Category: Arts & Entertainment
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When I Was a Child, I Made Fun of Childish Things
Getting defensive over a sneering op-ed about what Adults should be reading
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Being Katniss Everdeen
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention! The internet’s preeminent Hunger Games fan and the bold battle against real racism.
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Winter is Coming! Direct to your home! For a new low, low price!
Even making generous guesses at the amount of revenue available from switching from a subscription model to an a la carte one, the numbers still don’t add up.
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NOW how much would you pay?
How to stick it to The Man. Step 1: Display a complete ignorance of how media companies work.
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No, Virginia
John Carter is not a movie adaptation of A Princess of Mars, and that’s my biggest problem with it.
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Are you not entertained?!
Something about The Hunger Games isn’t sitting right with me, and I’m not quite sure exactly what it is. Minor spoilers abound.
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Snow White and the 4 8 15 16 23 42 Dwarves
The series Once Upon a Time is part Fables and part Lost, which makes me wonder why I ever believed I wouldn’t get hooked on it.
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Welcome to the schlock
Fox’s new series Alcatraz somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.
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A Cookie Filled With Arsenic
Sweet Smell of Success is a classic movie with one of the greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. The Duellists is… not. I don’t understand why The Castro decided to run them together.
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Heart Felt
We’re long past due for sincerity to make a comeback, and The Muppets are the perfect ones to bring it.
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Something Rotten
Orson Scott Card finally explains what Hamlet’s real problem was all along, but we’re still no closer to finding out why Card is such an asshole.