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Re-watching The West Wing in 2026. What year is it (#626)?
Working fourth assistant camera on Josie and the Pussycats (2001).
Like almost every American film made since The Birth of a Nation, Gus Van Sant's latest uses the same stereotyped character technique developed by D. W. Griffith.
Saying goodbye to Athena, the best cat ever.
Jack Thorne's Lord of the Flies is a pro-forma adaptation of a book already thoroughly covered.
Buffet Infinity is a perfectly executed gimmick, while The Sheep Detectives is even stranger.
Catching Pinecones is a great new movie making the rounds in the film festival circuit.
A 2014 Paris Review interview with cartoonist Chris Ware vs. a 2009 MOOVMNT interview with rapper/producer Q-Tip.
Deadeye Dick, and the crime at its center, reach out to past and future.
A confused Peggy Noonan column.
Just Visiting (2001) is a forgotten but worthwhile French-American farce starring Christina Applegate.
I have the feeling Trump's fed up with Vance and the other Catholics in his administration.
A line cook’s slow descent through dysfunction, delusion and burnout.
Groundswell by the ladies.
Just another guy in a uniform.
Marilyn Chin chops up all the traditions in Rhapsody in Plain Yellow.
New Trump proposals threaten further harm.
From Euphoria and Firefly to Infowars and Lord of the Flies, entertaining transformations.
It sure ain’t what it used to be.
The scolds won't tell you the whole story.
Assessing AI’s trajectory and humanity’s prospects.
Surprising that he lasted this long, but also that he achieved immortality, with habits like that.
Without warning, I started playing.
The actress talks about her experience working on the Woody Allen film in this recent interview from the 2026 TCM Classic Film Festival.
The magnificent theme song from Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia.
An extended interview with the filmmaker on his upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey.
From the album Lullaby (1998).
The sex neuroscientist talks about modern dating trends and her new book Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy.
Recently surfaced show from the band's peak, with a previously undocumented performance of "Frail and Bedazzled."
The actress talks about losing her virginity, her relationship with Michael Jackson, and more in this new interview.
The Governor of Maryland on the military, Oprah, Iran, and more.
The artist talks about his new album, Hollywood, David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, glam rock, and more in this 1998 interview.
The band talk fame, touring, and Baby Ruth's in a bathtub in London on November 5, 1991.
The artist talks about his polarizing song in this June 24, 1985 episode of Late Night.