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This might be an appropriate time to link to a couple of posts Merrill Markoe wrote in 2006, where she looked through two of the...

My favourite Christopher Hitchens book is probably "For the Sake of Argument," a collection of sharp, funny and vicious essays on...

The international co-production is becoming a bigger part of movies than at any time probably since the early ’70s, and as...

Despite the poor video quality, this fall promo from 1974 interests me because it may be one of the most diffident promos a...

Keeping up with unlimited, on-demand TV options is a lot of work

Featuring great photographs from Libya, Japan, and a basketball game aboard a U.S. warship

I was talking elsewhere about the credits to Homeland . I don’t dislike them. They are controversial, though, and some people find...

The ’Bad Science’ columnist on quacks, scaremongering journalists, and the importance of good research

Every little while - maybe even every month - there’s some plot point that multiple shows bring up at the same time. You remember...

Scott Feschuk on how watching the poor suckers in the background was the fun part of the leaders’ debate