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The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!
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Movie Review: Machete
June 14, 2025Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to...
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The Weekly Listicle: What… The Devil?
June 14, 2025A fascination with the supernatural, and particularly its dark side, dates back to the earliest days...
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Movie Review: Going the Distance
June 13, 2025After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
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Video Game Review: Mafia II
June 13, 2025The story is secondhand Scorsese, hitting all the familiar tropes even the most casual audience member...
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Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
June 13, 2025The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
Games
Video Game Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
June 13, 2025Former criminal compatriots Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus and James Seth Lynch are brought together again after spending...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Last Exorcism
June 13, 2025To this end, he brings a documentary crew along to an isolated farm, where a troubled...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Man vs. Nature–Deathmatch!
June 12, 2025This week marks the release of what’s sure to be the masterpiece of 2010 (aside from...
Movies
A Watchful Eye On… Ti West
June 12, 2025Barely on the edge of thirty, filmmaker Ti West has four feature films - with more...
Art
Art Review: Energy Effects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
June 12, 2025The exhibition brings such elements together to form a compelling meditation on the extreme reaches of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Monday Night Combat
June 12, 2025For while the game is about a futuristic death sport, it’s light and upbeat, full of...
Movies
Movie Review: The Expendables
June 11, 2025Overkill is the name of the game in this gleeful throwback to the shoot-em-up favorites of...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: The Bounty Hunter
June 11, 2025Certain films are so pedestrian, so middle of the road, so damned mediocre that they’re not...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle vs. The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER!
June 11, 2025Julia Rhodes, Dan Fields and I (William Bibbiani!) are devoting this Weekly Listicle to some of...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
June 11, 2025The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
June 10, 2025Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
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Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
June 10, 2025Scott Pilgrim may be a “ladykiller wannabe” with no cash, aspirations of rock stardom, and a...
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Movie Review: The Other Guys
June 10, 2025Original, laugh-out-loud comedy films have been in short supply the last few years. At some point,...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
June 10, 2025Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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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