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The lack of any stars in the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was a pretty good sign, only a few minutes in, that this mov...

I just got paid for some freelance blogging I did for National Geographic last year, and it reminded me that I never noted that at Pop Cultu...

Cliches permeate Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street . But then again, many classic movie lines like "greed is good" do the s...

As I mentioned recently, I've discovered that graphic novels are the perfect answer for a person who doesn't have as much time to e...

Tom McCarthy, who directed The Station Agent and The Visitor, is back with a phenomenal little film about a small-time New Jersey lawyer who...

Being a former English-lit undergrad and a voracious reader of novels, I never thought the day would come when it would take multiple months...

A friend asked me how I like my iPad, and which apps he should get when he buys his own. I've had this magical device, which I didn'...

I've been meaning to see what all the hype about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is about for quite a while. I bought the hardback nove...

I didn't get nearly enough time to explore Austin , Texas on my four-day work trip there last week, but I did take a couple of hours t...

Just returned from Austin , and it's a great town where they do things quite a bit differently. I would never be crazy about living in T...