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June 2014

June 16, 2014

The Fault in Our Logic

When I was young, I heard many a sermon that was based on math....

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Bridging Time: Days of Future Past

The scattered and even feeble attempts to build a storyline for Marvel’s beloved mutants...

May 20, 2014

Grace at the Movies

In their first co-directed film, The Way Way Back (2013), Nat Faxon and Jim...

May 14, 2014

Big Lies

As Irving Rosenfeld, the consummate con-man of American Hustle explains, people want to be conned....

April 2014

April 10, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel

"The Grand Budapest Hotel" begins with a telescoping narrative device: a young girl—a poor, but...

March 2014

March 10, 2014

The Lego Movie

Editor’s Warning: BEWARE – MASSIVE SPOILERS The Lego Movie has already been acclaimed as...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

A Flaw in the Light: Thoughts on ‘The Counselor’

Sometimes—maybe even most of the time—truly great works of art seem flawed at first....