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Chris BarsantiAbout Chris Barsanti Chris Barsanti is a habitual scrivener on books and film for the lucky readers of PopMatters, Film Journal International, and Publishers Weekly, and has also been published in Kirkus Reviews, The Chicago Tribune, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. A senior writer at filmcritic.com, he is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and New York Film Critics Online. If he has anything else left to say, it gets blogged at Vast Wasteland. Features
Chronicling Catastrophe: Dave Eggers and the American Nonfiction NovelWhen faced with catastrophe, from wars to natural disasters, the nonfiction novel is sometimes the only medium that can do justice to the chaos. [11 August 2009] 2009 Silverdocs Documentary FestivalSilverdocs 2009 was a rewarding and refreshing event, offering classic and independent documentaries and previewing several that will crop up over the next year or two on TV and art house screens. [29 June 2009] Near Misses and Gems: 2009 Tribeca Film FestivalSelecting just 85 feature films for screening, this year's Tribeca Film Festival increased the quality quotient, cutting the number of embarrassing failures that once studded the schedule like a minefield. [7 May 2009] Let Us Now Praise Ordinary Men: Normalcy, Comics, and The Dark KnightWithout a couple of recognizably fallible and ordinary men like Harvey Dent and Commissioner Gordon at its center, The Dark Knight would ultimately be nothing more than an exceptionally well-tooled and smartly-acted thriller. [23 September 2008] In Memoriam: Thomas M. DischIt's often said of uncommonly talented writers that they defied description; in Disch's case, that actually managed to be true. [9 July 2008] Brave New WorldNaomi Klein convincingly argues in her crushingly pessimistic but magisterial work The Shock Doctrine that the future could well be a "cruel and ruthlessly divided" place where "money and race buy survival". [28 November 2007] A Lost Cause: Tim Weiner’s History of the C.I.A.Deep down, most of us probably know that the Central Intelligence Agency can't be nearly as cool as our popular media would have us believe. [24 July 2007] Network Sadism: Is Fox’s 24 an Advertisement for Torture?Though conservative's laud the laughable 'reality' of Fox's 24, they also ignore the show's subtle reminders of the gutting cost of becoming a torturer. [6 March 2006] Columns
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009Unlike stiff features like The Reader or even the wildly uneven Curious Case of Benjamin Button, this year's Oscar-nominated shorts program is pretty much a risk-free venture. [19 February 2009] (more The Screener) Two Lovers: All Your Choices Are Bad OnesWhat James Gray bravely does in Two Lovers is return the idea of pain, and the threat of bad decisions, to the American film romance. [12 February 2009] (more The Screener) Taken: Daddy Tortures BestMill's towering righteousness is just too much for this weak little film, whose only interest is in affirming the white patriarchal prerogative. [5 February 2009] (more The Screener) A Perverted Perception of MoviesThe success or failure of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema hinges greatly on what one thinks of Slavoj Zizek's free-range associations on desire, blood, human waste, castration, and social control in films. [29 January 2009] (more The Screener) On the End of Every ForkOur Daily Bread is a 21st century naked lunch in the true sense of what Burroughs meant, not a scattershot impressionistic sensory assault, but an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world. [22 January 2009] (more The Screener) Slumdog Millionaire: All Eyes EastSlumdog Millionaire's Golden Globe win for Best Motion Picture/Drama is like a flare warning Hollywood about its future in cinema. [16 January 2009] (more The Screener) Guerrilla PattonSoderbergh's supersized retelling of the Che Guevara legend is an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed. [8 January 2009] (more The Screener) Exquisite AgonyThis holiday season, Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler) and Will Smith (Seven Pounds) suffer for all us sinners. [18 December 2008] (more The Screener) Shameful ExposureA fiery Kate Winslet saves morality tale in 'The Reader' while a similarly powerful Meryl Streep can't do the same for the overly certain 'Doubt'. [11 December 2008] (more The Screener) Frost/Nixon: An Interview with a VampireFrank Langella seethes and pulsates with cunning as the deposed president in 'Frost/Nixon', a far cry from the grinning cowboy executive Josh Brolin presented in 'W'. [4 December 2008] (more The Screener) Cut to the WhateverMarc Forster's Quantum of Solace slices away nearly every element of the old Bond, and leaves nothing in its place. [21 November 2008] (more The Screener) Dying on the Mind: ‘A Christmas Tale’ and ‘House of the Sleeping Beauties’In the moody House of