erik lundegaard

INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES

  • Movie Review: American Hustle (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Philomena (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • LA Films Critics Includes Three Ties Among Its Year-End Awards
  • Joe Henry at the Triple Door
  • The Best Tweet on the Robinson Cano Signing
  • The Upside of the Cano Deal for Yankee Haters Such as Myself
  • Start Spreading the News: My Reaction to the Reaction to the Cano Signing
  • Just Say No to Cano: An Imaginary Conversation with a Seattle Mariners Fan
  • What's a Nice Jewish Girl Like You Doing with a Magic Lasso? Gal Gadot Cast as Wonder Woman
  • Thoughts on 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Trailer
  • Major Burn on Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)
  • Dibs on the Heist Movie
  • National Board of Review Falls in Love with 'Her'
  • Movie Review: Before Midnight (2013)
  • New York Film Critics Circle Picks the Best of 2013
  • Chuck Armstrong Retires, Lauded for Never Winning Pennant
  • Be Like Obama: Give Books for Christmas
  • Movie Review: Oldboy (2013)
  • The Worst Movie Review of the Year, Part II
  • The Worst Movie Review of the Year
  • Seven Questions Jon Stewart Should Have Asked Jennifer Lawrence Last Week on 'The Daily Show'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Populaire (2012)
  • Modern Ballplayer Reactions to Joe DiMaggio's 56-Game Hitting Streak
  • Movie Review: The Internship (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
  • Box Office: 'Catching Fire' Does, Oscar Films Could Use a Light
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Is This Plagiarism? REVEALED
  • Quote of the Day
  • 'From Dallas, Texas, the Flash Apparently Official ...'
  • Technology Killed the Video Store: Remembering Minneapolis' Last Blockbuster
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • A Few Thoughts on Yankee Dominance and Failure
  • Movie Review: Parkland (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Second Weekend of 'Thor' Beats Thoroughly Mortal Competition
  • Rebuttal of the Day
  • Is This Plagiarism?
  • Suggested Titles for Derek Jeter's New Book Imprint
  • Who is the Team of the Century?
  • Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
  • Happy Armistice Day, When the Songs That We Sing Will Be Sad
  • Movie Review: Thor: The Dark World (2013)
  • ‘Thor’ Hammers Competition for $86 Million Open
  • Movie Review: After Earth (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Now You See Me (2013)
  • How to Win Political Arguments in Your Sleep
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Ender's Game (2013)
  • Drowning Rousseau
  • Photos of the Day: No Public Mooring
  • Watching the World Series in a Seattle Sports Bar When the Seahawks are on Monday Night Football
  • Thoughts on the 'Captain America' Trailer
  • Movie Review: All Is Lost (2013)
  • Joe P on Game 3
  • The Rainbow Warrior in Seattle
  • Why I Missed One of the Oddest Finishes in World Series History
  • It Depends on What the WSJ's Meaning of the Word 'Was' Is: Revealing propagandist tendencies in the right-wing press
  • Outer Space Needle
  • Movie Review: Stories We Tell (2013)
  • First Sentence: 'Joseph Anton'
  • A Conservative Theology Becoming a Revolutionary Idea by Attracting the Non-Urban and Marginalized: A Quiz
  • Moyers: It's Not a Shutdown; It's Sabotage of the Democratic Process
  • When Roth Was Good
  • Heading Into Nut Country: From Dealey Plaza to the Tea Party
  • Krugman Does Montoya
  • Movie Review: Captain Phillips (2013)
  • More Unseemly Sideshows
  • Idiot of the Day
  • Our Misapplication of the Golden Rule
  • Happy Birthday, John Lennon
  • The 2013 World Series Possibles: And Then There Were Four ...
  • By the Book: Erik Lundegaard
  • Everything Jeff Wells Hates
  • 'Rush' Addendum
  • Scalia Views Congress as Source of Tyranny
  • Dr. Frankenstein, Meet Monster
  • Where I Agree with Scalia
  • Another Boardwalk Empire/ Pinstripe Empire Casting Call: Domenick Lombardozzi as ... ?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Gravity (2013)
  • What's a Level Playing Field?
  • Houston, We Don't Have a Problem: 'Gravity' Breaks October Box-Office Record
  • Objectivity Is Not Stupidity: The Culpability of the Mainstream Media in the Government Shutdown
  • Movie Review: Una Noche (2013)
  • How Nutjob Republicans in Congress are Destroying Democracy as We Know It
  • Movie Review: Rush (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Short Term 12 (2013)
  • Letters from Readers
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quotes of the Day on the Government Shutdown
  • Why Baseball is No Longer Central to the Culture
  • Quote of the Day
  • That's All, Bitch
  • #FreeJessePinkman: A Late-to-the-Party 'Breaking Bad' Rundown
  • Quote of the Day
  • I'd Rank 'Em: Gordon-Levitt First, Merchant a Close Second, Fallon a Distant Third
  • When is the GOP Going to Take Back the GOP?
  • The Yankees Original Owners
  • The First Sentence of Every Short Story in 'American Short Stories, 4th Ed.'
  • Start ... Spread-ing ... the Noooooooze
  • The Lessons of 'Star Wars,' Doofus Edition
  • Book Review: '11/22/63' by Stephen King
  • Five A.L. Teams with Six Games to Go
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Salinger (2013)
  • A-Rod Sets Grand Slam Mark; World Yawns
  • How the Miss America Controversy is like the Movie 'Crash,' and Other Observations
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Michael Clayton (2007)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Something Scarier than Sharks
  • Why Jack Zduriencek is Not Billy Beane
  • The Case of the Buffering TV
  • About Which NY Yankee's Post-Season Performance Was the Following Said?
  • Woodrow Wilson, With a Message for the Originalists
  • Movie Review: Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Weekend Box Office is Insidious, But You Knew That
  • What’s Wrong with Jonathan Franzen’s ‘What’s Wrong with the Modern World’?
  • The Fourth Rule of Seattle Traffic
  • Quote of the Day
  • The 13th Rule of Seattle Traffic
  • The 17th Rule of Seattle Traffic
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Most Horrible Thing I've Ever Heard
  • Movie Review: Super (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Lovelace (2013)
  • Just What the Internet Needs, Erik: A Cute Cat Photo
  • The Wild Wild Card
  • Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
  • After the Revolution: An Interview with Michael Maguire, the original Enjolras in 'Les Miserables'
  • Weekend Box Office: ‘Riddick’ Sputters on Diesel Fumes; ‘Instructions’ Instructs Hollywood
  • My Sister and Hugh Jackman
  • Quote of the Day
  • Early Oscar Predictions: The Signal and the Noise, Noise, Noise
  • Tweets of the Day: Mark Harris vs. Richard Brody
  • What Shaw Thought Shakespeare Would Have Thought of Chaplin
  • Movie Review: Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
  • Where Andrew Sullivan is Wrong on Syria, Obama
  • Movie Review: The Spectacular Now (2013)
  • Trailer of the Day: Errol Morris' 'The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld'
  • What are the Best Movies of 2013 So Far?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Fruitvale Station (2013)
  • First Sign of Autumn
  • Weekend Box Office: Five Brit Kids Race, Beat Up Old Black Man; Mexicans Laugh
  • The Lesson of Adolf Hitler or Taylor Swift
  • Movie Review: Oblivion (2013)
  • Movie Review: West of Memphis (2012)
  • How the March on Washington was Viewed in 1963
  • Understatement of the Year
  • Netflix Gets It Wrong
  • Movie Review: Blue Jasmine (2013)
  • Raise High the Bookshelves, Carpenters: More Salinger Books on the Way
  • Weekend Box Office: 'You're Next' Isn't
  • Running More Reds in Noodge City
  • Movie Review: The World's End (2013)
  • Quotes of the Day
  • My Steve Ballmer Moment
  • Ronald L. Motley (1944-2013)
  • Why Ben Affleck is All Wrong to Play Batman
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: To the Wonder (2013)
  • Movie Review: Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
  • A 1944 menu in Stephenson, Wash.
  • Five Books I Bought at Powell’s This Weekend
  • George W.S. Trow and the Problem of the Final Failed Connection
  • Where Alyssa Rosenberg Goes Wrong on Superhero Sexism
  • Quote of the Day
  • Does Anyone Know What the Civil Rights Movement Is Anymore?
  • Photo of the Day
  • The Damage and the Glory
  • Movie Review: Spider-Man (2002)
  • Attention Green Bay!
  • Why the Want Ads Suck
  • And for Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Pacific Rim (2013)
  • Harmon Killebrew's 500th Homerun
  • Above the Clouds on Granite Mountain
  • Movie Review: Elysium (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Gatekeepers (2012)
  • By the Time I Get to Arizona, 2013
  • George W.S. Trow on 'All About Eve'
  • Movie Review: The Specials (2000)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why Denzel Matters: Before the Show at the Regal Meridian
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: 2 Guns (2013)
  • Weekend Box Office: '2 Guns' Riddles 'Smurfs 2' with Bullets
  • Product Placement: These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Every Freakin' Superhero Movie with Mike Smith
  • The Enormous Mass of Facts
  • Woody Allen's 'Wolverine'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Can You Spot the Product Placement?
  • Say Kids, What Time Is It?
  • Movie Review: 20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Angry and Irony, Live Together without much Harmony
  • Reza Aslan and FOX-News' Projection Problem
  • Ben-Hur: the Travis Bickle of His Day
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - V
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - IV
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - III
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - II
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - I
  • Movie Review: The Wolverine (2013)
  • Weekend Box Office: 'The Wolverine' Isn't the Best At What It Does
  • HISHE: How 'Man of Steel' Should Have Ended
  • Quote of the Day
  • Seattle Mariners: 30th No More
  • Ranking Every Freakin' Superhero Movie Ever Made with David Murphy
  • The Worst Tweet Ever, or Sympathy for C.C. Sabathia
  • Quote of the Day
  • Four Inches Longer
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Every Freakin' Superhero Movie Ever Made with Daniel
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Every Freakin' Superhero Movie Ever Made with Andrew Reed
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Every Freakin' Superhero Movie Ever Made with Uncle Vinny
  • Why It Took Forever to Make Good Superhero Movies
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Every Freakin' Superhero Movie Ever Made with Erik Lundegaard
  • Movie Review: Superhero Movie (2008)
  • Box Office: 'The Conjuring' Howls to First as 'Turbo' Sputters, 'Red 2' Redcarded and 'R.I.P.D.' Arrives D.O.A.
  • The 'Stand Your Ground' Law, Starring Yellowbelly
  • Zack Snyder Announces 'Man of Steel 2' Will Include Batman
  • Movie Review: Only God Forgives (2013)
  • They Keep Making Sequels to Movies I Pan
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Hero At Large (1980)
  • Trailer: Dear Mr. Watterson
  • Movie Review: Muscle Shoals (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Filibusters: More Reasons Why the GOP Sucks
  • Quote Quiz: Fill in the Blank with the Movie Title
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines: 'Most Certainly'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Way, Way Back (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Despicable Audience: “Grown Ups 2” Grosses $42 mil at Weekend Box Office
  • #AllThatDavidCopperfieldKindOfCrap
  • Calvin and Hobbes Explains FOX-News 10 Years Before FOX-News
  • Movie Review: Identity Thief (2013)
  • AFI's Top 10 Movies of the 1980s, Give or Take
  • IMDb's Top 10 Movies of the 1980s
  • The Zimmerman Trial: 'Is An Unarmed Black Teenager Ever Entitled to Stand His Ground?'
  • And Then Came ... Electro!
  • Quote of the Day
  • Since Nobody Asked, My Top 10 Movies of the 1980s
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ricky Gervais Finds God
  • Movie Review: Mud (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Did Superman Resurrect Patriotism? On Truth, Innocence, and the American Way
  • Weekend Box Office: 'Lone Ranger' Disappears in a Cloud of Dust Without Much Silver
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Gangster Squad (2013)
  • New York Yankees' Beat Writer Envies Free-Spending Ways of Boston Red Sox
  • Movie Review: The Lone Ranger (2013)
  • My American Movie
  • What's the Great All-American Movie?
  • Song of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Heat (2013)
  • Movie Review: World War Z (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Weekend Box Office: ‘The Heat’ Hot, ‘White House’ Down
  • Mt. Rainier from Mt. Si
  • Movie Review: White House Down (2013)
  • Ranking Every Freakin' Superhero Movie Ever Made By IMDb Score
  • Quote of the Day
  • Recommended: Joe Muto's 'Atheist in a FOXhole'
  • Boies on the Prop 8 Cross-Examination: 'Wouldn't America fit the American ideal better the day it allows gays and lesbians to marry?'
  • Tweet of the Day: DOMA Dead
  • Biking in Seattle More Dangerous than in New York City, Expert Says
  • Movie Review: The Bling Ring (2013)
  • On FOX-News, the Sheriff Is Near
  • Movie Review: The Kings of Summer (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Hollywoodland (2006)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Mark Harris vs. Superman in the Battle of the Century!!
  • SLIDESHOW Essay: An Open Letter to Clark Kent
  • And Such Small Portions, Too
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: This is the End (2013)
  • The Yankees Have a Negative Run Differential
  • Why FOX-News is Like a Hollywood Studio
  • James Gandolfini: 1961-2013
  • MPWW at FOX-News
  • Movie Review: Not Fade Away (2012)
  • FOX-News Producer: 'We're not here to be fair. We're here to give red meat to our viewers'
  • Running Reds in Noodge City
  • Movie Review: Broken City (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Every Superman Movie Ever Made
  • Quote of the Day
  • 75 Years After Superman's Debut, 'Man of Steel' Sets June Box-Office Record
  • And the Last Shall Have a 5-Game Win Streak
  • SLIDESHOW: A History of Superman Onscreen
  • Movie Review: Man of Steel (2013)
  • Trailer: The Salinger Documentary
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • FOX-News Flash: No Dudes Kissing (or Flashing) on FOX-News
  • SLIDESHOW: Lex Luthor, The Badness and the Baldness
  • Who Wants to Play Superman? Anyone? Bueller?
  • Dumb Politics, Smart Business
  • SLIDESHOW: Extra Extra! A History of Daily Planet Headlines!
  • SLIDESHOW: Got it Bad for Little Miss Lois Lane
  • Future Breaking News on Fox: RIP Dick Cheney, Lincoln and Churchill Rolled into One
  • SLIDESHOW: LOOK, UP IN THE SKY! A History of Superman Flying Onscreen
  • FOX-News Fan Fiction
  • Movie Review: Superman Returns (2006)
  • Great Caesar's Ghost! It's the Perry White Slideshow!
  • Movie Review: The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Movie Review: Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1981/2006)
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Movie Review: Superman and the Mole-Men (1951)
  • Hollywood to Remake Audiard's 'Un Prophete'
  • Superman, Fat Ass
  • Movie Review: Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Embracing the Tetchy
  • Movie Review: Superman (1948)
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Go Grandriders (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'After Earth' is Real; Attending is a Choice
  • 'Man of Steel' Featurette
  • The Kents Go for a Sunday Drive
  • Movie Review: Kapringen (A Hijacking) (2012)
  • Obama Isn't Coming for Your Guns; Superman Is
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Last Sentence (2012)
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
  • Latest New Yorker Cover by Marcellus Hall Celebrates NYC's New Bike-Sharing Program
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Movie Review: Kon-Tiki (2012)
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • What's Up with the IMDb Rating of the WikiLeaks Documentary 'We Steal Secrets'?
  • Winners at Cannes: 'Blue,' Bejo, Bruce
  • Quote of the Day
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Movie Review: Dirty Wars (2013)
  • The Short, Embarrassing History of Man (and Superman) Riding Rockets
  • Quote of the Day
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • 5th and Wall
  • Movie Review: The Deep (2012)
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Movie Review: Out of Print (2013)
  • Action Comics No. 1 Found in Wall in Elbow Lake, Minn. Home
  • Superman Screenshot of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Stories from the Birth of Xbox
  • Milestone: 400 Parts Per Million
  • 501(c)(4)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
  • Reboot of 45-Year-Old TV Series Underperforms with $70 Million Opening Weekend
  • Movie Review: Frances Ha (2013)
  • Movie Review: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
  • On the Final Episode of 'The Office'
  • Oops
  • If Ever a Character Could Put You Off Women for Life...
  • Whose Portrait Hangs in Lex Luthor's Office?
  • 'Negroes Oppose Film': A 1921 NAACP Protest of 'Birth of a Nation'
  • Movie Review: Superman III (1983)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Trailer of the Day: 'The Congress' by Ari Folman
  • What to See at SIFF?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Great Gatsby (2013)
  • Marvel Team-Up: Iron Man and Great Gatsby Blast Box Office!
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Renoir (2012)
  • The Superhero Trilogy: Powers Revealed, Lost, Turned Evil
  • Jeff Wells Goes 'Lincoln' on Bendedict Cumberbatch
  • Trailer of the Day: Captain Phillips (2013)
  • Juxtaposing Screenshots: Freddie Quell and Superman
  • Reagan, Before the Lightning Struck
  • Song of the Day: 'Tired of Being Alone' by Al Green
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with John Rosengren
  • Fargo: The Word Cloud
  • Movie Review: Superman II (1981)
  • First Hike of the Season: Lake 22
  • 'Iron Man 3' Opens at No. 2 ... All Time
  • Movie Review: Iron Man 3 (2013)
  • Sifting Through the SIFF Schedule
  • Four Reasons Krypton Doesn't Blow Up in the new Superman Movie 'Man of Steel'
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with David Schoenfield
  • KNEEL BEFORE ERIK-EL!
  • Krypton Lives! According to EW
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Jack Bradbury
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Superman: The Movie (1978)
  • 'Iron Man 3' Soars with $195 Million Opening Weekend ... In 42 Other Countries
  • Cold as ICE
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Tim Harrison
  • White House Correspondents Dinner: Obama with an Edge
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Uncle Vinny
  • Bushwhacked
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why is IMDb.com Spreading Lies About Stan Lee?
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Jerry Grillo
  • When Christopher Reeve Knew 'Superman' Would Work
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Josh Wilker
  • Gregory Peck in Second Grade
  • Quote of the Day
  • Find the Future Movie Star
  • '42' Is Safe, Sadly
  • Rank the Baseball Movies!
  • Why Do IMDb Users Dislike 'Bull Durham'?
  • 2500 Channels and Nothing On
  • Change You Can Count On
  • Quote of the Year
  • Winter Box Office: Hasta la Vista, Arnie
  • Movie Review: Oz, The Great and Powerful (2013)
  • The True Vice of Vice: Advertisers with Editorial Input
  • Quick Quiz: Who is This Baby?
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Ranking the Best and Worst Baseball Movies of All-Time
  • Theory: In 'Man of Steel,' Krypton Lives
  • Quote of the Day
  • Catch of the Day: Ben Revere
  • Going About My Business After Boston
  • Five Facts about Terrence Malick
  • Quote of the Day: 'That was for Jackie'
  • The New 'Man of Steel' Teaser: Zod Damn
  • That Ben Chapman Scene in '42'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: '42' is More Than '5'
  • Movie Review: 42 (2013)
  • The Goddamn Movies
  • Movie Review: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
  • Merit Pay in a Meritocracy
  • Consumption Written with Lightning
  • How Roger Ebert is Wrong in that Sundance Clip
  • Who Knew Prof. X was a Slacker?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: No (2012)
  • Movie Review: The Intouchables (2011)
  • Mad Men Myself
  • Remaining Stationary is the New Freedom
  • Quote of the Day
  • Eulogies for Roger
  • Quote of the Day
  • No One Walks Off the Island
  • Quote of the Day
  • Q&A with Aviva Kempner about Hank Greenberg – Part III
  • Q&A with Aviva Kempner about Hank Greenberg – Part II
  • Quote of the Day
  • So Let's Root, Root, Root for a Kind of Licensing Fee to Secure All the Rights to Market a Commercial Boon
  • Q&A with Aviva Kempner about Hank Greenberg – Part I
  • IMDboob
  • Movie Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
  • Opening Day 2013
  • All the Pretty Cherry Blossoms
  • Quote of the Day
  • Trailer of the Day: Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)
  • Lancelot Links
  • James Baldwin Explains FOX-News in 1959
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: On the Road (2012)
  • Movie Review: Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
  • Will Leitch's 'Bombers Won't Bomb' Article, with YANKEES SUCK Annotations
  • The Best Film of 2012, 'Rust and Bone,' Out on DVD
  • Movie Review: Admission (2013)
  • The Answer Man Answers Your Movie Questions
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall
  • Quote of the Day
  • How I Nearly Died on the Way to Work Yesterday
  • Henny Penny, When the Sky Fell: 'No End in Sight' and the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion
  • Jordy's Reviews: Oz, The Great and Powerful (2013)
  • Email to Jake: March 9, 2003
  • Email to Elin: March 2003
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Top 10 Box Office Hits According to Variety as of March 19, 1958
  • There's Big Money in Fantasy
  • Lancelot Links
  • Kirk, Spock, and Mad
  • Trailer of the Day: 'A La Merveille'
  • Sarah Palin, Big Gulp, and Freedom in America
  • Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
  • Quote of the Day
  • My Pharmacy, My Insurance Co., and Me
  • Quote of the Day
  • Trailer of the Day: Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder'
  • Oz, 32-Percent Great, 40th-Most Powerful
  • A Good Sign for 'Man of Steel'
  • Movie Review: The Monk (2011)
  • Justice League: Ginsburg on Rehnquist, Roberts
  • Lancelot Links
  • You're Welcome
  • Trailer of the Day: Average Party
  • Quote of the Day
  • Invasion USA: Two Lois Lanes, No Superman
  • Quote of the Day
  • My A-Rod Story: All That Negative Stuff
  • Quote of the Day
  • Trailer of the Day: The World According to Dick Cheney
  • Who's Your Current Screen Crush?
