Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Bruce Willis-ticle!
August 21, 2026In honor of this week’s release Cop Out, the Listicle is All Things Bruce. When researching...
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“Ah, nuts!”: A Warner Bros. Blooper Reel from 1936
August 21, 2026I grew up in the era of videotapes, the advent of which changed the film industry...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 2-23-10 – UPDATED
August 21, 2026Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
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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 & TV
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...
Horror
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
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 & 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...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Music
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
After Image
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Movies
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
September 7, 2026Music is the heart and soul of New Orleans: Wendell Pierce in a publicity shot for...
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Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
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What happened to teen movies?!
August 28, 2026“On Wednesdays we wear pink!” (Mean Girls: a frightfully accurate portrayal of peer pressure and conformity.)...
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