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Books & Movies
Learning to love ‘The Avengers’
BY: Alaina Mabaso
05.14.2013
Roosevelt’s Hyde Park hideaway
BY: Steve Cohen
04.12.2013
Mary Roach cruises the alimentary canal
BY: Alaina Mabaso
04.09.2013
A Dan Hoffman memory
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
04.02.2013
Shostakovich and free speech (3rd comment)
BY: Tom Purdom
02.02.2013
How good was Stanley Kubrick?
BY: Robert Zaller
01.05.2013
Artistic freedom and Brazil’s ‘Man of the Monkey’
BY: Caroline Dunlop Millett
12.28.2012
Two French Symbolists in new translation
BY: Andrew Mangravite
12.10.2012
Helga Weiss’s Holocaust diary
BY: Martin Beck Matustik
12.04.2012
Romney as the ‘Twilight’ candidate
BY: Alaina Mabaso
11.25.2012
My problem with Junot Diaz’s ‘Oscar Wao’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
10.30.2012
TV’s ‘Walking Dead’: Why kill zombies?
BY: Rick Soisson
10.23.2012
Schwarzenegger’s ‘Total Recall’
BY: Perry Block
10.13.2012
‘Marvin Gardens’ and Woodstock’s lost innocence
BY: Bob Levin
09.15.2012
‘The Rotation’: Baseball’s ups and downs
BY: Steve Cohen
08.25.2012
‘Singin’ in the Rain’ turns 60
BY: Steve Cohen
08.24.2012
‘Mansfield Park’: Book vs. film
BY: Judy Weightman
08.14.2012
What I learned from Nora Ephron
BY: Susan Beth Lehman
07.24.2012
A Ray Bradbury remembrance (1st tribute)
BY: Kathleen L. Erlich
06.11.2012
Carlos Fuentes as I remember him
BY: AJ Sabatini
05.19.2012
Claude Lanzmann at the Free Library
BY: Robert Zaller
03.24.2012
Education and ‘The Wild Bunch’
BY: Andrew Mangravite
03.20.2012
In defense of Janet Malcolm (Part II)
BY: Bob Levin
02.14.2012
‘Inventing Our Lives’ and the kibbutz movement
BY: Jake Blumgart
02.07.2012
‘War Horse’: Animals as friends
BY: John L. Erlich
01.17.2012
‘The Help’ and ‘The Debt’: Jessica Chastain’s moment
BY: Reed Stevens
09.10.2011
Kate Atkinson: crime fiction for grownups
BY: Bob Levin
08.14.2011
Elizabeth Taylor’s ultimate lesson
BY: SaraKay Smullens
03.29.2011
Open letter to film producer Jeffrey Lurie
BY: Maralyn Lois Polak
03.05.2011
‘For Colored Girls’ goes Hollywood
BY: Bob Levin
12.07.2010
Outsider heroes: Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher
BY: Bob Ingram
11.15.2010
Mumia again: ‘Justice On Trial’
BY: Robert Zaller
09.26.2010
‘Saturday Night Fever,’ revisited
BY: Judy Weightman
08.31.2010
Julia Roberts and ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
BY: Marge Murray
08.31.2010
Electronic books vs. ink on paper
BY: Tom Purdom
07.31.2010
John Waters and his ‘Role Models’
BY: Norman Roessler
06.26.2010
‘The Hurt Locker’ and the endless war
BY: Robert Zaller
03.09.2010
Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis,’ restored
BY: Andrew Mangravite
02.13.2010
In defense of Jane Austen’s prose
BY: Alaina Mabaso
02.06.2010
Jane Austen novels on DVD
BY: Robert J. Murphy
01.30.2010
Howard Zinn and Mary Daly: Up the academy
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
01.30.2010
Salinger’s ‘Catcher,’ then and now
BY: John L. Erlich
01.30.2010
Peggy Maley: Hollywood castoff
BY: Bob Levin
11.07.2009
’50s films that stoked the ‘60s
BY: Bob Levin
10.26.2009
Two novels that changed my life
BY: Bob Levin
10.13.2009
Yale and those Muhammad cartoons
BY: Matthew Jakubowski
08.21.2009
My personal Bad Cop Film Festival
BY: Bob Ingram
07.21.2009
What Hollywood could learn from 1939
BY: Armen Pandola
07.20.2009
‘Milk’ and gay reality
BY: Reed Stevens
02.24.2009
To Shelby Steele, about Obama
BY: Reed Stevens
02.02.2008
The Bourne Redundancy
BY: Armen Pandola
08.14.2007
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Books & Movies Reviews
