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- 100 Favorite Movies (July 9, 2003)
- All the Rage (July 10, 2003)
- A “B” Movie in Profound Clothing (July 10, 2003)
- You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Bored (July 10, 2003)
- Can Monster Magnet Save Rock? (July 11, 2003)
- Has Michael Lewis Struck Out? (July 15, 2003)
- Two Holes in One (July 17, 2003)
- My Jerry Lewis (July 18, 2003)
- Difficult Listening (July 21, 2003)
- Fixing Flawed Films (July 22, 2003)
- Truth and Consequences (July 26, 2003)
- The Construction of Memory (August 1, 2003)
- Failing Well (August 7, 2003)
- Why Go to Movies? (August 11, 2003)
- The Best Special Effect (August 11, 2003)
- Spike Lee’s Messy Beauty (August 13, 2003)
- Terry Gilliam Meets John Hughes (August 17, 2003)
- Bowling for Michael Moore (August 18, 2003)
- 100 Favorite Albums (August 18, 2003)
- A Famously Awful Movie (August 21, 2003)
- A Confluence of Death (August 21, 2003)
- Elbowing the Band Off the Stage (August 21, 2003)
- The Riddle of the Raving Geeks (August 27, 2003)
- Author! Author! (August 27, 2003)
- The Performers (August 28, 2003)
- Captain Kronos (September 2, 2003)
- Chance Encounters (September 4, 2003)
- The Cult of Wesley (September 4, 2003)
- Magnolia and Meaning (September 8, 2003)
- From Dawn to Day (September 8, 2003)
- Tim and Jeff: A Love Story (September 10, 2003)
- True Confessions (September 10, 2003)
- Is the Con King? (September 15, 2003)
- Variations on a Theme (September 16, 2003)
- American Fantasy (September 17, 2003)
- Fightin’ Words (September 18, 2003)
- Psycho Killer (September 19, 2003)
- Falling Really in Love (September 22, 2003)
- ’Toon Politics (September 22, 2003)
- Paul Auster’s Locked Room (September 24, 2003)
- Diamond Scars (September 25, 2003)
- Exercises in Revulsion (September 26, 2003)
- The Agony of the Bee (September 29, 2003)
- Vampires and Sacrifice (September 30, 2003)
- The Horror of Enigma (September 30, 2003)
- Watering Dead Flowers (October 1, 2003)
- In Praise of Discomfort (October 1, 2003)
- Christmas Is Coming! (October 2, 2003)
- The Prison of Cliché (October 2, 2003)
- A <em>Muse</em> in Search of a Script (October 2, 2003)
- Insincere Insincerity (October 2, 2003)
- Thank You, Lars von Trier (October 2, 2003)
- Out-Tooling Tool (October 3, 2003)
- Has the Well Run Dry? (October 3, 2003)
- Curses! (October 7, 2003)
- Alien History (October 8, 2003)
- A Bridge to Dreams (October 9, 2003)
- The Soul of <em>The Insider</em> (October 9, 2003)
- Down the Rabbit Hole (October 15, 2003)
- Submitting to Secretary (October 16, 2003)
- Good Fortune (October 22, 2003)
- I’m Going to Kill Myself Tomorrow (October 23, 2003)
- Skipping Stones (October 28, 2003)
- My Movie Life (November 6, 2003)
- A Church Filled with Blood (November 7, 2003)
- Frustrating History (November 7, 2003)
- Polluting the River (November 11, 2003)
- Dead-End Drunk (November 14, 2003)
- Heart-Warming Holocaust (November 14, 2003)
- The Silent Eye (December 1, 2003)
- The Trouble with Jack (December 2, 2003)
- Nearly Master of Its Domain (December 9, 2003)
- Re-Claiming the Horror Movie (December 17, 2003)
- The Confederate Patient (December 29, 2003)
- The Comfort of a Warm Movie (December 30, 2003)
- Malkovich’s Bloodless Revolution (January 7, 2004)
- Prog Rock Is from Mars … (January 16, 2004)
- War as Nature Documentary (January 20, 2004)
- A Failed Corrective (January 22, 2004)
- Why Music Matters (February 2, 2004)
- Pay No Attention to the Dwarf (February 2, 2004)