the Sleeping Beauties, an aging widower fights despair with a succession of naked beauties, while in the sprawling A Christmas Tale, a family bickers around their mother’s terminal illness. [14 November 2008] (more The Screener) Keith Haring: Warhol, Jr.The Universe of Keith Haring digs under the artist's pop veneer and goes all the way to the surface, finding some kind of meaning in simplicity. [7 November 2008] (more The Screener) Robot Roll Call: Mystery Science Theater 3000The 20th anniversary DVD release of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is less a greatest-hits package than a reminder of simple joys, like mocking lousy movies. [31 October 2008] (more The Screener) Identities in FluxKaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down. [24 October 2008] (more The Screener) Why, Spike, Why?For all of Spike Lee's status as the eternal Young Turk, he's also a moviemaker who came of age just a few years after the brat pack of Spielberg, Scorsese, de Palma, et al. [17 October 2008] (more The Screener) Irrational ExuberanceWatching Mike Leigh’s sublimely fresh Happy-Go-Lucky, you could be forgiven for wondering what the rest of humanity is so depressed about, anyway. [10 October 2008] (more The Screener) In the Land of the BlindFernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth. [3 October 2008] (more The Screener) Pretty VacantThe world of The Duchess should have been one of fiery tumult, but little of that foment makes it into this film’s garden party landscape. [26 September 2008] (more The Screener) The Cold SeasonJust when you start worrying about the state of American movies, and wondering whether the business is going to swandive into irrelevance, along comes something as vital and jolting as Frozen River. [19 September 2008] (more The Screener) Women Without MenDiane English’s version of The Women barely nudges from its Martha Stewart interiors, exchanging insights for platitudes. It’s a cup of lukewarm tea, without even a biscuit on the side. [12 September 2008] (more The Screener) Are We Not Funny? Laugh, Damn You!The problem with the (inexplicably popular) Tropic Thunder may be that Ben Stiller is just not a funny filmmaker. Not even remotely. [5 September 2008] (more The Screener) Reviews
Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark HalperinTo paraphrase Lewis Black, if the candidates in the 2008 election represent evolution, then by 2016 we're going to be voting for plants. [2 February 2010] 
Folk Photography by Luc SanteA particularly American sense of impermanence pervades Luc Sante's book on the early 20th century photo postcard phenomenon. [26 January 2010] 
Big Love: Season ThreeBig Love: Season Three becomes less of a melodrama than an examination how religious belief survives in 21st century America -- if at all. [6 January 2010] 
Republican Gomorrah by Max BlumenthalBlumenthal doesn’t give a sense of the larger forces that shaped this psychosexually perverse evangelical political movement. But then it’s not the trashman’s duty to understand the grotty muck, just to haul it away. [4 January 2010] AvatarCameron's evocations of everything from Blackwater's Iraq massacres to the Trail of Tears gives his story an uncommon resonance. This is a whole new kind of science fiction filmmaking. [18 December 2009] 
A Serious ManThe Coens might be having a good time riffing on their Job's hyperbolic cluelessness, but for almost the first time in their careers, they have twined that jabbing satire with a deeper sense of the tragic. [11 December 2009] 
Serious MoonlightAdrienne Shelley's scenario has some edge to it, sharpened by the presence of Meg Ryan. 
The Last StationTolstoy here seems half-monk and half-clown, a seeming contradiction translated with extraordinary clarity by Christopher Plummer. [9 December 2009] 
Me and Orson WellesMe and Orson Welles is a fresh breeze of a film that does its best to avoid mundane complications. [8 December 2009] 
Bright-Sided by Barbara EhrenreichIn attacking America's "cult of cheerfulness", Ehrenreich makes a good argument, but doesn't take it far enough. [2 December 2009] 
The End of Poverty?Phillipe Diaz's powerful documentary The End of Poverty? is uncharacteristically revolutionary among today's issue documentaries, and all the more refreshing for its bluntness. [13 November 2009] 
You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977–1984If this smart, long-winded documentary proves anything, it’s that there are a lot of scars left from those bruising early days of the Chicago scene, and few are ready to stop scratching at them. [9 November 2009] 
EndgameEndgame crafts a crackling thriller out of the tangle of crafty maneuvering and happenstance that put a stop to South Africa's apartheid. [6 November 2009] 
Disney’s A Christmas CarolThe combination of animation (where the laws of physics are conveniently suspended) and 3D technology is a powerful temptation, and here we see many of the ways in which those toys can be misued. 
