newcritics

As the economic crisis has unfolded, I think a lot of us who care about the arts have been blind-sided by the confluence of politics, economic issues, and the creative enterprises we love. As critics, we exist to experience the thrill of the creative; we are the audience, we are the reactive element. None of [...]

I haven’t posted in newcritics in far too long, in part because of teaching and writing obligations, but in the spirit of year-end list-making, I thought I’d share some recent reflections I posted on the practice of popular culture list-making over at The Chutry Experiment.

With the end of the calendar year fast approaching and end [...]

Welcome to another edition of Wednesday Night at the Movies. Sorry about the mess. I’ve been sick in bed all day with a cold, an how appropriate is that, irony-wise? At any rate, I haven’t had time to clean the apartment and get things ready for company. Let’s just get this [...]

No live-blogging of tonight’s episode because of the holiday. Feel free to use this as an open thread.
I was an altar boy from the time I was in fifth grade until just about halfway through my first year of high school, when getting up at six o’clock on a Sunday morning became as physically [...]

As fun as it is to get lost in, and quibble with, the exhaustive amount of period detail in Mad Men, that’s not quite where I come from on it. Right or wrong (or more to the point, right AND wrong), the period details of Mad Men are meant, I think, to frame the story [...]

Ok, get your hands up and don’t turn around. It’s Wednesday Night at the Movies again here at newcritics. Empty your pockets of comments and nobody’ll get hurt.
Few thoughts to mull over while we wait to get started. First, here’s part of a post I wrote way back in April when I [...]

Greetings. Relax. You have not been drafted. I’m just welcoming you to the first open thread in our new newcritics series of open threads, Wednesday Night at the Movies. The thread officially opens at 10 PM, Eastern. But if you’re here a little early, don’t be chagrined. Step right [...]