- Terrorism and Its Aftermath: Two Essays (February 4, 2004)
- Undervalued Gems from Recent Years (February 5, 2004)
- King Midas in Reverse (February 10, 2004)
- Growing Toward the Mainstream (February 12, 2004)
- Good Art, Bad Movie (February 12, 2004)
- The Uncertainty of the Everyday (February 13, 2004)
- Ordinary People (February 19, 2004)
- Nailing Style, Missing Substance (February 19, 2004)
- 92 Minutes Closer to Death (February 19, 2004)
- A Little Wrong in the Head (February 23, 2004)
- The Power of Angels (March 5, 2004)
- There’s Something About Semen (March 10, 2004)
- Exonerating the Friedmans (March 10, 2004)
- Artifice as Honesty (March 11, 2004)
- Heal Thyself (March 18, 2004)
- Auster and <em>Stone Reader</em> (March 19, 2004)
- Who Made It? Who Cares? (March 22, 2004)
- Charlie Kaufman Finds His Heart (March 24, 2004)
- It All Goes Back to Hendrix (March 25, 2004)
- God’s Away on Business (March 25, 2004)
- The Morality of Movies (March 26, 2004)
- Discussion on “The Morality of Movies” (March 29, 2004)
- Dead Dreams (April 2, 2004)
- Hazy and Lazy (April 7, 2004)
- Grief Without Weight (April 16, 2004)
- No More Monkey Sex (April 20, 2004)
- We Built This Shitty (April 21, 2004)
- Distrust Your Eyes (April 22, 2004)
- Story Over Substance (April 22, 2004)
- Ebertfest (Part I): The Experience (May 6, 2004)
- Ebertfest (Part II): The Movies (May 6, 2004)
- You Call This a Review? (May 7, 2004)
- When Movies Mattered (May 12, 2004)
- Favorite Songs (Artists A-M) (May 12, 2004)
- Favorite Songs (Artists N-Z) (May 12, 2004)
- A Well-Marked Path to Hell (May 14, 2004)
- No More Doggie Sex (May 20, 2004)
- Animated Ennui (May 25, 2004)
- Michael Moore: Hypocrite (May 27, 2004)
- Perspective and the Past (June 8, 2004)
- Blaming for Columbine (June 10, 2004)
- The Unbearable Expense of Convenience (June 17, 2004)
- Growing Up Potter (June 24, 2004)
- Critiquing Critics (June 29, 2004)
- Spoiling Spoilers (June 30, 2004)
- The Wheels Are Offically Off (July 1, 2004)
- The End of Pretend (July 2, 2004)
- The Failure of <em>Fahrenheit 9/11</em> (July 7, 2004)
- The Spirituality of Lars von Trier? (July 7, 2004)
- The Serial Killer as Victim (July 23, 2004)
- Superhero Ennui (August 6, 2004)
- Decoding Mann’s Magic (August 14, 2004)
- Making Songwriting Sound Effortless (August 18, 2004)
- Putting the Focus on Songs (August 25, 2004)
- Built for Bad Movies (August 25, 2004)
- Baseball by the Numbers (September 1, 2004)
- Bunnies! (Of the Brown Variety) (September 3, 2004)
- Abandon All Hope (September 14, 2004)
- The One-Man Soul Band (September 22, 2004)
- Flesh and Blood Out of Thin Air (September 30, 2004)
- Bunnies! (Of the Dead Variety) (October 5, 2004)
- Deleting History (October 6, 2004)
- Fixing the God Machine (October 11, 2004)
- One Reason to Root for the Red Sox (October 12, 2004)
- Portrait of the Artist from a Curious Distance (October 26, 2004)
- Time Travel as a Metaphorical Delusion Stemming from Incestuous Inclinations (October 26, 2004)
- More Than a Game? (October 27, 2004)
- The Luckiest Person in the World (November 4, 2004)
- Obstruction Junction, What’s Your Dysfunction? (November 10, 2004)
- Scary Movies? (November 11, 2004)
- Grim and Grimmer (November 11, 2004)
- My Songs, Damn It! Mine! (November 12, 2004)
- Why Did It Have to End? (November 16, 2004)
- More Snot, Please (November 18, 2004)
- The Stuff of Legend (November 19, 2004)
- Year of the Snob? (December 2, 2004)
- Star Wars Episode VII: The Format Wars (December 9, 2004)
- The Horror. The Horror! (December 9, 2004)
