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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killing, #54
March 7, 2026There are two great reasons to see The Killing, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 caper film about a...
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Art
Art Review: Graphic Design: Now in Production, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
March 7, 2026Lovers of advertising, of the internet and interactivity, of reading and the media, sit back and...
Movies
Halloween Home Video #6: Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones
March 6, 2026Halloween Home Video (2012 edition) is your one-stop shop for Halloween rental recommendations. Sean Byrne's The...
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 4
March 6, 2026For those who came in late: Paranormal Activity is the continuing saga of a family whose...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: You & Me by Padgett Powell
March 6, 2026You might enjoy your own shot of bourbon to compliment the liquor these two “weirdly agreeable...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 6
March 6, 2026The scenario is a brilliant way of watching each figure respond in almost laboratory conditions, offering...
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Dance
Shaping Flamenco: An Afternoon with Cristina Hall
March 6, 2026“The head follows the hand.” Now smiling broadly, she demonstrates slamming the back foot onto the...
Mythology
Halloween Home Video #7: Darren Lynn Bousman’s The Barrens
March 5, 2026Today's Halloween Home Video - Darren Lynn Bousman's The Barrens - a contemporary fable casting the...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘(Il)Legitimate’ (Season 1, Episode 4)
March 5, 2026Savino’s got surprises for everyone. His expansion plans have been nixed by Angelo back in Chicago,...
Movies & TV
Game of the Week: Tennessee vs Alabama — The View from England
March 5, 2026His whole appearance is so overpoweringly wholesome and plucky, he so powerfully exudes the air of...
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Movies
Movie Review: Holy Motors
March 5, 2026More a collection of vignettes than one single story, Holy Motors features each of Oscar’s “characters”...
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Movies & TV
The Walking Dead Recap: “Sick” (Season 3, Episode 2)
March 5, 2026Last week’s season premiere of The Walking Dead plunged us into a whole new world, one...
Nature
Halloween Home Video #8: Kimble Rendall’s Bait
March 4, 2026Welcome back to Halloween Home Video (2012 edition) your October arsenal for all things entertaining and...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53
March 4, 2026This is the second of Guy Ritchie’s madcap mob capers. And Brad Pitt’s performance as Mickey...
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Dance
9 Questions with Artistic Director and Choreographer Bruce Steivel
March 4, 2026Being an Artistic Director of two companies an ocean apart is certainly an interesting assignment. I...
Mystery
Halloween Home Video #9: Howie Askins’ Evidence
March 4, 2026The most glib and reductive way to describe Evidence is as a hybrid of Chronicle, em>Chernobyl...
History
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2026The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
Movies
Movie Review: Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
March 3, 2026At least in the first film, the various creatures and characters were new and well done....
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Movies & TV
Game of the Week: Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame — The View from England
March 3, 2026But seeing the mascot of the “Fighting Irish” always makes me blench slightly, I think because...
Movies & TV
The Office: Here Comes Treble (Season 9, Episode 5)
March 2, 2026<img src=”http://calitreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/01-OfficeHalloween.jpg” alt=”THE OFFICE — “Here Comes Treble” Episode 906 — Pictured: (l-r) Brian Baumgartner as...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
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The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Einstein in Japan
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