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AMC’s Unfortunate Killing
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Design
Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 14, 2025Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so,...
Music
You Can Never Leave: L.A. Burnout Mixes
August 13, 2025What do you do when you get tired of the place you live in? When you...
Best Movies
Day Late, Dollar Short, Solid Gold: “Dear Twilight…”
August 13, 2025Somewhere in the Twilight cutting room, did the thought never stir that they could drag untold...
Movies
Movie Review: X-Men: First Class
August 13, 2025In the world of the mainstream superhero movie, X-Men: First Class shares a place alongside the...
Games
Video Game Review: L.A. Noire
August 13, 2025You step into shoes of Cole Phelps (ably portrayed by Mad Men’s Aaron Staton), a veteran...
Art
Art Review: Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
August 12, 2025The pieces presented in this forty-year retrospective are bright and smooth, often dauntingly large, and composed...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx
August 12, 2025Place, in literature, is often the most complex of characters, boasting variable backdrops with tones and...
Books
I Am NOT An Animal! (But I Play One In The Movies)
August 12, 2025Putting animal antics into movies is a perennially popular way to cobble up a goofball family...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
August 12, 2025It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
Movies
Movie Review: The Hangover Part II
August 11, 2025One common complaint I've read is that The Hangover Part II is beat-by-beat the same movie...
Movies
Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
August 11, 2025Here we are, leading into blockbuster season 2011, and the best thing one can say about...
Television
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: The CW
August 11, 2025And so we come to the end of our week long journey through the fall schedule...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: A Johnny Depp-sticle!
August 11, 2025Yep, this is still happening. Still. When I saw the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie,...
Theatre
Target Margin Theater’s The Tempest
August 11, 2025The production focuses its energies on exposing its illusion-making apparatuses to such an extent that the...
Television
The Weekly Listicle: Assuming Direct Control!
August 10, 2025MUHUAHAHAHA I have assumed control over your regularly scheduled Listicle! There is nothing wrong with your...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: CBS
August 10, 2025The nation’s most watched network boasting television’s number one comedy and drama, CBS has fewer new...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: FOX
August 10, 2025FOX tends to be more innovative than its three network counterparts, except for this year when...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: NBC
August 10, 2025The weakest of the major networks, NBC is the first of the four to release their...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: ABC
August 9, 2025It occurred to me while writing this that the only show I watched last season on...
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...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
July 3, 2025By 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...
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
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...
Literary Themes
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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