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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Movie Review: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
September 8, 2025Although Larson’s first attempt at blue films seems not to take, he quickly becomes an Internet...
Movies
Movie Review: Red State
September 8, 2025Smith knew the targets he wanted to hit (and this film really does narrow the aim),...
Movies & TV
End of the Line: Entourage Shrugs It Out
September 7, 2025[Spoilers Ahead] In the comments for my first piece on Entourage, someone posed the question what’s...
Movies & TV
Morning Recap — Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited [Series 32, Episode 10]
September 7, 2025Unfortunately for Amy Pond, the Doctor seems to have a regrettable tendency to always turn up...
Thrillers
True Blood Recap: Season 4 Bites Deep (But Doesn’t Suck)
September 7, 2025For those who have not been scared off by now, I think we could all use...
Short Stories
Book Review: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
September 7, 2025Filled with unsettling images and language, Alois Hotchnig’s newly translated collection is an uncomfortable journey, but...
Music
Why Buddha Would Go to Indie Rock Concerts
September 5, 2025At my 17th birthday dinner at a place that played live music, the host sat...
Television
The Weekly Listicle: Comes From a Different Timeline
September 5, 2025The Cover To Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning The Man In The High Castle History doesn’t...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Deus Ex Human Revolution
September 5, 2025At the end of the day and the game, the gestalt of Deus Ex: Human Revolution...
Dance
Life After Fringe: Two Dance Companies to Watch
September 5, 2025Pittsburgh’s In The Basement Theater Company offers one of this year’s most erotically charged entries. CHIEN...
Movies & TV
Morning Recap — Doctor Who: Night Terrors
September 5, 2025Taking the episode on its own, it was entertaining enough; it was more like the disconnected...
Movies
No? No! NOO!!!!!: Lucas Screws with Star Wars, And Its Fans, Again
September 5, 2025By now I’m sure that everyone knows that Lucas has, once again, decided to mangle The...
Theatre
The Bobbed-Haired Bandit, New York International Fringe Festival
September 5, 2025Book and lyric writer Anna Marquardt and composer Britt Bonney capture the exuberance of the time...
Movies & TV
The Weekly Listicle: From the Mouths of Babes…Kids and the Supernatural
September 4, 2025This weekend’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (which I saw at a film festival last...
Movies
Movie Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
September 4, 2025Everything seems right about the setup. In a refreshing change from the norm, Sally is the...
Theatre
The Woman in White, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
September 4, 2025Collins’ strong suit is suspense tinged with bafflement. When it works, you’re reeling from the last...
Theatre
The Tutor, New York International Fringe Festival
September 4, 2025In the age of equality, is it bad to be sexy? Fun to be bad? Which...
After Image
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Music
The Turn of the Screw at Glyndebourne, Live Streamed via The Guardian
September 3, 2025Glyndebourne: one of the names in the British calendar. Up there with Wimbledon, Henley and other...
Theatre
Anne Boleyn, at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
September 3, 2025Despite the subject matter, and the evident success of the play, the particular style of performance...
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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