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  • My Almost Jewish Me 18 Dec 2018
  • A Strange Review: Creed 25 Nov 2015
  • The Greatest Letter Ever Written? 16 Nov 2015
  • That Time I Worked for Rambo 7 Nov 2015
  • Jillian Melchior, Superstar 7 Nov 2015
  • I’d Avoid This Club if I Were You 8 Sep 2015
  • A Strange Review: W1A 2 Sep 2015
  • Idris Elba and the James Bond Kerfuffle 1 Sep 2015
  • A Very Strange Preview: Sergio Leone’s “The Siege of Leningrad” 1 Sep 2015
  • R.I.P. Alex Rocco 18 Jul 2015
  • Somebody Down Here Likes Him 12 Jul 2015
  • The Superman Movie That Never Got Made, Thank Goodness 6 Jul 2015
  • Read This Not That This Summer 4 Jul 2015
  • Socialism as Transableism 4 Jul 2015
  • A Strange Preview: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Downslope’ 25 Jun 2015
  • R.I.P. Dick Van Patten 24 Jun 2015
  • The Rebirth of an Indie Bookstore 20 Jun 2015
  • Are We Living in Orwell’s World or Lewis Carroll’s? 10 Jun 2015
  • A Strange Review: Cut Bank 9 Jun 2015
  • This Ethnic Group Got So Tired of Being Depicted as a Bunch of Terrorists, It Did This 6 Jun 2015
  • A Plea for Insanity 4 Jun 2015
  • Twenty Almost Good Song Titles 2 Jun 2015
  • “Tomorrowland”: Signifying Nothing 30 May 2015
  • Taxi Driver Starring Woody Allen 29 May 2015
  • Community: Breaking the Fourth Wall and the Last Taboo 27 May 2015
  • Inside Jokes You May Have Missed Inside Big Movies 27 May 2015
  • A Strange Review: Lucy 24 May 2015
  • Industrial Light and Magic: An Appreciation 21 May 2015
  • Saying Good-bye to David Letterman 19 May 2015
  • Martin Scorsese’s 2013 Jefferson Lecture 18 May 2015
  • Mad Max: Fury Road—The WORST Movie Experience of My Life 14 May 2015
  • Scotsman Armando Iannucci to Deliver MacTaggart Lecture 12 May 2015
  • Orson Welles at the Kosher Deli 12 May 2015
  • The Greatest Chase Scene in Cinema History 25 Apr 2015
  • This Is What I Call Italian Takeout 17 Apr 2015
  • IN HIS HEAD 14 Apr 2015
  • 15 Almost Great Movie Lines 11 Apr 2015
  • “You Want It. I Think I Had to Have It.” 25 Mar 2015
  • Framing Images 22 Mar 2015
  • Face to Face with Evelyn Waugh 11 Feb 2015
  • The True Scandal of This Year’s Oscar Nominations… 15 Jan 2015
  • A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman 15 Mar 2014
  • Is This the Worst Sitcom in the History of Sitting? 15 Mar 2014
  • A Strange Postview: Lars and the Real Girl 17 Feb 2014
  • Your Showman of Showmen Is Dead 12 Feb 2014
  • A Strange Detective: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother 26 Jan 2014
  • A Strange Review: Inside Llewyn Davis 11 Jan 2014
  • A Strange Review: The Great Beauty 27 Dec 2013
  • A Strange Review: Grudge Match 26 Dec 2013
  • A Strange Review: American Hustle 24 Dec 2013
  • A Strange Review: Anchorman 2—The Legend Continues 21 Dec 2013
  • One Tin Soldier Dead at 82 15 Dec 2013
  • In Honor of the Late, Great Peter O’Toole 15 Dec 2013
  • A Strange Audition: Robert De Niro as Sonny Corleone 4 Dec 2013
  • For Those of You Headed to the Movies This Weekend 30 Nov 2013
  • Bob Newhart at the National Press Club, 1995 7 Nov 2013
  • Once Again, Der Fuhrer Explains It All for You 31 Oct 2013
  • One More NYC Icon Bites the High-Rent Dust 29 Oct 2013
  • A Strange Preview: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology 28 Oct 2013
  • A Strange Review: Gravity 6 Oct 2013
  • The Galaxy’s Largest Collection of Star Wars Memorabilia 15 Sep 2013
  • Please Don’t Drop the Internet 2 Sep 2013
  • A Strange Review: Closed Circuit 31 Aug 2013
  • Strange Quote of the Day: Nicolai Berdyaev 29 Aug 2013
  • A Strange Review: Jobs 17 Aug 2013
  • A Strange Postview: The Day the Clown Cried 12 Aug 2013
  • Eileen Brennan: 1932-2013 30 Jul 2013
  • A Strange Review: The Way, Way Back 17 Jul 2013
  • An Interview with Gene Wilder: June 13, 2013 9 Jul 2013
  • A Strange Review: Man of Steel 15 Jun 2013
  • The Deep Dark Secrets of Return of the Jedi 27 May 2013
  • A Strange Review: Star Trek into Darkness 24 May 2013
  • A Strange Review: Iron Man 3 3 May 2013
  • A Strange Review: Oblivion 20 Apr 2013
  • And You Thought You Understood What Was Going on in The Shining 28 Mar 2013
  • A Strange Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 23 Mar 2013
  • Speaking of the Late, Great Tony Randall… 22 Mar 2013
