The Attack is a movie that tries to get to the core of violence without dissolving into its depiction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36PMWriter 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 08:36PMMy 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 07:58AMNew media always abets the power to articulate fantasy and fetish.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMThe 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 10:40AM"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 11:07AMAuthor 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 11:06AMNew York suffers what might be the effects of innumerable 9/11s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:52PM"Mad Men" gets all manner of undeserved attention. Yet I attend to it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38AMIf Plato had known of mind meld, you can be sure he would have applied to be a Vulcan.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:33PMIt's notable and heartening when informed critical opinion manages to stop a juggernaut in its tracks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:37PMI don't understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:23PMWhat 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 11:12AMPart 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 11:57AMIsrael 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 11:15AMThe once proudly and authentically counter-cultural paper The Boston Phoenix went out ugly, fawning on mobster Whitey Bulger.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:38PMBut 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 07:41PMIt'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 10:29AMThomas 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 07:22PMRobert 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 06:10PMObsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else. -- Joss Whedon
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:14PMThere 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 08:25PM"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 10:30AMBut 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 10:53AM"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 04:59PMIs 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 08:32AMIf 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 10:57AMThe 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 05:18PMWhat percentage art? What percentage terrorist attack?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:00AMUnlike 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…
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