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2011.05.25: The Ultimate Social Network
2010.12.27: A pinch of merriment
2010.12.24: Keep Your Lights Burning
2010.11.27: "Sex and the City" Redux
2010.08.15: SUSPENDED ANIMATION
2010.04.02: Animation and Aspiration
2010.03.18: One of a Kind
2010.02.22: Time to Depart, Marty
2010.02.15: Blogamist
2010.01.30: Poor Confucius (II)
2010.01.20: Poor Confucius
2010.01.05: Where Cameron Got the Idea
2010.01.02: Sinking "Titanic"?
2009.12.26: Under the Tree
2009.12.05: Tragic-Comic Post-Terrorist
2009.11.26: Gobble
2009.11.22: Disassembling the Bomber Crew
2009.11.09: Three Films about 11/9
2009.10.25: Long Slog
2009.08.17: 3 Billion Fans, and None in Newark?
2009.08.15: This is Not Nostalgia
2009.08.09: Nailed
2009.07.26: White Like Him
2009.07.23: The Professor and the Cop
2009.07.19: A Formula That Works
2009.07.12: Truly Bella
2009.07.06: When the Revolution Is Not Televised
2009.06.27: The Legacy of Michael Jackson
2009.06.21: Social Trust
2009.06.14: Higher Ground
2009.05.22: Dan Brown Redux
2009.05.08: Tri-Ocular
2009.04.19: The Sands of Judea
2009.04.07: The Eyes Have It
2009.03.15: Throwing Away the Map
2009.03.09: Comic Flix Suck
2009.03.01: Against the Current
2009.02.22: Films About Lincoln
2009.01.07: Low Priority, High Importance
2008.10.22: The Word From Rudy
2008.10.02: Talk, at Least
2008.09.14: Snoop Stoops to Cleaning Up his Act
2008.08.24: Gray Hats
2008.08.17: The Socialization of Young Men
2008.06.29: A Treat for the Fourth
2008.06.14: Worth the Trouble
2008.05.29: Sucks in the City
2008.05.15: The Best Channel of All
2008.05.13: Love Hate Relationship
2008.05.12: More on Cultural Diversity
2008.05.08: Still Alive
2008.04.03: I Was Wrong
2008.03.25: John Rockwell is Right
2008.03.20: Remembering Ivan Dixon
2008.03.18: Confession
2008.02.25: The Dark Side
2008.02.11: Betrayed by IMDB
2008.02.08: Upmarket, Downmarket
2008.01.10: Whatever Happened to Irony?
2007.12.22: Whatever It Takes
2007.12.15: Screenwriting Today
2007.11.28: This Just In
2007.11.25: Wise Words
2007.11.17: Ankle Deep in Bollywood
2007.11.12: Comrades and Causes
2007.11.06: Followup Bollywood
2007.11.03: Not the Wedding Crashers
2007.10.28: Edward Hopper
2007.10.28: Moment of Clarity
2007.10.27: A Real Great Train Wreck
2007.10.27: PRC Pop
2007.10.22: Classify This
2007.10.16: From Epic to Oscar
2007.10.14: Queened Out For Now
2007.10.10: Enough Hemo-Technics
2007.10.07: Dickens Done Right
2007.10.04: Oh Grow Up
2007.10.01: Team America Plus Two
2007.09.26: Pow!
2007.09.23: Cinematic Bedford Falls, Video Pottersville
2007.09.16: Success With Chinese Characteristics?
2007.09.14: Good, Not Feel-Good
2007.09.10: Another Clueless Expert
2007.09.07: Remembering Elvis
2007.09.07: Dissed in Translation
2007.09.06: Twelve Agonizing Brits
2007.09.04: Love That Upchuck
2007.09.03: Too Happy
2007.08.30: Another Good Punch
2007.08.27: Truer Than Wuxiu
2007.08.26: Beyond Country
2007.08.26: Prodigal Blogger
2007.04.28: Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen
2007.03.01: Dear Serious Reader
2006.12.28: Departed Soul
2006.12.16: Mirren's First Elizabeth
2006.12.15: Henri Rousseau Revisited
2006.12.15: Celebrity vs. Royalty
2006.11.19: Free Casting Advice
2006.11.10: No Satire, Please. We're Russian.
2006.11.06: Disarming Borat
2006.10.13: Paul Klee's Art
2006.10.13: Better Late Than Never
2006.08.20: Corked
2006.08.12: War and (Partial) Remembrance
2006.07.17: Hidden By The Trees: The Woodlanders
