A brief weekly round-up of some good stuff.
The Muppets came back! For one night only, but holy hell do we need whatever we can get right now.
Peter Hujar's Day is now available to watch on Criterion and it's an absolutely lovely way to spend an hour and change.
Melissa Clark's broccoli potato soup has been giving me life this week.
Aarvo Pärt's "Fur Alina" is my ideal winter mood music.
What do people want from Jane Austen? This was the question I asked myself while I watched the trailer for the latest adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, which came out in theaters last week. The question isn't a knock on the movie, which I haven't seen
I was 15 when I first watched Thelma & Louise. I saw it in the theater with my best friend, and it spoke to us loudly enough that we began to call each other Thelma and Louise (I was Thelma) and I drew a picture of the movie's
October is Horror Movie Month on the Criterion Channel: all but one of its series are devoted to the genre (the exception being "Starring Madonna," which arguably also qualifies, but I'm going to give Madge a break this week). I have a lifelong aversion to horror
Madonna's been having a very good year. In July she released Confessions II, her fifteenth studio album, and it became a both a commercial and critical juggernaut. This past Sunday, she dominated the MTV VMAs, winning seven awards and giving a performance that managed to incorporate both a