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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...
After Image
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
July 27, 2025There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
Native American
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
July 27, 2025Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Coppélia
July 27, 2025This production is, in a word — glorious! The lush backgrounds, from the opening wisteria-covered village...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dragon Age 2
July 26, 2025Do you like fantasy? As in the elves and dwarves and sword and sorcery ilk? No?...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
July 26, 2025Michael Connelly is a very popular author, but it is easy to dismiss a film adapted...
Dance
Review: Buglisi Dance Theatre and Paul Taylor Dance Company
July 23, 2025The dancers of Buglisi Dance Theatre are perhaps the chief reason to see this company, which...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
July 23, 2025Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Luck o’ the Irish!
July 23, 2025What? St. Patrick’s Day in America has become a day of drunken celebration–green beer, plastic hats,...
Blog-Dance
5 Questions with San Francisco Ballet Dancer Nicole Ciapponi
July 23, 2025My favorite ballet to work this season (so far) was the William Forsythe The Vertiginous Thrill...
Dance
ROYAL DANISH BALLET: Video Chat with Nikolaj Hübbe and Live Stream Preview of 2011 U.S. Tour
July 23, 2025One of the most anticipated events of the late spring dance season is the return of...
Art
Art Review: Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image at the Denver Art Museum
July 23, 2025A work such as Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fish of 1986, constructed from a 1948 wooden...
Theatre
Theater Review: Rude Mechs Performs The Method Gun
July 23, 2025The play documents "the search" for Stella Burden, a mysterious acting teacher from the 70s, who...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics
July 23, 2025With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard...
Movies
Movie Review: Red Riding Hood
July 23, 2025Screenwriter David Johnson, whose one prior writing credit was the hilariously mind-boggling Orphan (2009), penned a...
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...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier 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
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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