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’
BY: Robert Zaller
05.21.2013
Mumia again: Stephen Vittoria’s ‘Long Distance Revolutionary’
BY: Robert Zaller
05.11.2013
Mary Sue Welsh’s ‘One Woman in a Hundred’
BY: Steve Cohen
05.05.2013
Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’
BY: Robert Zaller
05.04.2013
Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’
BY: Jake Blumgart
04.20.2013
Marcel Proust, poet
BY: Andrew Mangravite
04.16.2013
Cate Shortland’s ‘Lore’: Germany, year zero
BY: Robert Zaller
04.13.2013
MOVE: A documentary film, at last
BY: Robert Zaller
04.09.2013
Christian Petzold’s ‘Barbara’
BY: Robert Zaller
03.23.2013
Dror Moreh’s ‘The Gatekeepers’
BY: Robert Zaller
03.19.2013
Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’: Love and death
BY: Robert Zaller
02.23.2013
Elem Klimov’s ‘Come and See’
BY: Robert Zaller
02.09.2013
‘Hyde Park on Hudson’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
02.05.2013
Andrei Codrescu’s ‘Bibliodeath’
BY: AJ Sabatini
01.26.2013
Gus Van Sant’s ‘Promised Land’
BY: Robert Zaller
01.21.2013
Jim Quinn’s ‘Waiting For the Wars to End’
BY: Merilyn Jackson
01.21.2013
Real life: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Margaret’
BY: SaraKay Smullens
01.12.2013
Sacha Gervasi’s ‘Hitchcock’
BY: Robert Zaller
01.05.2013
Pynchon’s ‘Mason & Dixon’ revisited
BY: Bob Levin
12.31.2012
Gun control lessons from ‘The Hobbit’
BY: Alaina Mabaso
12.29.2012
A trio of new poetry translations
BY: Andrew Mangravite
12.29.2012
‘Hyde Park on Hudson’ (1st review)
BY: David Woods
12.25.2012
Verlaine and Trakl, complete at last
BY: Andrew Mangravite
12.22.2012
Grant Gee’s ‘Patience (After Sebald)’
BY: Robert Zaller
12.17.2012
‘Killing Them Softly’
BY: Jake Blumgart
12.15.2012
‘Anna Karenina’ on film, again
BY: Robert Zaller
12.09.2012
Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ and his legacy
BY: Robert Zaller
11.27.2012
‘This Wild Joy’: Bill Van Buskirk’s poetry
BY: Robert Zaller
11.25.2012
The fog of ‘Cloud Atlas’
BY: Jake Blumgart
11.20.2012
Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’: CIA in Iran
BY: Robert Zaller
11.20.2012
‘Skyfall’: The allure of James Bond
BY: Jake Blumgart
11.18.2012
China’s Nobel laureate, reconsidered
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
11.12.2012
D’Annunzio’s ‘Notturno,’ rediscovered
BY: Andrew Mangravite
11.08.2012
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
10.16.2012
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ (1st review)
BY: Susan Beth Lehman
10.06.2012
Kingsley Amis’s ‘The Old Devils’
BY: Jake Blumgart
10.02.2012
Nick Jarecki’s ‘Arbitrage’
BY: Robert Zaller
09.30.2012
Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2016: Obama’s America’
BY: Robert Zaller
09.11.2012
Frances Diem Vardamis’s ‘Time Running Out’
BY: Robert Zaller
08.18.2012
David Frankel’s ‘Hope Springs’
BY: Robert Zaller
08.14.2012
Carlin Romano’s ‘America the Philosophical’
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
08.07.2012
‘Safety Not Guaranteed’: Comedies about real people
BY: Judy Weightman
07.22.2012
‘Tubes’: Andrew Blum travels the Internet
BY: Tom Purdom
07.10.2012
Thomas Frank’s ‘Pity the Billionaire’
BY: Robert Zaller
06.30.2012
Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’
BY: Jake Blumgart
06.26.2012
Robert Caro’s Lyndon Johnson
BY: Armen Pandola
06.19.2012
‘Hysteria’ and female sex drive
BY: Alaina Mabaso
06.12.2012
Gene therapy and ‘The Forever Fix’
BY: Tom Purdom
05.29.2012
E.L. James’s ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
BY: Terri Kirby Erickson
05.22.2012
Lost Soviet classic: Klimov’s ‘Agony’
BY: Robert Zaller
