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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...
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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....
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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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
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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 & TV
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...
Movies
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...
Movies
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...
Movies
Introducing…William Bibbiani!
April 24, 2025While Snowmageddon, Part One raged around us here on the east coast, the amazing and talented...
Video 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...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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