The Death of Conservatism by Sam TanenhausTanenhaus elegantly argues that the American conservatism might be at low ebb, but that should not be expected to last. Nor should liberals (as prone to premature gloating as their rivals) even want it to happen. 
Homicide: The Criterion CollectionIn Homicide's electric pop of language, Mamet provides a grand kind of stage for the ugly catalyst of jealousy and racial hatred that curdles in just about every character’s mind [12 October 2009] 
How I Became A Famous Novelist by Steve HelyHely's wannabe novelist doesn't write his first novel so much as he triangulates the literary zeitgeist and enlists it for his own famewhoring purposes. [27 September 2009] 
Punk in London / Punk in EnglandPunk in London and Punk in England provide an addlebrained and occasionally droning but nevertheless vital window onto a revolt while it's in progress. [24 September 2009] 
It Might Get LoudThe structure ambles, providing long set-up segments with each of the three musicians in their home spaces, messing with their guitars, chatting about tradecraft. [10 September 2009] 
99 is a grey and grim thrill ride packed full of kiddie morality lessons and creepy frightenings, as though Steven Spielberg had induced the Brothers Quay to create a summer blockbuster. [9 September 2009] 
Glee: Series PremiereGlee exists in a sort of hyper-real universe, where the colors are always quite a bit brighter and people just that much sharper and stranger. 
Empire of Illusion by Chris HedgesThis rests too heavily on the work of other great writers, doesn't bring enough to the party to justify its invitation, and doesn't earn the weight of its self-important subtitle. [14 August 2009] 
The Best of Whose Line Is It Anyway?"The show that Nostradamus didn't see coming" aimed to bring some of the fresh anarchy of early, vaudeville-inspired television back to the airwaves. [21 July 2009] 
Near Death in the Desert, ed. Cecil KuhneThe insights into desert nomad culture make the always present possibility of death almost pale in insignificance. [10 July 2009] 
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannThis maddening new novel is cinematic, set in New York City in the midst of its slide into near-complete dysfunction. [26 June 2009] 
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: World War II - Battlefront EuropeOne film here makes a stab at presenting war as something awful; for the rest, truth-telling is not their bag. [4 June 2009] 
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget by Andrew RiceIn Duncan's old town feelings are mixed about his pursuit of justice, given how many informers remain who had, so many years before, sold their neighbors out to Amin's people. [1 June 2009] 
Carnival in the NightA sociopathic spasming that goes further in plumbing the debilitated core of go-go capitalist Japan than most dare. [29 April 2009] 
Grey GardensThe new Grey Gardens is safe, providing a dash of self-reflexivity, but wasting more opportunities than it takes. [20 April 2009] 
The Little Sleep by Paul TremblayIn the modern era of the damaged private-eye, Paul Tremblay’s Mark Genevich just about takes the cake. [9 April 2009] 
Richard Yates: Everyman’s LibraryThis is fiction that follows its characters to the grave with a sad and all-too-knowing cigarette-roughened chuckle. [2 April 2009] 
Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One by Alan MooreThe Swamp Thing moons over his lost humanity and the tragic quality of his love with a zestfully (and sometimes too obviously) literary spirit. [31 March 2009] 
The Gamble by Thomas E. RicksBy the time Ricks brings his narrative to a close, he has solidly proved his point, namely that in the most basic reckoning, the surge can be said to have worked. [20 March 2009] 
Brothers by Yu HuaThis is the epic as plain-spoken brawl, one with blood on its face, a tear in the eye, and a grin on the lips. [23 February 2009] 
Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business Of AmericaThere was simply no way that anybody could have set out to survey the entire landscape of American comedy in a mere six hours. [19 January 2009] 
The Shadow Factory by James BamfordNSA is probably monitoring your phone and email, but it isn't doing much to stop the next terrorist attack on America. [12 December 2008] 
Wall of America by Thomas M. DischAn important and dutiful volume that catches readers up on just about everything Disch was doing, at least in science fiction, over the past few years. [1 October 2008] 
