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Art
Art Review: Michelangelo Pistoletto Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Horror
TV Review: AMC’s “The Walking Dead” Shambles onto the Small Screen
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Movies
Movie Review: Saw 3D
June 24, 2025People who have survived horrific ordeals at the hands of others do not invariably gain a...
Classics
The Weekly Listicle: “On This Very Night…” Spooky Tales for Halloween
June 24, 2025It's almost Halloween, folks! Aren't we supposed to be having fun? Rather than dwell further on...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Vanquish
June 23, 2025Events turn to the melodramatic when evil wetsuit-wearing Russians take over America’s 51st state, the mega...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
June 23, 2025Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 2
June 23, 2025“Badly acted exposition,” check. “Obnoxious characters,” check. “Inability to create believable tension,” check indeed. It captures...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Scary Movies For The Whole Family!
June 23, 2025The Weekly Listicle presents Scary Movies For The Whole Family. Not kids movies with Halloween themes,...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Most Disturbing Movies We’ve Seen!
June 22, 2025Here at The Fourth Wall, we’re spending the month of October catering to your every scary...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book 1 by R. A. Salvatore
June 22, 2025One thing is clear: Salvatore is moving Drizzt ahead toward a new point in his life....
Movies
Movie Review: Red
June 22, 2025Dame Helen Mirren is most renowned for her roles as stuffy British matrons (and the Queen...
Movies
Movie Time Nostalga, Part 3: Raising the Stakes with Raising Arizona
June 22, 2025My appreciation of Raising Arizona is as much sentimental as aesthetic. But don't be fooled. It...
Movies
Movie Review: Secretariat
June 22, 2025It’s a cheery film, brought to life with pomp and circumstance by Randall Wallace in what...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
June 21, 2025The game just keeps going and going, yet it never feels padded or in need of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
June 21, 2025Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
June 21, 2025Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
Art
The Weekly Listicle: Stepchildren Of The Horror Masters
June 20, 2025Today we take a different look at the master horror directors. Each of these moviemakers has...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
June 20, 2025Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
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Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
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Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
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Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Art
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
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
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Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
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