Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund
PRESSTHINK : "The announcement of its birth, along with the $1.75 million starter budget, is really the launch of a new Internet-based news organization with a focus on original reporting... READ MORE
Greatest Movies of the '80s
INSIDE MOVIES BLOG : Films in the '80s, like the decade itself (and our hair throughout), are remembered for their size, as in BIG -- big action... READ MORE
Dark Visions
NEW YORKER :The world of the graphic novel is a curious one. For every masterwork, such as “Persepolis” or “Maus,” there seem to be shelves of cod mythology and rainy dystopias... READ MORE
Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader
CNN MONEY :Against a backdrop of plummeting ad revenue for newspapers and magazines, and rising costs for paper and delivery, Hearst Corp., is getting set to launch an electronic reader that it hopes can do for periodicals what Amazon's Kindle is doing for books... READ MORE
The History of the Cylon Race Comes Tumbling Out on "Battlestar Galactica"
TELEVISIONARY :It's hardly a coincidence that this week's episode of Battlestar Galactica ("No Exit"), written by Ryan Mottesheard, shares its title with one of Sartre's best known works... READ MORE
Carey Mulligan - Straight to the top of the class
THE INDEPENDENT :In the space of a few weeks, Carey Mulligan has gone from being a virtual unknown to the next big thing in the film industry. Some are even predicting an Oscar nomination next year for the 23-year-old British actress after her star turn in Lone Scherfig's An Education... READ MORE
Jane Austen's Bennet girls go zombie slaying
TIMESONLINE | ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT :IT is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane Austen’s high-spirited heroines can be recast as Hollywood brats or Bollywood sirens, wittily navigating the eternal perils of class, romance and unworthy men... READ MORE
Top 100 TV Shows of the Past 20 Years
BUDDYTV :Would you like to feel old? 2009 is the twenty-year anniversary of Seinfeld's premiere on NBC. It makes me feel like an old, old man. In honor of this anniversary (And because... READ MORE
Is that any way to review a movie?
CINEMA STYLES :Jim Emerson of Scanners has devoted several video posts to scenes from The Dark Knight in which he hopes to understand better why he dislikes the film and better explain it to those who would disagree with him. One scene in particular... READ MORE
Indians don't feel good about 'Slumdog Millionaire'
LOS ANGELES TIMES :Even as American audiences gush over "Slumdog Millionaire," some Indians are groaning over what they see as yet another stereotypical foreign depiction of their nation... READ MORE