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Movie Review: The Mechanic
July 11, 2025Jason Statham, the icy British actor famous for jacked-up action romps including The Transporter and Crank,...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
July 11, 2025These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
July 11, 2025Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
Russia
Movie Review: The Way Back
July 11, 2025The really good character work – and make no mistake, this is a good cast –...
Art
Badlands and Lost Edens: The Photography of Robert Adams
July 10, 2025Adams recorded the ever-expanding suburban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, and his haunting, classically composed...
Movies
Movie Review: No Strings Attached
July 10, 2025Studios are beginning to cater to the “hookup culture” people are wringing their hands about. The...
Blog-Video Games
The Metro City Reform Committee: An Inaugural Address
July 10, 2025I’m setting up a little blog here at the California Literary Review. It’s going to ostensibly...
Theatre
Welcome to Alone Together, CLR’s New Theater Blog
July 10, 2025Alone Together will explore emerging trends in theater and what they tell us about who we...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
July 10, 2025A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...
Germany
The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier
July 9, 2025This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
July 9, 2025J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
Dance
Introducing Dance Vine, A New CLR Blog
July 9, 2025We are pleased to announce our new blog, Dance Vine. CLR dance critics Hanna Oldsman and...
Movies
A Voice In The Night Tells Dan Fields To Shut Up (Although He Does Have A Point)
July 9, 2025You got me, Dan. I didn’t see Let Me In this year. But just for the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Not Your Average Romcoms!
July 8, 2025We like our romcoms quirky. None of this, please. Romantic comedy in the last few decades...
Movies
Movie Review: Season of the Witch
July 8, 2025There are many different ways to go when making a film about knights, witches, pestilence, the...
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“Let Me In!” Cries A Voice In The Night
July 8, 2025A certain writer for the California Literary Review has thoughtfully distilled a whole year of reviews,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
July 8, 2025There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Rages On!!
July 6, 2025We here at The Fourth Wall are taking another look out our favorite film work from...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
July 6, 2025If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
Movies
Credit Where Credit’s Due: “Dexter” Main Titles
July 6, 2025Welcome to The Fourth Wall’s newest blog series, Credit Where Credit’s Due, which will focus on...
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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