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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Best Books</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/best_books/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Blu-Ray Review &#8211; Battle Royale: The Complete Collection</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24822</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24822#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Battle Royale]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Battle Royale Requiem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beat Takeshi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blu-ray]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blu-Ray DVD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blu-Ray review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DVD review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hunger Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kinji Fukasaku]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Koushun Takami]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies Japanese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Bachman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen King]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Takeshi Kitano]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Hunger Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Long Walk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Running Man]]></category> <category><![CDATA[violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[violent movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[We Need To Talk About Kevin]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24822</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino proclaims ”My favorite movie of the last 20 years! I wish I had made this movie.” That is as perfect an endorsement as a film distributor could hope to have, especially when selling a film like Battle Royale to a hungry cult audience.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24822/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Critics&#8217; Picks: Best Books of 2011</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22013</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22013#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:35:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22013</guid> <description><![CDATA[Our book reviewers select the best books of 2011.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22013/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22021</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22021#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:55:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernardo Bertolucci]]></category> <category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dark comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Cronenberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies adult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies romance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MPAA ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17 rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Greenaway]]></category> <category><![CDATA[X rating]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22021</guid> <description><![CDATA[Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much less artificial than, say, PG-13. Something about these films transcended the extremely liberal boundaries of the R rating, and in most cases the reasons are still apparent.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22021/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17928</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17928#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candyman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clive Barker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hellraiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midnight meat train]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nightbreed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[screenwriting]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17928</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the screen to the stage to the canvas to the console. However, film fans know him particularly as a horror master. There is so much undermined material for gifted fantasy filmmakers that perhaps we could dispense with further <em>Candyman</em> sequels and retire the <em>Hellraiser</em> juggernaut with contented hearts, and enjoy a Clive Barker renaissance clad in all new colors.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17928/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Day Late, Dollar Short, Solid Gold: &#8220;Dear Twilight&#8230;&#8221;</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17402</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17402#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:41:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[breaking dawn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie fans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie trailers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies romance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies vampire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[new moon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paranormal Activity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paranormal Activity 2]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stephenie meyer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Twilight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twilight breaking dawn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twilight eclipse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twilight new moon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vampires]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17402</guid> <description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the <em>Twilight</em> cutting room, did the thought never stir that they could drag untold ranks of non-<em>Twilight</em> initiates into the theaters merely by cutting fan reactions into the regular trailers? I was working as a movie usher when <em>New Moon</em> came out, and I had grown people stepping out of ticket lines with money outstretched, offering outrageous sums of cash to buy my promotional <em>New Moon</em> t-shirt off my back. And believe me, it was not an excuse to peek at my trout belly. This is for real, people! <em>Star Wars</em> and <em>Harry Potter</em> premieres have nothing on this.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17402/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle</title><link>http://calitreview.com/15705</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/15705#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 01:31:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arnold schwarzenegger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conan the barbarian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cult classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lionsgate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marcus nispel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies adventure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies cult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=15705</guid> <description><![CDATA[Borne on the crest of the wind, I hear already the lamentation of women. Women whose dates have dragged them, possibly by the hair, to the late summer picture show. By now many of you know that Lionsgate will soon release a new film entitled <em>Conan The Barbarian</em>. Most of you will recall a cult classic by the same name from 1982, which was the breakout role of a certain Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/15705/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Three Rings Of Circus Movie Mayhem!</title><link>http://calitreview.com/15577</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/15577#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:27:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christoph Walz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[circus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freaks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lon Chaney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reese Witherspoon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen King]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Greatest Show On Earth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tod Browning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water For Elephants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[X-Files]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=15577</guid> <description><![CDATA[The circus is a complicated enterprise, and its symbolic value in storytelling has many faces. It may tell of freedom and the charm of living as a nomad and artist. It may speak to the weariness of the road, and the ability of a lifestyle to trap those who do not know how to break free. It may celebrate the solidarity of those cast out from society. Or in the end, it may simply deal with the hideous antics of clowns. In any form, the circus plays upon the most fundamental feelings of wonder and fear, and makes children of us all once again.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/15577/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14709</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14709#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:10:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Lean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elia Kazan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jane Eyre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Steinbeck]]></category> <category><![CDATA[literary adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oliver Twist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roman Polanski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[To Kill A Mockingbird]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14709</guid> <description><![CDATA[With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard of the English-class bookshelf put to the screen. Mia Wasikowska, lately of Alice In Wonderland, headlines as the eponymous Jane, in a very Gothic-looking version of Charlotte Brontë&#8217;s best known novel. As I recall, it is quite a dark [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14709/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13205</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13205#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brighton Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gangster movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helen Mirren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Hurt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Attenborough]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rowan Joffé]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rown Joffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Riley]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13205</guid> <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his debut, he has selected an auspiciously high-profile story. <em>Brighton Rock</em>, adapted from Graham Greene's 1938 novel, is a captivating crime thriller and a chilling exploration of the human capacity for love, betrayal and violence. If all goes right, this will be one beautiful and scary film.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13205/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Critics&#8217; Picks: Best Books of 2010</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13219</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13219#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:34:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13219</guid> <description><![CDATA[Our annual selection of noteworthy books.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13219/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Sherlock Holmes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13060</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13060#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arthur conan doyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hartswood Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Freeman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sir arthur conan doyle]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13060</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character still has potential in a new context. The only rule is not to stray from the unique faculties that make Sherlock such a distinctive and popular hero. If the story's focus ceases to be the detective's brilliant deductive logic, then the magic is lost and the character wasted. If, however, due attention and respect are paid to this detail, the rest is free and open to broader interpretation. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13060/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Critics&#8217; Picks: Best Books of 2009</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5690</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5690#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:42:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5690</guid> <description><![CDATA[Our annual selection of noteworthy books.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5690/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Critics&#8217; Picks: Best Books of 2008</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1925</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1925#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <guid
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