Thursday, August 22, 2013
The Attack is a movie that tries to get to the core of violence without dissolving into its depiction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Writer Elmore Leonard, passed away on Tuesday, 8/20/13, 87 years old. Age no doubt chipped away at him physically but not so far as I could tell at his style and his prose.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
My point is that whatever distinguished District 9 and made it so special is entirely absent from director Neill Blomkamp's blockbuster, Elysium.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMI am a secular Jew who can't but welcome Zealot's conclusion that Christianity pulled a role reversal on Jesus, and made this failed revolutionary Jew into someone who eschewed his people an…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:58AMThursday, August 1, 2013
New media always abets the power to articulate fantasy and fetish.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMMonday, July 29, 2013
The eccentric and charming "Computer Chess" focuses on a group of geeks concentrating on what they see as the infinite microcosm to be found on the sixty four squares of the chess board.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMThursday, July 11, 2013
"Hannah Arendt" is a substantial and worthwhile portrait of the influential and controversial thinker who gave us the phrase "the banality of evil."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:07AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Author Christian Caryl ends "Strange Rebels" with the idea that "if the experiences of 1979 suggest one conclusion, it is that we should never underestimate the powers of reaction."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMThursday, June 20, 2013
New York suffers what might be the effects of innumerable 9/11s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:52PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
"Mad Men" gets all manner of undeserved attention. Yet I attend to it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38AMSunday, May 26, 2013
If Plato had known of mind meld, you can be sure he would have applied to be a Vulcan.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:33PMMonday, May 13, 2013
It's notable and heartening when informed critical opinion manages to stop a juggernaut in its tracks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:37PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
I don't understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:23PMThursday, May 2, 2013
What is Harvard Square today but a shopping spree waiting to happen, a student lounge, a food court? What could a novel gain by being set in that venue?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Part of what made "The Dream Merchant" so compelling, and at times, harrowing, a read for me are its themes: love, loss, rags and riches, to be sure, but also the theme of aging, and associa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:57AMSaturday, April 13, 2013
Israel has genuine enemies without, to be sure. But "The Gatekeepers" leaves the impression that it has no less mortal an enemy within.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:15AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
The once proudly and authentically counter-cultural paper The Boston Phoenix went out ugly, fawning on mobster Whitey Bulger.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:38PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
But there's something else going on in "Mad Men," all the more because it's latent, unannounced, episode by episode. It's this thing about art and advertising, and the difference, circa that…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:41PMMonday, March 25, 2013
It's not a simple story. It's a story about dreadful ideas, hideous politics and their interaction with art and aesthetic judgment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:29AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Thomas Nagel: Has he penned a rallying cry for those who have no taste for much science in the first place?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22PMFriday, February 8, 2013
Robert Ingersoll is all but unknown in our time. Susan Jacoby sets out to answer why. One answer she proposes is that it was generally assumed that the reactionary expressions of religion In…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:10PMMonday, December 31, 2012
Obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else. -- Joss Whedon
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:14PMFriday, December 28, 2012
There is so much of a certain kind of violence here — the kind you've seen in Tarantino movies before — that it in a sense takes the violence out of violence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:25PMSaturday, December 22, 2012
"The Friends of Eddie Coyle" was simply too good a movie, perfect, in its way, and the director of "Killing Them Softly" wants to avoid comparison.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:30AMThursday, December 13, 2012
But sometimes, though it may defy certain sorts of expectations, Jews excel not because they have higher sports IQs but just because they are better.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:53AMMonday, November 19, 2012
"Hanoi's War" deserves far more attention than it has thus far received. It enriches our understanding of the War in Vietnam and by implication, subsequent American commitments, including th…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:59PMThursday, October 11, 2012
Is the director of "The Master," Paul Thomas Anderson, running from Scientology and its top guns (Tom Cruise did visit the set) as fast as he can?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMSaturday, September 29, 2012
If you try to take Camille Paglia seriously, despite the occasional insight you might find along the way, in the end it's impossible to avoid the suspicion that you've made a category error.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:57AMTuesday, September 18, 2012
The truth is that protests against the mosque did not mention parking. Protestors fumed about the threat of shariah law. Parking is a real issue in Sheepshead Bay, the threat of shariah law …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:18PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
What percentage art? What percentage terrorist attack?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:00AMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Unlike the rock star supporters of Pussy Riot, Garry Kasparov lives in Moscow, which means, given how the Putin regime has dealt with critics, he has a lot more to fear than, say, Madonna, w…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:56PM 
