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