- Bourne to Win (December 20, 2004)
- The Manufactured Movie (December 22, 2004)
- Competent, Worthy, and Lacking (January 3, 2005)
- Join the Movie Club (January 4, 2005)
- Music Top 10s (January 5, 2005)
- Overlooked Favorites from 2004 (January 6, 2005)
- Forced Whimsy (January 7, 2005)
- Memories of Wilco (January 10, 2005)
- Poetry: The Missing Culture Snob Ingredient (January 12, 2005)
- Don’t Like Mike (January 13, 2005)
- Not a Club, but a Conversation (January 13, 2005)
- Animation on a Human Scale (January 14, 2005)
- Water Torture (January 20, 2005)
- The Magic’s in the Details (January 21, 2005)
- Year of the Biopic (January 26, 2005)
- Pity the Rich Genius (January 26, 2005)
- Village Idiocy (January 28, 2005)
- The Ethics of Desperation (February 1, 2005)
- Illini Fever (February 3, 2005)
- Reincarnation’s Provocative Practicalities (February 8, 2005)
- Boilerplate Biopic (February 23, 2005)
- The Prettiest Actors (February 24, 2005)
- Not Dead Yet, but Bailing (March 2, 2005)
- Grow Up! (March 5, 2005)
- Gore Porn (March 16, 2005)
- Rooting for a Bad Guy (March 16, 2005)
- Caution! Children at Play (March 22, 2005)
- Dumb About Life (April 12, 2005)
- A Live-Action Cartoon (April 28, 2005)
- A Roller Coaster, for Better and Worse (May 10, 2005)
- The Enigma: Lyle Lovett (May 24, 2005)
- Temptation’s Taunt (June 8, 2005)
- The Phantom Nuance (June 29, 2005)
- Passionate – or Pissed? – About Polka (June 29, 2005)
- All My Sins Remembered (July 29, 2005)
- Sloppy, Fast, Anarchic … Bluegrass (August 10, 2005)
- His Fingers Do the Talking (August 10, 2005)
- (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Grief, Strife, and Vigilantism? (August 15, 2005)
- The Spoiler’s Creed (August 17, 2005)
- Pornographer and Whore (August 22, 2005)
- Eat the Rich (August 24, 2005)
- When Bad Movies Do Good Things (August 31, 2005)
- The Case of the Missing Spine (September 13, 2005)
- Subverting the Perverted (September 21, 2005)
- A Suffocating Density (September 21, 2005)
- At the Drive-in (September 27, 2005)
- All Alone (September 29, 2005)
- Ghost in the Shell (October 4, 2005)
- You Are Forgiven (October 11, 2005)
- War Without End (October 12, 2005)
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience (October 12, 2005)
- The Art of Being Humbled (October 20, 2005)
- A Circle of Loss (October 27, 2005)
- Let’s Do the Time Warp Again (November 8, 2005)
- Dance Crazes and Democratization (November 9, 2005)
- Show of Commerce, Show of Art (November 16, 2005)
- You Lost Me at “Gosh!” (November 21, 2005)
- The Evil That Men Do (November 21, 2005)
- The Mouse That Roared (November 23, 2005)
- There’s a Hole in the Goblet, Mike Newell, Mike Newell (November 23, 2005)
- Fear Is Blind (November 29, 2005)
- Building a Film-Book Library (November 30, 2005)
- The King(dom) of Comedy (December 15, 2005)
- Anthropomorphic Widescreen (December 20, 2005)
- War Won’t Tear Us Apart (December 27, 2005)
- Extraordinary Music from the Margins of 2005 (December 28, 2005)
- God Said, “Eh … “ (January 4, 2006)
- Intolerable Cruelty (January 10, 2006)
- Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (January 11, 2006)
- Lessons in Documentary Filmmaking (January 16, 2006)
- A Movie for One (January 24, 2006)
- A Lean, Mean Shakespearean Machine (January 31, 2006)
- No School for Scandal (February 7, 2006)
- <em>Crash</em> and the Coasts (February 10, 2006)
- Full Throttle (February 15, 2006)
- The Movies That Were Not There (February 16, 2006)
- Nietzsche Is a Punk Rocker (February 16, 2006)