  • The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About the New ‘Star Trek’ Movie Is . . . 21 Mar 2013
  • The Funniest Sketch in the History of Sketch Funny 21 Mar 2013
  • Quick Takes on a Bunch of Film-Type Moving Pictures 9 Mar 2013
  • Every 007 Film Cut into One Giant Bond Flick* 11 Nov 2012
  • How Walker Percy’s ‘The Moviegoer’ Won the National Book Award and Other Acts of Brutality 5 Nov 2012
  • The Pope, James Bond, and Me 1 Nov 2012
  • 13 Hitchcock Films You’ve Never Seen. Because They Were Never Made. 29 Oct 2012
  • Forget Obama and Romney: Here’s Why You Should Elect a Comic Book Supervillain 21 Oct 2012
  • A Strange Review: Seven Psychopaths 20 Oct 2012
  • A Strange Review: Argo 12 Oct 2012
  • Why We Should All Hate Big Bird 10 Oct 2012
  • ‘Holy Flying Circus’ 8 Oct 2012
  • Quotes of the Day: Ignazio Silone 8 Oct 2012
  • Happy Columbus Day Observed! 8 Oct 2012
  • A Strange Review: The Master 6 Oct 2012
  • The Invisible Man 5 Oct 2012
  • The Real Count of Monte Cristo Meets the Real Tom Sawyer 2 Oct 2012
  • A Strange Review: Arbitrage 29 Sep 2012
  • A Strange Review: The Bourne Legacy 29 Sep 2012
  • Producer of ‘Atlas Shrugged Part II: More Shrugging, Less Hugging’ Says Christians and Randians Should Unite to Save Capitalism 27 Sep 2012
  • Movie Protested for Pitching Hope for Public Schools 27 Sep 2012
  • ‘Your Brain on Pseudoscience’: The New Statesman Slaps Down Gladwell, Harris, Mooney & Ilk 25 Sep 2012
  • Strange Quote of the Day: Fyodor Dostoyevsky 25 Sep 2012
  • Strange Quote of the Day: Anthony Burgess 24 Sep 2012
  • Strange Quote of the Day: Spike Milligan 23 Sep 2012
  • The Ig Nobel Award Winners of 2012! 21 Sep 2012
  • Strange Quote of the Day: Rajesh Koothrappali 21 Sep 2012
  • Talk Like Chester A. Arthur Day 19 Sep 2012
  • Strange Quote of the Day: Slavoj Zizek 16 Sep 2012
  • Miserable Waffle-Flippers to Fine Insults 9 Sep 2012
  • Attention, Screwballs: Area 51 Secrets to Be Revealed September 22! 5 Sep 2012
  • For Those of You Who’ve Been Waiting for a New Release of “Heaven’s Gate”… 31 Aug 2012
  • A Strange Review: The Campaign 31 Aug 2012
  • A Strange Review: Cosmopolis 31 Aug 2012
  • A Strange Review: The Expendables 2 25 Aug 2012
  • The Most Racist Shows on TV 20 Aug 2012
  • “Heart of Coppola” 16 Aug 2012
  • Arnold Horshack Is Dead. And You’re All Just Sitting There Enjoying Yourselves as if Nothing Has Happened. 14 Aug 2012
  • How One Scene in The Godfather Foreshadowed Robert DeNiro’s Oscar-Winning Career 14 Aug 2012
  • Top-Ten Movie Lists Give Me Vertigo 4 Aug 2012
  • A Strange Review: The Dark Knight Stinketh 28 Jul 2012
  • ‘Whadda Ya Wanna Do Tonight, Marty?’ 8 Jul 2012
  • Slavoj Zizek’s Philosopher’s Gymnasium 4 Jun 2012
  • Movie Theaters I Mourn 25 Feb 2012
  • A Strange Review: The Artist 4 Feb 2012
  • He Would Have Been 80 Today 3 Feb 2012
  • Two Strange Reviews: Sherlock Holmes II & MI:4 21 Dec 2011
  • A Strange Review: Melancholia 14 Dec 2011
  • Strange Quote of the Day: Stanley Hudson 9 Dec 2011
  • Film Critic Gets Slammed by Studio for Positive Review of Its Movie 6 Dec 2011
  • A Strange Review: Hugo 1 Dec 2011
  • The AMAZING Michael J. Fox! 15 Nov 2011
  • Welles Meets Wells 2 Nov 2011
  • Pinocchio: An Exercise in Terror 24 Oct 2011
  • A Strange Review: Johnny English Reborn 21 Oct 2011
  • A Strange Review: Ides of March 20 Oct 2011
  • A Strange Review: The Mighty Macs 15 Oct 2011
  • In Honor of Columbus Day 10 Oct 2011
  • The Theme Song to ‘Star Trek’ Had Lyrics. And They Sucked. 4 Oct 2011
  • A Strange Review: Moneyball 24 Sep 2011
  • A Strange Review: Contagion 9 Sep 2011
  • Was Jerry Lewis Kicked Off the MDA Telethon? 5 Aug 2011
  • BBC Publishes ‘Greatest 101 Questions of All Time’ — No. 67: ‘Why?’ 24 Feb 2009
  • Two Strange Reviews: Revolutionary Road and The Reader 18 Feb 2009
  • The People vs. George Lucas Will Determine Whether Indy 4 Constitutes a War Crime 15 Feb 2009
  • A Strange Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still 7 Jan 2009
  • Indy 4 Rife with Historical Inaccuracies: Canadians, Not Aliens, Responsible for Crystal Skulls 30 Dec 2008
  • A Strange Review: Slumdog Millionaire 27 Dec 2008
  • A Strange Review: The Wrestler 22 Dec 2008
  • A Strange Review: Gran Torino 17 Dec 2008
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