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The I Spit on Your Grave Remake: Why?!
August 21, 2026Slasher movies took a gruesome turn in the 1970s, with flicks like Wes Craven’s Last House...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks!
August 21, 2026Fiction hasn’t been terribly kind to mental institutions. In movies, books, TV, comics and more these...
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Cameron Directs Bigelow in Bill Paxton’s Music Video…come again?
August 20, 2026One of the editors at my favorite non-movie blog Jezebel posted this video featuring Oscar nominees...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer
August 20, 2026Garrity is an archetype, an ill-understood and imperiled hero who after overcoming every obstacle, exits hand-in-hand...
Movies
Movie Review: Shutter Island
August 20, 2026Martin Scorsese’s newest picture Shutter Island is a creepy cinematic passage into paranoia, guilt, and insanity—a...
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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks
August 20, 2026Cinema has always been big on crazy people. Drama and comedy have portrayed the descent into...
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Julia’s Most Anticipated 2010 Movie Releases
August 20, 2026It’s mid-February, 2010, and I’m only just getting the year right on checks (I’m one of...
Movies
Movie Review: The Wolfman
August 20, 2026Werewolves in cinema have had many incarnations, but most modern lore stems from the 1941 Universal...
Movies
Erector Set: The Movie. In 3D. This idea is as bad as you think it is.
August 19, 2026Erector Set will require Helix Films to do all the heavy lifting in the creative department....
Movies
Is a Taxi Driver remake really “getting organizized?”
August 19, 2026The Guardian reported today on a new rumor emerging from the Berlin Film Festival which suggests...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dante’s Inferno
August 19, 2026Dante’s Inferno gets no points whatsoever for originality, but it’s such an entertaining, suspenseful and gorgeously...
Movies
Julia’s Anti-Valentine’s Movies
August 19, 2026Ah, Valentine’s Day. In elementary school, we were forced to address valentines to everyone in class...
Fiction Reviews
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
August 18, 2026Novelist Lee Harwell is having breakfast at his favorite Chicago diner when a hostile homeless guy...
Movies & TV
William Bibbiani’s Top Three Unconventional Romances for Valentine’s Day
August 18, 2026Or maybe you’re just like me, single on the most romantic night of the year, drowning...
Movies
Many Criterion DVDs Going Out of Print: A Lamentation
August 18, 2026Criterion, you are the Pixar of DVD distributors. Every film you release is guaranteed to be...
Movies
A CLR EXCLUSIVE Interview… with CLR Film Critic Julia Rhodes!
August 18, 2026Hello everybody, and welcome to the Fourth Wall, in which we California Literary Review film critics...
Movies
William Bibbiani interviews writer/producer/director Mick Garris!
August 17, 2026Today, as you may have noticed, is a day of many, many interviews. In addition to...
Movies
How to fake your way out of seeing this year’s Oscar nominees!
August 17, 2026No, you don’t have to watch The Blind Side. I’ve got your back. This year, for...
Movies
Welcome to The Fourth Wall, a New CLR Movie Blog
August 17, 2026We're excited about our first blog, The Fourth Wall which will provide a less formal and...
Fiction Reviews
The Last Reader by David Toscana
August 17, 2026The stream-of-consciousness style and lack of quotation marks seen here is indicative of the entire novel....
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Movies
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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