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- Salon.com: What Liberal Hollywood?
- Minnesota Alumni Magazine: Marxmen: Remembering the Marx Brotherhood
- MSNBC: Natalie Portman + Ashton Kutcher = WTF
- eriklundegaard.com: Why Breaking Away is a Great American Movie
- eriklundegaard.com: My Five Most-Quoted Movie Lines
- MSNBC: The Top 5 Baseball Scenes in Non-Baseball Movies
- MSNBC: Top 5 Clive Owen Movies
- MSNBC: The Fifth Annual Academy Award Quiz
2008
- MSNBC: Whatever Happened to the American Epic?
- MSNBC: Hail to the...Who? U.S. Presidents on Film
- Huffington Post: Two Thumbs Up for Roger and Gene
- MSNBC: Why Dark Knight won't sink Titanic
- MSN: The Smart Knight: Is The Dark Knight the smartest superhero movie ever made?
- eriklundegaard.com: Dark Knight My Ass: Why Batman descends into camp
- Slate: Are Movie Reviewers Elitist? Why quality films sell
- MSNBC: The Documentaries of Martin Scorsese
- MSNBC: Top 5: Inspired Superhero Casting
- MSNBC: Top 5: Great Movie Stoners
- The Believer: The Hollywood Happy Meal: Top 10 Box Office Hits According to Variety as of March 19, 1958
- MSNBC: Top 5: Great Card-Game Movie Scenes
- MSNBC: The Secret to Tyler Perry's Success
- MSNBC: In Defense of Woody Harrelson
- MSNBC: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar: The fourth annual Academy Award quiz
- Huffington Post: Why We Stopped Seeing Best Picture Nominees
2007
- MSNBC: The Wise Counsel of Morgan Freeman
- MSNBC: Robert Redford Gets Political
- MSNBC: Today’s Move Tough Guys: The Stepchildren of Lee Marvin
- MSNBC: Lawyers on Film: the good, the bad, the unlikely
- MSNBC: Wes Anderson’s bruised souls
- MSNBC: Jackie Chan's Earlier, Crazier Movies
- MSNBC: Keep Watching the Skies! A short history of alien invasion movies
- MSNBC: John McClane — Quintessential American hero
- Huffington Post: What the Opening of Pirates 3 Says About Pirates 2
- MSNBC: The 10 Best Superhero Scenes on Film
- MSNBC: When Leading Men Go Bad
- MSNBC: The History of Spider-Man on Screen
- MSNBC: Top 5 Films Set in Paris
- MSNBC: A History of Baseball Movies: From hitting a home run for Timmy to hitting a home run with Susan Sarandon
- MSNBC: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar: The third annual Academy Awards quiz
- MSNBC: The 2006 Oscar Nominees for Best Picture
- MSNBC: The 2006 Box Office Awards
2006
- MSNBC: The 10 Best Scenes of 2006
- MSNBC: The History of the CIA on Film
- MSNBC: The History of James Bond on Film
- MSNBC: The Ultimate James Bond Quiz
- MSNBC: For Your Consideration: Sacha Baron Cohen for Best Supporting Actor
- MSNBC: Top 5 Movie Homeruns
- MSNBC: The 10 Best Jack Nicholson Scenes
- MSNBC: Putting the B.O. in Box Office
- MSNBC: Sean Penn, the Anti-Movie Star
- MSNBC: For Your Consideration: United 93 for Best Picture
- MSNBC: Why Movie Critics Matter: One critic defends his profession
- MSNBC: The History of the World Trade Center on Film
- MSNBC: Michael Mann Among Men: Director likes his men cool, professional, and in pairs
- MSNBC: Johnny Depp: American Original
- The New York Times: Truth, Justice, and (Fill in the Blank)
- MSNBC: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a super quiz!
- MSNBC: Sex and the Superman
- MSNBC: The History of the Internet on Film
- MSNBC: Tom Hanks and Ron Howard: Nice Guys Finish First
- The Rake: The Real Most Inspirational Films in Hollywood History
- MSNBC: Mission: Impractical: Why the Impossible Mission Force is bad for America
- MSNBC: Philip Seymour Hoffman is Us
- MSNBC: A history of People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive”
- MSNBC: Spike Lee Wakes Up
- MSNBC: ‘Crash’ and Burn
- MSNBC: The ABC Oscars: Anything But Crash
- MSNBC: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar: The second annual Academy Awards quiz
- MSNBC: The 2005 Oscar Nominees for Best Actor
- MSNBC: Is a Kiss Just a Kiss? A history of Hollywood's most memorable kisses
- MSNBC: Not Quitting You: How “Brokeback Mountain” became an Oscar favorite
- MSNBC: Kiss Kiss, Dumb Dumb: How Hollywood distributes movies
- MSNBC: Defending “Munich”: Why Steven Spielberg’s thriller is the best movie of the year
2005
- MSNBC: The 10 Best Scenes of 2005
- MSNBC: In Defense of Kevin Costner
- MSNBC: All About Chemistry: Hollywood's greatest on-screen couples
- MSNBC: Looking for Mr. Wright: Jeffrey Wright’s best roles
- MSNBC: Who’s Due for an Oscar?
- MSNBC: And the Scroll Goes To... : Why the National Society of Film Critics matters more than the Oscars
- MSNBC: How Hollywood Portrayed Terrorism Before 9/11
- MSNBC: Movies About the Movies: How Hollywood sees itself
- MSNBC: The 10 Sexiest Hollywood Actresses: 2005 Edition
- MSNBC: Billy Boy and Them: The movies of Billy Bob Thornton
- MSNBC: Tim Burton Almost Grows Up
- MSNBC: The Frat Pack Crashes Hollywood
- MSNBC: Brad Pitt: Scuzziest Man Alive
- MSNBC: Whatever Happened to the Political Thriller?
- MSNBC: Darth Vader Lives! Why the Dark Side is more powerful
- MSNBC: The 2004 Nominees for Best Director: Marty vs. Clint
- MSNBC: The 2004 Nominees for Best Actress: Why women's pictures are rarely best pictures
- MSNBC: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar: The first annual Academy Awards quiz
- MSNBC: The World's Worst Film Critic: Why Oscar host Chris Rock should shut the fuck up
- MSNBC: Wanted: The Bill James of Box Office Statistics
- MSNBC: 100 Years, 100 Hoo-ahs!: What's missing from AFI's list of great movie lines
2004
- MSNBC: Oscar Plays It Safe: Why the Academy Goes Bland in Turbulent Times
- MSNBC: Christmas Movies: Why Santa is Red, Why Scrooge is Blue
- MSN: Top 10 Christmas scenes
- MSN: The best and worst of music biopics
- MSN: Top 10 dance scenes
- MSN: The best and worst of Stephen King movies
Earlier
- The Seattle Times: Interview with Clive Owen
- The Seattle Times: Interview with Tony Shalhoub
- Slate: Plotholes for John Q
- Slate: Plotholes for Memento
- The Seattle Times: Interview with Fred Willard
- The Seattle Times: Interview with Aviva Kempner
- The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Fargo Farrago