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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Dance
5 Questions with Choreographer David Herrera
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Movies
Movie Review: Red Riding Hood
November 13, 2026Screenwriter David Johnson, whose one prior writing credit was the hilariously mind-boggling Orphan (2009), penned a...
Video Games
Fistful of Fillibuster: Director’s Chair Envy
November 13, 2026So then why is it that so often in games, the developers that make them decide...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Rango
November 12, 2026Every scale on Rango’s chartreuse face, every strand of fur on the tiny desert pigs, each...
Theatre
Theater Review: Good People Starring Frances McDormand
November 12, 2026McDormand ‘s stellar performance captures the complexity of her character by combining swift comic timing with...
Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
Art
Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
November 11, 2026“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Offers Theme and Variations, Winter Dreams and TRIO
November 11, 2026Theme and Variations is a textbook ballet, showcasing the best of Balanchine’s Russian past while offering...
Movies
Oscars 2011: And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
November 11, 2026Ms. Kunis brought it–and we spent the whole night wondering if we’d see more of her...
Movies
Oscar Wager 2011
November 11, 2026We at the Fourth Wall have been throwing Oscar Buzz at you throughout the fall and...
Dance
Interview with ASFB’s William Cannon
November 11, 2026I recently had a chance to talk with dancer William Cannon of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet,...
Movies
Oscars 2011: A Beaten Critic Speaks
November 10, 2026Congratulations to Julia Rhodes for her excellent Oscar picks, which leveled my own, 15 to 9....
Movies
Oscar Leadup – Ladies in Film: Female Agency and Pleasure in 2010 Movies
November 10, 2026Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech: behind every great man, there stands (or sits, ever...
Movies
Movie Review: Drive Angry
November 10, 2026Taking into account all the casual profanity, copious T&A, comic book violence, awesome cars and impossibly...
Movies
Movie Review: Unknown
November 10, 2026Liam Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, who is in Berlin with his wife (January Jones)...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Stacking
November 10, 2026Set against the background of the Industrial Revolution, Stacking puts players in the role of Charlie...
Music
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
November 9, 2026Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
Video Games
The Ballot Box Beat Down – A Hard Corps look at DLC
November 9, 2026Here at the Metro City Reform Committee we take a look at the issues going on...
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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
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...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Classics
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...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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