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The Plot: Hanson and Penhall go undercover in one of their habitual guises, the McQuaid brothers, for one of Jump Street’s habitual drills: buy drugs in increasing quantities from a couple of middlemen in an …

I had never seen The Crying Game, despite knowing the twist most of my adult life — which is why I had never bothered seeing it. The spoiler aspect didn’t bother me, but everything except …

Let’s leave aside for a moment the fact that I could barely choose among the myriad vaguely pejorative courtroom-drama puns for the subhed, and focus on what makes The Verdict unique. It’s not the acting, …

3/18: ALL PRE-ORDERS OUT! Thanks so much for your business (and patience); enjoy. I recommend laundering both types of shirt in cold water, inside out.
Bummed you didn’t get one? No problem! You now have two …

Join your fellow sufferers for a live Bradelor! DUN! chat tonight, Monday 14 March at 8 PM ET as we send Brad (and, presumably, bride) down the aisle, into the sunset, between the goal posts, …

What can we really say about the latest edition of The Women Tell All: Crocodile Tears? Not much, as it turns out; we spent the bulk of our discussion on things we wish we’d seen …

Touched to the heart, Mrs. March could only stretch out her arms as if to gather children and grandchildren to herself, and say, with face and voice full of motherly love, gratitude, and humility:
“O my …

I’ve read Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Into Thin Air several times each, and I ripped through Under the Banner of Heaven in a day and a half; his prose is among the most …

After losing out to Zinn by a mere two votes, the Shannen Doherty book is back for another crack at the TNRA, along with Grann’s nonfiction yarn; a fistful of Alcott; and a couple of …

…In which we braid each other’s hair, eat tons and tons of candy, and debate whether Brad has any idea where anyone’s rosebud is and/or what to do with it. Chat goes live at 7:45 …