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A Hijacking 5 Jul 2013 | 11:45 pm
Negotiation is a transaction that results in compromise: what we're willing to live with to get on with business. The value is measured not in worth but rather in cost. So when lives are at stake, how...
This is Steve Coogan 5 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
Steve Coogan has a talent for self-laceration. His best roles are all about him, or rather a reflection of himself that he finds funny, in a pathetic sort of way. The actor's American roles are mostl...
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain 4 Jul 2013 | 09:08 pm
I laughed out loud when comedian Kevin Hart said "thank you and good night" at the end of "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain," because I thought he was kidding. Hart was just hitting his stride (literally — ...
Thumbnails 7/3/2013 4 Jul 2013 | 06:34 am
"Whales Flee from Military Sonar Leading to Mass Strandings, Research Shows." By Damian Carrington, for The Guardian. You know that mystifying phenomenon of whales stranding themselves? It's actually ...
Happy birthday, "Blood Feast": digging into the guts of the very first "splatter" film 4 Jul 2013 | 02:06 am
"Blood Feast" is a terrible film, and a historically important one, too. Director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer David F. Friedman were in the right place in the right time when they cranked out ...
The Lone Ranger 3 Jul 2013 | 07:48 pm
Like "Speed Racer" and "John Carter" before it, "The Lone Ranger" is a movie with no constituency to speak of. It's a gigantic picture with a klutzy, deeply un-cool hero (Armie Hammer of "The Social N...
Despicable Me 2 3 Jul 2013 | 05:57 pm
I enjoyed 2010's "Despicable Me" immensely, so I approached "Despicable Me 2" with a wary eye. "Despicable Me" told a funny, sweet, self-contained story about a guy named Gru (Steve Carrell) who renou...
#174 July 1, 2013 3 Jul 2013 | 09:46 am
Marie writes: The West Coast is currently experiencing a heat wave and I have no air conditioning. That said, and despite it currently being 80F inside my apartment, at least the humidity is low. Alt...
Thumbnails 7/2/2013 3 Jul 2013 | 02:22 am
"Copyright Law on the Internet is a Total Train Wreck Right Now." By Pamela Vaughan, for the marketing blog Hub Spot. "It's a perfectly fine Thursday afternoon. I'm going about my business, happily ....
Neil Jordan's Seven Grim Fairy Tales: An Infographic Guide to a Director's Obsessions 2 Jul 2013 | 11:46 pm
Once upon a time, there was a storyteller named Neil Jordan. He harbored many obsessions. More than half of the writer-director's 16 films are set in Ireland—his self-described "sweetly irrational" ....
