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Welcome to The Fourth Wall, a New CLR Movie Blog
April 25, 2025We're excited about our first blog, The Fourth Wall which will provide a less formal and...
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How to fake your way out of seeing this year’s Oscar nominees!
April 24, 2025No, you don’t have to watch The Blind Side. I’ve got your back. This year, for...
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Introducing…William Bibbiani!
April 24, 2025While Snowmageddon, Part One raged around us here on the east coast, the amazing and talented...
Games
Video Game Review: Dark Void
April 24, 2025The bad guys are alien robot Nazis (effectively combining every faceless antagonist in videogame history), Will...
Fiction Reviews
The Last Reader by David Toscana
April 24, 2025The stream-of-consciousness style and lack of quotation marks seen here is indicative of the entire novel....
Movies
Movie Review: From Paris With Love
April 23, 2025Structural difficulties, failed attempts at levity and below-par action sequences would be bad enough, but sadly...
Movies
Movie Review: Legion
April 23, 2025According to the script, God has lost faith in humanity, ostensibly because he grew “tired of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
April 23, 2025Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
Fiction Reviews
Fables: The Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
April 23, 2025But without a doubt, it’s the series that he began seven years ago, Fables, that has...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
April 22, 2025The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Fiction Reviews
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
April 22, 2025Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
Fiction Reviews
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
April 22, 2025The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Bayonetta
April 22, 2025She also wears glasses, which may pass for originality these days but is thematically appropriate because...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
April 21, 2025There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...
Art
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
April 21, 2025The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
Art
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
April 21, 2025In Roberto Cuoghi’s 2006 portrait of Davide Halevim, one of the highlights of the section entitled...
Fiction Reviews
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
April 21, 2025The religious and cultural tensions present in this book, while controversial, are always handled with grace...
Movies
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
April 21, 2025Ritchie, 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
April 20, 2025For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...
Movies
The Top 10 Movies of 2009
April 20, 2025At the end, she’s back at square one leading the student life, but inside, she’s grown...
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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