- Building Up by Tearing Down (February 16, 2006)
- Resistance Is Futile (February 22, 2006)
- Can’t Escape the Zydeco (February 22, 2006)
- If Critics Were King-Makers (February 23, 2006)
- When Good Isn’t Good Enough (February 26, 2006)
- In Praise of Hate (March 2, 2006)
- Assessing Oscar and Hollywood (March 3, 2006)
- Sign of the Times (March 7, 2006)
- Neko Notes (March 8, 2006)
- Family Matters (March 10, 2006)
- Last Words on <em>Crash</em> (March 10, 2006)
- Link Dump (March 14, 2006)
- Joyful Discomfort (March 21, 2006)
- The Death of Tony Soprano (March 22, 2006)
- Cinderella’s a Whore (March 23, 2006)
- The Devolution of Atom Egoyan (April 2, 2006)
- The Stupidity and Wit of James Walcott (April 4, 2006)
- Uncovering Iron John (April 5, 2006)
- <em>Shattered Glass</em>: The Inaugural Drunken Commentary Track (April 9, 2006)
- The Truman Show (April 11, 2006)
- On the Uses of Horror (April 13, 2006)
- Good Night, and Good Riddance. (April 21, 2006)
- Films in 17 Syllables (April 25, 2006)
- The Accidental Band (April 26, 2006)
- Inflammatory Acclamatories<super>*</super> (May 5, 2006)
- Drunken Commentary Track: <em>I ♥ Huckabees</em> (May 7, 2006)
- On the Mundanity of Spooge (May 10, 2006)
- Movie Critics Suck: Exhibit A (May 10, 2006)
- Keeping Your (Emotional) Distance (May 11, 2006)
- An Early Contender for Sentence of the Year (May 12, 2006)
- The Good Book in the Internet Age (May 17, 2006)
- Mr. Pink(‘s) Rules (May 17, 2006)
- My Father the Hero (May 22, 2006)
- As <em>Lost</em> as Ever (May 25, 2006)
- Reasons to Hike <em>Wolf Creek</em> (May 31, 2006)
- <em>How</em> We Like to Watch (June 2, 2006)
- Toodle-fucking-oo (June 6, 2006)
- Toodle-fucking-oo, Part Two (June 9, 2006)
- Blowing It (June 12, 2006)
- Dissociative Disorder: Movies with Multiple Personalities (June 21, 2006)
- Stretching Superman (June 23, 2006)
- Superman and the Crucified Christ (June 27, 2006)
- Rather Routine (June 29, 2006)
- They Had You at “Hello” (June 29, 2006)
- The Movie I Watch the Most (July 3, 2006)
- More Meat (July 5, 2006)
- Leaving Yourself on the Page (July 7, 2006)
- Why the World Doesn’t Need <em>This</em> Superman (July 11, 2006)
- Is HD DVD Already Dead? (July 12, 2006)
- Good Stupid (July 12, 2006)
- Nothing New Under the Sun (July 13, 2006)
- Remembering to Forget (July 16, 2006)
- Former Vice President in the Water (July 21, 2006)
- Drunken Commentary Track: <em>Incident at Loch Ness</em> (July 22, 2006)
- Canadian? Or the Young Marcia Cross? (July 24, 2006)
- Double Stuf(f)ed (July 26, 2006)
- Cut the Cheese, Please! (July 26, 2006)
- How to Apologize … Mostly (August 2, 2006)
- My Wife Is No Miss January (August 2, 2006)
- Thank you! Good night! (August 4, 2006)
- The Tell-Tale Tapes? The Trouble with <em>Caché</em> (August 7, 2006)
- You Are Blind Because You Remain Attached to Previous Incarnations of My Greatness (August 9, 2006)
- Willfully Difficult (August 10, 2006)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Film (August 11, 2006)
- Week-End Link Dump (August 11, 2006)
- People Will Most Definitely Come (August 15, 2006)
- Unlikely Hope (August 18, 2006)
- Whores and the Whoring Whores Who Sell Them Out (August 23, 2006)
- The U.S. Military: More Than Meets the Eye? (August 25, 2006)
- This Could Be It (August 25, 2006)
- Jesus Ain’t <em>That</em> Magic (August 31, 2006)
- A Blessing and a Curse (September 10, 2006)
- Maybe We Can Hire … The A-Team (September 13, 2006)
- That Darn Jew (September 14, 2006)
- Demon Dog Dump (September 15, 2006)