2006.06.26: Uncaptive Mind
2006.06.21: Miles Ahead
2006.06.17: Not Your Typical Caring Dad
2006.06.11: When the Miniseries Was King
2006.06.04: Mindful Fluff
2006.05.12: Away Message
2006.05.04: Our Art Belongs to Dada
2006.05.04: Helen Mirren's First Elizabeth
2006.04.25: Rome Lives!
2006.04.22: At the Top, Not Over It
2006.04.10: Grandes chausseurs, petits pieds
2006.04.02: Video Virgil: Last Laugh
2006.03.19: Lessons in Manliness
2006.03.14: Casting Problem: Who Could Play Miles?
2006.03.14: Miles the Rock Star?
2006.03.10: Sopranos R Us
2006.03.05: Dig Those Oscars
2006.02.28: Video Virgil: Cast Them Out To Sea
2006.02.12: Sense and Sensibility on the Chesapeake
2006.02.07: Yes, Prime Minister
2006.02.07: Stupid, Actually
2006.02.02: Entertained and Lived to Tell About It
2006.01.31: "For No Particular Reason That Anyone Could Explain"
2006.01.24: Couch Potato's Guide to Terrorism
2006.01.24: The Weak Man With the Sponge
2006.01.21: "Let's Try And Not Hack This Up"
2006.01.20: Smile and Say "Camembert de Châtelain"
2006.01.19: Video Virgil: The Harmonists
2006.01.14: Director's Cut (Burn, Shock, Waterboard ...)
2006.01.07: What a Pain
2005.12.22: Of Lions, Witches, and Noseless Demons
2005.12.19: Eye Candy
2005.12.17: Big-Oil-Ze-Bub
2005.12.04: I'm Available
2005.11.23: Video Virgil: Crash and Cranberry
2005.11.20: Al-Hollywood
2005.11.16: Video Virgil: Carmen and No Bull
2005.11.05: SEX (NOT REALLY), LIES (A FEW), AND VIDEOTAPE (NONE)
2005.10.29: Essay Contest
2005.10.27: Fine and Mellow
2005.10.27: Talk About a Sleeper
2005.10.04: Catch Up
2005.09.11: Video Virgil: Make 'Em Laugh (Not Squirm)
2005.09.03: The Other Aaron's Choice
2005.09.03: Crunk News Network
2005.08.30: Reply to Rachel
2005.08.20: The Talented Mr. Minghella
2005.08.18: Recent interview
2005.08.17: Reel Faster, This One's Getting Away
2005.08.11: Video Virgil: The Wire 2
2005.08.08: Quote for the Day
2005.08.08: Bold Business Analysis
2005.08.01: Remember The Sopranos?
2005.08.01: Video Virgil: Hooked
2005.07.29: Computers Can't Draw
2005.07.28: Hustle & Annoy?
2005.07.26: That's Entertainment
2005.07.23: Soul Loses Its Soul
2005.07.21: Video Virgil: Saint Che...Not
2005.07.15: Remembering 50s Pop
2005.07.15: New Releases: Beyond the Sea
2005.07.14: All Of The Above
2005.07.12: A Good Day in Harlem
2005.07.12: Set Straight
2005.07.08: Up Close and Personal
2005.07.08: London Comments
2005.07.06: Bring In Da Sound
2005.07.06: No Room At Hotel Rwanda
2005.07.05: Hotel Rwanda
2005.07.05: Kinsey: All Bonobos and No Chimps
2005.07.05: Rap Attacked From Within
2005.07.05: The Strange Career of Folk Music
2005.07.05: Serious Popcorn
2005.07.05: Martha Bayles
2005.07.04: Contact me
2005.07.04: The East Is Green
2005.06.30: Good News! More Manure!
2005.06.30: Video Virgil: Seniority
2005.06.29: Back Soon
2005.06.17: The Big Picture (almost)
2005.06.04: Video Virgil: Deep Grey
2005.05.25: Hacks and Flacks: The State of Arts Criticism
2005.05.23: Redford Logs On To SP!?!
2005.05.21: One-Horse Town Gets It Right
2005.05.20: Hate Those Sticky Floors
2005.05.18: "Terrible Americans" Defended
2005.05.13: Kingdom of ... uh, whatever
2005.05.10: decline
2005.05.10: The Ten Guidelines
2005.05.04: The Tea Sipper's Guide to Absurdity
2005.05.03: The Roots of Civility
2005.04.30: Road Rage
2005.04.27: Some Like It Microwaved
2005.04.25: Screen Smarts?
2005.04.25: women execs
2005.04.21: Video Virgil: The Wansee Conference
2005.04.18: The Damning Remnant
2005.04.18: How Michael Saved Mickey
