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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the Horror and Beauty of Ballet
October 8, 2026Portman has never looked quite so spooky: the Black Swan poster. Once upon a time, I...
Movies
Movie Review: Machete
October 8, 2026Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!
October 8, 2026Well, here we are… 3/4’s of the way through the year and the Academy Award nominees...
Movies
Movie Review: Going the Distance
October 8, 2026After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
Television
The Weekly Listicle: What… The Devil?
October 7, 2026A fascination with the supernatural, and particularly its dark side, dates back to the earliest days...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
October 7, 2026The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Mafia II
October 7, 2026The story is secondhand Scorsese, hitting all the familiar tropes even the most casual audience member...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Man vs. Nature–Deathmatch!
October 7, 2026This week marks the release of what’s sure to be the masterpiece of 2010 (aside from...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
October 6, 2026Former criminal compatriots Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus and James Seth Lynch are brought together again after spending...
Movies
Movie Review: The Last Exorcism
October 6, 2026To this end, he brings a documentary crew along to an isolated farm, where a troubled...
Art
Art Review: Energy Effects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
October 6, 2026The exhibition brings such elements together to form a compelling meditation on the extreme reaches of...
Movies
A Watchful Eye On… Ti West
October 6, 2026Barely on the edge of thirty, filmmaker Ti West has four feature films - with more...
Movies
Movie Review: The Expendables
October 6, 2026Overkill is the name of the game in this gleeful throwback to the shoot-em-up favorites of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Monday Night Combat
October 5, 2026For while the game is about a futuristic death sport, it’s light and upbeat, full of...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle vs. The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER!
October 5, 2026Julia Rhodes, Dan Fields and I (William Bibbiani!) are devoting this Weekly Listicle to some of...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: The Bounty Hunter
October 5, 2026Certain films are so pedestrian, so middle of the road, so damned mediocre that they’re not...
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...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
October 3, 2026The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Movies
Movie Review: The Other Guys
October 3, 2026Original, laugh-out-loud comedy films have been in short supply the last few years. At some point,...
Movies
Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
October 3, 2026Scott Pilgrim may be a “ladykiller wannabe” with no cash, aspirations of rock stardom, and a...
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...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
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...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
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...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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