Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Military
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
July 21, 2025Sir 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
July 21, 2025Theme and Variations is a textbook ballet, showcasing the best of Balanchine’s Russian past while offering...
Movies
Oscar Wager 2011
July 21, 2025We at the Fourth Wall have been throwing Oscar Buzz at you throughout the fall and...
Movies
Oscars 2011: And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
July 21, 2025Ms. Kunis brought it–and we spent the whole night wondering if we’d see more of her...
Best Movies
Oscars 2011: A Beaten Critic Speaks
July 19, 2025Congratulations to Julia Rhodes for her excellent Oscar picks, which leveled my own, 15 to 9....
Dance
Interview with ASFB’s William Cannon
July 19, 2025I recently had a chance to talk with dancer William Cannon of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet,...
Movies
Movie Review: Drive Angry
July 19, 2025Taking into account all the casual profanity, copious T&A, comic book violence, awesome cars and impossibly...
Movies
Movie Review: Unknown
July 19, 2025Liam Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, who is in Berlin with his wife (January Jones)...
Movies
Oscar Leadup – Ladies in Film: Female Agency and Pleasure in 2010 Movies
July 19, 2025Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech: behind every great man, there stands (or sits, ever...
Opera
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
July 19, 2025Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Stacking
July 19, 2025Set against the background of the Industrial Revolution, Stacking puts players in the role of Charlie...
Video Games
The Ballot Box Beat Down – A Hard Corps look at DLC
July 18, 2025Here at the Metro City Reform Committee we take a look at the issues going on...
Dance
Company C Contemporary Ballet: Pulse, Appalachia Waltz, Ominous Rumblings of Discontent, Indoor Fireworks
July 18, 2025The most anticipated was the world premiere of Indoor Fireworks set to music by New Wave...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Justice For Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
July 18, 2025Dworkin believes firmly in “cooperative” interpretation, reinforcing ethical precepts with insights from history, literature and philosophy...
Movies
Valentine’s Day Fallout, Chapter Two: Love Most Peculiar in My Dog Tulip
July 18, 2025It is difficult to describe the feeling that My Dog Tulip leaves in one's heart once...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Marvel Versus Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
July 17, 2025Narrative in games like this is a rather inconsequential thing, and perhaps fighting game plots are...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
July 17, 2025The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Thrillers
The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
July 17, 2025Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
Dance
Golden West College Professional Dance Invitational
July 16, 2025Now in its sixth year, the Golden West weekend offers Southern California audiences the opportunity to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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