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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Carlito’s Way, #20
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 29, 2025Brian De Palma was worried about doing another Hispanic drug kingpin movie after Scarface. But the...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Pope of Greenwich Village, #21
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 28, 2025To appreciate just how well director Stuart Rosenberg and writer Vincent Patrick captured wiseguy street corner...

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Revolution Recap: ‘The Love Boat’ (Season 1, Episode 16)
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 28, 2025If there’s one thing Revolution has done wrong, and it’s done so, so many things wrong,...

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The Office Recap: ‘A.A.R.M’ (Season 9, Episode 22)
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 28, 2025“This” is being Assistant to the Regional Manager (Dwight Schrute) at a paper company that, even...

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Boldly Going…: A Look Back At The Original The Original Series Star Trek Movies
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 28, 2025In preparation for Star Trek Into Darkness, I decided to take a look back at the...

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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
By Ed VovesDecember 28, 2025A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bonnie and Clyde, #19
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 28, 2025“Young people understood this movie instantly,” director Arthur Penn told the Los Angeles Times. “They saw...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Scarface, #16
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 27, 2025A remake of the 1932 classic of the same name starring Paul Muni, Al Pacino’s Scarface...

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Revolution Recap: ‘The Longest Day’ (Season 1, Episode 17)
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 27, 2025There are a lot of interesting concepts operating within Revolution's borders. Unfortunately, it rarely makes proper...

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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
By Ed VovesDecember 27, 2025On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Bronx Tale, #18
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 27, 2025A Bronx Tale is more than a wonderful portrait of growing up around the mob in...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Reservoir Dogs, #15
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 27, 2025Reservoir Dogs is an action film without much action. A crime drama in which you never...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: White Heat, #17
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 26, 2025This was film noir, movies where evil not only exists, but flourishes. Cagney’s Cody Jarrett isn’t...

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Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 26, 2025By the end, Star Trek Into Darkness ends up feeling too much like a retread of...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mean Streets, #14
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 25, 2025One of the best things about watching Mean Streets more than 30 years after its debut...

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Blind Boys, Berkeley Blue, Phone Hacks and Wozniak
By MichaelDecember 25, 2025The earliest phone phreak I’ve been able to identify was a young man who went by...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Léon: The Professional, #13
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 25, 2025He’s a highly efficient—but in many ways naïve—hit man who drinks milk, exercises religiously and seems...

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The Office Recap: Finale (Season 9, Episode 23)
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 25, 2025"Finale" is about bringing them all together for one last hurrah, and it works emotionally and...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Usual Suspects, #9
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 25, 2025The genesis of this complex thriller was a magazine article, or—more accurately—the headline of an article....

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Casino, #10
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 24, 2025In the opening shot of Casino, a man in a salmon-colored sports jacket climbs into his...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Bronx Tale, #18
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 27, 2025A Bronx Tale is more than a wonderful portrait of growing up around the mob in...
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Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
By Jascha KesslerDecember 14, 2025The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Donnie Brasco, #8
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 23, 2025One of the reasons the movie works so well is the interplay between Pacino and Johnny...

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The Office Recap: ‘A.A.R.M’ (Season 9, Episode 22)
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 28, 2025“This” is being Assistant to the Regional Manager (Dwight Schrute) at a paper company that, even...

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Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
By Helen CaldicottDecember 17, 2025Meanwhile, every billion dollars spent on the supremely misguided attempt to revivify the nuclear industry is...
History
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
By MichaelNovember 29, 2025"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
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The Life of R.K. Narayan
By Nandan DattaDecember 16, 2025R.K. Narayan Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and...

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The Office Recap: Finale (Season 9, Episode 23)
By Brett Harrison DavingerDecember 25, 2025"Finale" is about bringing them all together for one last hurrah, and it works emotionally and...

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Carlito’s Way, #20
By George Anastasia, Glen MacnowDecember 29, 2025Brian De Palma was worried about doing another Hispanic drug kingpin movie after Scarface. But the...

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Mad Men Recap: “Man with a Plan” and “The Crash” (Season 6, Episodes 7 and 8)
By Julia RhodesDecember 24, 2025To Don, every woman is either a mother figure or a whore. If Don isn't in...
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