05.15.2012
Three noir novels by Manchette
BY: Andrew Mangravite
05.08.2012
Joseph Cedar’s ‘Footnote’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
05.05.2012
‘Martha Marcy’ and the truth about cults
BY: Judy Weightman
05.01.2012
Drew Goddard’s ‘Cabin in the Woods’
BY: Jake Blumgart
04.24.2012
Joseph Cedar’s ‘Footnote’ (1st review)
BY: AJ Sabatini
04.24.2012
J. M. Ledgard’s ‘Submergence’
BY: Robert Zaller
04.21.2012
Agnieszka Holland’s ‘In Darkness’
BY: Robert Zaller
04.17.2012
‘Chronicle’ vs. Plato’s ‘Republic’
BY: Jim Rutter
02.25.2012
‘Take Shelter’ (2nd review)
BY: Judy Weightman
02.25.2012
‘The Grey’: Man against nature
BY: Jake Blumgart
02.14.2012
Phyllida Lloyd’s ‘The Iron Lady’
BY: Robert Zaller
01.31.2012
Sylvia Nasar’s ‘Grand Pursuit’
BY: Tom Purdom
01.24.2012
Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
01.24.2012
‘Townie,’ by Andre Dubus III
BY: Tom Purdom
01.17.2012
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (3rd review)
BY: Jake Blumgart
01.10.2012
Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
01.03.2012
Alfredson’s ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (1st review)
BY: Judy Weightman
12.31.2011
J. C. Chandor’s ‘Margin Call’
BY: Robert Zaller
12.13.2011
Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ (1st review)
BY: Jake Blumgart
12.12.2011
Alexander Payne’s ‘The Descendants’
BY: Robert Zaller
12.10.2011
Paul Hendrickson’s Hemingway
BY: John Dowlin
11.29.2011
Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’
BY: Robert Zaller
11.29.2011
‘Take Shelter’: Prophecy vs. lunacy (1st review)
BY: Robert Zaller
11.08.2011
George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ (2nd review)
BY: Judy Weightman
10.15.2011
George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ (1st review)
BY: Jake Blumgart
10.15.2011
Richard Burgin’s ‘Shadow Traffic’
BY: Robert Zaller
10.04.2011
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’
BY: Robert Zaller
10.01.2011
‘Moneyball’ and male values
BY: Madeline Schaefer
09.30.2011
‘Drive’: Beyond casual violence
BY: Jake Blumgart
09.20.2011
John Madden’s ‘The Debt’ (2nd review)
BY: Robert Zaller
09.13.2011
‘What Alice Knew’: The hunt for Jack the Ripper
BY: Robert Zaller
09.10.2011
Dorothy Parker beneath the surface
BY: Patrick D. Hazard
09.10.2011
Rowan Joffé’s remake of ‘Brighton Rock’
BY: Jake Blumgart
09.10.2011
‘The Help’: Racism, or just plain meanness? (1st review)
BY: Alaina Mabaso
09.03.2011
David Goldblatt’s history of soccer
BY: Tom Purdom
08.27.2011
Michael McDonagh’s ‘The Guard’
BY: Jake Blumgart
08.16.2011
Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’
BY: Dan Rottenberg
07.11.2011
Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’
BY: Robert Zaller
06.28.2011
Redford’s ‘The Conspirator’
BY: Robert Zaller
05.17.2011
Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’
BY: Marshall A. Ledger
05.03.2011
‘Atlas Shrugged’ on film
BY: Jackie Atkins
04.30.2011
Cary Fukunaga’s ‘Jane Eyre’ on film (2nd review)
BY: Alaina Mabaso
04.16.2011
Cary Fukunaga’s ‘Jane Eyre’ on film (1st review)
BY: Madeline Schaefer
04.04.2011
‘Battle: Los Angeles’: War without complexity
BY: Alaina Mabaso
04.02.2011
How Paris transformed T.S. Eliot
BY: Richard da Silva
03.19.2011
The poetic return of Theophile Gautier
BY: Andrew Mangravite
02.14.2011
‘The King’s Speech’ reconsidered
BY: Anne R. Fabbri
02.12.2011
‘Casino Jack’: Downfall of a lobbyist
BY: Robert Zaller
01.29.2011
The dark side of ‘Tiger’ parenting
BY: Maria Thompson Corley
01.16.2011
‘Worth Dying For’: The appeal of Jack Reacher
BY: Bob Ingram
01.15.2011
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