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  • TV

    Wednesday, June 2, 2010

    Lost is to heroin what Persons Unknown is to Pixy Stix.

  • Thursday, May 27, 2010

    Debating the merits of the show's finale and the best and worst of the ABC hit.

  • Screen

    Wednesday, May 26, 2010

    The Special Relationship explores Blair’s connection with Bill Clinton during their overlapping tenures as heads of state in the late 1990s.

  • Film

    Wednesday, May 26, 2010

    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time can tower over nearly every other film in the subgenre just by being the least sucky.

  • Film

    Wednesday, May 26, 2010

    The bloated sequel plays more like the vacation footage of the wealthy than anything resembling a cohesive narrative.

  • Entertainment

    Wednesday, May 26, 2010

    Love or hate 'Lost,' the fact remains: It’s over. Which got us thinking...

  • Film

    Wednesday, May 19, 2010

    Last week in Vegas two start-up festivals worked hard to bring underground work to local audiences.

  • Screen

    Wednesday, May 19, 2010

    Exactly how many times can Shrek and Fiona live happily ever after?

  • Saturday, May 15, 2010

    It's a critic on critic battle over Russell Crowe's latest.

  • television

    Wednesday, May 12, 2010

    "If you took 'South Park' and 'Fat Albert' and forced them to have sex with 'Malcolm in the Middle'..."

  • television

    Wednesday, May 12, 2010

    Fox hits the throwback well.

  • Film

    Wednesday, May 12, 2010

    The good news is that Letters to Juliet is only the third-worst romantic comedy set in Europe released this year.

  • Music

    Wednesday, May 12, 2010

    Diamond Eyes is the group's strongest effort since 2000's excellent White Pony.

  • Music

    Wednesday, May 12, 2010

    Even without Natalie Maines, secondary Chicks Emily Robison and Martie Maguire create an album that's in many ways an extension of the Dixie Chick's 2006 release.

  • Saturday, May 8, 2010

    Josh Bell takes a look into the Marvel crystal ball.

  • Culture

    Wednesday, May 5, 2010

    Includes such tantalizing titles as "Slime City Massacre, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, Orgy of Blood" and "Vaginal Holocaust"!

  • Film

    Wednesday, May 5, 2010

    "Iron Man 2" didn’t, but some sequels actually improve on their predecessors...

  • Film

    Wednesday, May 5, 2010

    With all these larger-than-life crime-fighters getting screen time, it’s a wonder "Iron Man 2" has room left for Stark.

  • Film

    Wednesday, April 28, 2010

    Can you tell which projects listed below are actually in development, and which ones we just made up?

  • Film

    Wednesday, April 28, 2010

    Generally speaking, straight-to-DVD horror sequels are not to be trusted, but what about The Descent: Part 2?

  • Film

    Wednesday, April 28, 2010

    It’s surprising to see a movie about Nazis in which their being Nazis isn’t the main focus.

  • TV

    Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    Happy Town manages to strike a good balance between Lynchian weirdness and straight-up murder mystery.

  • TV

    Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    Often tough to get through, although it’s artfully constructed and often rousing.

  • Film

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    Are those your neighbors, or a crack team of "stealth marketers"?

  • Film

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    Superhero movies deserve a punch in the face. Take that!

  • Film

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    Spend Earth Day (April 22) sitting in a darkened room eating popcorn!

  • Friday, April 9, 2010

    That's how Josh would describe Date Night starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell.

  • Music

    Wednesday, April 7, 2010

    AC/DC's forceful, driving hard rock is perfect accompaniment for the flagrant badassery of Iron Man.

  • Film

    Wednesday, April 7, 2010

    Fanning and Stewart do a decent job of embodying both awkward adolescence and arrogant rock stardom, and the connection between the two at times feels genuine.

  • television

    Wednesday, April 7, 2010

    Despite the governmental neglect and the property destruction, the New Orleans of Treme is inviting and even inspiring.

  • Friday, April 2, 2010

    Josh Bell hates it when Hollywood misuses 3D. Grr.

  • Film

    Wednesday, March 31, 2010

    Hastily converted to 3-D to take advantage of inflated ticket prices, Titans is visually unremarkable and narratively weak.

  • Entertainment

    Wednesday, March 24, 2010

    Like "Snakes on a Plane," if you like the title, you'll like the movie.

  • Film

    Wednesday, March 24, 2010

    The highlight of this "erotic thriller" is the genuine heat and chemistry between Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried.

  • Music

    Wednesday, March 24, 2010

    The Truckers have nothing left to prove, but To-Do proves something anyway.

  • Film

    Wednesday, March 24, 2010

    Spend a night with the shrieking star of Terror Overload, Camp Kill and Strip Club Slasher.

  • Friday, March 19, 2010

    New releases feel the wrath.

  • Film

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    A vending machine of the future and some good vibrations at the movie-theater industry's annual trade convention.

  • Film

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Repo Men takes a serious look at a world in which artificial organs are violently repossessed when people can no longer pay for them.

  • TV

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010

    FX has built such a strong reputation for layered, uncompromising dramas. Does Justified follow suit?

  • Noise

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010

    If nothing else, Shooter Jennings’ fourth album, Black Ribbons, is completely unexpected.

  • Music

    Wednesday, March 3, 2010

    There’s something appealing about Huff’s dogged consistency.

  • television

    Wednesday, March 3, 2010

    With every new project he takes on, Jerry Seinfeld further demonstrates that he’s lost whatever creative touch made his eponymous sitcom so iconic.

  • Film

    Wednesday, March 3, 2010

    Burton’s film is more a quasi-sequel and he gives an expected darker tinge to the setting, years after Alice first encountered it as a little girl.

  • Film

    Wednesday, March 3, 2010

    Polanski remains a master craftsman, and he brings a level of skill to this material that raises it above what could have been a trashy thriller.

  • Monday, March 1, 2010

    Who will win Oscars on Sunday? Josh predicts who's going home happy.

  • television

    Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010

    Prodigal daughter retuning home, raucous family meals... hmm, where have we seen this before?

  • Film

    Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010

    Here are four elements from George A. Romero’s 1973 film that we hope to see in the 2010 version.

  • Film

    Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010

    That Evening Sun is a complex portrait of the rural South as a place where deeply ingrained traditions and prejudices mingle freely with modern ideas and developments.

  • Friday, Feb. 19, 2010

    Scorsese plus Leo and Oscar-nominated shorts in this week's podcast.