Much has been written over the past 18 months about the death/irrelevance of film criticism in print media, as newspapers scaled back their movie coverage and Premiere stopped publishing a print edition.

Mamma Mia! isn't a massive hit, but it has staying power. With $136 million in domestic receipts since its release on July 18, it's at ninth place in the summer's box-office race, yet it's been a steady earner. This marks the movie's eighth week in the box-office top 10 (and hence the Box Office Power Rankings), equal to Iron Man and The Dark Knight and one more than WALL•E, Kung Fu Panda, and Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That's pretty impressive however you cut it, but especially in the absence of a huge opening weekend.

Chris Thile doesn't like musical boundaries, and the mandolin player seems to almost relish pissing off those who would prefer to pigeonhole him.

Given its scope and depth, one might expect that St. Ambrose University's Darwin Project started with a big idea. After all, 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species, as well as the 200th anniversary of its author's birth. (Both he and Abraham Lincoln were born on February 12, 1809.)