2005.04.14: Video Virgil: Antique Self-Portrait
2005.04.07: Video Virgil: Self Portraits
2005.03.31: The Perverse in the Popular
2005.03.31: Oscar Night
2005.03.31: A Test of Reprise...
2005.03.31:
2005.03.31: Comic Book Pain
2005.03.25: Star Power Well Used
2005.03.19: Video Virgil: Burn, Liebling, Burn
2005.03.12: Reprise: Head-On
2005.03.10: Codex: I Can See Clearly Now
2005.03.09: Follwing the Money
2005.03.09: Against Type
2005.03.08: Berlin Film Festival
2005.03.06: Mixed Message
2005.03.03: Phantom of the Oscars
2005.02.25: Aims, Shoots & Leaves?
2005.02.24: Upside Deep Doo-Doo
2005.02.21: Merlotted
2005.02.17: Halfways
2005.02.13: Shallower Than It Looks
2005.02.11: Observing the Formulas
2005.02.05: Codex: Eye-Opening
2005.02.01: You'll Never Valet Park in This Town Again
2005.01.27: Interviews I Never Finished Reading
2005.01.23: Their Small Starved Turkish Wedding
2005.01.20: Parody (Barely)
2005.01.20: Anti-Gravitas
2005.01.19: If You Don't Like Suspense
2005.01.16: Pay Attention
2005.01.09: Penn - etrating
2005.01.07: "Tastes Good to Me"
2004.12.31: Movie of the Year (II)
2004.12.29: Video Virgil: Austen Power
2004.12.23: Fine and Mellow for the Holidays
2004.12.19: Movie of the Year (I)
2004.12.18: The Lemmings Cliff Film Festival
2004.12.17: Jumpers
2004.12.15: Blockheads
2004.12.13: Not So Rich
2004.12.12: Same Director: "Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll"
2004.12.11: Shining Brother Ray
2004.12.07: "Kinsey": All Bonobos and No Chimps
2004.12.04: Video Virgil: Nice Beards, Great Bathrobes
2004.11.23: College Try: Timing is Everything
2004.11.20: Made for TV: "The Wool Cap"
2004.11.16: Video Virgil: Washed Out
2004.10.24: Video Virgil: What Was Hip?
2004.09.22: We Don't Do Continuity Any More
2004.09.09: Addendem
2004.09.08: Video Virgil: "Yes, PRIME Minister"
2004.09.05: Video Virgil: "Mystic River"
2004.09.02: War Flix
2004.08.10: The New Cultural Diplomacy?
2004.08.09: Video Virgil: "Phone Booth"
2004.08.03: Video Virgil: "Yes, Minister"
2004.08.02: I'd Walk A Mile For This One
2004.07.27: Right on McTarget
2004.07.25: Crouching Trojan and Hidden Greek
2004.07.24: Tough House
2004.07.21: Nice and Gay
2004.07.19: Brush Up Your Aristotle
2004.07.17: Aristotle at the Cineplex
2004.07.15: It's A Wonderful Flight
2004.07.13: Reply to reader
2004.07.12: Super Sized Rhetoric
2004.07.12: Mel Gibson, Conceptual Artist

Category Monthly Archives

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PRC Pop

The Chinese pop music scene is like no other ...

Remembering Elvis

The best part of him will never leave the building ...

Beyond Country

Like all chart categories, "country" is an arbitrary heading under which one finds the ridiculous, the sublime, and everything in between. On the sublime end, a track that I have been listening to over and over for the last six months: Wynnona Judd's version of "She Is His Only Need." The way she sings it, irony is not a color or even a set of contrasting colors; it is iridescence.

Miles the Rock Star?

Does Miles Davis belong in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame? Here's my take on his career ...

Essay Contest

Attention, high school jazz listeners ...

more trax

Edward Hopper

Painter of light (and darkness) ...

Dissed in Translation

Here's my best shot at taking Scorcese down a few pegs ...

Henri Rousseau Revisited

"Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" appeared at the National Gallery of Art in Washington this fall ...

Paul Klee's Art