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Art & Design
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...
Thrillers
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...
Fiction Reviews
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....
Movies
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...
Movies
Movie Time Nostalga, Part 3: Raising the Stakes with Raising Arizona
October 16, 2026My appreciation of Raising Arizona is as much sentimental as aesthetic. But don't be fooled. It...
Movies
Movie Review: Red
October 16, 2026Dame Helen Mirren is most renowned for her roles as stuffy British matrons (and the Queen...
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...
Movies
Movie Review: Secretariat
October 15, 2026It’s a cheery film, brought to life with pomp and circumstance by Randall Wallace in what...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
October 15, 2026The game just keeps going and going, yet it never feels padded or in need of...
Biography
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
October 15, 2026Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
Art
The Weekly Listicle: Stepchildren Of The Horror Masters
October 15, 2026Today we take a different look at the master horror directors. Each of these moviemakers has...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
October 14, 2026Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dead Rising 2
October 14, 2026Any great zombie story has something on its mind other than the now mundane “trial of...
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 & 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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