Kristian Lin
Post-Labor Day Movie Thoughts
How was your Labor Day weekend? Judging by the box-office returns, you probably didn’t spend it at the movies, but that’s OK. I still...
More Inglourious Thoughts
I had a lot of leftover thoughts about Inglourious Basterds that I didn’t have the space to share in my review, so I thought...
R.I.P. Hildegard Behrens
Opera fans are mourning the death of Hildegard Behrens at the age of 72. The native of Freiburg, Germany studied to be a lawyer,...
A Lonely Holdout in District 9
One of my fellow film critics has caused a bit of a dust-up: Writing in the New York Press, Armond White trashed District 9...
The Shack Is Wack
RadioShack recently unveiled its new marketing campaign rebranding itself as "The Shack," and it doesn't seem to be going over well. As Conan O'Brien...
R.I.P., John Hughes
If you came of age in the 1980s, chances are you'll be flooded with sadness at the sudden death of John Hughes. The director/screenwriter...
No Homo, Watson
As an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes stories in my youth, I'm looking forward to this Christmas' release of the new movie Sherlock Holmes....
The Bell Won’t Save This
I never got into the whole Saved by the Bell thing even though I was of high-school age in the early 1990s. Jimmy Fallon,...
R.I.P., Jim Johnson
While all the offseason NFL coverage is dominated by Michael Vick coming back and Brett Favre not coming back (to the latter of which...
Racial Profiling in Massachusetts
Well, now, this is disturbing. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home by Cambridge police after a neighbor called reporting...
