This might seem an odd admonition. What could be so wrong with taking a simple picture? First, consider what happens when someone takes a...

Back in our November review of  Skyfall  we briefly discussed the film's cinematography, outstanding not only for a Bond film but any a...

This week I spent three days on jury service. It is of aesthetic crimes, however, that I wish to speak. The court sits a horrendous glass-a...

Why does it seem to me that people so often scamper after "resources" to help them complete their work. Teachers want pre-fab tes...

An informal ranking based on anecdotal evidence. Pictures of animals Pictures of food Complaints about work Shopping! Complaints abou...

There's a certain value in an unqualified, unreserved defense in that it leaves room for its opposite and thus also a dialectical synt...

Directed by John Moore. 2013. It's hard to get your head around the idea of nothing. How do you hold in your mind the idea of a pure...

I couldn't have less respect for the decisions of committees and councils, let alone government ones, let alone ones stuffed with ...

Directed by Tommy Wirkola. 2013. Hansel and Gretel  is a success of modest ambitions, without a single engaging idea or novel technique i...

I was in my youth a terrible procrastinator, putting off everything from making beds to writing papers. Only rather recently did I learn ...