- Cock Tale (September 20, 2006)
- With a Little Help from His Friends (September 21, 2006)
- Ignorance and Taste: Catching Up on Links (September 22, 2006)
- Concert Recording: Martin Sexton at River Roots Live (September 23, 2006)
- Concert Recording: Alejandro Escovedo at River Roots Live (September 24, 2006)
- Concert Recording: Junior Brown at River Roots Live (September 25, 2006)
- Chronically Crappy (October 13, 2006)
- The Band-Name Project (October 25, 2006)
- Evolved Sexuality (October 26, 2006)
- Promissory Notes of a Better Life (October 26, 2006)
- Sucking Wonderfully (October 30, 2006)
- Abracadabra (November 5, 2006)
- The Pleasure Principle (November 9, 2006)
- (Under-)Appreciating Altman (November 22, 2006)
- Vengeance Is Hers (December 14, 2006)
- Mix 2006 (January 2, 2007)
- She Shoots Horses, Don’t She? (January 18, 2007)
- The Forgotten Audience (January 28, 2007)
- Interpretation Trumps Inspiration (January 31, 2007)
- Mix-and-Match Haiku: <em>Kissed</em> (February 2, 2007)
- Ode to an Anachronism (February 6, 2007)
- RIFF: Reading Is Fucking Formidable (February 9, 2007)
- The End Is Near! Vote for Me! (February 13, 2007)
- Not-So-Drunken Commentary Track: <em>The Descent</em> (February 15, 2007)
- Conventional Contrarianism: A Practical Guide (February 19, 2007)
- Haiku Squared: <em>Trouble Every Day</em> (February 27, 2007)
- Rats! A Problem of Redundancy (March 2, 2007)
- Freedom Isn’t Free: A Not-So-Drunken Commentary Track for <em>Three Colors: Blue</em> (March 4, 2007)
- Naked Music, Full Life (March 8, 2007)
- Pan’s Labia-rinth: A Visual Companion (March 9, 2007)
- <em>The Prestige</em>: Drunken Commentary Track (March 12, 2007)
- Links, Briefly (March 16, 2007)
- <em>Lady in the Water</em>: Drunken Commentary Track (March 25, 2007)
- Briefly: 13 Unrated Superheroes Seek Confidential Serenity (March 28, 2007)
- How Sexy Am I Now? (April 6, 2007)
- Announcing the Misunderstood Blog-a-thon: May 16-20, 2007 (April 12, 2007)
- Simple Is Not Easy (April 18, 2007)
- Mental Illness, Not Movies (April 19, 2007)
- The Too-Towering <em>Babel</em> (April 20, 2007)
- Colonel Moltisanti … in the Kitchen … with a Knife (May 2, 2007)
- The Uses of Atrocity (May 10, 2007)
- The Misunderstood Blog-a-thon: May 15-20, 2007 (May 15, 2007)
- <em>The Last Samurai</em> and Blind Idealism (May 16, 2007)
- <em>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</em> and Plato’s <em>Symposium</em> (May 16, 2007)
- Why Are There Frogs Falling from the Sky? (May 16, 2007)
- Good Luck with That (May 17, 2007)
- Five Minutes: <em>The Truman Show</em> (May 17, 2007)
- Illegal Alien (May 18, 2007)
- Five Minutes: <em>JFK</em> (May 19, 2007)
- Five Minutes: <em>Pan’s Labyrinth</em> (May 20, 2007)
- That’s No Moon. It’s a Blog-a-thon. (May 24, 2007)
- A Sense of Place (May 25, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: May 18-20, 2007 (May 25, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: May 25-28, 2007 (May 29, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: June 1-3, 2007 (June 5, 2007)
- Letting Go (June 6, 2007)
- A New Spark (June 6, 2007)
- Fuckity Fuck Fuck: Five Minutes on <em>The Wire</em> (June 10, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: June 8-10, 2007 (June 12, 2007)
- Killing <em>The Sopranos</em>: Five Minutes with the Finale (June 14, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: June 15-17, 2007 (June 19, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: June 22-24, 2007 (June 26, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: June 29-July 1, 2007 (July 3, 2007)
