Criticism
"United 93" Never Gets Off the Ground
BY COLIN ASHER
If only the real United 93 had failed -- like the movie -- to take flight.
05.02.2006 | FILM
The Farther Side
BY ADAM BULGER
A conversation with Gary Larson heir apparent Nicholas Gurewitch about death, drawing and who'd win in a fight between a bear and a falcon.
04.10.2006 | COMICS
Through Different Eyes
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
Al Jazeera like you've never seen it before.
05.21.2004 | FILM
Die Really Hard
BY MATT TAIBBI
Jesus the jokester is just killing us, one flog at a time.
03.30.2004 | FILM
Attack of the Platitudes
BY MICHAEL MANVILLE
The Right regularly extols globalization with a barrage of banality. The Left, in a new video, sadly reciprocates. Is there no room for a more sophisticated vision?
08.26.2002 | FILM
BBC World Dis-Service
BY DAVID ALLEN FORRESTER
It's the best known and most respected voice in international broadcasting. So why is their coverage of the 'War on Terror' so lousy?
02.25.2002 | RADIO
The New Medicine Show, In a Series of Ones and Zeros
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
There is a program that knows you are looking at this page right now--among other things.
01.26.2002 | INTERNET
Christ Comics
BY ADAM BULGER
Jesus, comic books and prank calls; a look into the world of Christian comic books.
08.21.2001 | COMICS
Cops Can Read
BY ADAM BULGER
If you haven't been reading Police magazine, you don't know what you've been missing.
02.24.2001 | MAGAZINES
Ken Burns, Scrimshaw Fetishist
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
Ken Burns works up a 19 hour documentary on jazz, and leaves the 1960s and 70s to wait in the car.
02.04.2001 | TELEVISION
A Milestone, Not A Millstone: Mos Def and the Jack Johnson Band at Roseland
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
Mos Def recently debuted his new 'ghetto rock n' roll' outfit, the Jack Johnson Band, and it is equal parts rock and roll.
12.27.2000 | MUSIC
White Sale
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
As we roll past Labor Day, George W. Bush and Al Gore struggle to differentiate themselves from one another in the public's mind. If you have trouble telling them apart, look no further than their official campaign supply stores, georgewbushstore.com and goregear.com.
09.08.2000 | INTERNET
A New Millenium Dawns, and ArchieComics.com Hits the Snooze Button
BY MATTHEW CALLAN
Archie Comics have been around for years, and it shows. Depsite their expansion onto the web via archiecomics.com, the omnipresent red-haired menace keeps his feet planted firmly in the 1950's.
09.01.2000 | INTERNET
The Tin Drum: Language and the Collective Memory
BY JOHN MULLER
The history of this century has been "written" with images. In the "The Tin Drum" Schlöndorff deliberately recreates visually similar images to those in "The Triumph of the Will" to make the formerly spectacular seem everyday, namely in a political demonstration that is thrown off by a drumbeat and dispersed by a downpour. Did someone in Oklahoma miss the point?
09.15.1998 | FILM
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