Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
October 26, 2024A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It’s...
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Legacy’ (Season 1, Episode 5)
October 25, 2024And The Mob Doctor’s back! For now, at least. Judging by the previews, next week’s episode...
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Dance
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet’s Constellation: Ballet in Bright Lights
October 25, 2024Strings of LED lights take the form of square panels, and dancers wear or carry them...
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Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: The Children’s Crusade (Season 1, Episode 7)
October 25, 2024A recap/review of Revolution: The Children's Crusade (Season 1, Episode 7)
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The Boat (Season 9, Episode 6)
October 25, 2024A review/recap of The Office: The Boat (Season 9, Episode 6)
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Movies
Early Review: John Dies At The End Starring Paul Giamatti
October 25, 2024The lead two actors have good chemistry, Clancy Brown is always a welcome sight, and the...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
October 24, 2024Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Lincoln
October 24, 2024As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Movies
Movie Review: Skyfall
October 24, 2024Our latter-day Bond, played to perfection by Daniel Craig, has re-energized the character created by novelist...
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Movies & TV
Game of the Week: LSU vs. Mississippi State — The View from England
October 24, 2024After last week’s loss to the Crimson Tide, LSU’s Tigers might have felt they had something...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Complications’ (Season 1, Episode 6)
October 23, 2024We got to see Grace being a badass, and the curiously intense Oedipal bond between Constantine...
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Thrillers
The Walking Dead Recap: “Say the Word” (Season 3, Episode 5)
October 23, 2024I went out of town at precisely the wrong moment (though being in Washington, DC on...
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Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: Ties That Bind (Season 1, Episode 8)
October 23, 2024A recap/review of Revolution: Ties That Bind (Season 1, Episode 8)
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Television
Vegas Recap: ‘The Real Thing’ (Season 1, Episode 6)
October 23, 2024Lamb and Savino discuss the fake chips as, a few floors down, a uniformed employee of...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Becoming Van Gogh, Denver Art Museum
October 22, 2024But it was at that moment that he discovered Japanese prints, rapidly assimilating all he could...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed 3
October 22, 2024This front of AC3’s story is thankfully stronger, weaving an interesting and refreshingly mature narrative about...
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Blog-Dance
7 Questions with Choreographer Sean Kelly
October 22, 2024When I first started dancing, I studied at a studio in Marin that taught all styles...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Midnight Run, #50
October 22, 2024This is The Odd Couple on the run from the mob. And it works primarily—if not...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘Blind Sided’ (Season 2, Episode 11)
October 21, 2024As Suits reopens its second season on the USA Network, the devious and divisive Daniel Hardman...
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Art
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
November 27, 2024But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Gliding Over All’ (Season 5, Episode 8)
November 18, 2024Two montages in one episode, guys! This one is set, adorably, to “Crystal Blue Persuasion” by...
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Television
The Office Recap: Andy’s Ancestry (Season 9, Episode 3)
November 7, 2024A recap/review of The Office: Andy's Ancestry (Season 9, Episode 3)
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Phobias
True Blood Recap: Season 5 Raises The Stakes
November 19, 2024True Blood has tightened up considerably since the meandering adventures of Season 4, despite the fact...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The New Guys (Season 9, Episode 1)
November 12, 2024A recap/review of The Office: The New Guys (Season 9, Episode 1)
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Japan
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
November 7, 2024This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Layer Cake, #62
November 21, 2024The movie’s title refers to the various strata of the chaotically violent, multibillion dollar world of...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
November 20, 2024As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...
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Video Games
Setting Fallout 4 Pt. 2 (of 2) – On The Road Again!
November 12, 2024For what I'm discussing today is nothing short of pure, unadulterated (but hopefully still informed) speculation!...
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Television
The Office Recap: Roy’s Wedding (Season 9, Episode 2)
November 10, 2024A review/recap of The Office: Roy's Wedding (Season 9, Episode 2)
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