- Beyond Sacred Steel (July 3, 2007)
- Tagged: Eight Facts That Reveal Culture Snob’s Essence (July 5, 2007)
- The Best of Bad Choices (July 6, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: July 6-8, 2007 (July 11, 2007)
- All About Me (July 13, 2007)
- Possessed by Pain (July 13, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: July 13-15, 2007 (July 18, 2007)
- Snuffing Out and Getting Off (July 18, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: July 20-22, 2007 (July 25, 2007)
- Keepin’ It (Mostly) Real (July 30, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: July 27-29, 2007 (August 1, 2007)
- Smells Like Teen Spirit: Five Minutes with <em>Perfume</em> (August 1, 2007)
- Selling It: The <em>Moulin Rouge</em> Drunken Commentary Track (August 4, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: August 3-5, 2007 (August 8, 2007)
- See What You Want to See: Five Minutes with <em>Hour of the Wolf</em> (August 8, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: August 10-12, 2007 (August 16, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: August 17-19, 2007 (August 21, 2007)
- How Bizarro! (August 27, 2007)
- Ain’t No <em>Sunshine</em> (August 28, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: August 24-26, 2007 (August 28, 2007)
- Fixing the Movie Industry: A Modest Proposal (August 29, 2007)
- The Bogeyman: Five Minutes with <em>Halloween</em> (September 1, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: August 31-September 3, 2007 (September 6, 2007)
- Haiku Squared: <em>Ravenous</em> (September 7, 2007)
- No Stock Footage (September 7, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: September 7-9, 2007 (September 12, 2007)
- Hung Out to Dry (September 13, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: September 14-16, 2007 (September 20, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: September 21-23, 2007 (September 27, 2007)
- Boo! (October 2, 2007)
- Confusing Headline of the Week (October 3, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: September 28-30, 2007 (October 4, 2007)
- Strength in Numbers (October 4, 2007)
- Fear Is Not Enough (October 5, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: October 5-7, 2007 (October 11, 2007)
- Shootin’ the Shit (October 13, 2007)
- Open Hand (October 16, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: October 12-14, 2007 (October 17, 2007)
- The Eyes of Anna (October 19, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: October 19-21, 2007 (October 24, 2007)
- Not One of Us (October 25, 2007)
- Give Him Your Willie! Errr … Willies (October 25, 2007)
- Totally Unrelated: Getting Used to It (October 31, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: October 26-28, 2007 (November 1, 2007)
- Final Thoughts: 31 Flicks That Give You the Willies (November 2, 2007)
- None More Black, Turned Up to 11 (November 6, 2007)
- A Most Dangerous Word (November 6, 2007)
- What Would Jesus Read? (November 7, 2007)
- The Blossom: Jim Kurring (November 8, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: November 2-4, 2007 (November 9, 2007)
- <em>Magnolia</em>: The Drunken Commentary Track (November 10, 2007)
- Why Screenwriting Is a Bad Career Choice from a Labor-Negotiation Standpoint (November 14, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: November 9-11, 2007 (November 15, 2007)
- Announcing the “Short-Film Week” Blog-a-thon: December 2-8, 2007 (November 16, 2007)
