The latest entry into this summer's competition for the most offensive movie is Hamlet 2, a comedy starring Steve Coogan, the Mancunian comic perhaps best known for his character Alan Partridge on English television. The movie is exceedingly funny, both stupid and smart at once and derivative in...

Some of the reasons why Dark Knight, the latest installment of the Batman movie franchise which opened last Friday, took in US$155.34 million its opening weekend may have little to do with the movie itself. Surely a bereft American public looking to mourn its own James Dean -- though in...

Wall-E, though a salutary Pixar flick from afar, is in fact, part Brazil, part Batteries Not Included and part Idiocracy. It's dystopic all right but that's not to say it isn't cute. Think Cuteoverload.com with robots instead of kittens and you'll get the idea. It's been established that human...

In the wide world of sports, football, or soccer as we Americans call it, is the game most foreign to me, the game with the most danger and the most glitter. I grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia called Rydal. My afternoons consisted chiefly of reading or martial arts....

The world of boxing, at least our world of boxing, includes cannibalism (Tyson v. Holyfield 1997), trash-talk (Ali-Forman 1974) and thugs (Don King). English boxing -- except as embodied...

As America's plan to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Guatamala's democratically elected president, grew bloodier and bloodier, President Eisenhower ordered his sanguine commie-hating Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to send more...

The rhythms of the second intifada break down thusly: 66 Palestinians killed per month, 30 suicide attacks per year, more than 5,700 dead. The diegetic sound is provided courtesy Qassam rockets streaking...

The case to make Father Mychael Judge Saint Mychael doesn't lack ammunition. The front page photograph of the FDNY chaplain's limp body being carried from the wreckage by four anguished...