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The 10 Worst Movies of 2010
July 6, 2025I’m a sucker for a silly romantic comedy, but this particular romantic comedy is for suckers....
Movies
The 10 Best Movies of 2010
July 6, 2025Any year in which a movie this perfect has legitimate competition for Best Film of the...
Movies
Brilliant Character Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dead at 64
July 6, 2025Rest in peace, sir. You may have known him as “that guy,” or “Kobayashi,” or “Father...
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The Weekly Listicle: The Best of Christmas on Television
July 6, 2025“A very merry Christmas, and a happy New Year, let’s hope it’s a good one, without...
Espionage
The Weekly Listicle: Parties For A New Year
July 4, 2025In the spirit of celebration, we take a moment to remember some of our favorite movie...
Movies
Movie Review: True Grit
July 4, 2025Offered her choice of disciplined and fair-minded bounty hunters to help her find the killer, she...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
July 4, 2025Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...
Religion
Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.
July 4, 2025Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his...
Movies
Movie Review: How Do You Know
July 4, 2025Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd do not always make great movies, but when given the chance...
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The Weekly Listicle: The 10 Best Videogame Movies AREN’T Based On Videogames
July 4, 2025So where exactly are the good videogame movies? They’re everywhere, if you know where to look....
Movies
Movie Review: TRON: Legacy
July 3, 2025Disney’s sequel is an immense, vividly hued carnival for the eyes. What it lacks in smart...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
July 3, 2025For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Winter flicks to make you shiver!
July 3, 2025People watch movies for all kinds of reasons. We watch them to laugh, to jump, to...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
July 3, 2025By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Thrillers
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
July 2, 2025Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
Movies
Movie Review: The Tourist
July 2, 2025The Tourist is the kind of cinematic perfection that doesn’t get lauded too often. It’s too...
Performing Arts
Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
July 2, 2025Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
July 2, 2025Narnia is a world in which children’s voices are heard, in which the young acquire agency...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Disney’s Epic Mickey
July 1, 2025In a delightful introduction, Mickey sneaks into the magical hobbyshop of the wizard from Fantasia, Yen...
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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