Three days, four flicks. In order: The House of Flying Daggers: I was a touch disappointed. I certainly can't agree with Redbeard's assessment; this film was far weaker than Hero, which was one of the year's best, whether the year is 2002 or 2004. Although the...
Author: Robert Farley
It would be fair to say that we at LGM may use the "Worst. . . Ever?" form a bit too liberally. Indeed, I think I'm probably more guilty of.
Juan Cole points out that, despite the best efforts of the Right to argue otherwise, there is no "eternal" enmity between Jews and Muslims. For entire centuries in the late.
David Edelstein is a better man than I am. You'll hardly be surprised to hear that Joel Schumacher's film of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (Warner Bros.) made for the most excruciating two-and-a-half hours I've ever spent in a theater. When I...
Josh Canel finds an NYT article pointing out one of the contributing elements to our military manpower shortage: An analysis of Pentagon data reveals that the military is losing gay.
There's a very nice discussion of teaching evaluations going on over at Crooked Timber. My evaluations, both as an instructor and a TA, have always been strong, so I've accordingly been.
I wish that studios would make more of an effort to spread their decent releases across the year rather than to cluster them in the last two weeks. I understand that this is a forlorn hope. Thus, I am required to fit movies into a...
Read this excellent article in the New York Times about the hunt for spies at Guantanamo Bay. Long story short, if you're Islamic and you have any questions about the treatment.
Some insight into Libya's motivation to drop its weapons programs early this year: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi said the move was responsible for Mr. Bush's election victory and said he now wanted.
This is old news, and I don't have much to add, but it's worth remembering when you find yourself confronted by a Reagan-addled wingnut: The answer, of course, is that Reagan didn't grow his way out of the deficits caused by his 1981 tax cut....
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
I'm not a fan of Peter Beinart, but this is perhaps the most ill-conceived line of attack anyone could come up with: Even if you favor making gay marriage a central,.