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How to fake your way out of seeing this year’s Oscar nominees!
August 17, 2026No, you don’t have to watch The Blind Side. I’ve got your back. This year, for...
Movies
Welcome to The Fourth Wall, a New CLR Movie Blog
August 17, 2026We're excited about our first blog, The Fourth Wall which will provide a less formal and...
Fiction Reviews
The Last Reader by David Toscana
August 17, 2026The stream-of-consciousness style and lack of quotation marks seen here is indicative of the entire novel....
Movies
Introducing…William Bibbiani!
August 16, 2026While Snowmageddon, Part One raged around us here on the east coast, the amazing and talented...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dark Void
August 16, 2026The bad guys are alien robot Nazis (effectively combining every faceless antagonist in videogame history), Will...
Movies
Movie Review: Legion
August 16, 2026According to the script, God has lost faith in humanity, ostensibly because he grew “tired of...
Movies
Movie Review: From Paris With Love
August 16, 2026Structural difficulties, failed attempts at levity and below-par action sequences would be bad enough, but sadly...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
August 16, 2026Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
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...
Fiction Reviews
Fables: The Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
August 15, 2026But without a doubt, it’s the series that he began seven years ago, Fables, that has...
Fiction Reviews
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
August 15, 2026The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
Fiction Reviews
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
August 15, 2026Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Bayonetta
August 15, 2026She also wears glasses, which may pass for originality these days but is thematically appropriate because...
Art & Design
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
August 15, 2026The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
August 14, 2026There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...
Fiction Reviews
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
August 14, 2026The religious and cultural tensions present in this book, while controversial, are always handled with grace...
Art
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
August 14, 2026In Roberto Cuoghi’s 2006 portrait of Davide Halevim, one of the highlights of the section entitled...
Movies
The Top 10 Movies of 2009
August 14, 2026At the end, she’s back at square one leading the student life, but inside, she’s grown...
Movies
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
August 13, 2026Ritchie, whose previous films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are cult favorites, brings...
Fiction Reviews
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
August 13, 2026For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...
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...
The Fourth Wall
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...
The Fourth Wall
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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