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William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-16-10
May 5, 2025Confession time: I did not see the Academy Award-nominated The Princess and The Frog. In my...
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Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
May 5, 2025Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
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The Great Music Videos #1: “On Your Mark” (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
May 5, 2025Music videos have also of course been a spawning ground for great motion picture directors, from...
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William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-9-10
May 5, 2025Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
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Book Review: The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry
May 4, 2025The Extinction Clock is counting down. Time is short—10,800 minutes (just seven days)—and if the clock...
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Sex in the Vienna Secession – Because Airplane Bathrooms are so Passé
May 4, 2025The Vienna Secession, which was designed to display works by Gustav Klimt and his contemporaries, recently...
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The Weekly Listicle: William and Julia’s Revised Best/Worst Lists of 2009!
May 4, 2025This week in honor of the Academy Awards – traditionally the last opportunity to discuss the...
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Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
May 4, 2025Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
Art
Art Review: 2010, Whitney Biennial
May 4, 2025It is undeniable that the reduction, which was largely brought on by budget constraints, has created...
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And the loser is… William Bibbiani!
May 3, 2025Hey everyone. Well, I screwed up. I stand by my picks as logical predictions, but as...
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Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
May 3, 2025Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
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And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
May 3, 2025Well, folks, I type this through a haze of last night’s bubbly. The Academy Awards ceremony...
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Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland
May 3, 2025The mythology behind the Wonderland books is so complex, there are sure to be disappointed diehards,...
Movies
William and Julia’s Oscar Wager 2010!!!
May 3, 2025With the Academy Awards coming up this Sunday, March 7th, Julia Rhodes and I – William...
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The Weekly Listicle: Creepy Kids Movies
May 1, 2025In honor of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (watch for the review on Saturday morning), this...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
May 1, 2025It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...
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Video Game Review: Heavy Rain
May 1, 2025This contrasts strikingly with next chapter which follows Ethan and his family to the mall, where...
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Book Review: I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner
May 1, 2025If the book were a movie, it would be rated R; the author’s got a dirty...
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Movie Review: The Crazies
May 1, 2025Horror film is enduring a period of what some would call “rejuvenation” and others would dub...
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Natalie Portman to do a Stoner Comedy
May 1, 2025Natalie Portman and her production company Handsome Charlie Films have signed on to make a stoner...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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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...
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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...
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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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