  • 'Superman,' 'Man of Steel,' and the US/UK Switcheroo
  • Moynihan's 1967 Warning to Democrats Now Applies to Republicans
  • Star Wars VII by Michael Haneke
  • Photo of the Day
  • What Liberal Hollywood? A.O. Scott on Guns and Movies
  • In Defense of Seth MacFarlane's 'We Saw Your Boobs'
  • America Held Hostage
  • What Do Corporations, Prominent Republicans and Obama Have in Common? They're All Against Prop 8
  • Coming Soon
  • Quote of the Day
  • Zack Wagman Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Casablanca' to 'Crash'
  • Deadblogging the Oscars - 2013
  • Five Reasons Why Seth MacFarlane's 'We Saw Your Boobs' is the Best Thing To Happen to Oscar in Years
  • A Question for Fans of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
  • Crunching the Numbers: What are the Most- and Least-Popular Best Picture Winners of All Time?
  • Crunching the Numbers: Which Best Pictures are Most-Seen, Least-Seen, and Most Beloved?
  • 38e cérémonie des César: Amour, Amour, Amour
  • Quote of the Day
  • Want to Be Taken Seriously?
  • My Q&A with Oscar's Lawyers
  • Quote of the Day
  • Edward Copeland Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Casablanca' to 'The Broadway Melody'
  • Anne Thompson Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Lawrence of Arabia' to 'Going My Way'
  • Like Minds
  • The Worst Best Picture
  • GOB Bluth (Kevin) Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'The Godfather Part II' to 'The Greatest Show on Earth'
  • Stat of the Day
  • Why's FDR Hanging with the Three Stooges? Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Screen Portrayals of U.S. Presidents, and Didn't Ask
  • David Murphy Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Lawrence of Arabia' to 'Crash'
  • What's the Best Best Picture?
  • Movie Review: Tabu (2012)
  • Thomas Meier Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Sunrise' to 'Broadway Melody'
  • Movie Review: A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
  • Trailer of the Day: 'Midway' by Chris Jordan
  • When Romney was the Most Honest Man in the Race
  • Branimir Djurovic Ranks the Best Picture Winners: from 'The Godfather' to 'Cavalcade'
  • Jorge Rodrigues Ranks the Best Picture Winners: from 'All About Eve' to 'Driving Miss Daisy'
  • Marco Rubio's Stephan Seely Moment
  • Steve Schweighofer Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Lawrence of Arabia' to 'The Greastest Show on Earth'
  • Joe D. Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Cuckoo's Nest' to 'Dances with Wolves'
  • Dan Heilman Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Cuckoo's Nest' to 'Crash'
  • The Valentine's Day Posts
  • Dying Hard: A History of the 'Die Hard' Franchise
  • Dback Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Sunrise' (Best) to 'Gandhi' (Worst)
  • Chris Nelson Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Annie Hall' (Best) to 'Crash' (Worst)
  • Endora Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'The Apartment' to 'A Beautiful Mind'
  • Reed Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'The Godfather' to 'Crash'
  • Uncle Vinny Ranks the Best Pictures: From 'The Godfather Part II' (Best) to 'Shakespeare in Love' (Worst)
  • Tim Ranks the Best Pictures: From 'American Beauty' (Best) to 'Crash' (Worst)
  • My State of the Union
  • Now YOU Can Rank Oscar's Best Picture Winners
  • Quote of the Day
  • Bafflingly British BAFTAs Honor 'Argo,' 'Amour'
  • My Top 10 Movies of 2012
  • Movie Review: Amour (2012)
  • The New Definition of Hubris: Telling Jackie Robinson How to Slide
  • Is Redirection Affecting Andrew Sullivan's Google Juice?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Try This One Weird Trick and Hit 647 Homeruns
  • Movie Review: Rust and Bone (2012)
  • Moviegoers Warm to 'Warm Bodies,' Give 'Bullet to the Head' a Bullet to the Head
  • Movie Review: Warm Bodies (2013)
  • Ben Affleck Wins DGA
  • The Best Movie Scene of the Year
  • Joaquin Phoenix Praises Film Crew, Gives Nod to 'Up-and-Comer' Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review: The Hunting of the President (2004)
  • Obama on the 'Us vs. Them' of Immgration Reform: 'A lot of folks forget that most of us used to be them'
  • Quote of the Day
  • My Five Worst Movies of 2012
  • Lancelot LInks
  • Daniel Day-Lewis at 13
  • Movie Trailers: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
  • My Top 10 Movie Lines of 2012
  • The SAG Quote of the Night
  • SAG Cast Award Goes to 'Argo'
  • Why the GOP Sucks: Your Stat of the Day
  • 'Argo' Wins PGA
  • Michael Moore's Defense of 'Zero Dark Thirty': Annotated
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Comfort vs. Questions: Taking the Kubrick Test with This Year's Best Picture Nominees
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • What My $3,000 Helped Buy
  • Movie Review: The Last Stand (2013)
  • Stan 'The Man' Musial: 1920-2013
  • The Way the Right-Wing Has Always Supported Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The 2012 Best Picture Nominees Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes Scores
  • Quote of the Day
  • 50 Birthday Cards
  • In the Shape I'm In
  • Earl Weaver: 1930-2013
  • Reader Quote of the Day
  • Countdown to 50
  • The Annotated Kathryn Bigelow Editorial
  • Quote of the Day
  • That Tarantino Interview: 'This is a commercial for the movie—make no mistake.'
  • Quote of the Day
  • How Grover Norquist is like Abbie Hoffman
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Evolution of Jeffrey Wells' Thinkin' on 'Lincoln'
  • Golden Globes Continue to Diverge from the Academy
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Grosses More This Weekend than 'Hurt Locker' In Its Entire Run
  • The Original Gangster Squad
  • Reader of the Day
  • Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
  • Edgar Martinez Dissed on HOF Dissed List
  • Jeff Wells: Alone Against an Army of Haters!
  • Unprecedented Disagreement Between the Academy and the DGA
  • And the 2012 Nominees Are...
  • My Oscar Picks! (Wishes Not Predictions)
  • Lancelot Links
  • The DGAs Are In: Affleck, Bigelow, Hooper, Lee, Spielberg
  • Quote of the Day
  • Steven Spielberg on Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln
  • Movie Review: Anna Karenina (2012)
  • The Seven Words Women Long to Hear
  • My Under-the-Radar Oscar Nominations
  • Movie Review: The Central Park Five (2012)
  • Reader Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Minimus
  • Why People Like Bad Movies
  • The 2011 Best Picture Nominees by IMDb Ranking: Revisited
  • Bob Lundegaard's Reviews: Les Miserables (2012)
  • Founding Dish Member
  • How's Your New Year Going?
  • The Inherent Loneliness of the Internet
  • Movie Review: Django Unchained (2012)
  • 2012
  • The Top 50 Viral Videos of 2012 (Or: My Increasing Separation from My Culture)
  • Which Baseball Player Does Jerry Seinfeld Relate To?
  • Lt. Soledad O'Brien, Star Fleet Communications Officer
  • Jordy's Reviews: Les Miserables (2012)
  • The Return of the Disagreeables: Disagreeable No More!
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: This is 40 (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • 'Previously on The Hobbit...'
  • Roger Ebert Says 2012 is the Best Movie Year ... This Decade
  • Movie Review: Les Misérables (2012)
  • Movie Review: Barbara (2012)
  • A Very Jellybean Christmas
  • Lancelot Links (Merry Christmas Edition!)
  • The Annotated Jeffrey Wells: 'Torture Has Been Used For Centuries'
  • Movie Review: Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
  • I Would Rather Have You Beat the Yankees
  • Wait, What Exactly is Acting CIA Director MIchael Morell Saying About 'Zero Dark Thirty'?
  • Idiot of the Day, Month, Year: Wayne La Pierre
  • The Two Controversies of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
  • Movie Review: How to Survive a Plague (2012)
  • Jordy's Reviews: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Oscar Predictions ... for 2014?
  • Movie Review: Lawless (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Hobbit Takes Expected Journey
  • Quote of the Day
  • Our Country, Our Song
  • A Song for Today: Our Song
  • Movie Review: Life of Pi (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • 'Man of Steel' Trailer #2
  • AFI's Top 10 Movies of 2012
  • D.C., Boston, Choose ZERO DARK THIRTY for Best Film; LA Says AMOUR
  • Movie Review: Dark Shadows (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • 15 Movies in 2012 That Were Worse than 'John Carter'
  • Movie Review: Lincoln (2012)
  • National Board of Review Names ZERO DARK THIRTY Best Film of 2012
  • Idiot of the Day: Dinesh D’Souza
  • Good Morning
  • Let the Awards Season Begin! NY Film Critics Circle Names ZERO DARK THIRTY Best Picture of 2012
  • New 'Man of Steel' Poster Shows Superman in Handcuffs
  • Movie Review: Hitchcock (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Threeway Threepeat for First Time in Three Years
  • Jordy's Reviews: Rise of the Guardians (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Holy Garage Sale, Batman!
  • What Does the GOP Stand For?
  • Movie Review: Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Bill O'Reilly's Real Nightmare
  • Jordy's Reviews: Frankenweenie (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Marvin Miller (1917-2012)
  • Jackie Robinson: Yankees 'Got No Class"
  • Lincoln's Voice: at Gettysburg and (Hollywood) Elsewhere
  • The Most Brilliant and Necessary Thing You'll See All Day: 'Onion Talks' on Social Media
  • Movie Review: Flight (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'Twilight' Stumbles, 'Lincoln' Surges
  • Pundit Shaming: Laura Ingraham
  • Face Front, Dark Knight!
  • Superman vs. Batman: Last Word
  • Jordy's Reviews: Lincoln (2012)
  • The Movie You Could Watch A Million Times
  • Supergirl Can't Get a Date
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Chasing Ice (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Vampires Rule; Bond Holds: Lincoln Doesn't Die
  • Movie Review: Supergirl (1984)
  • Jellybean on the Bookshelf
  • Quote of the Day
  • Jordy's Reviews: Skyfall (2012)
  • Photo of the Day
  • Movie Review: 30 for 30: The House of Steinbrenner (2010)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why Obama Won; Why Romney Lost
  • Movie Review: Skyfall (2012)
  • Roth Unbound
  • The Ultimate James Bond Quiz: The Answers
  • The Ultimate James Bond Quiz
  • The Men Who Played James Bond, 007
  • My President
  • Quote of the Day
  • Jordy's Reviews: Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
  • My Election Day: November 6, 2012
  • James Baldwin's Message to Bill O'Reilly
  • Quote of the Day II
  • Quote of the Day
  • Status Updates from the 2012 Election
  • 270 to Win: Vote
  • Quote of the Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'Skyfall" Will Shatter Worldwide Record for James Bond Movies
  • Jordy's Reviews: 'Pokemon Black and White 2'
  • Hans von Spakovsky and the Voter-Fraud Myth
  • Movie Review: Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
  • Stayin' Alive with Rita Hayworth
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review: Cloud Atlas (2012)
  • Endorsement of the Day: Susan Eisenhower Endorses Barack Obama for Re-Election
  • The 2012 World Series: 74,861 People are Disappointed This Morning
  • Endorsement of the Day: The Stranger
  • Endorsement of the Day: The Chicago Tribune
  • Getting Out the Vote
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines: 'She's a drag, a well-known drag...'
  • Endorsement of the Day: Colin Powell Signs on for 'Long Patrol with Pres. Obama'
  • The New Hollywood 10: How Stars on the Left are Punished; How Stars on the Right Punish Us
  • Say Who?
  • Have the Giants Now Played All Eight Original A.L. Teams in the World Series?
  • Former Mossad Chief for Obama, Warns Romney's Rhetoric Against U.S. Interests
  • How Long Since Your Team Went to the World Series?
  • 'One of the Most Successful Foreign Policies of Any Administration'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Richard Brody on 'Marnie': As Insane as His Beard?
  • I'd Like to Apologize to All Women on Behalf of All Men
  • Hollywood B.O.: Crappy New Releases, Fall Break, Make 'Argo' Winner
  • Gaffes, Blunders, Walkbacks and Lies: A Week-by-Week Retrospective of the Year in Mitt
  • Absent Fathers, Powerful Fathers
  • 'Romnesia'
  • Lies, Damned Lies and Mitt Romney
  • What the Yankees Look Like Without Derek Jeter
  • Sad Yankees Fan of the Day
  • The Fall of the 2012 New York Yankees
  • Not What We Do
  • Man of the People, Mitt of the Sons
  • The Second Debate: Romney Creates a Meme
  • The 'All the President's Men' Pep Talk for Pres. Obama Before the Second Debate
  • Photo of the Day
  • What's Missing from AV Club's Top 50 Films of the 1990s?
  • Anthony Lane on 'Argo'
  • Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
  • No Tears for Jeter
  • Lancelot Links
  • Go Get 'em, Tigers
  • The Dangers of PBS Programming
  • Movie Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
  • Movie Review: Argo (2012)
  • Transaction Man
  • Why Obama Now
  • Separated at Birth: Pinstripe Empire vs. Boardwalk Empire
  • Quote of the Day
  • Mt. Pilchuck: Breathtaking Twice
  • Hollywood B.O.: Took
  • Facts Don't Speak for Themselves: Obama's Worrisome Conciliatory Nature
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review: The Master (2012)
  • Miggy
  • Quote of the Day
  • How the Hell are the 2012 Oakland A's Doing It?
  • Movie Trailers: The Lone Ranger (2013)
  • Dana Stevens on 'Looper'
  • iPhoto of the Day
  • Movie Review: Looper (2012)
  • In His Own Words: Charlton Heston
  • It's Late September: Do You Know Where Your Best Pictures Are?
  • My Name is Saul Berenson; You Attacked My Country; Prepare to Die
  • The Seventh and Final Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Sixth Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Fifth Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • A Walk in Seattle
  • The Fourth Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • Movie Review: Trouble with the Curve (2012)
  • The Third Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Second Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • Movie Review: End of Watch (2012)
  • The First Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • Movie Trailers: 42 (2013)
  • Movie Review: Battleship (2012)
  • Weekend in Minneapolis
  • There's A Lot of Trouble Behind a Bar, Etc.
  • Quote of the Day
  • Freedom vs. Security: Entering Salman Rushdie's World
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Cosmopolis (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Eleven Years Ago
  • Movie Review: Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
  • Waiting for 'The Master'
  • Lancelot Links
  • Early GOP Brass
  • My Overwhelming Conviction about Pres. Obama's DNC Speech
  • Sad Yankees Fan of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Touch of Evil (1958)
  • David Denby's Defense of Clint Eastwood—Annotated
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Chris Rock Rules
  • Movie Review: Premium Rush (2012)
  • Mitt Romney Drives I-5 to Chehalis
  • Other Delights Besides Whipped Cream: Dolores Erickson & Soul Asylum
  • Never Again
  • Quote of the Day
  • Great Moments in Right-Wing Paranoia: Swinging Sixties Edition
  • Quote of the Day
  • Photo of the Day
  • Your Liberal Media at Work: The Times' Awful Puff-Piece on the New Mitt Romney--Annotated
  • Counter-Programming: Movies to Watch During the GOP Convention
  • Quote of the Day
  • Being Fair to Hitler
  • Movie Review: Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Growing Link Between Box Office and Rotten Tomato Scores
  • Hollywood B.O.: Conservatives Turn Out for D'Souza Horror Film
  • How 'The Dark Knight Rises' Should Have Ended
  • That Right-Wing, Uncle Sam Billboard near Chehalis, Wash.
  • The Burden of the Secret Identity
  • Jordy's Reviews: ParaNorman (2012)
  • What Liberal Hollywood? Refuting Jonathan Chait's New York Magazine Piece
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XX
  • A Legitimate Choice
  • My Weekend in iPhotos
  • Where on the All-Time Hits List Will Derek Jeter Suck?
  • Movie Review: Hancock (2008)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Summer of Underperforming Sequels
  • Quote of the Day
  • First Mariner or 21st Ever: What's More Impressive?
  • Movie Review: The Campaign (2012)
  • King Felix: Perfect
  • Movie Review: The Spirit (2008)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Paul Ryan's Budget Attacked Left and Right
  • Why They're Making 'Grown-Ups 2'
  • Granite Mountain Redux (Redux)
  • Movie Review: The Bourne Legacy (2012)
  • 7 Quotes of the Day on Paul Ryan
  • Selling the Fright of Pretty Women
  • 2012: Good for the Movies?
  • 'Sikh, Arab, What's the Difference?' The Sikh Temple Killings and Spike Lee's 'Inside Man'
  • Dusty
  • Your YANKEES SUCK Historical Moment of the Day
  • Movie Review: Haywire (2012)
  • Anne Hathaway: Woman Surrounded by Bat-Crap
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review: The Shadow (1994)
  • Nice writing: Zach Schonbrun on Felix Hernandez
  • What the Olympics Needs
  • Words I Learned While Reading Gore Vidal
  • Movie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
  • Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XIX
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XVIII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XVII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XVI
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XV
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XIV
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XIII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XI
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day X
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day IX
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day VIII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day VII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day VI
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day V
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day IV
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day III
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day II
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day I
  • My Q&A with Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
  • Dave Eggers' Review of Grant Peterson's 'Just Ride': Annotated
  • N'allez pas trop vite avec Marcel Proust
  • Quote of the Day: Vinny takes on Aaron Sorkin (and Neil deGrasse Tyson?)
  • Smashing Film Crit Hulk's Review of 'Dark Knight Rises'
  • Movie Review: Ted (2012)
  • Quotes of the Day: Ichiro and 'The Throw'
  • Movie Review: Casa de mi Padre (2012)
  • 2012 Box Office Trivia Question
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
  • The New York Yankees are the 1%
  • 19,790 to 3,676
  • Quote of the Day
  • Sayonara, Ichiro
  • Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  • Batman: Year One, Day Two: Thoughts on the Murders in Aurora, Col.
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Gettysburg Address, Out of Context
  • Ranking Every Batman Movie from the 1940s Serials to 'The Dark Knight'
  • Gore Vidal on Ayn Rand
  • Movie Review: Men in Black 3 (2012)
  • Making the Dish, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Stand-Up Comedian
  • Bastille Day, 2012
  • Adventures in Cycling: Yo Yos Apologizing
  • Really, Direct TV?
  • Can't Wait to Get on the Road Again: The Offensive Numbers of the 2012 Seattle Mariners
  • The Most Stunning Moment at 'Amazing Spider-Man'
  • Louis C.K. Isn't Updating Seinfeld; He's Updating Proust
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Spider-Man 3 (2007)
  • What's My Motivation? Batman, Spider-Man, and the Dictionary Definition of a Superhero
  • Why a Patriotic WWII Film Starring Frank Sinatra Would Get Booed by Modern Republicans
  • What Seattle Means to Me
  • Greatest Use of the Parenthetical ... Ever?
  • Two Reasons Conservatives Should Be Proud SCOTUS Upheld Obamacare
  • The History of Spider-Man On Screen
  • Why We Should All Be Like Frank Sullivan
  • A Team without Superstars
  • Quote of the Day
  • Jordy's Reviews: Brave (2012)
  • Song of the Day: 'Civil War' by Joe Henry
  • Movie Review: The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Brave New World for Pixar
  • Other People's Reviews: Alex Bradbury on 'Prometheus' (2012)
  • Damn Amazon.com
  • Quote of the Day
  • Song of the Day: 'You Can't Fail Me Now' by Joe Henry
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Les femmes du 6ème étage (2010)
  • Where the Hell is Matt? (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Dreaming of Paul McCartney, 70
  • Movie Review: Prometheus (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O. Is Adam Sandler's 15-Year Reign of Terror Over?
  • My Evening with Sissy Spacek
  • The Annotated David Brooks
  • Eric Wedge and the Hobson's Choice
  • Spider-Man's Uncle Ben: Yankees Fan?
