books is so complex, there are sure to be disappointed diehards,...
Movies
And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
August 25, 2026Well, folks, I type this through a haze of last night’s bubbly. The Academy Awards ceremony...
Best Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Creepy Kids Movies
August 25, 2026In honor of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (watch for the review on Saturday morning), this...
Movies
William and Julia’s Oscar Wager 2010!!!
August 24, 2026With the Academy Awards coming up this Sunday, March 7th, Julia Rhodes and I – William...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
August 24, 2026It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...
Games
Video Game Review: Heavy Rain
August 24, 2026This contrasts strikingly with next chapter which follows Ethan and his family to the mall, where...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner
August 24, 2026If the book were a movie, it would be rated R; the author’s got a dirty...
Movies
Movie Review: The Crazies
August 24, 2026Horror film is enduring a period of what some would call “rejuvenation” and others would dub...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-2-10
August 24, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
The Fourth Wall
Natalie Portman to do a Stoner Comedy
August 23, 2026Natalie Portman and her production company Handsome Charlie Films have signed on to make a stoner...
Movies
R.I.P. Andrew Koenig, Star of Batman: Dead End
August 23, 2026To some, Andrew Koenig was "Boner" on "Growing Pains." Walter Koenig and Judy Levitt called him...
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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