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Slate published a highly annoying and analytically unsound article today about the popularity of classical music among Asian Americans. The [...]
February 2, 2012
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The Help Hugo Leap Year (trailer) Our Idiot Brother Poetry (trailer) Young Adult
December 30, 2011
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For a quick and dirty guide to everything there is to know about Brazil, head over to BoxOffice Magazine to read my introduction to the [...]
November 21, 2011
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With the premiere of Anonymous, the debate over who really wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford reared its sweaty, [...]
November 1, 2011
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Head over to BoxOfficeMagazine.com to check out my defense of Antonio Banderas. A sample: 5. His sense of humor about himself. As a veteran of [...]
October 18, 2011
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Jackie Chan’s latest — and 100th(!) — film, the historical epic 1911, opens this weekend. In celebration of this centenary, I [...]
October 9, 2011
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I wish more shows had the guts to pull off the damning evisceration of manufactured noncomformity and packaged rebellion that Daria did in [...]
October 3, 2011
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Salon‘s TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz wonders whether pop culture-referencing (or “self-aware”) comedies, including my favorite [...]
March 9, 2011
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It’s a shame that Natalie Portman took home the Best Actress Oscar last night for her one-note performance in Black Swan, with the Academy [...]
February 28, 2011
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WTF? I can only guess that some poor designer at Urban Outfitters was forced to make something related to that movie where Natalie Portman is a [...]
February 21, 2011