  • MLB.com Gives Some Clown Answers, Bro
  • More Perfection
  • SIFFed Out
  • Quotes of the Day
  • Movie Review: Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Madagaswhatever Wins Weekend
  • The Politics of Resenting Those with Less
  • Movie Review: The Revolutionary (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Getting Better All the Time (Can't Get No Worse): Your 2012 Seattle Mariners Offense
  • Movie Review: The Revisionaries (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Starbuck (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: A Checkout Girl's Big Adventure (Les tribulations d'une caissière) (2011)
  • All-Time Box Office for Musicals
  • Trailers: Les Miserables's Got Talent
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Myth of Job Creators
  • Movie Review: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)
  • Movie Review: Goodbye (2011)
  • Hollywood B.O.: First Weekend of 'MIB III' Outgrosses Fourth Weekend of 'The Avengers'
  • Review: Lola Versus (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Under African Skies (2012)
  • Prince Something Something
  • Quote of the Day
  • Corporations United: A Summary of Jeffrey Toobin's Must-Read Citizens United Article
  • My President
  • Quote of the Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: Universal Studio to U.S. Audiences: 'You Sunk My Battleship!'
  • The Novel for the 99%: Max Barry's 'Company'
  • Movie Review: The Dark Knight (2008)
  • Endorsement of the Day
  • Lyrics of the Day
  • The Avengers on Cloud Five/Nine
  • Quote of the Day
  • From 'Empire Strikes Back' to 'The Avengers': A Short History of the Biggest Opening Weekends in Recent Movie History
  • Stat of the Day
  • 'I Don't Want Government in My Bank...'
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'The Avengers' SMASH Opening-Weekend Record with $200 Million
  • Movie Review: The Avengers (2012)
  • The Response
  • The Mariano Rivera Posts
  • Movie Review: Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
  • Essential Freud by Badcock, and Other Stories
  • Howard Lincoln and Chuck Armstrong, Accountable to No One (Or How the Seattle Mariners Became Soylent Green)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Avengers Movies: Assembled!
  • Hollywood B.O.: Avengers Assembled! ... Overseas
  • Quote of the Day
  • Howard Lincoln and Some Part of a Horse, Midstream
  • IMDb's Trivial Problem
  • Quote of the Day
  • Here's Looking at You, Kid: Clara Darko Compiles Movie Stars Looking at Us
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Footnote (2011)
  • Another Example of Why You Should Never Quote Someone for Only One or Two Words
  • 'Battleship' Opens Abroad Five Weeks Before U.S. Debut: Has Already Grossed $141 Million
  • Lead Me on Twitter
  • Movie Review: Batman Begins (2005)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why Mitt and Ann Romney are Just Like You: Scrimping By with a Seven-Bedroom Colonial and a 5,000-Foot Lakefront Vacation Home
  • A Tale of Two Posters
  • Movie Review: Les Hommes libres (Free Men) (2011)
  • Photo of the Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: ‘Think Like a Man’ Claims Box-Office Throne Despite Kenyan Rumors
  • Humber Humber Throws Perfect Game* Against Some Team
  • Sharing a Birthday with Hannibal Lector
  • 631
  • Misspelling of the Day
  • Book Review: I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012)
  • Jamie Moyer Keeps the Aspidistra Flying
  • What's the Sweet Spot for Nostalgia: 20 Years? 40? Or Is It All About the Boomers?
  • New Yorker Magazine Paints Ted Nugent as Funny and Unfiltered
  • Guns Guns Guns: An Overview of Jill Lepore's BATTLEGROUND AMERICA Article
  • Guillen & Loria: The New Abbott & Costello
  • Adam Gopnik on 'Mad Men' and Nostalgia: Is He Off by 20 years?
  • Movie Review: Iron Man (2008)
  • Quotes of the Day: Jackie Robinson Edition
  • Eighty-Sixed: Remembering Jackie Robinson's No. 42
  • Hollywood B.O.: How Hunger Games Ranks with Lord of the Rings, The Dark Knight and Avatar
  • Batman's Pal is ... King Joffrey?
  • The Symbiotic Relationship between the GOP and the Mainstream Media
  • Bullshit of the Week: the Hilary Rosen Fiasco
  • Movie Review: Clash of the Titans (2010)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Fred Wenz Reaction
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Le gamin au velo (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Most Oft-Portrayed Character on Film Isn't Santa Claus But...
  • Baseball News: Miguel Cabrera On Pace for 162 HRs and 432 RBIs; Seattle Front Office Still Sucks
  • Jordy's Reviews: Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012)
  • Izzy Iskowitz, Heavyweight Champ, 1977
  • Where Have You Gone, Fred Wenz? Reflections on the 1971 baseball card you never wanted but always got
  • Quote of the Day
  • Imaginary Conversations with Justice Scalia
  • It's 3 A.M.: Do You Know Where Your Affordable Care Act Is?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Opening Day 2012
  • Titanic Conversation
  • Yes, Virginia, it's 2012 and the Yankees Still Suck
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lust and Wil Wheaton at the 2012 Emerald City Comic Convention
  • Movie Review: Wrath of the Titans (2012)
  • Screenshot: Janet Leigh at the Mirador Motel
  • A Long Time Ago, In a Comic Book Far, Far Out...
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Incredible Hulk (2008)
  • Thomas Jefferson: the Original Non-Originalist
  • Movie Review: John Carter (2012)
  • That Sound You're Hearing is the Rich Getting Richer
  • Movie Review: The Hunger Games (2012)
  • Odds Ever in 'Hunger Games's Favor: Grosses $155 Million Opening Weekend
  • Jordy's Reviews: The Hunger Games (2012)
  • The Reviewing Games
  • Hungry for 'Hunger Games'
  • Why Democratic Veeps Run for President; Why Republican Veeps Don't
  • Whew ... 'Neighborhood Watch' is F**ked!
  • Quote of the Day
  • Which Deleted SPAM Comment is the Best SPAM Comment? You Decide!
  • Quote of the Day
  • Where Have You Gone, Klinton Spilsbury?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Jordy's Reviews: The Adventures of Tin Tin (2011)
  • Movie Review: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Screenshot: Anna Karina in 'Le Petit Soldat' (1963)
  • Ben Volunteers for Obama
  • The 400 Highest Earners in the U.S. Pay Only 18.1 Percent in Taxes
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: 21 Jump Street (2012)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie-Review Quote of the Day: Ebert on Dick
  • Jordy's Reviews: Hugo (2011)
  • Movie Review: Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
  • Start... Spreading... the News...
  • Searching for Ralph Ellison's Quote
  • Movie Review: Bill Cunningham New York (2011)
  • It's 2012: Have You Seen Any Good Movies Lately?
  • Quote of the Day
  • The U.S. Right-Wing: Sharing Conspiracy Theories with the Middle East
  • Boldly Going ... Here Again
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Fantastic Four (2005)
  • It's Early March: Do You Know Where Next Year's Best Picture Winners Are?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
  • Movie Questions that Bring You Here
  • Movie Review: The Rum Diary (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • An SQL Error a Day
  • David Ishii, Seattle Bookseller (1935-2012)
  • The Unjustly Neglect of Ross Douthat
  • Movie Review: One Day (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Jason Varitek, of Varitek-and-Lowe-for-Slocumb, Retires from Major League Baseball
  • Quote of the Day
  • The 2011 Academy Awards - Postmortem
  • Woody Allen at the Oscars 2002
  • Lancelot Links: Oscar Edition
  • From 'Godfather' to 'Crash': My Rankings of Most Every Best Picture Winner Since 1927
  • This Is Not a Film They Will Submit for an Academy Award: Richard Brody and David Denby on Oscar's Backward Foreign Language Award
  • Gorgeous and Brilliant or Bombastic Propaganda? The Exchange of the Day
  • From 'Godfather' to 'Cimarron': The 84 Best Picture Winners as Ranked by the Nerds of IMDb.com
  • Quote of the Day
  • How Do Best Pictures Rate on IMDb?
  • The Leftover, Less-Romantic, Movie-Quote Candy Hearts of Valentine's Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: Second 'Ghost Rider'? Road Kill
  • “And they're STILL cheering Mike Cameron...”
  • How 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' Speaks to Our Time
  • The Best Picture Nominees by Current IMDb Ranking
  • Max Landis and 'the Death and Return of Superman'
  • The Bechdel Test, Stein, Hemingway and Woody Allen
  • Movie Review: A Separation (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Devil Whimpers
  • Viola Davis Lays the Smackdown on Tavis Smiley
  • Movie Review: Chronicle (2012)
  • Valentine's Day: The Point of the Story
  • My Top 10 Movies of 2011
  • Oscar: Doing the Wrong Thing
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Ghost Rider (2007)
  • The Return of Karl Show! (Starring Jason)
  • Black History Month Linkage
  • Scene of the Day: Design for Living (1933)
  • Trailer of the Day
  • The Five Worst Movies of 2011
  • Talkin’ Leeea-vy, Bryant and Jim Hirsch
  • Quote of the Day
  • Something Rotten Among the Best Picture Nominees
  • My Top 10 Movie Lines of 2011
  • One-Word Review of Madonna's “W/E”
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Oscar Watch: Why the Best Picture Nominations are (August) Wilsonian
  • Oscar Watch: Has “The Artist” Already Won Best Picture?
  • Movie Review: Shame (2011)
  • Who Were the Oscar Frontrunners Last Summer?
  • Movie Review: The Help (2011)
  • Oscar Reaction: Cieply and Barnes, Seemingly Disconnected
  • And the Nominees Are ... : The Box Office
  • And the Nominees Are ... : A Comparison
  • And the Nominees Are...
  • And the Winner Should Be...
  • My 2011 Oscar Nominations: Clooney, Streep Snubbed!
  • The Most Filmed Character, Cont.: IMDb's Help Desk
  • Movie Review: Young Adult (2011)
  • AARP Card Minus One
  • Quote of the Day
  • Trailers: Two Best-Foreign-Language Contenders
  • Golden Globes Better than the Oscars?
  • Movie Review: War Horse (2011)
  • Michael, We Hardly Knew Ye
  • Why Stephen Fry was Perfectly Cast as Mycroft Holmes
  • Movie Review: The Artist (2011)
  • The Return of the Disagreeables
  • Quote of the Day
  • Oscar Watch: Have the DGAs Whittled Us Down to Five Best-Picture Candidates?
  • Movie Review: Warrior (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • It's the End of the World as Lars von Trier Knows It and the National Society of Film Critics Feels Fine
  • 2011 Cinema: Looking Back to When We Looked Ahead
  • Movie Review: Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Happy New Year! Five Days Late
  • Movie Review: My Week with Marilyn (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
  • Movie Review: Melancholia (2011)
  • Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
  • Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  • Movie Review: Friends with Benefits (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Zelig (1983)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Gary Oldman, at SIFF Uptown, on Dealing with 'the Ghost of Guinness'
  • Welcome, Albert
  • Movie Review: Le Havre (2011)
  • R*I*P: Harry Morgan (1915-2011)
  • The 10 Sartorial Steps to Winter Biking
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Katyn (2007)
  • Lancelot Links
  • NEWSFLASH: Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Not Hot!
  • Movie Review: Take Shelter (2011)
  • Conservatives Disrespecting Authority
  • Movie Review: The Descendants (2011)
  • LinkedIn to the Heavyweight Champ
  • Hollywood B.O.: Crunching Numbers for HUGO
  • Movie Trailers: What's Wrong with this Picture?
  • Movie Review: G-Men (1935)
  • Movie Review: Hugo (2011)
  • Movie Review: Hulk (2003)
  • Movie Review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
  • The Biggest Hurt of All: The MLB Network’s Countdown of the Greatest Players Never to Appear in the World Series
  • Hollywood B.O.: Breaking Dawn Breaking Records
  • Clint Eastwood Doesn't Have Much Truck with Market Research
  • Movie Review: J. Edgar (2011)
  • Karl Show! (Starring Jason), with Special Guest ... Me
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Photo of the Day
  • Market Research: Product Planning Based on the Opinions of Schoolgirls
  • A Strong Female Lead?
  • Fifty Years Later, The Hamster Wheel Answers Philip Roth
  • Movie Review: Haevnen/In a Better World (2010)
  • WANTED: Algorithmic Help for Netflix
  • Lancelot Links
  • The Bravest Man of the 20th Century?
  • Movie Review: Margin Call (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Missing Tom Hanks
  • The First Guest to Arrive
  • Movie Review: Cobb (1994)
  • This Year's Best Picture Winner?
  • Quotes of the Day: World Series Edition
  • The Seventh Game
  • Who is the Most Filmed Character Ever?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Jane Eyre (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why Job Creators Is Such a Lie
  • The Best (and Worst) Baseball Movies of All Time: Ranked!
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Paranormal Activity 3”? Really?
  • Diane Baker's Neck
  • From the Archives: A Review of Muammar Qaddafi's “Escape to Hell and other stories”
  • How the Daily Beast Screws Up Its Articles
  • The First Best Actor?
  • Photos of the Day: Cat Traps
  • Quote of the Day
  • Photo of the Day
  • Movie Review: Marnie (1964)
  • Photos of the Day
  • The Best (and Worst) Baseball Movies of All Time
  • Just How Memorable are World Series Losers?
  • Why I'm Behind Occupy Wall Street 99%
  • Photo of the Day: Marion Strout Plaque at the Betty Bowen Lookout
  • Movie Reviews: The Ides of March (2011)
  • Fourth of Four: the 2011 World Series
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Real Steel” or “Reel Steal”?
  • Movie Review: Winter in Wartime (2008)
  • No No Nanette; Yes Yes Ken Burns
  • Dreams: Don't Present at the Academy Awards with your Shirt Untucked
  • Shitty But Not Illegal: Two Tales of Microsoft
  • Quotes of the Day: The Fall of the 2011 New York Yankees and the New Curse of the Bambino
  • Movie Review: Moneyball (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Dialogue of the Day
  • The Steve Jobs Speech; the Kurt Vonnegut Lesson
  • The Fall of the 2011 New York Yankees
  • Quote of the Day
  • Amazon Recommends
  • Catch of the Day
  • Movie Review: 50/50 (2011)
  • The Shot Heard 'Round the World ... Except in New York
  • When Writers of Code Write Copy
  • What Brings You Here
  • My 2011 MLB Awards: What's So Valuable About an MVP Who Isn't Best?
  • Wow
  • Moneyball: Revisited
  • Movie Review: Drive (2011)
  • Mariano Rivera, Career Saves, and another YANKEES SUCK article from The New York Times
  • A History of Baseball Movies: From hitting a homerun for Timmy to hitting a homerun with Susan Sarandon
  • Never Compromise: Hollywood and the Right-Wing
  • Why is The Seattle Times Linking to Exxon PR Blogs?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Whole Lot of Motherf**king Good Actors
  • The Saddest Dusk I've Ever Seen: R.I.P. R.E.M.
  • Movie Review: Barney's Version (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Lonely Road to Safeco Field
  • How great is it to be as stupid as Maureen Dowd?
  • Mt. Rainier from Bandera Mountain
  • Movie Review: The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
  • The Magnificence of the Ambersons Was Conspicuous to All ... Except that Audience Survey Group in Pomona
  • Movie Review: Beginners (2011)
  • If Mariano Rivera Notched His 600th Save at Safeco Field, Would Anyone Notice?
  • Entourage's “The End”: Good Riddance
  • Quote of the Day
  • Newsflash: New York Yankee Receives Less Attention than Other Ballplayer
  • My Weekend in iPhone Photos
  • Quote of the Day
  • September 11th: Ten Years with Erik Lundegaard
  • How Hollywood Is Outsourcing U.S. Movie Audiences
  • The Lost Scenes of “Citizen Kane”
  • Movie Review: Crime D'amour (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • My Long and Winding Road to a Piece of “Twin Peaks” Cherry Pie
  • It's the Day After Labor Day: Has Everyone in Seattle Forgotten How to Effin' Drive?
  • The World Trade Center in Movies Before 9/11 ... and After
  • Idiots, the Bush Administration, and 9/11
  • My Top 10 Movies of 2011 (January-August)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Dialogue of the Day: “Rois et reine”
  • Darth Vader Speaks? Noooooooo!
  • What Brings You Here
  • Movie Review: Le Concert (2009)
  • Conversation of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Guard (2011)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Dog Days of August, More than Hurricane Irene, Keep Theaters Empty
  • Celebrating the Tradition at Safeco Field
  • 26 Things I Learned While Camping on San Juan Island and at Baker Lake
  • I'm Coming!
  • Movie Review: Unknown (2011)
  • Day Hikes from Seattle: Bandera Mountain
  • Screenshot of the Day
  • No One in the Wings: The Underappreciated Career of Edgar Martinez
  • Read These Books
  • Obama, the GOP and Terrence Malick's “The Tree of Life”
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: The Tree of Life (2011)
  • Your Liberal Media at Work
  • Quote of the Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: No Love for Terrence Malick
  • How to Make a Heart: Take Two Shapes and Turn Them Into a More Complicated Shape
  • Best at Something: My No. 1 Google Rankings
  • Movie Review: The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Sarah's Key (2011)
  • Best Movie of the Summer?
  • Inspire Me Vaguely: How Hollywood thinks the movies inspire us; how they really do
  • Half of Mt. Pilchuck: Powder in August
  • Aliens 'R' Us: How 9/11, the Holocaust and the Challenger disaster are evoked in “Cowboys & Aliens”
  • Was Orson Welles Gay?
  • Look! On the Internet! It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Henry Cavill!
  • Seattle Sounders Win Best-of-Two Series, 1-1, against the Panamanians of San Francisco
  • More People Don't Bicycle Because of ... Bicyclists?
  • Movie Review: Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
  • M's Game Report: The (Two) Kids Are Alright
  • Lessons in Headline-Making
  • Movie Review: Buck (2011)
  • Quote of the Day II
  • Quote of the Day I
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day about the Debt Ceiling, 1979
  • Book Review: Crime Films by Thomas Leitch (2002)
  • At Seventeen
  • Hollywood B.O.: Captain America Throws His Mighty Shield
  • Movie Review: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
  • Granite Mt. Redux
  • Movie-Review Line of the Day
  • Movie Review: Tabloid (2011)
  • Captain America: From Hitler Puncher to Commie Smasher to Man Without a Country
  • Captain America: Disambiguation
  • A Practically Priceless Drawing of Captain America ... By Stan Lee
  • The Songs of Captain America
  • Movie Review: Horrible Bosses (2011)
  • Lyrics of the Day
  • What Bing Does Better Than Google
  • The 30-30-30-30 Club
  • Movie Review: Midnight in Paris (2011)
  • First Draft: “If You Won't Lose Everything, Your 401K Will Be Cut in Half and You'll Be Underwater in Your Mortage for a Decade.”
  • The Dark Knight is Dead; Long Live Prince Harry
  • The Real Culprit in the British Tabloid Scandal
  • “And Off to the Right? A Massive Thunderstorm Bearing Down on Us”
  • Taylor Halperin's Mid-Season Report: Annotated
  • Bye-Bye Tabloid; Hello “Tabloid”
  • Movie Review: Bad Teacher (2011)
  • Summer's Here!
  • Quote of the Day
  • A Walk Through the Old Neighborhood in South Minneapolis
  • Location! Location! Location!: Photos from the Death of a Mall
  • Back, Baby
  • Conversation with Jordy, My Nephew, Turning 10 on Thursday
  • If They Don't Win It's a Shame
  • Kim Ricketts
  • Answering Your Search-Engine Questions
  • Conversation of the Day (2006 Version)
  • Hollywood B.O.: What Will Be the Highest-Grossing Comic Book Adaptation of 2011? Not Green Lantern ...
  • Game 6: How a Home Victory Equals a Loss
  • Quote of the Day
  • World Series Game 7s Since 1903*: By Decade
  • Peter Falk (1927-2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • What's Been Posted on Roger Ebert's Facebook Page to Show Him How Insensitive He Is
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Fifth Wave: Post-9/11
  • Al Qaeda's New Leader
  • Movie Review: Super 8 (2011)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Green Lantern Lacks Green
  • Sorry, Sports Fans: LeBron James Is Telling the Truth ... a Truth I Told 16 Years Ago
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Fourth Wave: Bad Muthas, a Reaction to the Second Wave
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Third Wave: Camp, a Reaction to the First Wave
  • Movie Review: Green Lantern (2011)
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Second Wave: Gods and Lost Children
  • Quote of the Day
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies: The First Wave: Red Scare
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies: Intro
  • M's Game Report: Lesser Angels Still Win
  • Facebook Dialogue of the Day
  • Hollywood B.O.: Bridesmaids Always a Bridesmaid But Manhandling Competition
  • Movie Review: X-Men: First Class (2011)
  • Hollywood B.O.: X-Men: First Class Suffers Not for Lack of Wolverine But Presence of Wolverine
  • Photo of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Searching for Birds in Bodega, Calif.
  • California 1
  • Bumper Stickers Seen Driving From Seattle, Wa. to Bodega, Ca.
  • Movie Review: The Whistleblower (2011)
  • Lancelot Links
  • SIFFed
  • The 20 Greatest Games: Who Was I Rooting For?
