Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Theatre
Theater Review: Good People Starring Frances McDormand
July 22, 2025McDormand ‘s stellar performance captures the complexity of her character by combining swift comic timing with...
Biography
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
July 21, 2025Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Offers Theme and Variations, Winter Dreams and TRIO
July 21, 2025Theme and Variations is a textbook ballet, showcasing the best of Balanchine’s Russian past while offering...
Movies
Oscar Wager 2011
July 21, 2025We at the Fourth Wall have been throwing Oscar Buzz at you throughout the fall and...
Movies
Oscars 2011: And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
July 21, 2025Ms. Kunis brought it–and we spent the whole night wondering if we’d see more of her...
Movies
Oscars 2011: A Beaten Critic Speaks
July 19, 2025Congratulations to Julia Rhodes for her excellent Oscar picks, which leveled my own, 15 to 9....
Blog-Dance
Interview with ASFB’s William Cannon
July 19, 2025I recently had a chance to talk with dancer William Cannon of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet,...
Movies
Movie Review: Drive Angry
July 19, 2025Taking into account all the casual profanity, copious T&A, comic book violence, awesome cars and impossibly...
Movies
Movie Review: Unknown
July 19, 2025Liam Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, who is in Berlin with his wife (January Jones)...
Movies
Oscar Leadup – Ladies in Film: Female Agency and Pleasure in 2010 Movies
July 19, 2025Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech: behind every great man, there stands (or sits, ever...
Opera
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
July 19, 2025Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Stacking
July 19, 2025Set against the background of the Industrial Revolution, Stacking puts players in the role of Charlie...
Blog-Video Games
The Ballot Box Beat Down – A Hard Corps look at DLC
July 18, 2025Here at the Metro City Reform Committee we take a look at the issues going on...
Dance
Company C Contemporary Ballet: Pulse, Appalachia Waltz, Ominous Rumblings of Discontent, Indoor Fireworks
July 18, 2025The most anticipated was the world premiere of Indoor Fireworks set to music by New Wave...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Justice For Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
July 18, 2025Dworkin believes firmly in “cooperative” interpretation, reinforcing ethical precepts with insights from history, literature and philosophy...
Movies
Valentine’s Day Fallout, Chapter Two: Love Most Peculiar in My Dog Tulip
July 18, 2025It is difficult to describe the feeling that My Dog Tulip leaves in one's heart once...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Marvel Versus Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
July 17, 2025Narrative in games like this is a rather inconsequential thing, and perhaps fighting game plots are...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
July 17, 2025The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Crime Fiction
The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
July 17, 2025Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
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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