Whan that April with his showres soote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veine in swich licour, Of which vert...

This year, at least in the Unites States, April 25th is Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah . The U.K. apparently observes it on Jan...

The Pulitzers were announced last week. While some in the blogosphere are upset about certain choices, I thought it was quite a good list, ...

Topical? We don't need no stinking topical! Yes, yes, this is ridiculously late, as usual...! While writing this up, a few things occurr...

In 2005, many entertainment journalists wrote trend stories about the decline in box-office sales, and that’s valid. However, a related “tr...

Brokeback Mountain Beyond all the hype and jokes, Brokeback proves to be a very good film, elegiac and unsettling, quiet but moving. Lik...

Junebug Junebug is the best film of 2005 you probably didn’t see. This “small” film chronicles George (Alessandro Nivola) visiting his pa...