  • Movie Review: X Men: The Last Stand (2006)
  • Memorial Day After Tomorrow
  • Hollywood B.O.: Americans Remember War Dead with Second Hangover
  • Yankees Suck on Occidental Avenue and in Safeco Field
  • Humphrey, at 100, is Still the Man; Nixon Still Goes in the Garbage Can
  • Movie Review: X2 (2003)
  • Second Screenshot of the Day
  • Screenshot of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Yankees Suck Quote of the Day
  • Happy Birthday, Bob
  • Movie Review: The First Grader (2010)
  • Movie Review: X-Men (2000)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Pirates' Booty Shrinking But Bridesmaids Got Back
  • It was 20 Years Ago Today...
  • The 20 Greatest Games: The Standings
  • Quote of the Day
  • Opening Night at SIFF: Corporate Speeches, Technical Difficulties, and Another Seattle-Lite Movie
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review of the Day: Richard Brody on Bridesmaids
  • The 20 Greatest Games: The Final Four
  • Lancelot Links: Harmon Killebrew Edition
  • Harmon Killebrew (1936-2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review of the Day: Anthony Lane on Thor
  • Johnny Damon for 3,000 hits and the Hall?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Thor Strong, Bridesmaids Bridesmaids (But Strong, Too)
  • Movie Review of the Day: Macdonald on Bridesmaids
  • Movie Review: Bridesmaids (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Certified Copy (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • What Brings You Here
  • Hollywood B.O.: Thor Opens Better than Hulk, Fantastic Four and Daredevil; Worse than Wolverine, Iron Man and Spider-Man
  • WSF WTF
  • Movie Review: Thor (2011)
  • Which Star Trek Series Would You Like to Guest On?
  • Forsooth, Today Verily is the Day!
  • Lancelot Links
  • From the Archives: My 1996 Interview with Jeff Bezos - Part II
  • From the Archives: My 1996 Interview with Jeff Bezos - Part I
  • Osama + Arnold
  • My History of the U-S-A Chant: With a Benediction from Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld
  • Osama's Death Certificate
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Fast Five” Zooms Out of the Gate; Will It Fade?
  • Gosh, Sweetie, That's a Big New York Times Summer Movie Section
  • Movie Review: Fast Five (2011)
  • What Wish is Being Fulfilled with a Royal Wedding?
  • The Life Submarine with Oliver Tate
  • Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Jellybean's Snack Time
  • Movie Review: Of Gods and Men (2010)
  • Married to the Beast: Andrew Sullivan and the Carrie Bradshaw of Websites
  • What Brings You Here
  • Hollywood B.O.: Easter Weekend Helps Resurrect Five Films
  • Screenshots of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • What Liberal Hollywood? Anna Faris and the Laws of Date Night
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: Source Code (2011)
  • Where Rob Neyer is Wrong on Baseball's Declining Attendance
  • Quote of the Day
  • Tim Hetherington, Co-Director of Restrepo, Dies in Libya
  • The 20 Greatest Games: 1986 NLCS, Game 6
  • Reader Rebuttal: Hanna (2011)
  • Movie Review: Hanna (2011)
  • Jellybean's Morning Adventure
  • Distilling the B.S. of CEOs
  • Hollywood B.O.: America Shrugs for Atlas
  • What Brings You Here
  • Why Every Guy Wants to be Famous
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review of the Day: Ebert on “Atlas”
  • Why You Should Never Name Your Plane “Green Hornet”
  • Anticipating Guilty Pleasures
  • From the Archives: The Movie Game
  • Sodo Mojo, 2011 Style
  • Movie Review: Win Win (2011)
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Third Greatest Yankees Hater in the World
  • Thomas Geoghegan: Future Supreme Court Nominee?
  • My Starting Nine (of the Literary World)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Lame “Hop” still outjumps “Arthur,” “Hanna,” “Your Highness” and the “Soul Surfer”
  • Quote of the Day
  • From the Archives: 1996 Book Review of Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
  • Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Dueling Movie Critics: O'Hehir vs. Edelstein on “Your Highness”
  • Comments on “Of Gods and Men”
  • My Bike Ride: Imitating Big Papi and Nomah
  • The 20 Greatest Games, Cont.: YANKEES SUCK Edition
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: “La Rafle” (2010)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Coup de foudre
  • Batters on Pitchers: Schmidt on Ryan
  • Movie Review: “Sucker Punch” (2011)
  • Pitchers on Batters: Cliff Lee on Ichiro
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Hop” Hops, “Sucker Punch” Drops
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: “Red Hollywood” (1996)
  • Lyrics of the Day
  • Opening Day 2011
  • Divvying up M's Season Tickets at the Home of a Personal Friend of Raquel Welch
  • What Brings You Here
  • Want Ad of the Day
  • Photo of the Day
  • Roger Ebert Predicts 2011 in 1987
  • Movie Review: “Morning Glory” (2010)
  • One Movie's Ceiling is Another Movie's Floor
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Now batting for the movie industry, hitting .083 ...”
  • From the Archives: Amazon.com Ushers in New Era (1996)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: “Poetry” (2010)
  • Quote of the Day
  • “This Isn't Me”
  • Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
  • Movie Review: “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story” (2010)
  • Class Act of the Day: Hank Aaron on Bonds, Simmons
  • Triple Feature in Hell
  • Quote of the Day
  • The 20 Greatest Games
  • Top 10 Superhero Scenes (Circa 2007)
  • Michael Gough (1916-2011)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Movie Review: “Le Amiche” (1955)
  • Opening and Closing: Louis Menand on Wild Bill Donovan and the Hollywood View of History
  • My Bike Ride: the 2nd and Broad Intersection
  • Jordy's Movie Reviews: “The Ghost Writer” (2010
  • Quote of the Day: Roger Ebert carves up “Battle: Los Angeles”
  • 2011 Cinema: What Might Be Good?
  • Sun, Son and Superman
  • Why a Coin Toss Isn't a Treasure Hunt, and Other Missed Opportunities in the New York Times' Tech-Law Article
  • Movie Review: “Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics” (2010)
  • The Meaning of Charlie Sheen
  • Quote of the Day
  • Email of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • What I Said About the Oscar Winners Before They Became Oscar Winners
  • Live-Blogging the Oscars
  • Plus Ca Change...
  • Movie Review: “Oswald's Ghost” (2007)
  • Movie Review: “The Housemaid” (2010)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Oscar B.O.: It's the Distribution, Stupid
  • Hollywood Values: Patriotism
  • Charters and Caldicott and the “Night Train to Munich” (1940)
  • How to Get Ahead: Billy Martin
  • Movie Review: “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest” (2010)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Erik Lundegaard and the Power of Kissing: A Valentine's Day/ABC-News Exclusive
  • Hollywood's Most Memorable Kisses:
    From Desperate to “Wow”
  • How to Get Ahead: Be Ravenous, Mad, and Want
  • Movie Review: “Biutiful” (2010)
  • Hitchcock at the Nickelodeon
  • Critical Quote of the Day
  • What Brings You Here
  • Lancelot Links
  • The Tardiest and Positively Last List of TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2010
  • Are Best Picture Nominees Making a Box-Office Comeback?
  • Squabbling Founders
  • My Top 10 Movies in a Word Cloud
  • Lancelot Links
  • Frontier Airlines: New Babysitters Club
  • Née: “An Empire of Their Own”
  • Movie Review: “The Town” (2010)
  • Jordy's Reviews: “Tangled” (2010)
  • Half-True Grit
  • Movie Review: Vincere (2009)
  • Oscar Talk: “Most Noms” = “Best Picture”?
  • Oscar Snubs Everyone!
  • The Oscar Noms! With a Surprise Ending!
  • Can Boxoffice.com Predict Our Moviegoing Ways?
  • Jordy's Review: “Despicable Me” (2010)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Three-Day Weekend
  • NP + AK = WTF
  • Movie Review: “The Green Hornet” (2011)
  • Review: “True Grit” (2010)
  • An Empire of His Own: How Neal Gabler Invented a Powerful Critical Elite
  • “Nhung Nu Hon Ruc Ro" at Rap Thang 8
  • Alice in Hanoi
  • Lancelot Links
  • “Make It Go”
  • Tucson
  • Photo of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Jordy's Reviews: “Stand By Me” (1986)
  • Hall of Fame Quote of the Day
  • Movie Review: “The King's Speech” (2010)
  • Scene at a Barnes & Noble II
  • Lancelot Links
  • Me and Manohla Sittin' In a Tree...
  • Review: “The Birds” (1963)
  • The Last Blog Post of 2010
  • Review: “Rabbit Hole” (2010)
  • Christmas Leftovers
  • Quote of the Day (Disney Version)
  • Scene at a Barnes & Noble
  • Beam Me Up, Scottie
  • Review: “Black Swan” (2010)
  • The Non-Partisan President
  • Review: “The Fighter” (2010)
  • “Star Position”
  • Ten Top 10 Movies of 2010
  • Review: “Please Give” (2010)
  • Kepner Quotes of the Day
  • How to Get Ahead in America: Carl Laemmle, the Founder of Universal Pictures
  • Jordy's Review: “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010)
  • Review: “Psycho” (1960)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Aslan is Dead
  • Marxmen
  • Quote of the Day
  • You Don't Get to Best Film Without Making a Few Enemies
  • Hollywood B.O.: Who Has the Best Legs?
  • Review: “Fair Game” (2010)
  • The PGA Got It Wrong
  • How to Get Ahead in America: Dick Cavett
  • Jordy's Reviews: “Megamind” (2010)
  • R.I.P.: Uptown Theater (1926-2010)
  • Jordy's Reviews: “How to Train Your Dragon” (2010)
  • Packer on W.
  • Review: “L'arnacoeur” (“Heartbreaker”) (2010)
  • Review: “Vertigo” (1958)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “Inside Job” (2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Potter Flies, Skyline Drops
  • Jordy's Review: “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1”
  • FOX News: Accusing Others of Its Own Crimes
  • The Joy of Mere Words
  • Review: “Notorious” (1946)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Denzel, Trains and Tony Scott: Who Are the Megaminds Who Came Up With That One?
  • Incident on 1st Avenue
  • Lancelot Links (My Oh My Edition)
  • Dave Niehaus (1935-2010)
  • The 10 Best Movies of the First 10 Months of 2010
  • Hertzberg on the Midterms
  • Review: “The 39 Steps” (1935)
  • Jeter = To Throw Away
  • Lancelot Links
  • The Frasco-Frisco Treat*
  • Why The Tea Party Hates George Washington
  • Bush Offers Mea Culpa
  • Review: “A Film Unfinished” (2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Paranormal Jackass Saw Red
  • Review: “Tangshan dadizhen” (2010)
  • Jon Stewart's Funny, But...
  • Theresa Harris
  • Why Can't I Quit Michael Cieply?
  • Cool Hand Me
  • Review: “Hereafter” (2010)
  • The Fall of the 2010 New York Yankees
  • When $55 Million > $207 Million
  • 39 More Reasons Why the Yankees Suck
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: John Rabe (2009)
  • Hollywood B.O.: America Loves “Jackass”
  • Review: “Red” (2010)
  • Coming From Ahead: A Yankees Suck Report
  • Help Me Update 61* Reasons the Yankees Suck
  • 5 Things The Atlantic Gets Wrong in Their Post
    “5 Ways to Revive the 'Superman' Franchise”
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: "Cardboard Gods" by Josh Wilker
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Few, the Proud
  • Clutch Schmutch
  • Review: “Secretariat” (2010)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Goliath Beats David
  • Boys of Winter
  • Moses Speaks; Goldstein Scribbles
  • Bottom of the 10th
  • Hollywood B.O.: Waiting for Zuckerberg
  • My Regular Season
  • Review: “The Social Network” (2010)
  • R.I.P. Tony Curtis (1925-2010)
  • Top of the 10th
  • Fun with Pandigital Photo Frames
  • Travels: Rehoboth Beach: Lessons in Capitalism
  • Travels: Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Going Back from Whence We Came
  • Travels: Mourning in Rehoboth
  • Travels: Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Tea Shirts
  • Travels: Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Old Pro Golf
  • Travels: Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Intro
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “Hot Tub Time Machine” (2010)
  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the “Just a Bunch of Guys” Theory of Al Qaeda
  • Review: “Winter's Bone” (2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: On Sept. 11th Weekend, Americans Abandon “American,” Choose “Evil”
  • Lancelot Links
  • Three Winston Churchill Quotes to Use Against Conservatives Who Quote Winston Churchill
  • Review: “The American” (2010)
  • MSNBC-Movies: Running on Empty
  • Review: “Harry Brown” (2009)
  • Why Can't the Times Write about Box Office?
  • Hollywood BO: The Labors of Labor Day
  • Review: “Mesrine: L'ennemi public n°1” (2008)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Summer Box Office: Are We Predictable?
  • Democracy is Dead. Discuss.
  • Review: “Un Prophete” (2009)
  • At the Birth of "Machete"
  • Review: “Mesrine: L’instinct de mort” (2008)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Summer Ends with a Whimper
  • Lancelot Links
  • John Paul Stevens Quote: Rasul, Hamdan, and Bouemediene
  • John Paul Stevens Quote: Where Have All the Flag Burners Gone?
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History: Where Are They Now?
  • John Paul Stevens Quote: Ruth's Called Shot
  • Review: “The Other Guys” (2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: How Can 6.2 Million Movie Fans Be Wrong? This Way
  • Lancelot Links
  • Nothing v. All
  • John Paul Stevens Quote: Citizens United
  • Jordy's Reviews! New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)
  • Correction: R.I.P. CounterBalance on Roy
  • Review: “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010)
  • Movie Review: Breaking Away (1979)
  • Review: “The Kids Are All Right” (2010)
  • How I'm Like Dick Cheney
  • Hollywood B.O.: Worst Movie Year Ever?
  • Say-Hey Quote of the Day
  • The New Asshole
  • Quote of the Day
  • Review: “The Girl Who Played with Fire” (2010)
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History (1999)
  • Lancelot Links
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History (1998)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Inception Fans Ne Regrette Rien
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History (1997)
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History (1996)
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History (1995)
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History (1994)
  • The Rise and Fall of the 1990s Seattle Mariners:
    A Ticket-Stub History (1993)
  • What Did You Dream About The Night After You Saw “Inception”?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Parasites and Predators
  • Review: “Inception” (2010)
  • Review: “Micmacs” (2010)
  • George Steinbrenner III (1930-2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Kids' Movies and Grown Ups
  • Review: “Exit Through the Gift Shop” (2010)
  • The Catch - Quote 3
  • The Catch - Quote 2
  • The Catch - Quote 1
  • Scene of the Day: "Quai des Orfèvres" (1947)
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Short, Sad Life of Jonah Hex
  • Lancelot Links Celebrates the 4th (A Day Late and $10 Trillion Short)
  • Review: “The Karate Kid” (2010)
  • Q&A with Gerry Spence
  • "Waiting for Lee, Maybe Until the Winter"—Special YANKEES SUCK Report
  • Memories of Junior
  • Hollywood B.O.: How's “Prince of Persia” Doing in Egypt?
  • How Market Research Almost Destroyed the Most Popular Shows in TV History
  • Why Jeff Wells is Wrong about “Restrepo”
  • Review: "Get Him to the Greek" (2010)
  • SIFFles
  • Jordy's Review: "Toy Story 3" (2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Toys Find Homes; "Hex" Hexed
  • Poll Story 3
  • Review: “Toy Story 3” (2010)
  • Review: “Nanjing! Nanjing!” or “The City of Life and Death” (2010)
  • Lancelot Links (Gets Covered in Oil)
  • R.I.P. CounterBalance
  • Hollywood B.O.: The B-Team
  • Open Letter to Patrick Goldstein
  • Review: “Au Revoir Taipei” (2010)
  • My Jackie Chan (成龍) Retrospective
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “The Tillman Story” (2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Shrek” Holds off “Marmaduke” with One Hand
  • Review: “L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot” (2009)
  • SIFF Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “Zona Sur” (“Southern District”) (2010)
  • Review: “Restrepo” (2010)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Ladies Second
  • "An Accidental Candid Snapshot of the Sick, Dying Heart of America"
  • Talkin' (and Talkin' and Talkin') Baseball with a First-Timer from Lebanon
  • “The Yankee Years” by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci: Special YANKEES SUCK Edition
  • Review: “El Secreto de sus Ojos” (2009)
  • "Shrek" Sinks Because "Shrek" Stinks
  • Target: Fun
  • Waiting for a Superman (Movie)
  • Dowd on Dowdy
  • All-Star Game: Vote Early and Often
  • Review: “Iron Man 2” (2010)
  • Armond White's Review of “Robin Hood” —with Footnotes
  • Lancelot Links
  • Robin Hood — Libertarian?
  • Review: “Robin Hood” (2010)
  • From the Old Man
  • Everything You Need to Know About Robin Hood... *
  • Review: “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991)
  • Robin Hoods: How Holy are the Crusades?
  • Robin Hoods: How Tough Is Maid Marian?
  • Robin Hoods: How Grandiose are the Opening Title Cards?
  • Our Vietnam Trip—Part IV: The Most Respectful Visitor to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
  • Morons, Crooks, and the People Who Saw It Coming: Assessing Credit on the Subprime Mortgage Disaster
  • The 10th Reason to Hate 3-D
  • Review: Robin Hood (1991-BBC)
  • Lancelot Links
  • “He's Moving Like a Tremendous Machine!”
  • Microsoft: “Why Can't We Just Hire a High School Kid and Pay Him Peanuts?”
  • What's Good in "The Pacific"
  • Doubles
  • Why You're Somewhere Between Dissatisfied and Disgusted
  • A.O. Scott, Movie Violence and the Art of Collapsing Distinctions
  • Lancelot Links (Has Some Fun)
  • Review: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2009)
  • Happy St. Jordi's Day!
  • Another Happy Ending
  • Stadler and Waldorf Almost See a No-Hitter
  • Our Vietnam Trip—Part III: Ha Long Bay
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “Kick Ass” (2010)
  • MLB Predictions: Rigged National Pastime Edition
  • What "Yankees" Really Means
  • Met Stadium Memories
  • Lancelot Links
  • Off By That Much
  • Our Vietnam Trip — Part II: Visiting Vestiges
  • Live and Don't Learn
  • Saigon Signing Off
  • Our Vietnam Trip — Part I: Hanoied
  • The Wisdom of Buck O'Neil
  • Opening Day: Yankees vs. Viet Cong
  • Someone is Missing
  • Legacy of Something
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “Green Zone” (2010)
  • And Thus was the Taliban Created
  • Quote of the Day
  • Box Office Stat of the Day: Average Weekly Movie Attendance for the Last 100 Years
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Three things about The New York Times post-Oscars article
  • Dead-blogging the Oscars
  • Oscars: Which are the Real Best Picture Nominees?
  • The Ghost Release
  • The Most Crucial Difference Between "Avatar" and "Hurt Locker"
  • Review: “The Ghost Writer” (2010)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Review: “Robin and Marian” (1976)
  • Review: “The White Ribbon” (2009)
  • Lancelot Links
  • "The Ghost Writer": Summit Entertainment's Latest Delicate Flower
  • Gopnik on Salinger
  • Quote of the Day
  • Review: “Robin Hood” (1938)
  • From PC to Protests: How the Right became everything it despised in the Left
  • J.D. Quote of the Day
  • Review: “The Last Station” (2009)
  • Scott on Streep
  • Lancelot Links
  • Site Updates
  • Why Harry Can't Read Rights
  • What Liberal Hollywood?
  • Lancelot Links
  • Happy Valentine's Day
  • Movie Review: Robin Hood (1922)
  • Miss Me Yet? - II
  • Review: “Crazy Heart” (2009)
  • Miss Me Yet?
  • Review: “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (2009)
  • Writin' is Whitenin': Ishmael Reed's Racial Assumptions about "Precious"
  • Quote of the Other Day — Republican Incoherence and You
  • Top 10 Kid’s Movies from 2009! By Jordan
  • Lancelot Links (RIP JD edition)
  • Their Oscar Noms
  • My Oscar Noms
  • Three Stories with J.D. Salinger — Epilogue
  • Three Stories with J.D. Salinger — Part III
  • Three Stories with J.D. Salinger - Part II
  • Three Stories with J.D. Salinger - Part I
  • The New King of the World
  • Who's Controlling the News? Not Auletta
  • Review: “Precious” (2009)
  • Cesars 2010
  • “Avatar” Passes “Dark Knight”
  • Mickey on the DH
  • Lancelot Links
  • Birthday Lyrics of the Day (47)
  • Welcome to the Loser's Club
  • Globe Highlights: Michael on McCartney, Marty on Movies
  • Your MLK-Day Rental
  • Review: “Broken Embraces” (2009)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Many Nations, Under Netflix
  • Review: “The Spy Next Door” (2010)
  • Clay Shirky Quote of the Day
  • Cute Little Rebooties
  • The Disagreeables
  • Spider-Man 4 No More!
