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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...
Best 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 & TV
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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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...
Germany
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: Let Me In
October 14, 2026As Owen discovers the startling and horrible truth about his neighbors, he and Abby develop a...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Harry Brown
October 13, 2026Pete Townsend once wrote “I hope I die before I get old,” but it’s important to...
Movies
Movie Review: The Social Network
October 13, 2026He brings up his 1600 SAT score, his obsession with Harvard’s final clubs, betrays his jealousy...
Art
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 2: North By Northwest Revisited
October 13, 2026I got myself a videotape of Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest at a young age, and...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle Covers The Best Movie Cover Songs!
October 13, 2026There may be an Academy Award for “Best Original Song,” but where’s the love for all...
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The Weekly Listicle: Biopics about people we love to hate!
October 12, 2026Timberlake as Sean Parker and Eisenberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s The Social...
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
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...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Classics
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...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
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...
Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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