http://calitreview.com Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:54:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/5527 http://calitreview.com/5527#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:54:44 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=5527 http://calitreview.com/5527/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5483 http://calitreview.com/5483#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:25:51 +0000 Zorianna Kit http://calitreview.com/?p=5483 Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives such a frightening performance as Mary Jones, the Academy should just hand over the Oscar statuette to her now. Her scene towards the end when she is confronted by both Precious and Weiss for all her wicked deeds is enough to make your stomach churn.]]> http://calitreview.com/5483/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/5426 http://calitreview.com/5426#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:22:50 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=5426 http://calitreview.com/5426/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/5318 http://calitreview.com/5318#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:16:37 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=5318 The Men Who Stare at Goats plops the audience into this seemingly alternate universe with the admonition that “more of this is true than you would believe.”]]> http://calitreview.com/5318/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5301 http://calitreview.com/5301#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:29:57 +0000 Rochelle Jewel Shapiro http://calitreview.com/?p=5301 The Third Man that the moment he appeared in public, somebody whipped out an instrument and began playing the theme song. When an organ-grinder began playing the theme while Chris and Orson were crossing Piccadilly Circus, Orson had had it with London. His driver took them way out in the country to picnic in an isolated spot surrounded by hedges. A man on a bicycle saw them, stopped short, and suddenly whipped out his harmonica to play The Third Man theme song.]]> http://calitreview.com/5301/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5225 http://calitreview.com/5225#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:19:29 +0000 Germein Linares http://calitreview.com/?p=5225 http://calitreview.com/5225/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5136 http://calitreview.com/5136#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:02:36 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=5136 http://calitreview.com/5136/feed 12 http://calitreview.com/5108 http://calitreview.com/5108#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:59:05 +0000 Zorianna Kit http://calitreview.com/?p=5108 http://calitreview.com/5108/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5033 http://calitreview.com/5033#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:38:45 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=5033 Where the Wild Things Are to ignite the minds of generations to come; spending 90 minutes inside a child’s mind has never felt so cathartic and enchanting. ]]> http://calitreview.com/5033/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/4897 http://calitreview.com/4897#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:29:07 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4897 Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead (1978). But though it’s alternately a comedy, a romance, a gorefest, and a buddy road-trip movie, Zombieland unravels many of the threads that make up the zombie genre. A good ensemble cast (three up-and-comers and the always-humorous Harrelson), great makeup effects, and fantastic writing create a lighthearted, fun homage to the classic undead movies of yore.]]> http://calitreview.com/4897/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4807 http://calitreview.com/4807#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:43:39 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4807 http://calitreview.com/4807/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4721 http://calitreview.com/4721#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:09:51 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4721 The Matrix—a glowing, glaring red eye centered in a mass of metallic tentacles. Though the voice actors are talented, the dialogue is few, far between, and unimportant to the film’s plot. This movie is eye candy.]]> http://calitreview.com/4721/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/4684 http://calitreview.com/4684#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:39:18 +0000 Brenna E. Fitzgerald http://calitreview.com/?p=4684 The War Room) lets us peep behind the veil of Vogue and glimpse into both the goblins and the glory of glamour. Following the magazine’s steadfast fury to produce its largest page-count ever in 2007 (a whopping 840), we see what it takes to work for a high-end fashion publication, but more importantly we get a portrait of the ice-queen in charge.]]> http://calitreview.com/4684/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4617 http://calitreview.com/4617#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:32:38 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4617 Taking Woodstock is based firmly in reality, but the film isn’t about one character’s journey: it’s a coming-of-age story about America.]]> http://calitreview.com/4617/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4560 http://calitreview.com/4560#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:05:52 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4560 http://calitreview.com/4560/feed 7 http://calitreview.com/4491 http://calitreview.com/4491#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:10:41 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4491 we are. The humans in the film are horrid, cruel stereotypes, laughing as alien eggs pop like popcorn, shooting creatures at random, and torturing an innocent man to discover the meaning of the alien weapons. The aliens (one of whom is Christopher Johnson, a decidedly nondescript and very American name) are scammed, abused and tortured, living in a horrendous slum. Unlike in Independence Day, The Day the Earth Stood Still, or any number of other self-congratulatory sci-fi films, we are not fighting to save ourselves from these unthinkably pitiful creatures. We’re using, torturing, and abusing them. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4491/feed 13 http://calitreview.com/4444 http://calitreview.com/4444#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:06:34 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4444 Julie & Julia is a valentine to female independence, an ode to striving for what you truly enjoy.]]> http://calitreview.com/4444/feed 6 http://calitreview.com/3354 http://calitreview.com/3354#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:57:52 +0000 Brenna E. Fitzgerald http://calitreview.com/?p=3354 Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown or how a chicken is raised. It reveals that every step of the process from farm to factory to functional product is not as scrupulously regulated as government organizations like the USDA and the FDA would have you believe. According to Pollan, “the industrial food system is always looking for greater efficiency. But each new step in efficiency leads to problems.”]]> http://calitreview.com/3354/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3295 http://calitreview.com/3295#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:17:36 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=3295 http://calitreview.com/3295/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/3047 http://calitreview.com/3047#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:19:52 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=3047 O, heart, be still! The best I could manage was a stammer, “Miss Hayworth, I came with my wife. That’s her there, with Margo and Eddie.”]]> http://calitreview.com/3047/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/1878 http://calitreview.com/1878#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:58:36 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=1878 http://calitreview.com/1878/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/647 http://calitreview.com/647#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 12:45:10 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/topics/theatre/647/ terrible British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India." My Fair Lady was a hit and she belted it, day in, day out, both on Broadway and in London, fitting in her twenty-first birthday and a marriage to Tony Walton in the meantime.]]> http://calitreview.com/647/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/246 http://calitreview.com/246#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:23:31 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/2007/08/07/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house/ http://calitreview.com/246/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/237 http://calitreview.com/237#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:58:08 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/2007/07/12/red-carpets-and-other-banana-skins-by-rupert-everett/ http://calitreview.com/237/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/218 http://calitreview.com/218#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:51:26 +0000 Jem Bloomfeld http://calitreview.com//2007/06/13/family-values/ http://calitreview.com/218/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/133 http://calitreview.com/133#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:54:43 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/in-character-actors-acting-by-howard-schatz/ http://calitreview.com/133/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/99 http://calitreview.com/99#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:52:39 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/the-athena-factor-by-w-michael-gear/ http://calitreview.com/99/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/60 http://calitreview.com/60#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:33:22 +0000 Kelly Hartog http://calitreview.com//interviews/confessions-of-a-porn-writer/ http://calitreview.com/60/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/57 http://calitreview.com/57#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:39:27 +0000 Kelly Hartog http://calitreview.com//interviews/stripping-the-town-of-tinsel/ http://calitreview.com/57/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/45 http://calitreview.com/45#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:40:29 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com//essays/the-big-country-how-the-west-finally-won/ http://calitreview.com/45/feed 2