  • Review: “New Moon” (2009)
  • The Sky People Are Speaking
  • Steve Tesich Quote of the Day
  • No. 2 With a Bullet (or an Arrow)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Good-Bye, Mr. Snappy
  • Review: “A Single Man” (2009)
  • Lancelot Links (Still Loves David Simon)
  • King of the World!
  • The Double Features of 2009
  • Review: “Nine” (2009)
  • Bushed
  • My Top 10 Movies of 2009
  • Review: “The Blind Side” (2009)
  • Lancelot Links (Votes for Edgar, Worries over the Future of Journalism)
  • Avatarnation!
  • Vic Chesnutt: 1964-2009
  • Review: “Me and Orson Welles” (2009)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Review: “Avatar” (2009)
  • Words I Never Use and Why - I
  • Lancelot Links (Is Pissed at QT)
  • Lancelot Links (Wants to Deck Someone)
  • Review: “Where the Wild Things Are” (2009)
  • Here Come the Critics
  • Review: “Invictus” (2009)
  • Quote of the Day: "City of God"
  • Lancelot Links
  • The Best Movies of the Decade
  • The Problem with The Shadow
  • Review: “Up in the Air” (2009)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Respect My Authoritai!
  • Thus Spaketh Clint
  • Review: “Red Cliff” (2009)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “Twilight” (2008)
  • The 2000s: Decade of the Sequel
  • Happy Birthday, Charles M. Schulz
  • Lancelot Links
  • The Rigged (National) Game
  • The Lessons of a New Moon
  • Quote of the Day
  • DVD Reviews: 1 Win, 1 Loss, 1 Tie
  • The Biggest Movie of the 2000s Ranks Just Behind the Third-Biggest Movie of 1965
  • Three Lines About Movies
  • Lancelot Links
  • Quote of the Day
  • Review: “2012” (2009)
  • Not Stars, Selves
  • Review: “The Horse Boy” (2009)
  • Lancelot Links
  • Armistice Day
  • Review: “An Education” (2009)
  • Epitaph for a Tough Guy—I
  • Lancelot Links—World Series edition
  • Review: “The Damned United” (2009)
  • Michelle Malkin's Journey from A to A
  • Welcome to My Least-Favorite Month
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “This Is It” (2009)
  • Which Host with What Most?
  • The Series Freezes, Neyer Nitpicks
  • Lancelot Links
  • Review: “Coco Before Chanel” (2009)
  • Scioscia on October Days Off: "Ridiculous"
  • Why Blogging Isn't Writing—I
  • Review: “More Than a Game” (2008)
  • Live-Blogging Game 5 of the ALCS
  • The More Republicans Change: Anger, Paranoia, and Visions of Apocalypse at the 1976 Republican Convention
  • Lancelot Links
  • "The Exorcist" and the Devilish Dilemma
  • Review: “Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” (2009)
  • Who's the Epitome of 1950s American Cool? Jean Gabin in 1939
  • Why We Watch "Mad Men"
  • Countdown to the World Series-III
  • Lancelot Links—Idi i Smotri
  • How to Fix the World Series—In a Good Way
  • Line of the Day—Andrew O'Hehir
  • What the World Series Needs
  • Review: “A Serious Man” (2009)
  • Baseball Scenes in Non-Baseball Movies
  • Breaking Away Lesson of the Day
  • Countown to the World Series—II
  • Lancelot Links
  • Countdown to the World Series
  • Review of “Bright Star” (2009)
  • The Invention of Bad Posters
  • My Top 5 Metrodome Moments
  • Review: “The Invention of Lying” (2009)
  • Straight Line to the Hall of Fame
  • Anatomy of a Scene: Leo and Freddie have coffee in Force of Evil (1948)
  • Lancelot Links, with Mike Blowers
  • Ooo, Kids, Scary Stuff!
  • Before the Show at Regal Meridian No. 10
  • The World's Worst Hiker: Rachel Lake
  • Review: “'Surrogates” (2009)
  • Quote of the Day
  • On James Stewart's "Eight Days"
  • Lancelot Links
  • Peter Gammons Isn't Serious
  • Your Summer Movie Quiz — Answers
  • Your Summer Movie Quiz
  • Review: “The Informant!” (2009)
  • Breaking Away Lesson of the Day
  • Summer '09
  • Quote of the Day
  • Sacrificial Mariners
  • Breaking Away Lesson of the Day
  • The World's Worst Hiker: Granite Mountain
  • Saving Capitalism
  • Scheming Women
  • Flash: Rush Limbaugh Has No Genitalia!
  • 3 Pieces on 9/11
  • Jeter's First HIt
  • Leavy's Koufax
  • My President
  • Jeter Sucks! (On the Yankees Anyway)
  • How Texas Executed an Innocent Man
  • Review: “The Cove” (2009)
  • Fun with Definite Articles
  • Facebook Meme
  • “Breaking Away” Lesson of the Day
  • Town Hall
  • Review: “Tyson” (2009)
  • Review: “District 9” (2009)
  • "Goddamn Fox would give Wolverine webshooters and a bat cape!"
  • “Breaking Away” Lesson of the Day
  • Worst Wedding Day Ever
  • Review: “Inglourious Basterds” (2009)
  • Packed House for Basterds
  • The Reverse Debate Idea
  • Gun Nuts and the People Who Support Them
  • “Breaking Away” Lesson of the Day
  • Falling Stars
  • Review: “In the Loop” (2009)
  • Link of the Day
  • Dying for Tomatoes
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Wobbly Legs of "G.I. Joe"
  • Old Critics vs. Young Critics
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lancelot Links
  • The Courage of His Cliches
  • The Most Banned Movies Ever! ... Maybe
  • Review: “Julie & Julia” (2009)
  • A.O. Scott Testifies!
  • How the French Feel Watching Americans Blow Up the Eiffel Tower
  • “Star Trek: Confusion”
  • Don't You Forget About Me
  • Review: “Funny People” (2009)
  • The Rise of Something Anyway
  • "I Know, Captain, a Thousand Questions..."
  • Krugman: "Government involvement is the only reason our [health care] system works at all"
  • Bobbleheads
  • Le Monde lede of "Adieu, Gary"
  • Before the Show at Pacific Place No. 2
  • King Kong 1, 2 and 3?
  • Review: “(500) Days of Summer” (2009)
  • Wearing Wool Caps in 100 Degree Weather
  • Overreacting with Color Coding: 1975
  • Quote of the Day — Gates Case
  • Anatomy of a Catch: DeWayne Wise
  • The Moon Landing from Africa, and Other Stories (Translated from the French)
  • Why Watching Isn't Enjoying
  • What I Would've Said If I'd Been with the Cambridge Police Dept. and Seen Henry Louis Gates Breaking Into His Own Home
  • Global Financial Meltdown 101
  • Die, Die, Die!
  • Tax the Rich Already
  • Before the Show at the Uptown
  • Review: “The Hurt Locker” (2009)
  • 50 Million Necrophiliacs Can't Be Wrong
  • Prescient Quote of the Day
  • What's Wrong with Entertainment Weekly (Part II)
  • What's Wrong with Entertainment Weekly (Part I)
  • Quick Movie Quiz
  • “The Unseen”
  • Goldstein's Posse Loses Its Mojo
  • Things I Learned on Vacation in Minnesota
  • Now That's Good Writing: David Denby
  • Rich, Noonan, Palin
  • Where Goebbels and Hollywood Agree
  • Revenge on "Revenge of the Fallen"
  • Review: “Public Enemies” (2009)
  • Minnesota Corrects a Low-Rent Mistake
  • Mann, Cruise and the Devil in the Details
  • Review: “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (2009)
  • Sunday Movie Night: “Jaws” (1975)
  • Jackass of the Day: Rob Moore
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why We're Getting 10 Best Picture Nominees
  • And the nominees are...doubled
  • The $67 Million Advantage
  • Dumb like a Fox
  • Tossed
  • The One Lesson of Summer Box Office
  • Review of “Food, Inc.” (2009)
  • Review: “Touchez pas au grisbi” (1954)
  • Breaking the Laws of Probability
  • Imagine Better
  • Now That's Good Writin': Kehr on Lemmon
  • Review: “L'emmerdeur” (2008)
  • Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
  • On Nick Paumgarten's "The Death of Kings"
  • Review: "Wind Blows in the Meadow" (2009)
  • A Monday Hangover
  • "Free, White and 21"
  • Now That's Good Writing: Denby on “Up”
  • Review: “The Hangover” (2009)
  • Federer, tout simplement magnifique
  • Theme from a Summer Place
  • 300
  • Herman Roth Gets Mugged
  • The Right-Wing Pisses on You—Literally
  • Words I Learned While Reading Christopher Buckley’s “Losing Mum and Pup”
  • What's Brooks Barnes Got Against Pixar?
  • Before the Show at the Neptune
  • Review: “Up” (2009)
  • Jim Walsh: For the Graduates
  • Humans from Earth
  • “On m’appelle Monsieur Tibbs!”
  • ...And he's only 54
  • Before the Show at SIFF
  • The Do-Little Academy
  • Review: “L’Heure d’ete” (2008)
  • Auteur, Auteur
  • The Hot Hand: Jean Gabin
  • Lyrics of the Day
  • -42.8%
  • "The Graduate": Not Starring Robert Redford
  • Why DVD Sales are Down 18%
  • Where Have You Gone, Vladimir Visotsky?
  • SWJM, 27, Looking for Work
  • Unfortunate Graph of the Day
  • Before the Show: May 15, 2009
  • Review: “Angels & Demons” (2009)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Your 2008 Box Office Quiz—The Answers: Or how "Mamma Mia!" Beat "Dark Knight"
  • Alec, Charlie & Me
  • Your 2008 Box Office Quiz
  • -69%
  • Postcard of the Day
  • Chronology 101
  • Before the Show: May 8, 2009
  • “Star Trek”/“Star Wars” Parallels
  • Review: “Star Trek” (2009)
  • My "Star Trek" Novel: Fuck-Ups of the Federation
  • Quote of the Day
  • My "Star Trek" Novel: S179276SP
  • What's Rotten on RottenTomatoes?
  • My "Star Trek" Novel — Mj'cra souft
  • The Reason They're Called Previews
  • My "Star Trek" Novel — Holodeck Baseball
  • Freudian Quote of the Day
  • My "Star Trek" Novel - A Routine Science Expedition
  • My "Star Trek" Novel - Intro
  • Logan's Run: $85 Million
  • Sunday Times
  • Before the Show: 5-1-09
  • Review: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (2009)
  • And Now...The Wolverine!
  • Quote of the Day (Freudian Version)
  • Worst Netflix Summary Ever
  • Before the Show: 4-24-09
  • Review: “The Soloist” (2009)
  • Before the Show: 4-19-09
  • Review: “Anvil: The Story of Anvil” (2008)
  • The Short, Unhappy Life of Fox Atomic
  • Goldstein Disappoints on Susan Boyle
  • Quote of the Day
  • Before the Show: 4-17-09
  • Review: “State of Play” (2009)
  • 0-1
  • The Journalistic Mission of Bill O'Reilly
  • Review: “Seraphine” (2008)
  • Tuesday Pick-Me-Up: Susan Boyle
  • Quote of the Day — for the Decade
  • Review: “Observe and Report” (2009)
  • My Proust Questionnaire
  • Your Friday Pick-Me-Up...
  • Parity!
  • Arkoff Asylum
  • Presidential Quote of the Day
  • Betting Against Pixar
  • Opening Day
  • Book Quote of the Day
  • Pirating Wolverine
  • Slumdog Watch - II
  • Pardon My French
  • Book Quote of the Day
  • Review: “Duplicity” (2009)
  • “Mr. Wright's Masterly, Affectionate Vision...”
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines - Exit
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 1)
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 2)
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 3)
  • Point: Obama
  • Meet the New Oscar-wining Three Stooges
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 4)
  • Dialogue of the Day: "Cesar" (1936)
  • My Most Quoted Movie Lines (No. 5)
  • Weekly, Not Weakly
  • Quote of the Day
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines - Intro
  • Slumdog Watch - I
  • Review: “Cadillac Records”
  • Quote of the Day
  • You Say You Want a Revolution
  • Craig Wright on Malick's “The New World”
  • Slumdog Legs
  • The-More-Things-Change Quote of the Day
  • So You Think You're Anal
  • Review: “Watchmen”
  • Why a Film's Budget is Irrelevant
  • Read It Read It Read It
  • Quote of the Day
  • Joe Henry Quote of the Day
  • Who Watches the Watchers of "Watchmen"?
  • La Ville Du Vice
  • How W. is Dumber than a Fascist
  • Movie Attendance Up Thanks to...WTF?
  • Redford/Pfeiffer, Connery/Zeta-Jones, Etc.
  • Lancelot Links
  • Cagney Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Live-Blogging the Oscars
  • The Backwards Threats of Hollywood Execs
  • Two Hoots for Junior
  • Lyrics of the Day
  • Much Ado About Oscar — Days 2 & 3
  • Toles and Jelly
  • The Devil Is My Kinda Woman
  • God, I Love This Guy
  • Nat & Tim & Kris & Karina & Ed & Erik
  • Silver on Oscar Gold
  • The EW Fall Preview Issue: A Look Back
  • Two-Minute Review: The International (2009)
  • Oscar Acceptance Speech of the Day
  • And the Award for Least-Seen Best Picture Nominee Goes To...
  • Penn Pal
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • We Are Not a Serious Nation
  • Quote of the Day
  • One-sentence Review: Rachel Getting Married (2008)
  • The Lundys: Best Reviews of Best Pics
  • Francois Truffaut Quote of the Day - II
  • Francois Truffaut Quote of the Day - I
  • Pedigree of a Slumdog: PGA, SAG, DGA...
  • Edward Hopper's Quiet
  • Mood Fight
  • Ponzi and the Happy Days (Are Here Again) Gang
  • Who Sees the Oscar Nominees Anyway?
  • John Updike Quote of the Day
  • Robert Downey Jr. Quote of the Day
  • Barack Obama Quote of the Day
  • Milk Left Out
  • Two-Minute Review: The Wrestler (2008)
  • The Quiz...and How Nathaniel R. Nudged Me Off the Fence
  • Fiddling
  • "Slumdog"? Final Answer
  • Batman and Oscar: A History
  • Hail Cesars
  • B.O. for Best Pics
  • Note to the Academy: Why So Serious?
  • “There's Work to be Done”
  • Sam Cooke Quote of the Day
  • 1-20-09
  • Quote of the Day
  • My Year of Watching French Cinema
  • An Ad For Something No One Needs
  • The Man Who Sold "Crash" to the World
  • Quote of the Effin' Year
  • Now Playing: 678 Miles Away
  • And Then There Were Nine...
  • Hall of Fame Links
  • A Universal Lack of Focus
  • "Slumdog" Has Its Day
  • Less Than Grand “Torino”
  • Death-of-Journalism Quote of the Day
  • DGAs, PGAs, AAs, Blah Blahs,
  • My Year in a Meme
  • PGAs: Four of Five
  • Movie Review: Marley & Me (2008)
  • The Tyranny of the Short Term
  • NSFC Picks "Bashir"; Carr Says STFU
  • Interview with a Star
  • Johnny Depp Quote of the Day
  • The Baseball Essays of Stephen Jay Gould
  • Dark Knight: Adventures in Alphabetizing
  • A Thought for the New Year
  • Good-Bye To All That
  • From the Vault: Freelance Writing 101
  • All Customer-Service Roads Lead to India
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Escape from Sea-Tac
  • Seriously, Did That Guy Get Anything Right?
  • Cambio
  • Delgo Boom
  • Give the People What They Want
  • Quote of the Day
  • Updating Scrooge
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Obama Non-Stories
  • Eastwood and CIA: Offline
  • Marc!
  • Milkless Globes
  • Oscar Watch: NY Critics Pick "Milk"
  • Oscar Watch: L.A. Critics Pick "WALL-E"
  • HuffPosters
  • NY Times Links for the Day
  • Coughlin Jumps Orwell
  • One-Sentence Review: “Slumdog Millionaire”
  • Gomorra in Europe
  • “The Most Vicious Smear Campaign Ever Mounted Against an American Politician”
  • Authors: Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, Barbara Bush's Dog
  • Oscar Watch: FOJ-Dub
  • Oscar Watch: NBR Picks "Slumdog"
  • Didion, Clad in her Armor
  • What Recent Blockbuster Should've Been Nominated Best Picture?
  • Cieply: Academy Increasingly Foreign, Indie
  • The Reductive Headlines of the Seattle P-I
  • NY Times: A Graf Too Far
  • Torture to Watch
  • Oscar Watch — The Carpetbagger
  • Oscar Watch — Entertainment Weekly
  • Two-Minute Review: E.L. Doctorow's “Creationists”
  • Scientific Quote of the Day
  • ...And I Feel Fine
  • Happy Thanksgiving!
  • Two-Minute Review: Quantum of Solace (2008)
  • Debating our National Story
  • Is "There Will Be Blood" an Epic?
  • Ann Patchett on Philippe Petit
  • The Unsexiest Cover
  • On Meeting Stan Lee in 1975 — or — Another Practically Priceless Blog Entry in the Mighty Marvel Manner
  • Whatever Happened to the American Epic?
  • 15 Films Up for Best Documentary
  • DFMF Quote of the Day
  • All Hail King Albert!
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • David Grann on Why McCain Lost
  • Baffling Republican Quote of the Day
  • 007 for 2008
  • Dan Savage Opens a Can of Whup-Ass
  • TDS: RIP? — Addendum
  • When Bush Met Obama — 2004
  • Hertzberg on McCain: 9/13/04
  • Hertzberg on Obama: 9/13/04
  • Reader Quote of the Day
  • DFMF Quote of the Day
  • The Best Argument for Gay Marriage
  • Obama in '03: Mistaken for Waiter, Deemed Unworthy of Magazine Profile
  • TDS: RIP?
  • Levittown Speaks
  • Maureen Dowd Sucks (Again)
  • Karim Sadjadpour Quote of the Day
  • Frank Rich Quote of the Day
  • Obama Quote of the Day - for Patricia
  • Sullivan Hammers Krauthammer
  • Le Plaisir
  • "These are not the Snicker bars you're looking for."
  • Anonymous Quote of the Day
  • Patricia Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day at Arnellia's
  • We Never Imagined That In Our Lifetime...
  • Repeat Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • My Election Day
  • GOTV in America
  • GOTV in Pennsylvania
  • My First Blog Post
  • All Hail Hendrik Hertzberg!
  • Inanity, Insanity
  • “Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan
  • Unafraid to Listen
  • Obama Quote of the Day - II
  • Obama Quote of the Day - I
  • Dark Knight + Oscar
  • Country Last
  • An Open Letter to Bud Selig
  • “Entourage” Prediction
  • The Six Narratives of John McCain
  • Jamie Moyer: Class Act
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day - III
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day - II
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day - I
  • McCain Endorses Obama?
  • Oh. My. God.
  • Curbing Enthusiasm
  • British Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Jim Walsh and the Wellstone World Music Weekend
  • TV Quote of the Day
  • Tampa Bay Rays: Champions of the American League
  • The Final Debate — Who Disappointed
  • U.S. Presidents on Film
  • Two Minute Review: W. (2008)
  • Two Minute Review: Burn After Reading (2008)
  • Canvassing for Obama in Youngstown, OH
  • Norman Mailer and the 1964 Republican Convention
  • Letters from Norman
  • Reporting the Forecast: Sports Illustrated's Baseball Preview Predictions
  • How to Predict: Follow the Numbers
  • Musical Quote of the Day
  • Two Minute Review: Religulous (2008)
  • More Wrigley Blues
  • Paul Newman: 1925-2008
  • The VEEP Debate: America's Cocktail Waitress
  • The Real Joe Sixpack
  • Literary Quote of the Day
  • The Debate
  • NY Times Offers Lack of Leadership
  • Bush and the Hail Mary Candidate
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Mark Antony in Oxford Town
  • Gourevitch on Palin
  • Palin's Access: Beyond Disgraceful
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • The Big Red Dog is Wanted Dead or Alive
  • Why 'DC: 9/11' is the New 'Reefer Madness'
  • "You want to see a REAL liberal media, Otis?"
  • EWww
  • Tom Toles is Genius
  • Things to Read Before the Next Great Depression
  • We've Been Down
  • My Name is Erik Lundegaard and I Approve of This Message
  • Literary Quote of the Day
  • Who is Barack Obama? Atticus Finch
  • OK, Everyone Read Andrew Sullivan
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Palin: Worse than We Thought
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Fallows on the Toxic Traits of Palin/Bush
  • Lies, Damn Lies and John McCain
  • Like the Best Show Ever
  • My Friend Craig
  • More Toles
  • John McCain and Steve Schmidt are going to burn in hell for all eternity
  • Begala and Willis to Media: Just State the Facts, Jack
  • Obama to Palin: “Don't Mock the Constitution”
  • Boys are Back in Town
  • McCain: Reckless, Nutty, Irresponsible
  • The Easily Intimidated Sarah Palin
  • McCain: Rash and Not Bright. Sound Familiar?
