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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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The Weekly Listicle: stoners, slackers, and shenanigans, oh my!
August 1, 2025Our very own Dan Fields reviewed Your Highness last weekend. Dan and most other critics and...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: Six for Two
August 1, 2025Chic, black Sandra Woodall costumes and the predominately white lighting plan by David Finn serve to...
Art
2011: Armageddon Comes Early To Hopeless Film Geeks
July 31, 2025Before the year is out, we may see all the weirdest and most controversial filmmakers of...
Blog-Dance
Review: Dance Under the Influence at MAD
July 31, 2025Last month, in the second performance of the series, the relationship between the two art forms...
Movies
ActionFest 2011 Wrap-Up
July 31, 2025ActionFest: The Film Festival with a Body Count! Even though it’s only in its second year...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X
July 31, 2025X’s short 21 chapters of informal prose mix the personal-poignant and social-pathetic. They illuminate the pathology...
Movies
Movie Review: Your Highness
July 30, 2025If only the makers of the film would publish something -- perhaps as a DVD extra...
Movies
Movie Review: Hanna
July 30, 2025Hanna is a force to be reckoned with, and she doesn’t really have an equal, even...
Games
Video Game Review: Killzone 3
July 30, 2025The other thing a war-porn game must deliver is a satisfying experience of fictional warfighting. Thankfully,...
Movies
An Interview with Michael Jai White
July 30, 2025Michael Jai White in a publicity still for Never Back Down 2 Michael Jai White has...
Movies
Movie Review: Insidious
July 30, 2025Remember how the first Saw was actually a creative, mind-bending scarefest? The series’ creators Leigh Whannell...
Movies
A Report from the Red State Tour
July 29, 2025A simple, right to the point poster announces a stark change in material. Filmmaker Kevin Smith...
Theatre
Playwright in Profile: Susan Tenneriello
July 29, 2025Tenneriello's first encounter with theatrical experimentation came from her mother who used to perform impersonations after...
Movies
Movie Review: Hop
July 29, 2025Perhaps the best way to take Hop is as an illustration of why Easter movies never...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle – Evil Houses, Evil Locations…Simply Evil
July 29, 2025Welcome to another entry in the Fourth Wall Weekly Listicle, a weekly tour through the cinematic...
Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 28, 2025Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: In the Blink of an Eye by Michael Waltrip
July 28, 2025On the last lap, Earnhardt crashed, dying shortly thereafter. The race winner, Michael Waltrip, was celebrating...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Keeping It Simple With A ROBO-POCALYPSE!
July 28, 2025This week, the big opener of note is the outrageous fantasy action epic Sucker Punch, which...
Dance
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group
July 28, 2025In the last section of Mark Morris' Festival Dance, one dancer picks up his partner and...
Movies
Movie Review: Sucker Punch
July 27, 2025Sucker Punch strove to be what the trailers made it out to be: a comic-book-influenced tale...
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...
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...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
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 & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
June 10, 2025Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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