Sports Archive
- Oct 31 2007Totally Unrelated: Getting Used to It0
- Mar 23 2006Cinderella's a Whore0
- Mar 14 2006Link Dump0
- Mar 16 2005Rooting for a Bad Guy — Mr. 3000 (2004)0
- Feb 3 2005Illini Fever0
- Jan 13 2005Don't Like Mike0
- Jan 12 2005Poetry: The Missing Culture Snob Ingredient0
- Dec 2 2004Year of the Snob?0
- Nov 19 2004The Stuff of Legend0
- Nov 16 2004Why Did It Have to End?0
- Oct 27 2004More Than a Game?0
- Oct 12 2004One Reason to Root for the Red Sox0
- Sep 1 2004Baseball by the Numbers0
- Jul 1 2004The Wheels Are Offically Off0
- Apr 29 2004Because It Is My Birthday, and Because It Is My Heart0
- Apr 19 2004Baseball Season Begins0
- Oct 7 2003Curses!0
- Sep 25 2003Diamond Scars0
- Jul 15 2003Has Michael Lewis Struck Out? — Michael Lewis, Moneyball (2003)0
Recent Entries
The Enthusiast: On Roger Ebert
In 2010, at the age of 67, Roger Ebert reviewed The Human Centipede (First Sequence) — a horror flick that seems to exist primarily to make viewers vomit. As a professional movie critic for more than four decades, Ebert could...
BatChrist: Born (and Re-Born) in Hell
Depending on how you choose to count, there are either three or four Batman resurrections in The Dark Knight Rises. Superheroes — and especially Superman — have long been seen as Christ figures, and from its title to its returns...
The Audacity of Repetition, Reinforcement, and Clarity
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is an incredibly ballsy movie. I don’t mean its scope and ambition, both of which are indeed impressive. I mean the audacity of choices that could have easily backfired: following Heath Ledger’s nuanced, razor-sharp...
Needed Scars for a Better Dark Knight
How about a magic trick? I previously pulled off David Copperfield-scale wizardry by turning Robert Zemeckis’ bloated, 150-minute Contact into a lean, 53-minute masterpiece. (Yes, that’s hubris. Have you missed me?) This, admittedly, is a more modest feat — something...
Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch
My essay on David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Naked Lunch is now up at Edward Copeland on Film. I’ll post it here in a few days.
Ebert's Game: Still Hidden