  • "I Believe in Al Pacino"
  • How Palin was for Obama before she was against him
  • Drill Now! Drill Now! Drill Now!
  • The Shakers (Hopefully Not the Movers)
  • Sen. McBush/Gov. Earmark
  • The Community Organizer
  • Barack's Response
  • Things to read and watch while the culture wars start up again
  • Talkin' RNC Blues
  • Who's Whining Now?
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • The Smart Candidate
  • "F**k it. We're going in."
  • 38.4 Million Obama Fans Can't Be Wrong
  • If It's "Thrusday," McCain Must Be Speaking
  • "We're Amazingly Incompetent or We Lied"
  • The Power of Our Example
  • One-sentence Review of 'The Edge of Heaven'
  • “The Lundegaards”
  • Is Ron Suskind a Coen Brothers Fan?
  • Fassbinder Tried
  • Why you can't take toothpaste on an airplane
  • "Bush II" by William Shakespeare
  • Dillinger lives
  • Cyclist "doored," ticketed
  • Entertainment Weekly's Summer Box Office Predictions: Reporting the Forecast
  • How Owen Gleiberman gets ‘Vicki Christina Barcelona’ wrong
  • "Dear Fellow Republican"
  • Cyclists vs. Motorists: How The New York Times Ain't Helping
  • Reagan v. Founding Fathers
  • G.O.P.: The Party of Stupid
  • Two-Minute Review: “Coup de Torchon” (1982)
  • Le Pays de Cons
  • Why Titanic is unsinkable
  • Philippe Petit becomes a bird
  • New Ministers of Propaganda
  • No on Ferrell, yes on Gould
  • Lundegaard Camp Says NY Times Plays Sap
  • That McCain Rumor
  • We've come a long way, baby
  • Roger and Gene
  • Two Face
  • The Poetry of Philippe Petit
  • That New York Times Front Page
  • That New Yorker Cover
  • One Good Cop
  • How far?
  • Michael Giltz on the history of Batman's opening weekends
  • Dave Kehr: A history lesson every Tuesday
  • The Dark Knight: The smartest superhero movie ever made
  • David Carr: How That Guy became This Guy
  • Something to be said for blitzkrieg
  • Manohla Dargis gets it on with Batman, gives Superman the cold shoulder
  • Bob le flambeur
  • Much Ado About Flashcards
  • The history of Batman: from les Vampires to George Clooney
  • Never Google Yourself - Part I
  • Fox News: Anti-Semitic or merely vindictive?
  • We interrupt this vacation to bring you a Slate piece
  • Me, Claudius
  • Trumbo
  • Dancing with the universe
  • The best movie of 2008
  • The NY Times box office report card: C minus
  • Fall of the American Empire Quote of the Day - II
  • Movie Review: The Batman (1943)
  • John.he.is
  • Over-RAY-ted!
  • The Fall of the American Empire Quote of the Day
  • R.I.P., Cyd Charisse
  • Jackie Chan's Top 10 Stunts
  • The Pretty Good Hulk
  • Another day, another glitch
  • No. 600
  • It's Tuesday and I love Bill Moyers
  • The top 100 opening weekends
  • Audience test scores and “The Office”
  • Stuck between two women at the SEX AND THE CITY premiere
  • Om Shanti Om — Addendum
  • Om Shanti Om
  • Web-head vs. Shell-head
  • Memorial Day weekend
  • 25-25
  • It's Sunday and I love George Packer
  • 20-25
  • Quick Quiz: Baseball
  • Why is the New York Times encouraging Hollywood's myopia?
  • The Ten-Cent Plague and the ebb and flow of culture
  • El Orfanato and the power of women
  • Movie Review: Sansho Dayu (1954)
  • It's Sunday and I'm a little disappointed in Manohla Dargis
  • Nuit et Brouillard (1955)
  • Who's your superhero?
  • Reframing the War on Terror with Milan Kundera
  • It's Sunday morning and I love David Mamet, Randy Newman, Frank Rich and especially Elizabeth Edwards
  • Movie Review: Avenue Montaigne (2006)
  • “J'ai l'oeil americain”
  • LE CORBEAU (1943) et HORS DE PRIX (2006)
  • Paul Auster
  • Tom Toles
  • So it goes...
  • 5Top Cinematic Stoners
  • Why a stripper is like you
  • SUPERMAN! Starring Vass Anderson
  • Captain America and the short end of the stick
  • Why movies that open in 2,000 theaters should be avoided
  • Hulk smash New York Times!
  • The most popular movies of all time are chick flicks
  • Marty
  • Where in the world are Iraq War movies popular?
  • 56
  • "In the Shadow of the Moon"
  • One-sentence review for “Black Book”
  • United Artists
  • The Meek, etc.
  • "There's always a kid, isn't there?"
  • “The Wire”: An Appreciation
  • Coupla white guys sitting around talking about movies
  • Quality schmality
  • Our long national comeuppance
  • The Believer
  • It's 3 a.m. Do you know where your President is?
  • "New Indiana Jones trailer is smash hit"
  • W.C. Heinz: Rest in Peace
  • Letting go
  • Addendum
  • American Political prisoner?
  • Q & A with Jim Walsh
  • And the winner is...
  • Yep, no shortage of Oscar noms
  • What's the first thing you read in the Sunday NY Times?
  • Everyone deserves an Oscar nom - again
  • My Oh My!
  • Netflix gets it right
  • Hamlet Notwithstanding
  • Everyone deserves an Oscar nom

    • ARCHIVES GROUPED
    BY MONTH

    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    November 2009
    October 2009
    September 2009
    August 2009
    July 2009
    June 2009
    May 2009
    April 2009
    March 2009
    February 2009
    January 2009
    December 2008
    November 2008
    October 2008
    September 2008
    August 2008
    July 2008
    June 2008
    May 2008
    April 2008
    March 2008
    February 2008

    BY CATEGORY

    General
    Baseball
  • Modern Ballplayer Reactions to Joe DiMaggio's 56-Game Hitting Streak
  • Who is the Team of the Century?
  • Watching the World Series in a Seattle Sports Bar When the Seahawks are on Monday Night Football
  • Joe P on Game 3
  • Why I Missed One of the Oddest Finishes in World Series History
  • The 2013 World Series Possibles: And Then There Were Four ...
  • What's a Level Playing Field?
  • Why Baseball is No Longer Central to the Culture
  • Five A.L. Teams with Six Games to Go
  • A-Rod Sets Grand Slam Mark; World Yawns
  • The Wild Wild Card
  • Harmon Killebrew's 500th Homerun
  • And the Last Shall Have a 5-Game Win Streak
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with John Rosengren
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with David Schoenfield
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Jack Bradbury
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Tim Harrison
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Uncle Vinny
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Jerry Grillo
  • Ranking Baseball Movies with Josh Wilker
  • Rank the Baseball Movies!
  • Why Do IMDb Users Dislike 'Bull Durham'?
  • Ranking the Best and Worst Baseball Movies of All-Time
  • Catch of the Day: Ben Revere
  • Q&A with Aviva Kempner about Hank Greenberg – Part III
  • Q&A with Aviva Kempner about Hank Greenberg – Part II
  • Q&A with Aviva Kempner about Hank Greenberg – Part I
  • Opening Day 2013
  • My A-Rod Story: All That Negative Stuff
  • Quote of the Day
  • Stan 'The Man' Musial: 1920-2013
  • Earl Weaver: 1930-2013
  • Edgar Martinez Dissed on HOF Dissed List
  • Marvin Miller (1917-2012)
  • The 2012 World Series: 74,861 People are Disappointed This Morning
  • Say Who?
  • Have the Giants Now Played All Eight Original A.L. Teams in the World Series?
  • How Long Since Your Team Went to the World Series?
  • Go Get 'em, Tigers
  • Separated at Birth: Pinstripe Empire vs. Boardwalk Empire
  • Miggy
  • How the Hell are the 2012 Oakland A's Doing It?
  • First Mariner or 21st Ever: What's More Impressive?
  • 19,790 to 3,676
  • MLB.com Gives Some Clown Answers, Bro
  • More Perfection
  • The Mariano Rivera Posts
  • 631
  • Misspelling of the Day
  • Jamie Moyer Keeps the Aspidistra Flying
  • Eighty-Sixed: Remembering Jackie Robinson's No. 42
  • Fred Wenz Reaction
  • Baseball News: Miguel Cabrera On Pace for 162 HRs and 432 RBIs; Seattle Front Office Still Sucks
  • Where Have You Gone, Fred Wenz? Reflections on the 1971 baseball card you never wanted but always got
  • Opening Day 2012
  • Jason Varitek, of Varitek-and-Lowe-for-Slocumb, Retires from Major League Baseball
  • Talkin’ Leeea-vy, Bryant and Jim Hirsch
  • Quote of the Day
  • Welcome, Albert
  • The Seventh Game
  • The Best (and Worst) Baseball Movies of All Time: Ranked!
  • The Best (and Worst) Baseball Movies of All Time
  • Just How Memorable are World Series Losers?
  • Fourth of Four: the 2011 World Series
  • Catch of the Day
  • The Shot Heard 'Round the World ... Except in New York
  • My 2011 MLB Awards: What's So Valuable About an MVP Who Isn't Best?
  • Wow
  • Mariano Rivera, Career Saves, and another YANKEES SUCK article from The New York Times
  • A History of Baseball Movies: From hitting a homerun for Timmy to hitting a homerun with Susan Sarandon
  • If Mariano Rivera Notched His 600th Save at Safeco Field, Would Anyone Notice?
  • Newsflash: New York Yankee Receives Less Attention than Other Ballplayer
  • Quote of the Day
  • Taylor Halperin's Mid-Season Report: Annotated
  • If They Don't Win It's a Shame
  • World Series Game 7s Since 1903*: By Decade
  • The 20 Greatest Games: Who Was I Rooting For?
  • Yankees Suck on Occidental Avenue and in Safeco Field
  • The 20 Greatest Games: The Standings
  • Quote of the Day
  • The 20 Greatest Games: The Final Four
  • Harmon Killebrew (1936-2011)
  • Johnny Damon for 3,000 hits and the Hall?
  • Where Rob Neyer is Wrong on Baseball's Declining Attendance
  • The 20 Greatest Games: 1986 NLCS, Game 6
  • Sodo Mojo, 2011 Style
  • The 20 Greatest Games, Cont.: YANKEES SUCK Edition
  • Opening Day 2011
  • The 20 Greatest Games
  • Email of the Day
  • The Frasco-Frisco Treat*
  • When $55 Million > $207 Million
  • Clutch Schmutch
  • Boys of Winter
  • Bottom of the 10th
  • My Regular Season
  • Top of the 10th
  • Say-Hey Quote of the Day
  • George Steinbrenner III (1930-2010)
  • The Catch - Quote 3
  • The Catch - Quote 2
  • The Catch - Quote 1
  • Memories of Junior
  • Talkin' (and Talkin' and Talkin') Baseball with a First-Timer from Lebanon
  • Target: Fun
  • All-Star Game: Vote Early and Often
  • Doubles
  • Stadler and Waldorf Almost See a No-Hitter
  • MLB Predictions: Rigged National Pastime Edition
  • What "Yankees" Really Means
  • Met Stadium Memories
  • Good-Bye, Mr. Snappy
  • The Rigged (National) Game
  • The Series Freezes, Neyer Nitpicks
  • Scioscia on October Days Off: "Ridiculous"
  • Live-Blogging Game 5 of the ALCS
  • Countdown to the World Series-III
  • How to Fix the World Series—In a Good Way
  • What the World Series Needs
  • Countown to the World Series—II
  • Countdown to the World Series
  • My Top 5 Metrodome Moments
  • Straight Line to the Hall of Fame
  • Peter Gammons Isn't Serious
  • Sacrificial Mariners
  • Jeter's First HIt
  • Leavy's Koufax
  • Jeter Sucks! (On the Yankees Anyway)
  • Bobbleheads
  • Anatomy of a Catch: DeWayne Wise
  • 300
  • 0-1
  • Parity!
  • Opening Day
  • Two Hoots for Junior
  • Hall of Fame Links
  • All Hail King Albert!
  • An Open Letter to Bud Selig
  • Jamie Moyer: Class Act
  • Tampa Bay Rays: Champions of the American League
  • Reporting the Forecast: Sports Illustrated's Baseball Preview Predictions
  • More Wrigley Blues
  • Over-RAY-ted!
  • No. 600
  • 25-25
  • 20-25
  • Quick Quiz: Baseball
  • 56
  • My Oh My!
    • Books
  • Be Like Obama: Give Books for Christmas
  • Is This Plagiarism? REVEALED
  • Is This Plagiarism?
  • First Sentence: 'Joseph Anton'
  • When Roth Was Good
  • By the Book: Erik Lundegaard
  • The First Sentence of Every Short Story in 'American Short Stories, 4th Ed.'
  • Book Review: '11/22/63' by Stephen King
  • Five Books I Bought at Powell’s This Weekend
  • Recommended: Joe Muto's 'Atheist in a FOXhole'
  • You're Welcome
  • The New Hollywood 10: How Stars on the Left are Punished; How Stars on the Right Punish Us
  • Freedom vs. Security: Entering Salman Rushdie's World
  • Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
  • The Novel for the 99%: Max Barry's 'Company'
  • Essential Freud by Badcock, and Other Stories
  • Book Review: I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson
  • Searching for Ralph Ellison's Quote
  • Quote of the Day
  • Dialogue of the Day
  • Moneyball: Revisited
  • The Lost Scenes of “Citizen Kane”
  • Read These Books
  • Book Review: Crime Films by Thomas Leitch (2002)
  • Why You Should Never Name Your Plane “Green Hornet”
  • My Starting Nine (of the Literary World)
  • Opening and Closing: Louis Menand on Wild Bill Donovan and the Hollywood View of History
  • Scene at a Barnes & Noble II
  • Scene at a Barnes & Noble
  • The Joy of Mere Words
  • Review: "Cardboard Gods" by Josh Wilker
  • Why You're Somewhere Between Dissatisfied and Disgusted
  • Happy St. Jordi's Day!
  • Off By That Much
  • Saigon Signing Off
  • The Wisdom of Buck O'Neil
  • Legacy of Something
  • And Thus was the Taliban Created
  • Quote of the Day: "City of God"
  • The Problem with The Shadow
  • Herman Roth Gets Mugged
  • The Right-Wing Pisses on You—Literally
  • Alec, Charlie & Me
  • The Baseball Essays of Stephen Jay Gould
  • Authors: Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, Barbara Bush's Dog
  • Two-Minute Review: E.L. Doctorow's “Creationists”
  • Letters from Norman
  • Is Ron Suskind a Coen Brothers Fan?
  • Something to be said for blitzkrieg
  • Me, Claudius
  • The Ten-Cent Plague and the ebb and flow of culture
  • Why a stripper is like you
    • Box Office
  • Box Office: 'Catching Fire' Does, Oscar Films Could Use a Light
  • Second Weekend of 'Thor' Beats Thoroughly Mortal Competition
  • ‘Thor’ Hammers Competition for $86 Million Open
  • Houston, We Don't Have a Problem: 'Gravity' Breaks October Box-Office Record
  • Weekend Box Office is Insidious, But You Knew That
  • Weekend Box Office: ‘Riddick’ Sputters on Diesel Fumes; ‘Instructions’ Instructs Hollywood
  • Weekend Box Office: Five Brit Kids Race, Beat Up Old Black Man; Mexicans Laugh
  • Weekend Box Office: 'You're Next' Isn't
  • Weekend Box Office: '2 Guns' Riddles 'Smurfs 2' with Bullets
  • Weekend Box Office: 'The Wolverine' Isn't the Best At What It Does
  • Box Office: 'The Conjuring' Howls to First as 'Turbo' Sputters, 'Red 2' Redcarded and 'R.I.P.D.' Arrives D.O.A.
  • Despicable Audience: “Grown Ups 2” Grosses $42 mil at Weekend Box Office
  • Weekend Box Office: 'Lone Ranger' Disappears in a Cloud of Dust Without Much Silver
  • Weekend Box Office: ‘The Heat’ Hot, ‘White House’ Down
  • Hollywood B.O.: Mark Harris vs. Superman in the Battle of the Century!!
  • 75 Years After Superman's Debut, 'Man of Steel' Sets June Box-Office Record
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'After Earth' is Real; Attending is a Choice
  • Reboot of 45-Year-Old TV Series Underperforms with $70 Million Opening Weekend
  • Marvel Team-Up: Iron Man and Great Gatsby Blast Box Office!
  • 'Iron Man 3' Opens at No. 2 ... All Time
  • 'Iron Man 3' Soars with $195 Million Opening Weekend ... In 42 Other Countries
  • Winter Box Office: Hasta la Vista, Arnie
  • Hollywood B.O.: '42' is More Than '5'
  • The Top 10 Box Office Hits According to Variety as of March 19, 1958
  • Oz, 32-Percent Great, 40th-Most Powerful
  • Moviegoers Warm to 'Warm Bodies,' Give 'Bullet to the Head' a Bullet to the Head
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Grosses More This Weekend than 'Hurt Locker' In Its Entire Run
  • Hollywood B.O.: Hobbit Takes Expected Journey
  • Hollywood B.O.: Threeway Threepeat for First Time in Three Years
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'Twilight' Stumbles, 'Lincoln' Surges
  • Hollywood B.O.: Vampires Rule; Bond Holds: Lincoln Doesn't Die
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'Skyfall" Will Shatter Worldwide Record for James Bond Movies
  • Hollywood B.O.: Crappy New Releases, Fall Break, Make 'Argo' Winner
  • Hollywood B.O.: Took
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Growing Link Between Box Office and Rotten Tomato Scores
  • Hollywood B.O.: Conservatives Turn Out for D'Souza Horror Film
  • Hollywood B.O.: Summer of Underperforming Sequels
  • Why They're Making 'Grown-Ups 2'
  • 2012 Box Office Trivia Question
  • The Most Stunning Moment at 'Amazing Spider-Man'
  • Hollywood B.O.: Brave New World for Pixar
  • Hollywood B.O. Is Adam Sandler's 15-Year Reign of Terror Over?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Madagaswhatever Wins Weekend
  • All-Time Box Office for Musicals
  • Hollywood B.O.: First Weekend of 'MIB III' Outgrosses Fourth Weekend of 'The Avengers'
  • Hollywood B.O.: Universal Studio to U.S. Audiences: 'You Sunk My Battleship!'
  • The Avengers on Cloud Five/Nine
  • From 'Empire Strikes Back' to 'The Avengers': A Short History of the Biggest Opening Weekends in Recent Movie History
  • Hollywood B.O.: 'The Avengers' SMASH Opening-Weekend Record with $200 Million
  • Hollywood B.O.: Avengers Assembled! ... Overseas
  • 'Battleship' Opens Abroad Five Weeks Before U.S. Debut: Has Already Grossed $141 Million
  • Hollywood B.O.: ‘Think Like a Man’ Claims Box-Office Throne Despite Kenyan Rumors
  • Hollywood B.O.: How Hunger Games Ranks with Lord of the Rings, The Dark Knight and Avatar
  • Odds Ever in 'Hunger Games's Favor: Grosses $155 Million Opening Weekend
  • Hungry for 'Hunger Games'
  • It's 2012: Have You Seen Any Good Movies Lately?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Second 'Ghost Rider'? Road Kill
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Devil Whimpers
  • Hollywood B.O.: Crunching Numbers for HUGO
  • Hollywood B.O.: Breaking Dawn Breaking Records
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Paranormal Activity 3”? Really?
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Real Steel” or “Reel Steal”?
  • How Hollywood Is Outsourcing U.S. Movie Audiences
  • Hollywood B.O.: Dog Days of August, More than Hurricane Irene, Keep Theaters Empty
  • Hollywood B.O.: No Love for Terrence Malick
  • Hollywood B.O.: Captain America Throws His Mighty Shield
  • The Dark Knight is Dead; Long Live Prince Harry
  • Hollywood B.O.: What Will Be the Highest-Grossing Comic Book Adaptation of 2011? Not Green Lantern ...
  • Hollywood B.O.: Green Lantern Lacks Green
  • Hollywood B.O.: Bridesmaids Always a Bridesmaid But Manhandling Competition
  • Hollywood B.O.: X-Men: First Class Suffers Not for Lack of Wolverine But Presence of Wolverine
  • Hollywood B.O.: Americans Remember War Dead with Second Hangover
  • Hollywood B.O.: Pirates' Booty Shrinking But Bridesmaids Got Back
  • Hollywood B.O.: Thor Strong, Bridesmaids Bridesmaids (But Strong, Too)
  • Hollywood B.O.: Thor Opens Better than Hulk, Fantastic Four and Daredevil; Worse than Wolverine, Iron Man and Spider-Man
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Fast Five” Zooms Out of the Gate; Will It Fade?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Easter Weekend Helps Resurrect Five Films
  • Hollywood B.O.: America Shrugs for Atlas
  • Hollywood B.O.: Lame “Hop” still outjumps “Arthur,” “Hanna,” “Your Highness” and the “Soul Surfer”
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Hop” Hops, “Sucker Punch” Drops
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Now batting for the movie industry, hitting .083 ...”
