Culture
The Oscars? Let's Grouch
Feb 28, 2014The Academy Awards grow ever more inconsequential. At least there will be no "we saw your boobs" ditty this year, though.
Ashes to Ashes—The 3D Edition
Feb 21, 2014When you buy a ticket to a movie called Pompeii, expecting art or even brains would be fatuous; what you want is a good time. Sue me for confessing I had one.
Johnny Who?
Feb 11, 2014Here’s Jimmy Fallon, the first late-night host too young to have worshipped Carson.
The Ink-Stained Wretches of Wall Street
Feb 11, 2014Dean Starkman's The Watchdog That Didn't Bark and the failures of the media during the financial crash.
A Monumental Failure
Feb 07, 2014Honestly, who on earth thought George Clooney's The Monuments Men was a good idea for a movie?
The Moment of Creation
Feb 05, 2014Do America’s current challenges in the Middle East trace back to Harry Truman’s 1948 missteps?
Campaigns and the Human Condition
Jan 27, 2014"Mitt" reminds us that seeing a candidate's "true" self is impossible, no matter who he is.
Stevie Sings for Martin Luther King
Jan 20, 2014How Stevie Wonder and Coretta Scott King worked in perfect harmony to beat Jesse Helms and create a national holiday.
Why Are So Many People Still Protective of Woody Allen?
Jan 17, 2014Ronan and Mia Farrow took to Twitter to express their outrage after the director was honored at Sunday's Golden Globes, but why hasn't he gotten more grief from the film-world establishment?
Pope Francis's "Cardinal" Rules
Jan 10, 2014Thinking about Otto Preminger's film 50 years later in the context of Pope Francis.
"Spring Breakers" Was the Best Movie of the Year. Seriously.
Dec 13, 2013It was imbecilic but gorgeous—just like America.
The Coen Brothers' Goodbye Song
Dec 10, 2013Inside Llewyn Davis deepens the duo's turn from satire to elegy
