
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 17, 2026At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Valachi Papers, #70
April 17, 2026While the acting is choppy and sometimes overly dramatic in The Valachi Papers, the story stays...

Landscape and Memory: Wildfires Threaten Colorado’s Built Heritage
April 16, 2026As environmental writer Bill McKibben noted on Twitter, the evacuation of the nation’s center for research...

The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...

Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 16, 2026Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...

Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 2
April 15, 2026It rather sums up the problem which I noted last episode (and which will appear even...

Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 1
April 15, 2026Still, nice to know the BBC’s independence is sufficiently robust (despite the continual brickbats cast at...

Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 3
April 15, 2026There’s a fine line between criticising a show and simply describing the show you think it...

Video Game Review: Lollipop Chainsaw
April 15, 2026The game’s main protagonist, zombie hunting high school cheer leader Juliet, is, like, totally blonde and...

Movie Review: Magic Mike
April 15, 2026The genesis of Magic Mike came from conversations between Tatum and Soderbergh while filming Haywire. Tatum...














