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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
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...
History
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...
Horror
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...
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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...
The Fourth Wall
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...
Movies
Movie Review: Machete
June 14, 2025Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: What… The Devil?
June 14, 2025A fascination with the supernatural, and particularly its dark side, dates back to the earliest days...
Movies
Movie Review: Going the Distance
June 13, 2025After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Mafia II
June 13, 2025The story is secondhand Scorsese, hitting all the familiar tropes even the most casual audience member...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Video 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...
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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