Movie Review: Iron Man 2
May 20, 2025Jon Favreau’s first Iron Man was a snazzy little number, cherry red and rocket-fueled and brimming...
The Final Word: Is horror better left off-screen?
May 20, 2025Welcome back to The Final Word, a running feature from me (Julia Rhodes) and William Bibbiani,...
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
May 20, 2025Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Book Review: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
May 20, 2025The story is set in the spring of 1969 in the northwest corner of the country...
Discussion: The Best TV of the Last Fifteen Years
May 19, 2025TV: Is it making us dumber, and how is it changing? (Aside from the fact that...
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
May 19, 2025Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
The Final Word: Is 3-D better than 2-D?
May 19, 2025Oh sure, we’re probably going to be stuck with 3-D forever now that everyone flocked to...
Movie Review: Nightmare on Elm Street
May 19, 2025The new Springwood is a land of green lawns, money, and white-trimmed colonial houses where teenagers...
The Weekly Listicle: The Finest Costumes in Film History
May 18, 2025Excellent costume design is flattering, practical, thematically appropriate and iconic, and our choices for the Best...
Artist’s Blacklist Fights Speculation
May 18, 2025Although the market has been good to Ms. Dumas, the artist’s distaste for speculative art buyers...




