Welcome to the schlock
Fox’s new series Alcatraz somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.
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.
Responsibility
An open letter to Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Dianne Feinstein, supporter and co-sponsor of the PROTECT IP bill and supporters of SOPA
Lore on Demand
Repressed memories dredged up by Skyrim, and reconsidering some assumptions about storytelling in videogames
Heart Felt
We’re long past due for sincerity to make a comeback, and The Muppets are the perfect ones to bring it.
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.