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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
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The Weekly Listicle: A Science Ficsticle
October 21, 2026Color me unimpressed based on the trailers for Skyline. This week’s big release Skyline looks…well, it...
Movies
Movie Review: Unstoppable
October 21, 2026The story is just substantial enough to tie all the screeching, sparking train chases together. We...
Movies
Movie Review: Morning Glory
October 21, 2026Morning Glory is a film about morning people. I hate morning people. They’re chipper in the...
Humor
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
October 20, 2026A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
October 20, 2026Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Heroes Who Suck
October 20, 2026Heroes don’t HAVE to be boring stand-ins for the audience (I’m looking at you, everyone who...
Art
Christo in Colorado
October 20, 2026"Over the River" would consist of 5.9 miles of silver fabric draped like an intermittent canopy...
Music
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
October 19, 2026A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Biography
Book Review: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me by Jeff Dunham
October 19, 2026Jeff Dunham’s YouTube videos have been seen over 400 million times, his comedy DVDs have sold...
Movies
Movie Review: 127 Hours
October 18, 2026It’s these moments that comprise the film’s greater theme, that in his final (127) hours even...
Art
Art Review: Michelangelo Pistoletto Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 18, 2026Pistoletto first gained prominence in the world of art in the early 1960's with his Quadri...
Horror
TV Review: AMC’s “The Walking Dead” Shambles onto the Small Screen
October 18, 2026Last night, half of zombie aficionados across the world tuned in to Frank Darabont’s new zombie...
Movies
Movie Review: Saw 3D
October 18, 2026People who have survived horrific ordeals at the hands of others do not invariably gain a...
Horror
The Weekly Listicle: “On This Very Night…” Spooky Tales for Halloween
October 18, 2026It's almost Halloween, folks! Aren't we supposed to be having fun? Rather than dwell further on...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Vanquish
October 17, 2026Events turn to the melodramatic when evil wetsuit-wearing Russians take over America’s 51st state, the mega...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Scary Movies For The Whole Family!
October 17, 2026The Weekly Listicle presents Scary Movies For The Whole Family. Not kids movies with Halloween themes,...
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 2
October 17, 2026“Badly acted exposition,” check. “Obnoxious characters,” check. “Inability to create believable tension,” check indeed. It captures...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Book Review: Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book 1 by R. A. Salvatore
October 17, 2026One thing is clear: Salvatore is moving Drizzt ahead toward a new point in his life....
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: The Most Disturbing Movies We’ve Seen!
October 16, 2026Here at The Fourth Wall, we’re spending the month of October catering to your every scary...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Television
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
After Image
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
Art & Design
Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
October 1, 2026The image of Dr. Gross evoked memories of scenes of carnage which Americans, north and south,...
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