Fred Schruers

Okay, we all know this is where the slagging is meant to come in. Where the writer cites the grand success of the first "Joker" movie and proceeds to indict director Todd Phillips for catastrophically and self-indulgently, in league with his cast, screwing up the sequel.   So is

The words in quotes in the above headline for this post come from New York Times Magazine culture editor Sasha Weiss, as spoken in a podcast cited below. And she’s right, of course—she steadily proves that throughout her exemplary, 9,000+-words article on the topic (“The Prince

Ultimately, it may come down to the role of the common meat cleaver in crime dramas. (Well, perhaps they’re not so common. My domicile lacks one.) Whether in a kitchen or in a plastic-lined car trunk, the gleaming instruments are used, as one corporal in “The Sopranos” notes, for

Is there anything more modern—after the now-requisite whinging about the price of everything—than exchanging notes with our fellow cyber-citizens about what to stream? It’s the kind of thing that can take a dinner party (you know, those formerly regular gatherings of like-minded persons to compare dietary restrictions)