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The Weekly Listicle: Biopics about people we love to hate!
June 19, 2025Timberlake as Sean Parker and Eisenberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s The Social...
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The Weekly Listicle Covers The Best Movie Cover Songs!
June 19, 2025There may be an Academy Award for “Best Original Song,” but where’s the love for all...
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Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
June 16, 2025To label How to Live Safely as a human comedy is a bit of a stretch...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
June 16, 2025Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
Movies
Movie Review: The Town
June 16, 2025The movie is a suspenseful heist-romance with complex characters, brilliant action, and masterful performances. Affleck plays...
Mystery
The Weekly Listicle: Claustro-MANIA!
June 16, 2025Take some deep breaths, movie fans – we’re going in. This weekend’s new shocker, Devil, appears...
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Movie Review: Devil
June 16, 2025But 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”
June 16, 2025The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
Movies
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 1: I Remember Sleeping Beauty
June 16, 2025In this article, and several to follow, I hope to stir up your fondest movie-watching nostalgia,...
Games
Video Game Review: Halo: Reach
June 16, 2025It’s time to say goodbye to the Halo franchise because, if nothing else, Halo: Reach proves...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Resident Evil: Afterlife
June 16, 2025Resident 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!
June 16, 2025First, there was the Resident Evil video game. The people were satisfied with their zombie killing...
Art & Design
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
June 15, 2025Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
June 15, 2025Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Metroid: Other M
June 15, 2025No matter how much you might want to love the game out of nostalgia or give...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
June 15, 2025For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
Mystery
Hammer to Fall? Not This Year, Horror Show Fans!
June 15, 2025After years of silence, Hammer Film is returning to active production in a big way this...
Movies
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the Horror and Beauty of Ballet
June 14, 2025Portman has never looked quite so spooky: the Black Swan poster. Once upon a time, I...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
June 14, 2025A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!
June 14, 2025Well, here we are… 3/4’s of the way through the year and the Academy Award nominees...
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
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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