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The Weekly Listicle Analyzes History’s Greatest (And Not So Greatest) Leaders
September 29, 2025A discussion about biopics centered on national leaders.
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Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
September 28, 2025Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: Nightfall (Season 1, Episode 6)
September 28, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's sixth episode, Nightfall
Movies
Movie Review: J. Edgar
September 28, 2025In an interesting twist, the movie calls its own account of history into question, and that...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
September 28, 2025In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Pam’s Replacement (Season 8, Episode 7)
September 27, 2025A recap/review of The Office's seventh episode of its eight season entitled Pam's Replacement
Art
Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum
September 27, 2025The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of...
Theatre
Theater Review: Chinglish
September 27, 2025Only whipsmart playwright David Henry Hwang could have written Chinglish, the new biting comedy of manners...
Thrillers
The Walking Dead Recap: Cherokee Rose (Season 2, Episode 4)
September 27, 2025Three long episodes ago, Carl got shot and Sophia went missing. It’s only now, a third...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Mystery
Television Review: Page Eight on PBS
September 26, 2025British spies these days – the most interesting ones at any rate – are weary, compromised...
Art
Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 26, 2025Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
Movies
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “John Williams: A Night at the Movies”
September 26, 2025Judging by the audience’s response, the final item listed on the program was what many had...
Movies
Movie Review: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
September 23, 2025Unlike a lot of films that co-opt 3D solely for financial gain, VHK3C understands that paying...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Doomsday (Season 8, Episode 6)
September 23, 2025A recap/review of Doomsday, The Office's Season 8 Episode 6
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight by Tony D’Souza
September 23, 2025After a happy, if lean, year spent in a tiny mountain cabin, struggling to get their...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: Bylaw (Season 1, Episode 5)
September 23, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's fifth episode- Bylaw
Dance
Review: Fall for Dance
September 23, 2025Mark Morris Dance Group in All Fours. Photo by Stephanie Berger. The appeal of New York...
Games
Video Game Review: Batman Arkham City
September 23, 2025With all these issues aired though, Batman Arkham City can still be summarily broken down to...
Movies & TV
The Walking DeadRecap: Save the Last One (Season 2, Episode 3)
September 23, 2025The opening of last night’s episode of “The Walking Dead” fed us a familiar trope. Travis...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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