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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Bruce Willis-ticle!
April 29, 2025In honor of this week’s release Cop Out, the Listicle is All Things Bruce. When researching...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 2-23-10 – UPDATED
April 29, 2025Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
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“Ah, nuts!”: A Warner Bros. Blooper Reel from 1936
April 29, 2025I grew up in the era of videotapes, the advent of which changed the film industry...
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The I Spit on Your Grave Remake: Why?!
April 29, 2025Slasher movies took a gruesome turn in the 1970s, with flicks like Wes Craven’s Last House...
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Cameron Directs Bigelow in Bill Paxton’s Music Video…come again?
April 28, 2025One 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
April 28, 2025Garrity is an archetype, an ill-understood and imperiled hero who after overcoming every obstacle, exits hand-in-hand...
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The Weekly Listicle: William’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks!
April 28, 2025Fiction hasn’t been terribly kind to mental institutions. In movies, books, TV, comics and more these...
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The Weekly Listicle: Julia’s Insane-Asylum-Flick Picks
April 28, 2025Cinema has always been big on crazy people. Drama and comedy have portrayed the descent into...
Movies
Movie Review: Shutter Island
April 27, 2025Martin Scorsese’s newest picture Shutter Island is a creepy cinematic passage into paranoia, guilt, and insanity—a...
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Julia’s Most Anticipated 2010 Movie Releases
April 27, 2025It’s mid-February, 2010, and I’m only just getting the year right on checks (I’m one of...
Movies
Erector Set: The Movie. In 3D. This idea is as bad as you think it is.
April 27, 2025Erector Set will require Helix Films to do all the heavy lifting in the creative department....
Movies
Movie Review: The Wolfman
April 27, 2025Werewolves in cinema have had many incarnations, but most modern lore stems from the 1941 Universal...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dante’s Inferno
April 26, 2025Dante’s Inferno gets no points whatsoever for originality, but it’s such an entertaining, suspenseful and gorgeously...
Movies
Is a Taxi Driver remake really “getting organizized?”
April 26, 2025The Guardian reported today on a new rumor emerging from the Berlin Film Festival which suggests...
Horror
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
April 26, 2025Novelist Lee Harwell is having breakfast at his favorite Chicago diner when a hostile homeless guy...
Movies
Julia’s Anti-Valentine’s Movies
April 26, 2025Ah, Valentine’s Day. In elementary school, we were forced to address valentines to everyone in class...
Movies
William Bibbiani’s Top Three Unconventional Romances for Valentine’s Day
April 26, 2025Or 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
April 25, 2025Criterion, you are the Pixar of DVD distributors. Every film you release is guaranteed to be...
Horror
William Bibbiani interviews writer/producer/director Mick Garris!
April 25, 2025Today, as you may have noticed, is a day of many, many interviews. In addition to...
Movies
A CLR EXCLUSIVE Interview… with CLR Film Critic Julia Rhodes!
April 25, 2025Hello everybody, and welcome to the Fourth Wall, in which we California Literary Review film critics...
Fiction Reviews
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 4, 2026So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 8, 2026That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
May 1, 2026Sometimes the worst thing about being a pessimist is how often you’re right. I would have...
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The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 29, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
May 4, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
May 3, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Family Free Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
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The KillingRecap: Off The Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
May 2, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Off the Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
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Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 7, 2026Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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The Office Recap: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
May 6, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
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