- The Clumsy Din of Chance (November 16, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: November 16-18, 2007 (November 21, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: November 23-25, 2007 (November 30, 2007)
- The “Short-Film Week” Blog-a-thon: December 2-8, 2007 (November 30, 2007)
- Short-Film Week: Introductory Thoughts (November 30, 2007)
- Short-Film Week: The Addict (December 2, 2007)
- Short-Film Week: “Gem” as Faint Praise (December 3, 2007)
- Short-Film Week: A Short Film About Failure (December 5, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: November 30-December 2, 2007 (December 6, 2007)
- Short-Film Week: A Sweet, Whimsical, Dirty Movie About Rape or Regression (December 6, 2007)
- Short-Film Week: The Bar at the End of the Line (December 7, 2007)
- Short-Film Week: In Praise of the Music Video (December 8, 2007)
- Bye Bye, Blog-a-thon. Stay Strong. (December 11, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: December 7-9, 2007 (December 12, 2007)
- Devil on My Trail (December 12, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: December 14-16, 2007 (December 19, 2007)
- Can the Left Find God? (December 26, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: December 21-23, 2007 (December 27, 2007)
- Box Office Power Rankings: December 28-30, 2007 (January 6, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: January 4-6, 2008 (January 10, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: January 11-13, 2008 (January 17, 2008)
- Your Best Picture Winner Is … (January 22, 2008)
- My 2007 Album (January 23, 2008)
- Amateur Hours (January 24, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: January 18-21, 2008 (January 28, 2008)
- Ahhhh … Family Tradition (January 28, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: January 25-February 10, 2008 (February 14, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: February 15-18, 2008 (February 20, 2008)
- Final Oscar Predictions (February 22, 2008)
- Questions of Credibility (February 22, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: February 22-24, 2008 (February 29, 2008)
- Fixing the Oscars: A Modest Proposal (February 29, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: February 29-March 2, 2008 (March 7, 2008)
- Goodbye to Cynicism (March 7, 2008)
- My Dinner with Christopher Nolan (March 13, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: March 7-9, 2008 (March 14, 2008)
- Let’s Go Slumming: Appreciating <em>Candyman</em> (March 18, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: March 14-23, 2008 (March 27, 2008)
- Rough-Edged Perfection (April 2, 2008)
- I Will Make You Like Me (April 8, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: March 28-April 6, 2008 (April 9, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: April 11-13, 2008 (April 18, 2008)
- Burnt Toast (April 18, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: April 18-27, 2008 (May 2, 2008)
- The Week of Quitting (May 2, 2008)
- Moral Abstraction (May 2, 2008)
- Production Design Blog-a-thon (May 8, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: May 2-4, 2008 (May 9, 2008)
- Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (May 12, 2008)
- The First Thing We Do, Let’s Fire All the Critics (May 15, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: May 9-11, 2008 (May 15, 2008)
- Beyond Repulsion (May 23, 2008)
- Box Office Power Rankings: May 16-June 1, 2008 (June 4, 2008)
- Announcing the Self-Involvement Blog-a-thon: July 9-13, 2008 (June 5, 2008)
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