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas FriedmanThe difference between us and Friedman is that he tends to actually be in a position to talk to people whose opinions on the subjects of energy and growth really matter. [29 September 2008] 
The Dark Side by Jane MayerAs Mayer recounts in her history of what followed 9/11, Cheney was ready for this scenario because he'd been "secretly practicing for doomsday." [21 August 2008] 
The Wire: The Complete Fifth SeasonThe dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years. [15 August 2008] 
More Than It Hurts You by Darin StraussStrauss turns a sociological eye on his cast of characters and seems at times on the verge of creating a Bonfire of the Vanities for the new millennium. [28 July 2008] 
Willie & Joe: The WWII YearsMauldin was a chronicler of the everyday grime and misery that was the life of the average G.I., "These strange, mud-caked creatures who fight the war." [15 July 2008] 
The Thief of Bagdad - Criterion CollectionLet's hope that one day such wonder at Baghdad will be possible, again. [27 June 2008] 
John Adams (HBO Miniseries)Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times. [23 June 2008] 
Square Pegs: The Complete SeriesThere's certainly more going on here than an '80s time capsule, never mind the big hair and the theme song by The Waitresses. [19 June 2008] 
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 by Laura Furman (Editor)This book contains multitudes of professionally scripted short fiction, but very little that demands to be defined as "The Best". [18 June 2008] 
Sex and the City: The MovieIt's two or three season finales' worth of tears and OMG jawdroppers whacked together into a big, sloppy, gooey sundae of a film that is, for better or for worse, just like the show -- only longer. [29 May 2008] 
Indiana Jones: The Adventure CollectionThere should be room in our collective imagination for a hero who makes mistakes, lots of them, and still saves the day -- these are films that should be owned. [27 May 2008] 
The Complex by Nick TurseThis could've been written while sitting at one desk and never even seeing the inside of the Pentagon, or any military establishment, or speaking to a single person with any knowledge on the subject. [9 May 2008] 
Bonnie and ClydeThis film carries a bedrock rebelliousness and shocking ugliness that firmly resonates today. [1 May 2008] 
Corporate Warriors by P. W. SingerBy refusing to cast himself as a finger-wagging scold on the subject of military contractors, Singer’s concerns have all that much more power. [25 April 2008] 
The Resurrectionist by Jack O’ConnellBesotted on Kafka-esque absurdity and Herbert Asbury-like carnivals of crime, O'Connell is a pulp author of the first order, but it's possible that it's time for him to become a little more of a pulp writer. [2 April 2008] 
The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar KeretThere’s no escaping the sinking suspicion that no matter how entertaining Keret’s goof can be for the short haul, he could (and probably should) do better. [31 March 2008] 
The Delighted States by Adam ThirlwellAfter finishing this book you'll want to call in sick for a month and burrow into a teetering tower of modernist works. [28 March 2008] 
Our Daily Meds by Melody PetersenIt's hard to read Our Daily Meds without thinking of Americans as shaven-head underground dwellers of THX-1138, shuffling through their twilight days in a prescription-drug-haze. [11 March 2008] 
Against the Machine by Lee SiegelTo Siegel, the Internet is a font of convenience but also a perturbing wasteland of mindless babble, where the simple-minded wile away their days. [29 January 2008] 
American Creation by Joseph J. EllisOne hates to say that it brings history alive, but that's exactly what this kind of storytelling can, and does, accomplish. [21 December 2007] 
Baltimore by Mike Mignola, Christopher GoldenChristopher Golden and Hellboy scribe Mike Mignola make full use of World War I's carnival of cruelty to foreground their tale of lost love and massacred innocence. Not to mention vampires -- lots of vampires. 
I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)The high-flying poem of a plot, the daredevil cinematography that nearly dances, the pulse-quickening humanism: all mark I Am Cuba as a rare emblem of a more idealistic past. [10 December 2007] 
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas LlosaThe Bad Girl works better as a travelogue of Ricardo, the rootless intellect, than as a fabulist's tale of love gone sour right from the start. 
