Take The City And Run

The current issue of Washington Monthly features a pair of contrasting articles offering views on why Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008 and why she shouldn’t.
With all the conventional so-called wisdom running laps ’round the circuits of the national scene, it’s refreshing to find articles that actually take time to […]

What’s out this week? Well, uhm… there’s Sky High, Must Love Dogs, and Stealth.
Done gagging?
Good. Then turn your attention to a different kind of crude. An intentional crude that doesn’t hide behind a mega-budgeted ad blitz designed to distract you from how obviously bad a hackjob it is someone’s trying to shovel onto your rods […]

Tonight’s episode of MTV’s Made, featuring Brittany, who “looks like your typical punk girl, but she’s a nice kid who wishes that her peers could see her softer side… [and is] ready to be MADE into her school’s Prom Queen” got some good press.
And whataya know? Jenny worked on this episode as well. Interesting […]

Whether you enjoyed Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and want more of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, or loathed it and need to cancel it out with something more inspired, this weekend is your chance to see them at their best as Landmark Sunshine Cinema presents Edward Scissorhands.
But if that director-star team isn’t classic enough […]

Apparently, random bag checks are the newest way our subways are being kept safe. What with the state of city politics today, NYC is seeming more and more like a junior high every day.

Directed by Jeffrey Jacobs, 2005IMDb listing
The name John Dobson may not yet be familiar to you, but he is an interesting and important man nonetheless. By creating and freely sharing a new way to mount a telescope (the “Dobsonian” mount) and starting an organization called “Sidewalk Astronomers,” he’s made two contributions that have brought astronomy […]

Directed by Paul Pavlikovsky, 2005viewed July 3, 2005IMDb listing
If, while watching this film, you find yourself thinking of Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, it could be because they both feature an apparently weaker, lower class female influenced by a dominating, upper class female. It could be because the dominating females of both films are more or […]

Directed by Steven Spielberg, 2005viewed July 1, 2005IMDb listing
If you’re expecting an overly sentimental cheesefest, you’ll likely be surprised to find what Spielberg, along with partner in crime Tom Cruise, offers this time around. The action starts almost immediately and barely lets up throughout, offering pretty ballsy scenes of mass murder and, yes, as Tim […]

US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor resigns. Uhm… whaaa?!
The rest of the summer should be loads of fun.

A Belated Apology to Joel Schumacher (Signed, The Internet) is an interesting look at the demise of the last Batman franchise by Jay Pinkerton.