  • Triple Feature in Hell
  • Oscar B.O.: It's the Distribution, Stupid
  • Can Boxoffice.com Predict Our Moviegoing Ways?
  • An Empire of His Own: How Neal Gabler Invented a Powerful Critical Elite
  • Hollywood B.O.: Aslan is Dead
  • Hollywood B.O.: Who Has the Best Legs?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Potter Flies, Skyline Drops
  • Hollywood B.O.: Denzel, Trains and Tony Scott: Who Are the Megaminds Who Came Up With That One?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Paranormal Jackass Saw Red
  • Hollywood B.O.: America Loves “Jackass”
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Few, the Proud
  • Moses Speaks; Goldstein Scribbles
  • Hollywood B.O.: Waiting for Zuckerberg
  • Hollywood B.O.: On Sept. 11th Weekend, Americans Abandon “American,” Choose “Evil”
  • Why Can't the Times Write about Box Office?
  • Hollywood BO: The Labors of Labor Day
  • Summer Box Office: Are We Predictable?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Summer Ends with a Whimper
  • Hollywood B.O.: How Can 6.2 Million Movie Fans Be Wrong? This Way
  • Hollywood B.O.: Worst Movie Year Ever?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Inception Fans Ne Regrette Rien
  • Hollywood B.O.: Parasites and Predators
  • Hollywood B.O.: Kids' Movies and Grown Ups
  • Hollywood B.O.: The Short, Sad Life of Jonah Hex
  • Hollywood B.O.: How's “Prince of Persia” Doing in Egypt?
  • Hollywood B.O.: Toys Find Homes; "Hex" Hexed
  • Hollywood B.O.: The B-Team
  • Hollywood B.O.: “Shrek” Holds off “Marmaduke” with One Hand
  • Hollywood B.O.: Ladies Second
  • "Shrek" Sinks Because "Shrek" Stinks
  • Box Office Stat of the Day: Average Weekly Movie Attendance for the Last 100 Years
  • The New King of the World
  • “Avatar” Passes “Dark Knight”
  • The Sky People Are Speaking
  • No. 2 With a Bullet (or an Arrow)
  • King of the World!
  • Avatarnation!
  • The 2000s: Decade of the Sequel
  • The Lessons of a New Moon
  • The Biggest Movie of the 2000s Ranks Just Behind the Third-Biggest Movie of 1965
  • Summer '09
  • Packed House for Basterds
  • Falling Stars
  • The Wobbly Legs of "G.I. Joe"
  • Die, Die, Die!
  • Quick Movie Quiz
  • Revenge on "Revenge of the Fallen"
  • Why We're Getting 10 Best Picture Nominees
  • The $67 Million Advantage
  • Dumb like a Fox
  • Tossed
  • The One Lesson of Summer Box Office
  • Imagine Better
  • A Monday Hangover
  • What's Brooks Barnes Got Against Pixar?
  • -42.8%
  • Why DVD Sales are Down 18%
  • Your 2008 Box Office Quiz—The Answers: Or how "Mamma Mia!" Beat "Dark Knight"
  • Your 2008 Box Office Quiz
  • -69%
  • Logan's Run: $85 Million
  • The Short, Unhappy Life of Fox Atomic
  • Betting Against Pixar
  • Slumdog Watch - II
  • Slumdog Watch - I
  • Slumdog Legs
  • Why a Film's Budget is Irrelevant
  • Movie Attendance Up Thanks to...WTF?
  • An Ad For Something No One Needs
  • A Universal Lack of Focus
  • Delgo Boom
  • Why Titanic is unsinkable
  • How far?
  • Never Google Yourself - Part I
  • The top 100 opening weekends
  • Why movies that open in 2,000 theaters should be avoided
  • Where in the world are Iraq War movies popular?
    • Culture
  • How the Miss America Controversy is like the Movie 'Crash,' and Other Observations
  • What’s Wrong with Jonathan Franzen’s ‘What’s Wrong with the Modern World’?
  • George W.S. Trow and the Problem of the Final Failed Connection
  • George W.S. Trow on 'All About Eve'
  • The Enormous Mass of Facts
  • Calvin and Hobbes Explains FOX-News 10 Years Before FOX-News
  • 'Negroes Oppose Film': A 1921 NAACP Protest of 'Birth of a Nation'
  • How Roger Ebert is Wrong in that Sundance Clip
  • Want to Be Taken Seriously?
  • The Most Brilliant and Necessary Thing You'll See All Day: 'Onion Talks' on Social Media
  • Making the Dish, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Stand-Up Comedian
  • IMDb's Trivial Problem
  • Sharing a Birthday with Hannibal Lector
  • Black History Month Linkage
  • Fifty Years Later, The Hamster Wheel Answers Philip Roth
  • Quote of the Day
  • What's Been Posted on Roger Ebert's Facebook Page to Show Him How Insensitive He Is
  • The Meaning of Charlie Sheen
  • Tucson
  • Beam Me Up, Scottie
  • Writin' is Whitenin': Ishmael Reed's Racial Assumptions about "Precious"
  • Respect My Authoritai!
  • The Moon Landing from Africa, and Other Stories (Translated from the French)
  • 50 Million Necrophiliacs Can't Be Wrong
  • “The Unseen”
  • Quote of the Day
  • Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
  • Humans from Earth
  • Goldstein Disappoints on Susan Boyle
  • “Mr. Wright's Masterly, Affectionate Vision...”
  • We Are Not a Serious Nation
  • Edward Hopper's Quiet
  • Good-Bye To All That
  • All Customer-Service Roads Lead to India
  • Escape from Sea-Tac
  • Cambio
  • Updating Scrooge
  • Eastwood and CIA: Offline
  • Marc!
  • HuffPosters
  • Coughlin Jumps Orwell
  • Didion, Clad in her Armor
  • NY Times: A Graf Too Far
  • Happy Thanksgiving!
  • Dan Savage Opens a Can of Whup-Ass
  • The Best Argument for Gay Marriage
  • Obama in '03: Mistaken for Waiter, Deemed Unworthy of Magazine Profile
  • TDS: RIP?
  • Maureen Dowd Sucks (Again)
  • "These are not the Snicker bars you're looking for."
  • We Never Imagined That In Our Lifetime...
  • “Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan
  • How to Predict: Follow the Numbers
  • My Friend Craig
  • Another day, another glitch
  • It's Sunday morning and I love David Mamet, Randy Newman, Frank Rich and especially Elizabeth Edwards
  • The Meek, etc.
  • Hamlet Notwithstanding
    • The Media
  • It Depends on What the WSJ's Meaning of the Word 'Was' Is: Revealing propagandist tendencies in the right-wing press
  • Objectivity Is Not Stupidity: The Culpability of the Mainstream Media in the Government Shutdown
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - V
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - IV
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - III
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - II
  • Reading the Newspaper with George W.S. Trow - I
  • Latest New Yorker Cover by Marcellus Hall Celebrates NYC's New Bike-Sharing Program
  • The True Vice of Vice: Advertisers with Editorial Input
  • Going About My Business After Boston
  • Founding Dish Member
  • Your Liberal Media at Work: The Times' Awful Puff-Piece on the New Mitt Romney--Annotated
  • Quote of the Day
  • How the Daily Beast Screws Up Its Articles
  • Quote of the Day II
  • Quote of the Day I
  • The Real Culprit in the British Tabloid Scandal
  • Married to the Beast: Andrew Sullivan and the Carrie Bradshaw of Websites
  • Erik Lundegaard and the Power of Kissing: A Valentine's Day/ABC-News Exclusive
  • Dowd on Dowdy
  • Who's Controlling the News? Not Auletta
  • Unfortunate Graph of the Day
  • The Journalistic Mission of Bill O'Reilly
  • Weekly, Not Weakly
  • You Say You Want a Revolution
  • Read It Read It Read It
  • The Reductive Headlines of the Seattle P-I
  • New Ministers of Propaganda
  • Lundegaard Camp Says NY Times Plays Sap
  • That New Yorker Cover
  • David Carr: How That Guy became This Guy
  • It's Tuesday and I love Bill Moyers
  • Tom Toles
  • Hulk smash New York Times!
  • Quality schmality
  • W.C. Heinz: Rest in Peace
  • What's the first thing you read in the Sunday NY Times?
    • Movies
  • Seven Questions Jon Stewart Should Have Asked Jennifer Lawrence Last Week on 'The Daily Show'
  • 'Rush' Addendum
  • Why Denzel Matters: Before the Show at the Regal Meridian
  • Ben-Hur: the Travis Bickle of His Day
  • My American Movie
  • What's the Great All-American Movie?
  • If Ever a Character Could Put You Off Women for Life...
  • Fargo: The Word Cloud
  • Gregory Peck in Second Grade
  • Find the Future Movie Star
  • Five Facts about Terrence Malick
  • Consumption Written with Lightning
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall
  • A Question for Fans of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
  • Like Minds
  • Why's FDR Hanging with the Three Stooges? Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Screen Portrayals of U.S. Presidents, and Didn't Ask
  • Dying Hard: A History of the 'Die Hard' Franchise
  • The New Definition of Hubris: Telling Jackie Robinson How to Slide
  • The Best Movie Scene of the Year
  • Daniel Day-Lewis at 13
  • Michael Moore's Defense of 'Zero Dark Thirty': Annotated
  • The Annotated Kathryn Bigelow Editorial
  • That Tarantino Interview: 'This is a commercial for the movie—make no mistake.'
  • The Evolution of Jeffrey Wells' Thinkin' on 'Lincoln'
  • The Top 50 Viral Videos of 2012 (Or: My Increasing Separation from My Culture)
  • 'Previously on The Hobbit...'
  • The Annotated Jeffrey Wells: 'Torture Has Been Used For Centuries'
  • Lincoln's Voice: at Gettysburg and (Hollywood) Elsewhere
  • The Movie You Could Watch A Million Times
  • The Ultimate James Bond Quiz: The Answers
  • The Ultimate James Bond Quiz
  • The Men Who Played James Bond, 007
  • Stayin' Alive with Rita Hayworth
  • Counter-Programming: Movies to Watch During the GOP Convention
  • 2012: Good for the Movies?
  • Dusty
  • Here's Looking at You, Kid: Clara Darko Compiles Movie Stars Looking at Us
  • A Tale of Two Posters
  • The Most Oft-Portrayed Character on Film Isn't Santa Claus But...
  • Where Have You Gone, Klinton Spilsbury?
  • The Unjustly Neglect of Ross Douthat
  • The Leftover, Less-Romantic, Movie-Quote Candy Hearts of Valentine's Day
  • Viola Davis Lays the Smackdown on Tavis Smiley
  • The Most Filmed Character, Cont.: IMDb's Help Desk
  • Gary Oldman, at SIFF Uptown, on Dealing with 'the Ghost of Guinness'
  • NEWSFLASH: Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Not Hot!
  • Missing Tom Hanks
  • Diane Baker's Neck
  • The World Trade Center in Movies Before 9/11 ... and After
  • Darth Vader Speaks? Noooooooo!
  • Inspire Me Vaguely: How Hollywood thinks the movies inspire us; how they really do
  • Was Orson Welles Gay?
  • First Draft: “If You Won't Lose Everything, Your 401K Will Be Cut in Half and You'll Be Underwater in Your Mortage for a Decade.”
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Fifth Wave: Post-9/11
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Fourth Wave: Bad Muthas, a Reaction to the Second Wave
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Third Wave: Camp, a Reaction to the First Wave
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies—The Second Wave: Gods and Lost Children
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies: The First Wave: Red Scare
  • A Short History of Alien Invasion Movies: Intro
  • Opening Night at SIFF: Corporate Speeches, Technical Difficulties, and Another Seattle-Lite Movie
  • Gosh, Sweetie, That's a Big New York Times Summer Movie Section
  • Why Every Guy Wants to be Famous
  • Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)
  • Comments on “Of Gods and Men”
  • Photo of the Day
  • Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
  • 2011 Cinema: What Might Be Good?
  • Hollywood's Most Memorable Kisses:
    From Desperate to “Wow”
  • Hitchcock at the Nickelodeon
  • Née: “An Empire of Their Own”
  • Half-True Grit
  • NP + AK = WTF
  • Marxmen
  • The 10 Best Movies of the First 10 Months of 2010
  • Theresa Harris
  • Why Can't I Quit Michael Cieply?
  • Cool Hand Me
  • R.I.P. Tony Curtis (1925-2010)
  • MSNBC-Movies: Running on Empty
  • At the Birth of "Machete"
  • Why Jeff Wells is Wrong about “Restrepo”
  • SIFFles
  • Poll Story 3
  • "An Accidental Candid Snapshot of the Sick, Dying Heart of America"
  • The 10th Reason to Hate 3-D
  • A.O. Scott, Movie Violence and the Art of Collapsing Distinctions
  • Scott on Streep
  • Site Updates
  • Happy Valentine's Day
  • Globe Highlights: Michael on McCartney, Marty on Movies
  • Your MLK-Day Rental
  • Many Nations, Under Netflix
  • Cute Little Rebooties
  • The Disagreeables
  • Spider-Man 4 No More!
  • The Double Features of 2009
  • My Top 10 Movies of 2009
  • Here Come the Critics
  • The Best Movies of the Decade
  • Thus Spaketh Clint
  • Three Lines About Movies
  • Epitaph for a Tough Guy—I
  • Welcome to My Least-Favorite Month
  • "The Exorcist" and the Devilish Dilemma
  • Lancelot Links—Idi i Smotri
  • Line of the Day—Andrew O'Hehir
  • Baseball Scenes in Non-Baseball Movies
  • Breaking Away Lesson of the Day
  • Anatomy of a Scene: Leo and Freddie have coffee in Force of Evil (1948)
  • Ooo, Kids, Scary Stuff!
  • Your Summer Movie Quiz — Answers
  • Your Summer Movie Quiz
  • Breaking Away Lesson of the Day
  • Breaking Away Lesson of the Day
  • Saving Capitalism
  • Scheming Women
  • 3 Pieces on 9/11
  • Fun with Definite Articles
  • “Breaking Away” Lesson of the Day
  • "Goddamn Fox would give Wolverine webshooters and a bat cape!"
  • “Breaking Away” Lesson of the Day
  • “Breaking Away” Lesson of the Day
  • Old Critics vs. Young Critics
  • The Courage of His Cliches
  • The Most Banned Movies Ever! ... Maybe
  • A.O. Scott Testifies!
  • “Star Trek: Confusion”
  • Don't You Forget About Me
  • King Kong 1, 2 and 3?
  • Why Watching Isn't Enjoying
  • What's Wrong with Entertainment Weekly (Part II)
  • What's Wrong with Entertainment Weekly (Part I)
  • Goldstein's Posse Loses Its Mojo
  • Now That's Good Writing: David Denby
  • Mann, Cruise and the Devil in the Details
  • Sunday Movie Night: “Jaws” (1975)
  • Theme from a Summer Place
  • The Reason They're Called Previews
  • Sunday Times
  • Arkoff Asylum
  • Pirating Wolverine
  • Pardon My French
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines - Exit
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 1)
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 2)
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 3)
  • Meet the New Oscar-wining Three Stooges
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 4)
  • My Most Quoted Movie Lines (No. 5)
  • My Most-Quoted Movie Lines - Intro
  • Craig Wright on Malick's “The New World”
  • La Ville Du Vice
  • Penn Pal
  • The Man Who Sold "Crash" to the World
  • "Slumdog" Has Its Day
  • Less Than Grand “Torino”
  • NSFC Picks "Bashir"; Carr Says STFU
  • Interview with a Star
  • Dark Knight: Adventures in Alphabetizing
  • Milkless Globes
  • NY Times Links for the Day
  • What Recent Blockbuster Should've Been Nominated Best Picture?
  • Cieply: Academy Increasingly Foreign, Indie
  • Torture to Watch
  • Oscar Watch — The Carpetbagger
  • Oscar Watch — Entertainment Weekly
  • ...And I Feel Fine
  • Debating our National Story
  • Is "There Will Be Blood" an Epic?
  • Ann Patchett on Philippe Petit
  • The Unsexiest Cover
  • Whatever Happened to the American Epic?
  • 15 Films Up for Best Documentary
  • 007 for 2008
  • U.S. Presidents on Film
  • Paul Newman: 1925-2008
  • The Big Red Dog is Wanted Dead or Alive
  • Why 'DC: 9/11' is the New 'Reefer Madness'
  • EWww
  • Boys are Back in Town
  • "I Believe in Al Pacino"
  • “The Lundegaards”
  • Dillinger lives
  • Entertainment Weekly's Summer Box Office Predictions: Reporting the Forecast
  • How Owen Gleiberman gets ‘Vicki Christina Barcelona’ wrong
  • Philippe Petit becomes a bird
  • No on Ferrell, yes on Gould
  • Roger and Gene
  • Two Face
  • The Poetry of Philippe Petit
  • Dave Kehr: A history lesson every Tuesday
  • We interrupt this vacation to bring you a Slate piece
  • The NY Times box office report card: C minus
  • R.I.P., Cyd Charisse
  • The Pretty Good Hulk
  • Web-head vs. Shell-head
  • Memorial Day weekend
  • Why is the New York Times encouraging Hollywood's myopia?
  • It's Sunday and I'm a little disappointed in Manohla Dargis
  • 5Top Cinematic Stoners
  • The most popular movies of all time are chick flicks
  • Marty
  • "In the Shadow of the Moon"
  • United Artists
  • "There's always a kid, isn't there?"
  • Coupla white guys sitting around talking about movies
  • The Believer
  • "New Indiana Jones trailer is smash hit"
  • Addendum
  • And the winner is...
  • Yep, no shortage of Oscar noms
  • Netflix gets it right
  • Everyone deserves an Oscar nom
    • Music
    The Oscars
  • Early Oscar Predictions: The Signal and the Noise, Noise, Noise
  • Zack Wagman Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Casablanca' to 'Crash'
  • Five Reasons Why Seth MacFarlane's 'We Saw Your Boobs' is the Best Thing To Happen to Oscar in Years
  • Crunching the Numbers: What are the Most- and Least-Popular Best Picture Winners of All Time?
  • Crunching the Numbers: Which Best Pictures are Most-Seen, Least-Seen, and Most Beloved?
  • My Q&A with Oscar's Lawyers
  • Edward Copeland Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Casablanca' to 'The Broadway Melody'
  • Anne Thompson Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Lawrence of Arabia' to 'Going My Way'
  • The Worst Best Picture
  • GOB Bluth (Kevin) Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'The Godfather Part II' to 'The Greatest Show on Earth'
  • David Murphy Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Lawrence of Arabia' to 'Crash'
  • What's the Best Best Picture?
  • Thomas Meier Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'Sunrise' to 'Broadway Melody'
  • Branimir Djurovic Ranks the Best Picture Winners: from 'The Godfather' to 'Cavalcade'
  • Jorge Rodrigues Ranks the Best Picture Winners: from 'All About Eve' to 'Driving Miss Daisy'
  • Steve Schweighofer Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Lawrence of Arabia' to 'The Greastest Show on Earth'
  • Joe D. Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Cuckoo's Nest' to 'Dances with Wolves'
  • Dan Heilman Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Cuckoo's Nest' to 'Crash'
  • Dback Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Sunrise' (Best) to 'Gandhi' (Worst)
  • Chris Nelson Ranks Oscar's Best Picture Winners: from 'Annie Hall' (Best) to 'Crash' (Worst)
  • Endora Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'The Apartment' to 'A Beautiful Mind'
  • Reed Ranks the Best Pictures: from 'The Godfather' to 'Crash'
  • Uncle Vinny Ranks the Best Pictures: From 'The Godfather Part II' (Best) to 'Shakespeare in Love' (Worst)
  • Tim Ranks the Best Pictures: From 'American Beauty' (Best) to 'Crash' (Worst)
  • Now YOU Can Rank Oscar's Best Picture Winners
  • The 2011 Best Picture Nominees by IMDb Ranking: Revisited
  • Wait, What Exactly is Acting CIA Director MIchael Morell Saying About 'Zero Dark Thirty'?
  • The Two Controversies of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
  • Oscar Predictions ... for 2014?
  • Quote of the Day
  • The 2011 Academy Awards - Postmortem
  • Woody Allen at the Oscars 2002
  • Lancelot Links: Oscar Edition
  • From 'Godfather' to 'Crash': My Rankings of Most Every Best Picture Winner Since 1927
  • From 'Godfather' to 'Cimarron': The 84 Best Picture Winners as Ranked by the Nerds of IMDb.com
  • How Do Best Pictures Rate on IMDb?
