The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
July 17, 2025Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
July 16, 2025Happy arbitrary and consumerist holiday from CLR and The Fourth Wall! Richard Phillips’s album artwork is...
Movie Review: Gnomeo and Juliet
July 16, 2025Gnomeo and Juliet seems like a terrible idea. Due to smart writing and great character actors,...
“I’ll Buy That For A Dollar!” – A Public Service
July 15, 2025Anyway, here at the Metro City Reform Committee, we're familiar with hard times, we know that...
The Weekly Listicle: No, We CAN’T Feel The Love Tonight!
July 15, 2025This week, Julia Rhodes and I (Dan Fields) recall a bygone era, when entertainment for kids...
The Metro City Reform Committee: Monday Nights at the Giant Ape Fights!
July 15, 2025But something seems wrong in gamingdom. The boss battle and especially the LAST boss battle to...
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
July 13, 2025This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
Video Game Review: Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
July 13, 2025Bit of a disclaimer: the original Bionic Commando on the NES was the favorite game of...
The Weekly Listicle is Seeing Double!
July 13, 2025The Roommate‘s Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester. Fiction is perpetually preoccupied with doppelgangers–doubles or evil twins....