Tree of Smoke by Denis JohnsonDenis Johnson's towering and mystifying new novel, Tree of Smoke, is truly one of the great Vietnam novels. The faint scent of disgust of a purposeless war seems inherited straight from Greene's view of America's tragic involvement in Southeast Asia, but the exuberant exhaustion is strictly Johnson's. [2 October 2007] 
The Assault on Reason by Al GoreThe author appears to be at the brink, a rational man who has, like so many of us, been pulling his hair out for several years now in impotent rage over the avalanche of nonsense issuing from positions of power in this country. [27 August 2007] 
Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during World War II by The United States ArmyTime after time Nagl points to nuggets of advice in the 60-plus-year-old booklet and affirms that they are absolutely still applicable today. [16 August 2007] 
Daydream Nation by Matthew StearnsIn other words, the pre-grunge, slashing cyberpunk poetry of Daydream Nation makes for an album that inspires ridiculously devoted fans. [18 June 2007] 
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanThe precise nature of McEwan's writing fortunately doesn't leave him scrabbling about looking for gentle euphemisms when it comes to talking about the naughty bits. [29 May 2007] 
The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael ChabonMichael Chabon finally unleashes the genre storyspinner who has been lurking inside him all these years. [22 May 2007] 
God is Not Great by Christopher HitchensA fire-breathing polemicist in the grand tradition, the Hitch has spleen to spare and wastes none of it here when going after the godly. [14 May 2007] 
The Changing Face of War by Martin Van CreveldVan Creveld shows that all the U.S. military's technological prowess hasn't helped much in the current war, and in fact often helps distance its soldiers from the conflict they should be waging. [27 April 2007] 
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael GruberWhen the big firefight finally comes, it's delivered with such killer and off-kilter panache that Elmore Leonard would be envious. [9 April 2007] 
The Road by Cormac McCarthy / Oprah’s Book Club selectionOprah loves the father-son journey of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel and has made it the newest pick in the influential Oprah's Book Club. [28 March 2007] Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Michael B. OrenAfter 9/11, many Americans acted as though this region of the Middle East, with its Arab people and some religion called Islam had sprung up out of the sandy soil to surprise us all. [14 March 2007] 
You Dont Love Me Yet by Jonathan LethemLethem doesn't push the novel toward much of a plot with any sense of urgency, as though he'd left the manuscript baking in the Los Angeles sun. [12 March 2007] 
Nemesis by Chalmers JohnsonUltimately, Johnson lays out a troubling barrage of facts to buttress his case, but it's an avalanche as opposed to a finely articulated trickle. [21 February 2007] 
Murder City by Michael LesyChicago was a city that appeared to outright celebrate murder. [31 January 2007] 
The Mathematics of Love by Emma DarwinEmma Darwin has smart genes, to be sure, being a great great granddaughter of that Darwin, but she doesn't deploy them well. [24 January 2007] 
Alternadad by Neal PollackWhat happens when hipsters have kids? More importantly, what happens when formerly funny hipsters have kids? [5 January 2007] 
Dangerous Nation by Robert KaganKagan is a realist who understands idealism; a rare combination among historical writers, and part of what helps make Dangerous Nation such a gratifying and illuminating read. [6 November 2006] 
State of Denial by Bob WoodwardWhy delve into a piece of nonfiction that simply fleshes out a number of points already well hashed-over in that mainstream liberal media so loathed by the right? (Note to vast liberal conspiracy: Job well done!) The reason is simple: you may think you know, but you don't. [31 October 2006] 
Liseys Story by Stephen KingThe book is an unusually careful creation from an author who has too often let himself run on automatic. [16 October 2006] 
Homicide by David SimonWhen these detectives trade gallows humor over a stone whodunit (department terminology for a case likely never to be solved), it seems less like entertainment and more about keeping despair at bay. [5 October 2006] 
The Mystery Guest by Grégoire Boullier, translated by Lorin SteinThe book is a rant, in a manner, though humanely short and composed with impeccable precision and grace. [21 September 2006]
