http://calitreview.com An arts and culture magazine. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://calitreview.com/22444 http://calitreview.com/22444#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:53:11 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=22444 The Wicker Tree has not been overwhelmingly good, but one might say it has been encouragingly mixed. The original Wicker Man did not become known as "the Citizen Kane of horror films" overnight, or even during the horror boom of the 1970s. It vanished into relative obscurity for some time before its rediscovery, and look at that baby burn now!]]> http://calitreview.com/22444/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/21700 http://calitreview.com/21700#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:52:36 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=21700 http://calitreview.com/21700/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/21415 http://calitreview.com/21415#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:54:00 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=21415 http://calitreview.com/21415/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/21026 http://calitreview.com/21026#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:07:58 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=21026 http://calitreview.com/21026/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/20598 http://calitreview.com/20598#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:42:57 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=20598 Star Trek episodes, just for starters. This week, lend your ears to Brett Harrison Davinger and me (Dan Fields) as we look at some of our favorite films to borrow a title from the works of Shakespeare.]]> http://calitreview.com/20598/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/19926 http://calitreview.com/19926#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:54:14 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=19926 True Blood seized its bloodthirsty mojo back at the finish line.]]> http://calitreview.com/19926/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/19293 http://calitreview.com/19293#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:47:24 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=19293 http://calitreview.com/19293/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18804 http://calitreview.com/18804#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:32:23 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=18804 http://calitreview.com/18804/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18000 http://calitreview.com/18000#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:59:53 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=18000 Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with impunity. A select few try to balance the mistakes of the early church with the importance of faith over dogma - an approach that Season Of The Witch admittedly tried, but got lost too far up its own butt to realize. Black Death tends toward the latter type of story, but pushes its acid satire into fairly new territory.]]> http://calitreview.com/18000/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/14225 http://calitreview.com/14225#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:33:12 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=14225 http://calitreview.com/14225/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13701 http://calitreview.com/13701#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:32:05 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=13701 The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by prisoners of war. In due fashion this week's Listicle salutes the soldier in film. From comedy to adventure to stark, sobering drama, soldiers have faced a great deal on the movie screen.]]> http://calitreview.com/13701/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13509 http://calitreview.com/13509#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:00:14 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=13509 http://calitreview.com/13509/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13309 http://calitreview.com/13309#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:25:18 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=13309 Port Mortuary, her latest novel about the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, uses a new narrative device to explore fresh plot territory. But the resulting book is exceptionally difficult to like.]]> http://calitreview.com/13309/feed 21 http://calitreview.com/13205 http://calitreview.com/13205#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=13205 Brighton Rock, 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.]]> http://calitreview.com/13205/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13060 http://calitreview.com/13060#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=13060 http://calitreview.com/13060/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/11810 http://calitreview.com/11810#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:00:30 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=11810 North By Northwest at a young age, and proceeded to watch the ever-living hell out of it. I can't recall having seen what you might call a grown-up movie before that, and a lot of dramatic films that I love now might not have held my attention then. But North by Northwest really has got it all.]]> http://calitreview.com/11810/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/11671 http://calitreview.com/11671#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:55:56 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=11671 http://calitreview.com/11671/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/11391 http://calitreview.com/11391#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:10:34 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=11391 Let Me In, a remake of the superb Swedish vampire story Let The Right One In (2008). With this and a number of other new flicks on the way, there is more exciting news. Christopher Lee, now a late octogenarian but still a commanding tower of a man, is back on board for at least one picture.]]> http://calitreview.com/11391/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/9748 http://calitreview.com/9748#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:23:03 +0000 Katherine Tomlinson http://calitreview.com/?p=9748 The Stand and Robert McCammon’s Swan Song, this book is a character-driven apocalyptic road trip of a novel that takes us on a journey both physical and metaphysical. His writing transcends genre in every way, including a haunting description of death by nuclear fire.]]> http://calitreview.com/9748/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/9239 http://calitreview.com/9239#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 16:51:28 +0000 Katherine Tomlinson http://calitreview.com/?p=9239 http://calitreview.com/9239/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/5287 http://calitreview.com/5287#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:45 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=5287 The Scarpetta Factor is driven by the reader’s need to find out what the heroes know, as well as what the villains have done. ]]> http://calitreview.com/5287/feed 26 http://calitreview.com/4591 http://calitreview.com/4591#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:19:12 +0000 Katie Cappello http://calitreview.com/?p=4591 Little Women. But it’s her similarity with another classic heroine, Nancy Drew, which really draws readers into her world.]]> http://calitreview.com/4591/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4543 http://calitreview.com/4543#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:07:39 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/?p=4543 http://calitreview.com/4543/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4177 http://calitreview.com/4177#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:41:47 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com/?p=4177 http://calitreview.com/4177/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/3344 http://calitreview.com/3344#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:03:10 +0000 Mark Fitzgerald http://calitreview.com/?p=3344 http://calitreview.com/3344/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3188 http://calitreview.com/3188#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 13:41:03 +0000 Katie Cappello http://calitreview.com/?p=3188 http://calitreview.com/3188/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3135 http://calitreview.com/3135#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 13:38:36 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=3135 The Roar of the Butterflies displays the same qualities which make the Dalziel and Pascoe series so notable: a remarkable turn of phrase, a generous tone and persistent pushing at the boundaries of what crime fiction can encompass.]]> http://calitreview.com/3135/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/2729 http://calitreview.com/2729#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:12:11 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=2729 http://calitreview.com/2729/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/1799 http://calitreview.com/1799#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:52:05 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/?p=1799 http://calitreview.com/1799/feed 12 http://calitreview.com/682 http://calitreview.com/682#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 16:15:11 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=682 http://calitreview.com/682/feed 0