  • The Best Picture Nominees by Current IMDb Ranking
  • The Bechdel Test, Stein, Hemingway and Woody Allen
  • Oscar: Doing the Wrong Thing
  • The Return of Karl Show! (Starring Jason)
  • Something Rotten Among the Best Picture Nominees
  • Oscar Watch: Why the Best Picture Nominations are (August) Wilsonian
  • Oscar Watch: Has “The Artist” Already Won Best Picture?
  • Who Were the Oscar Frontrunners Last Summer?
  • Oscar Reaction: Cieply and Barnes, Seemingly Disconnected
  • And the Nominees Are ... : The Box Office
  • And the Nominees Are ... : A Comparison
  • And the Nominees Are...
  • And the Winner Should Be...
  • My 2011 Oscar Nominations: Clooney, Streep Snubbed!
  • Golden Globes Better than the Oscars?
  • The Return of the Disagreeables
  • Oscar Watch: Have the DGAs Whittled Us Down to Five Best-Picture Candidates?
  • This Year's Best Picture Winner?
  • The First Best Actor?
  • What I Said About the Oscar Winners Before They Became Oscar Winners
  • Live-Blogging the Oscars
  • Are Best Picture Nominees Making a Box-Office Comeback?
  • Oscar Talk: “Most Noms” = “Best Picture”?
  • Oscar Snubs Everyone!
  • The Oscar Noms! With a Surprise Ending!
  • Me and Manohla Sittin' In a Tree...
  • Ten Top 10 Movies of 2010
  • You Don't Get to Best Film Without Making a Few Enemies
  • Three things about The New York Times post-Oscars article
  • Dead-blogging the Oscars
  • Oscars: Which are the Real Best Picture Nominees?
  • The Most Crucial Difference Between "Avatar" and "Hurt Locker"
  • Their Oscar Noms
  • My Oscar Noms
  • Which Host with What Most?
  • And the nominees are...doubled
  • Live-Blogging the Oscars
  • The Backwards Threats of Hollywood Execs
  • Much Ado About Oscar — Days 2 & 3
  • Nat & Tim & Kris & Karina & Ed & Erik
  • Silver on Oscar Gold
  • The EW Fall Preview Issue: A Look Back
  • And the Award for Least-Seen Best Picture Nominee Goes To...
  • The Lundys: Best Reviews of Best Pics
  • Pedigree of a Slumdog: PGA, SAG, DGA...
  • Mood Fight
  • Who Sees the Oscar Nominees Anyway?
  • Milk Left Out
  • The Quiz...and How Nathaniel R. Nudged Me Off the Fence
  • "Slumdog"? Final Answer
  • B.O. for Best Pics
  • Note to the Academy: Why So Serious?
  • And Then There Were Nine...
  • DGAs, PGAs, AAs, Blah Blahs,
  • Oscar Watch: NY Critics Pick "Milk"
  • Oscar Watch: L.A. Critics Pick "WALL-E"
  • Oscar Watch: FOJ-Dub
  • Oscar Watch: NBR Picks "Slumdog"
  • Dark Knight + Oscar
  • Everyone deserves an Oscar nom - again
    • Personal Pieces
    Politics
  • Major Burn on Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)
  • Dibs on the Heist Movie
  • How to Win Political Arguments in Your Sleep
  • Drowning Rousseau
  • A Conservative Theology Becoming a Revolutionary Idea by Attracting the Non-Urban and Marginalized: A Quiz
  • Moyers: It's Not a Shutdown; It's Sabotage of the Democratic Process
  • More Unseemly Sideshows
  • Dr. Frankenstein, Meet Monster
  • When is the GOP Going to Take Back the GOP?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Where Andrew Sullivan is Wrong on Syria, Obama
  • And for Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles
  • By the Time I Get to Arizona, 2013
  • Ranking Filibusters: More Reasons Why the GOP Sucks
  • 501(c)(4)
  • White House Correspondents Dinner: Obama with an Edge
  • Remaining Stationary is the New Freedom
  • Henny Penny, When the Sky Fell: 'No End in Sight' and the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion
  • Email to Jake: March 9, 2003
  • Email to Elin: March 2003
  • Sarah Palin, Big Gulp, and Freedom in America
  • Moynihan's 1967 Warning to Democrats Now Applies to Republicans
  • America Held Hostage
  • When Romney was the Most Honest Man in the Race
  • Quote of the Day
  • Obama on the 'Us vs. Them' of Immgration Reform: 'A lot of folks forget that most of us used to be them'
  • What My $3,000 Helped Buy
  • The Way the Right-Wing Has Always Supported Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • How Grover Norquist is like Abbie Hoffman
  • Idiot of the Day, Month, Year: Wayne La Pierre
  • Our Country, Our Song
  • What Does the GOP Stand For?
  • Bill O'Reilly's Real Nightmare
  • Pundit Shaming: Laura Ingraham
  • Why Obama Won; Why Romney Lost
  • My President
  • My Election Day: November 6, 2012
  • James Baldwin's Message to Bill O'Reilly
  • Status Updates from the 2012 Election
  • 270 to Win: Vote
  • Hans von Spakovsky and the Voter-Fraud Myth
  • Endorsement of the Day: Susan Eisenhower Endorses Barack Obama for Re-Election
  • Endorsement of the Day: The Stranger
  • Endorsement of the Day: The Chicago Tribune
  • Getting Out the Vote
  • Endorsement of the Day: Colin Powell Signs on for 'Long Patrol with Pres. Obama'
  • Former Mossad Chief for Obama, Warns Romney's Rhetoric Against U.S. Interests
  • 'One of the Most Successful Foreign Policies of Any Administration'
  • Quote of the Day
  • I'd Like to Apologize to All Women on Behalf of All Men
  • Gaffes, Blunders, Walkbacks and Lies: A Week-by-Week Retrospective of the Year in Mitt
  • Absent Fathers, Powerful Fathers
  • 'Romnesia'
  • Lies, Damned Lies and Mitt Romney
  • Not What We Do
  • Man of the People, Mitt of the Sons
  • The Second Debate: Romney Creates a Meme
  • Why Obama Now
  • Facts Don't Speak for Themselves: Obama's Worrisome Conciliatory Nature
  • My Overwhelming Conviction about Pres. Obama's DNC Speech
  • Quote of the Day
  • David Denby's Defense of Clint Eastwood—Annotated
  • Chris Rock Rules
  • Mitt Romney Drives I-5 to Chehalis
  • Great Moments in Right-Wing Paranoia: Swinging Sixties Edition
  • That Right-Wing, Uncle Sam Billboard near Chehalis, Wash.
  • A Legitimate Choice
  • 'Sikh, Arab, What's the Difference?' The Sikh Temple Killings and Spike Lee's 'Inside Man'
  • The Gettysburg Address, Out of Context
  • Why a Patriotic WWII Film Starring Frank Sinatra Would Get Booed by Modern Republicans
  • The Annotated David Brooks
  • The Myth of Job Creators
  • My President
  • Endorsement of the Day
  • Stat of the Day
  • 'I Don't Want Government in My Bank...'
  • The Response
  • Why Mitt and Ann Romney are Just Like You: Scrimping By with a Seven-Bedroom Colonial and a 5,000-Foot Lakefront Vacation Home
  • New Yorker Magazine Paints Ted Nugent as Funny and Unfiltered
  • Guns Guns Guns: An Overview of Jill Lepore's BATTLEGROUND AMERICA Article
  • The Symbiotic Relationship between the GOP and the Mainstream Media
  • Bullshit of the Week: the Hilary Rosen Fiasco
  • It's 3 A.M.: Do You Know Where Your Affordable Care Act Is?
  • That Sound You're Hearing is the Rich Getting Richer
  • Why Democratic Veeps Run for President; Why Republican Veeps Don't
  • Ben Volunteers for Obama
  • The 400 Highest Earners in the U.S. Pay Only 18.1 Percent in Taxes
  • The U.S. Right-Wing: Sharing Conspiracy Theories with the Middle East
  • Conservatives Disrespecting Authority
  • From the Archives: A Review of Muammar Qaddafi's “Escape to Hell and other stories”
  • Why I'm Behind Occupy Wall Street 99%
  • How great is it to be as stupid as Maureen Dowd?
  • Obama, the GOP and Terrence Malick's “The Tree of Life”
  • Your Liberal Media at Work
  • Lessons in Headline-Making
  • Al Qaeda's New Leader
  • Humphrey, at 100, is Still the Man; Nixon Still Goes in the Garbage Can
  • Quote of the Day
  • Plus Ca Change...
  • Squabbling Founders
  • The Non-Partisan President
  • Packer on W.
  • FOX News: Accusing Others of Its Own Crimes
  • Hertzberg on the Midterms
  • Why The Tea Party Hates George Washington
  • Bush Offers Mea Culpa
  • Jon Stewart's Funny, But...
  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the “Just a Bunch of Guys” Theory of Al Qaeda
  • Three Winston Churchill Quotes to Use Against Conservatives Who Quote Winston Churchill
  • Democracy is Dead. Discuss.
  • Nothing v. All
  • From PC to Protests: How the Right became everything it despised in the Left
  • Miss Me Yet? - II
  • Miss Me Yet?
  • Bushed
  • Michelle Malkin's Journey from A to A
  • The More Republicans Change: Anger, Paranoia, and Visions of Apocalypse at the 1976 Republican Convention
  • Quote of the Day
  • Flash: Rush Limbaugh Has No Genitalia!
  • My President
  • How Texas Executed an Innocent Man
  • Facebook Meme
  • Town Hall
  • Worst Wedding Day Ever
  • The Reverse Debate Idea
  • Gun Nuts and the People Who Support Them
  • Quote of the Day
  • Krugman: "Government involvement is the only reason our [health care] system works at all"
  • Wearing Wool Caps in 100 Degree Weather
  • Overreacting with Color Coding: 1975
  • What I Would've Said If I'd Been with the Cambridge Police Dept. and Seen Henry Louis Gates Breaking Into His Own Home
  • Tax the Rich Already
  • Prescient Quote of the Day
  • Rich, Noonan, Palin
  • Minnesota Corrects a Low-Rent Mistake
  • Chronology 101
  • Point: Obama
  • Toles and Jelly
  • God, I Love This Guy
  • Ponzi and the Happy Days (Are Here Again) Gang
  • Fiddling
  • “There's Work to be Done”
  • 1-20-09
  • The Tyranny of the Short Term
  • Seriously, Did That Guy Get Anything Right?
  • Give the People What They Want
  • The Obama Non-Stories
  • “The Most Vicious Smear Campaign Ever Mounted Against an American Politician”
  • David Grann on Why McCain Lost
  • TDS: RIP? — Addendum
  • When Bush Met Obama — 2004
  • Hertzberg on McCain: 9/13/04
  • Hertzberg on Obama: 9/13/04
  • Levittown Speaks
  • Sullivan Hammers Krauthammer
  • GOTV in America
  • GOTV in Pennsylvania
  • My First Blog Post
  • All Hail Hendrik Hertzberg!
  • Inanity, Insanity
  • Unafraid to Listen
  • Country Last
  • The Six Narratives of John McCain
  • McCain Endorses Obama?
  • Oh. My. God.
  • Curbing Enthusiasm
  • The Final Debate — Who Disappointed
  • Canvassing for Obama in Youngstown, OH
  • Norman Mailer and the 1964 Republican Convention
  • The VEEP Debate: America's Cocktail Waitress
  • The Real Joe Sixpack
  • The Debate
  • NY Times Offers Lack of Leadership
  • Bush and the Hail Mary Candidate
  • Mark Antony in Oxford Town
  • Gourevitch on Palin
  • Palin's Access: Beyond Disgraceful
  • "You want to see a REAL liberal media, Otis?"
  • Tom Toles is Genius
  • Things to Read Before the Next Great Depression
  • My Name is Erik Lundegaard and I Approve of This Message
  • Who is Barack Obama? Atticus Finch
  • OK, Everyone Read Andrew Sullivan
  • Palin: Worse than We Thought
  • Fallows on the Toxic Traits of Palin/Bush
  • Lies, Damn Lies and John McCain
  • Like the Best Show Ever
  • More Toles
  • John McCain and Steve Schmidt are going to burn in hell for all eternity
  • Begala and Willis to Media: Just State the Facts, Jack
  • Obama to Palin: “Don't Mock the Constitution”
  • McCain: Reckless, Nutty, Irresponsible
  • The Easily Intimidated Sarah Palin
  • McCain: Rash and Not Bright. Sound Familiar?
  • How Palin was for Obama before she was against him
  • Drill Now! Drill Now! Drill Now!
  • The Shakers (Hopefully Not the Movers)
  • Sen. McBush/Gov. Earmark
  • The Community Organizer
  • Barack's Response
  • Things to read and watch while the culture wars start up again
  • Talkin' RNC Blues
  • Who's Whining Now?
  • The Smart Candidate
  • "F**k it. We're going in."
  • 38.4 Million Obama Fans Can't Be Wrong
  • If It's "Thrusday," McCain Must Be Speaking
  • "We're Amazingly Incompetent or We Lied"
  • The Power of Our Example
  • Why you can't take toothpaste on an airplane
  • "Bush II" by William Shakespeare
  • "Dear Fellow Republican"
  • Reagan v. Founding Fathers
  • G.O.P.: The Party of Stupid
  • That McCain Rumor
  • That New York Times Front Page
  • Fox News: Anti-Semitic or merely vindictive?
  • John.he.is
  • It's Sunday and I love George Packer
  • Reframing the War on Terror with Milan Kundera
  • Our long national comeuppance
  • It's 3 a.m. Do you know where your President is?
  • American Political prisoner?
    • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Idiot of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • How Nutjob Republicans in Congress are Destroying Democracy as We Know It
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quotes of the Day on the Government Shutdown
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Tweets of the Day: Mark Harris vs. Richard Brody
  • What Shaw Thought Shakespeare Would Have Thought of Chaplin
  • Quote of the Day
  • Understatement of the Year
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Damage and the Glory
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Angry and Irony, Live Together without much Harmony
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • They Keep Making Sequels to Movies I Pan
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • #AllThatDavidCopperfieldKindOfCrap
  • The Zimmerman Trial: 'Is An Unarmed Black Teenager Ever Entitled to Stand His Ground?'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • On FOX-News, the Sheriff Is Near
  • Quote of the Day
  • And Such Small Portions, Too
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why FOX-News is Like a Hollywood Studio
  • MPWW at FOX-News
  • FOX-News Producer: 'We're not here to be fair. We're here to give red meat to our viewers'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • FOX-News Flash: No Dudes Kissing (or Flashing) on FOX-News
  • Dumb Politics, Smart Business
  • Future Breaking News on Fox: RIP Dick Cheney, Lincoln and Churchill Rolled into One
  • FOX-News Fan Fiction
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Milestone: 400 Parts Per Million
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Reagan, Before the Lightning Struck
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Cold as ICE
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • '42' Is Safe, Sadly
  • 2500 Channels and Nothing On
  • Quote of the Year
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day: 'That was for Jackie'
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • James Baldwin Explains FOX-News in 1959
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • The SAG Quote of the Night
  • Why the GOP Sucks: Your Stat of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Reader Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Reader of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Steven Spielberg on Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln
  • Reader Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why People Like Bad Movies
  • The Inherent Loneliness of the Internet
  • Which Baseball Player Does Jerry Seinfeld Relate To?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Good Morning
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Roth Unbound
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day II
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • The 'All the President's Men' Pep Talk for Pres. Obama Before the Second Debate
  • Transaction Man
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • In His Own Words: Charlton Heston
  • The Seventh and Final Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Sixth Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Fifth Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Fourth Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Third Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The Second Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • The First Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
  • There's A Lot of Trouble Behind a Bar, Etc.
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XX
  • Quote of the Day
  • Paul Ryan's Budget Attacked Left and Right
  • 7 Quotes of the Day on Paul Ryan
  • Anne Hathaway: Woman Surrounded by Bat-Crap
  • Nice writing: Zach Schonbrun on Felix Hernandez
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XIX
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XVIII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XVII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XVI
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XV
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XIV
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XIII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XI
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day X
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day IX
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day VIII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day VII
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day VI
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day V
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day IV
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day III
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day II
  • Gore Vidal Quote of the Day I
  • N'allez pas trop vite avec Marcel Proust
  • Quote of the Day: Vinny takes on Aaron Sorkin (and Neil deGrasse Tyson?)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Gore Vidal on Ayn Rand
  • Louis C.K. Isn't Updating Seinfeld; He's Updating Proust
  • Quote of the Day
  • Greatest Use of the Parenthetical ... Ever?
  • Why We Should All Be Like Frank Sullivan
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quotes of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • The Politics of Resenting Those with Less
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Guillen & Loria: The New Abbott & Costello
  • Quotes of the Day: Jackie Robinson Edition
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Titanic Conversation
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Thomas Jefferson: the Original Non-Originalist
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Why Stephen Fry was Perfectly Cast as Mycroft Holmes
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quotes of the Day: World Series Edition
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Idiots, the Bush Administration, and 9/11
  • Quote of the Day
  • Dialogue of the Day: “Rois et reine”
  • Conversation of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • How to Make a Heart: Take Two Shapes and Turn Them Into a More Complicated Shape
  • Quote of the Day about the Debt Ceiling, 1979
  • Quote of the Day
  • Conversation of the Day (2006 Version)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Facebook Dialogue of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Osama + Arnold
  • What Wish is Being Fulfilled with a Royal Wedding?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Thomas Geoghegan: Future Supreme Court Nominee?
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Batters on Pitchers: Schmidt on Ryan
  • Pitchers on Batters: Cliff Lee on Ichiro
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Want Ad of the Day
  • Roger Ebert Predicts 2011 in 1987
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Class Act of the Day: Hank Aaron on Bonds, Simmons
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day: Roger Ebert carves up “Battle: Los Angeles”
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Critical Quote of the Day
  • Hall of Fame Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day (Disney Version)
  • Kepner Quotes of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Other Day — Republican Incoherence and You
  • Mickey on the DH
  • Welcome to the Loser's Club
  • Clay Shirky Quote of the Day
  • Steve Tesich Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day — Gates Case
  • Jackass of the Day: Rob Moore
  • Breaking the Laws of Probability
  • Now That's Good Writin': Kehr on Lemmon
  • "Free, White and 21"
  • Now That's Good Writing: Denby on “Up”
  • ...And he's only 54
  • The Do-Little Academy
  • Auteur, Auteur
  • "The Graduate": Not Starring Robert Redford
  • SWJM, 27, Looking for Work
  • Quote of the Day
  • Postcard of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Freudian Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day (Freudian Version)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day — for the Decade
  • Presidential Quote of the Day
  • Book Quote of the Day
  • Book Quote of the Day
  • Dialogue of the Day: "Cesar" (1936)
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • The-More-Things-Change Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Joe Henry Quote of the Day
  • Who Watches the Watchers of "Watchmen"?
  • How W. is Dumber than a Fascist
  • Redford/Pfeiffer, Connery/Zeta-Jones, Etc.
  • Cagney Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Lyrics of the Day
  • The Devil Is My Kinda Woman
  • Oscar Acceptance Speech of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Francois Truffaut Quote of the Day - II
  • Francois Truffaut Quote of the Day - I
  • John Updike Quote of the Day
  • Robert Downey Jr. Quote of the Day
  • Barack Obama Quote of the Day
  • Sam Cooke Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Effin' Year
  • Death-of-Journalism Quote of the Day
  • Johnny Depp Quote of the Day
  • A Thought for the New Year
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Scientific Quote of the Day
  • DFMF Quote of the Day
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Baffling Republican Quote of the Day
  • Reader Quote of the Day
  • DFMF Quote of the Day
  • Karim Sadjadpour Quote of the Day
  • Frank Rich Quote of the Day
  • Obama Quote of the Day - for Patricia
  • Anonymous Quote of the Day
  • Patricia Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day at Arnellia's
  • Repeat Quote of the Day
  • Quote of the Day
  • Obama Quote of the Day - II
  • Obama Quote of the Day - I
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day - III
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day - II
  • New Yorker Quote of the Day - I
  • British Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • TV Quote of the Day
  • Musical Quote of the Day
  • Literary Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Literary Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Movie Quote of the Day
  • Fall of the American Empire Quote of the Day - II
  • The Fall of the American Empire Quote of the Day
  • The Tweet of the Year
  • Untitled
    • Seattle
    Superheroes
     RSS    Facebook

    Twitter: @ErikLundegaard

    ARCHIVES
    By Category

    All previous entries

    LINKS
    Movies
    Jeffrey Wells
    The Film Experience
    Roger Ebert
    Baseball
    Rob Neyer
    Joe Posnanski
    Cardboard Gods
    Politics
    Andrew Sullivan
    Alex Pareene
    Hendrik Hertzberg
    Friends
    Cloud Five Comics
    Copy Curmudgeon
    Deb Ellis
    Andrew Engelson
    Jerry Grillo
    Tim Harrison
    Eric Hanson
    Ben Stocking
    Jim Walsh

    {Blog}       {Movie opinions}       {Movie reviews}       {Book reviews}       {General articles}       {Bio}

    dative-querulous