The Road by Cormac McCarthyMcCarthy takes a style that's always had a tilt towards the gothic and gives it free reign as he follows a father and son diligently struggling across a blasted and dead countryside that seems to have once been America. [18 September 2006] 
Kicking and Screaming (2006)Behind all the banter and postgraduate trauma, Kicking and Screaming is a love story, only it's a fairly sour one that unfolds in reverse. [25 August 2006] 
The One Percent Doctrine by Ron SuskindUnfortunately, as Suskind relates, the mistakes caused by Cheney's doctrine -- a strange mix of interventionist brio and isolationist no-nothing-ism -- would begin to backfire on the actors almost immediately. And so came the torture. [14 August 2006] 
BOFFO! by Peter BartWherever audience and critical reaction has fused together to create a cultural consensus of "this stinks" or "this is amazing," Bart will be right there, ready to nod along with the best of them, and to tell everyone why everyone is right. [8 August 2006] 
Dazed and Confused: Criterion Collection (1993)Criterion's DVD appreciates the film itself, without trying too hard to analyze or understand it, thank god. [20 July 2006] 
A Scanner Darkly (2006)The suits make for images so fascinating they feel nearly "addictive," appropriate given that the film is about (among other things), viewing, reality, and addiction. [6 July 2006] 
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas BrinkleyIt's fairly safe to say that in a time of crisis, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin isn't the guy whom you'd want responsible for your well-being. [5 June 2006] 
Three Times (Zui hao de shi guang) (2006)Seen individually, the three sections of Three Times would be impressive; taken altogether, they're devastating. [28 April 2006] 
The Henry Rollins ShowIt's very, very hard not to pull for Henry Rollins, even if he has spent too much time on MTV and has a resume to make you sick with envy. [4 April 2006] BlogsShort Ends and Leader: Blue World: James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ [17 December 2009]Consuming Consumables: Fables the Deluxe Edition: Book One [2 December 2009]Short Ends and Leader: We Live in Public: Post-Reality TV [30 August 2009]Short Ends and Leader: Inglourious Basterds: The Trouble with Tarantino [21 August 2009]Short Ends and Leader: Harry Potter, Forever! [15 July 2009]Re:Print: Redemption of a Jerk [6 July 2009]Short Ends and Leader: Away We Go: Home Sweet Wherever [5 June 2009]Re:Print: The Sucker King [29 May 2009]Short Ends and Leader: Terminator Salvation: Humanity’s Eve of Destruction … Again [20 May 2009]Short Ends and Leader: Outrage Review Censored [19 May 2009]Short Ends and Leader: A Shortage of Villainy [7 May 2009]Re:Print: The Beats: A Graphic History [15 April 2009]Short Ends and Leader: Adventureland: Bastards of Young [8 April 2009]Consuming Consumables: Watchmen [14 December 2008]Consuming Consumables: Willie & Joe: The WWII Years [4 December 2008]Consuming Consumables: “Have You Seen…?”: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films [2 December 2008]Consuming Consumables: WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition [30 November 2008]Re:Print: The Graphic Report: Summer Edition [11 August 2008]Re:Print: The Graphic Report: Bottomless Belly Button [8 July 2008]Short Ends and Leader: Consumer Apocalypse: WALL-E [29 June 2008]Short Ends and Leader: Late Delivery: Take Out (2004) [28 June 2008]Short Ends and Leader: HBO: The Movie [29 May 2008]Short Ends and Leader: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [21 May 2008]Re:Print: The Graphic Report: The Killing Joke [31 March 2008]Re:Print: The Graphic Edition: Paul Goes Fishing [22 March 2008]Re:Print: The Will Eisner Edition [22 January 2008]Re:Print: Mexican Radio [11 January 2008]Re:Print: The Graphic Edition [6 January 2008]Consuming Consumables: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein [$28.00] [18 December 2007]Consuming Consumables: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon [$26.95] [4 December 2007]Consuming Consumables: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan [$13.95] [29 November 2007]Consuming Consumables: The Road by Cormac McCarthy [$14.95] [19 November 2007]Re:Print: National Book Awards [16 November 2007]Re:Print: Truth in Comics: After the Deluge [3 November 2007]Re:Print: Bookmarks: The Book of Vices [29 September 2007]Re:Print: We Are (Somewhat) Amused [30 August 2007]Re:Print: Winning the Right War [23 August 2007]Re:Print: The World Without Us [7 August 2007]Re:Print: Getting Biblical [30 July 2007]Re:Print: Soon-Forgotten Harry [23 July 2007]Re:Print: Vampire Love Triangle [19 July 2007]Re:Print: The next Potter? [16 July 2007] |
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