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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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tavis Coburn’s Resplendent BAFTA Posters!
April 30, 2025The BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards have come and gone, but before...
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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...
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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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
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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,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
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Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
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Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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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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The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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