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Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
September 23, 2025David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Spooked (Season 8, Episode 5)
September 23, 2025The recap of the fifth episode of the eighth season of The Office entitled Spooked
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
September 23, 2025We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
September 22, 2025In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Is Inspired by Shakespeare
September 22, 2025The weekly listicle looks at movies inspired by Shakespeare while not being based on Shakespeare.
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Rum Diary
September 22, 2025The Rum Diary stars Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp, a struggling novelist at the end of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dark Souls
September 22, 2025So why would anyone submit themselves to such a nightmarish test of their sanity, and drain...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
September 21, 2025So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
Movies
Th3 W33kly Listicl3: R3sp3ct3 Th3 Thr33
September 21, 2025The Weekly Listicle looks at non-sequel movies with three in the title.
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 3
September 21, 2025Paranormal Activity 3 was inevitable. This is the horror franchise that people love to hate, but...
Television
The Walking Dead Recap: “Bloodletting” (Season 2, Episode 2)
September 21, 2025In its first season, “The Walking Dead” was like a gore-streaked helium balloon that began firmly...
Mystery
Trailer Watch: Sherlock Holmes 2, The Woman In Black, Chronicle
September 21, 2025This week is rife with compelling but problematic new trailers. Compelling but problematic but informative. Without...
Movies
Trailer Report: We Bought a Zoo and War Horse
September 20, 2025The look at the trailers for two wannabe Oscar hopefuls, War Horse and We Bought a...
Theatre
Theater Review: Relatively Speaking
September 20, 2025In Woody Allen’s Honeymoon Motel, young bride Nina Roth (Ari Graynor) enters a gaudy roadside inn...
Movies
Courageous: A Closer Look
September 20, 2025Is Courageous great art? By almost any accepted measure, no. Is it meant to be great...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: The Runaway (Season 1, Episode 5)
September 20, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's fifth episode: The Runaway
Art
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
September 19, 2025Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
Performing Arts
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “Alan Gilbert Conducts Bach, Berg, and Brahms”
September 19, 2025Taking the second violin part, Gilbert, who has previously played in the Philharmonic’s chamber music concerts,...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Some Movies Are About Things
September 19, 2025At last, the long-rumored prequel/remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing infects theaters across the...
Movies
Movie Review: The Thing
September 19, 2025Detractors of Rob Zombie’s Halloween know that the cardinal rule of a classic monster is this:...
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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