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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FILM?: Barry Caillier’s Daredreamer!
May 26, 2025If you've seen Daredreamer, particularly around the time it was first released, I'd love to hear...
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The Weekly Listicle: Insultingly BAD Movies
May 25, 2025They exist to make money more than tell a story, and are fully satisfied to merely...
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QUIT IT! (A Moviegoer’s Pet Peeves)
May 25, 2025In the last year or so I’ve become almost as comfortable in the local theater as...
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Screw the Characters: Why ‘Lost’ Was Always About the Plot
May 25, 2025I’m sorry, writers of ‘Lost,’ but if you didn’t want us to care about the crazy...
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Movie Review: Sex and the City 2
May 25, 2025Abu Dhabi, in case you were unaware, is the “new Middle East” and Dubai is “over.”...
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Movie Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
May 25, 2025The adventure really kicks in when Dastan is framed for his father’s murder and goes on...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
May 24, 2025Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Epic Movies of Epic Epicness
May 24, 2025Aside from questionable casting and probable cheesiness, this week’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
May 24, 2025Lisbeth Salander is broken, maybe beyond repair. Wanted for three murders in Stockholm, she shows up...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Red Dead Redemption
May 24, 2025And yet Red Dead Redemption is still a fantastic gaming experience, beautiful to look at and...
Art
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May 23, 2025The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
Architecture
Pritzker Prize goes to Bowery Museum’s Architects
May 23, 2025The 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to the Japanese duo, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa....
The Fourth Wall
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
May 23, 2025Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Other Lives by Peter Bagge
May 23, 2025Overall, there’s a universality to the dilemma that Bagge’s characters face: Who are we? We each...
African American
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
May 21, 2025Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Worst Endings Ever EVER.
May 21, 2025Six seasons have come and passed, but now this Sunday, May 23rd, ‘Lost’ finally comes to...
Architecture
Recycling Meets Recreation
May 21, 2025Last year Macro-Sea conceived of the Dumpster Pool. The designers constructed what they call a "lo-fi...
Movies
What summer should have been: Camp in Movies and TV
May 21, 2025It’s already mid-May, guys. Summer’s nearly upon us. “Summer” means something different to everyone, but universally...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
May 21, 2025For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
Movies
miniBLOGS: Why “Lost” Sucked This Week, Why 3-D is Doomed, and Three Trailers You HAVE to See
May 21, 2025The problem is that “Lost: The Science Fiction Series” was just okay, while “Lost: The Fantasy...
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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