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William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-2-10
April 30, 2025Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
Movies
Johnny Depp, Nick Cave cover “I Put a Spell on You” for Haiti Relief
April 30, 2025In the 80s, there was “We Are the World,” a recording and video jam-packed with celebrities...
Movies
R.I.P. Andrew Koenig, Star of Batman: Dead End
April 30, 2025To some, Andrew Koenig was "Boner" on "Growing Pains." Walter Koenig and Judy Levitt called him...
Art
Art Review: Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
April 30, 2025If Salon Cubism pleased nobody in 1912, the recreation of the gallery from the Salon d'Automne...
Movies
Tavis Coburn’s Resplendent BAFTA Posters!
April 30, 2025The BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards have come and gone, but before...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William’s Bruce Willis-ticle!
April 29, 2025With this weekend's Cop Out, Bruce Willis earns his 76th acting credit (!) on IMDb, making...
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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Bruce Willis-ticle!
April 29, 2025In honor of this week’s release Cop Out, the Listicle is All Things Bruce. When researching...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 2-23-10 – UPDATED
April 29, 2025Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
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“Ah, nuts!”: A Warner Bros. Blooper Reel from 1936
April 29, 2025I grew up in the era of videotapes, the advent of which changed the film industry...
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The I Spit on Your Grave Remake: Why?!
April 29, 2025Slasher movies took a gruesome turn in the 1970s, with flicks like Wes Craven’s Last House...
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Cameron Directs Bigelow in Bill Paxton’s Music Video…come again?
April 28, 2025One of the editors at my favorite non-movie blog Jezebel posted this video featuring Oscar nominees...
Thrillers
Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer
April 28, 2025Garrity is an archetype, an ill-understood and imperiled hero who after overcoming every obstacle, exits hand-in-hand...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks!
April 28, 2025Fiction hasn’t been terribly kind to mental institutions. In movies, books, TV, comics and more these...
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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks
April 28, 2025Cinema has always been big on crazy people. Drama and comedy have portrayed the descent into...
Movies
Movie Review: Shutter Island
April 27, 2025Martin Scorsese’s newest picture Shutter Island is a creepy cinematic passage into paranoia, guilt, and insanity—a...
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Julia’s Most Anticipated 2010 Movie Releases
April 27, 2025It’s mid-February, 2010, and I’m only just getting the year right on checks (I’m one of...
Movies
Erector Set: The Movie. In 3D. This idea is as bad as you think it is.
April 27, 2025Erector Set will require Helix Films to do all the heavy lifting in the creative department....
Movies
Movie Review: The Wolfman
April 27, 2025Werewolves in cinema have had many incarnations, but most modern lore stems from the 1941 Universal...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dante’s Inferno
April 26, 2025Dante’s Inferno gets no points whatsoever for originality, but it’s such an entertaining, suspenseful and gorgeously...
Movies
Is a Taxi Driver remake really “getting organizized?”
April 26, 2025The Guardian reported today on a new rumor emerging from the Berlin Film Festival which suggests...
Fiction Reviews
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,...
History
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,...
Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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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