Brussels was really groovy… everywhere you looked graffiti shot though your head, like flash photography …urgent suggestions, blueprints yet to be discovered… atrophied trees everywhere… the city was an album cover waiting to happen… A drug opera stuffed into a cuckoo clock… stacks of en...

By Holly Herrick, Eric Kohn, John Lichman, Vadim Rizov, Michael Tully, and Keith Uhlich [ Editor's Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the commenters, and do not necessarily reflect the official policies, positions, or opinions of The House Next Door.] INTRODUCTION Shalom, Wiscons...

Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Casting, New Releases, Celebrities and Controversy, 20th Century Fox, Movie Marketing, Politics Call it performance art, savage prank behavior or audacious social satire. Call it whatever you want, but there's no question Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again. As Erik re...

Filed under: Animation, New Releases, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Scripts, Newsstand, Politics A couple of people have been griping about Wall-E director Andrew Stanton's refusal to admit that his cute little movie about a robot in love actually contains some pretty upfront green polit...

In my quest to enlighten myself as to the true contents of the studies cited by Robert Marzano, et. al. in Classroom Instruction that Works , a course of action suggested not only by Marzano’s detractor Alfie Kohn, but by Marzano himself, I found an article entitled “Synthesis of Researc...

The Oscars are sooo over. Or at least they are for a gang of upstart documentary experts who hosted last night's inaugural Cinema Eye Honors in New York, where a handful of acclaimed nonfiction films from 2007 refuted the penguins-and-climate change model that organizers say hijacked the Academy Awa...

Here’s a quote that should make everyone feel better this holiday season. It’s from the chief domestic economist at Morgan Stanley and is in a report to clients as reported by the http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/business/11cnd-fed.html"New York Times. “A mild recession is now lik...