Movie Review: Shutter Island
April 27, 2025Martin Scorsese’s newest picture Shutter Island is a creepy cinematic passage into paranoia, guilt, and insanity—a...
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....
Movie Review: The Wolfman
April 27, 2025Werewolves in cinema have had many incarnations, but most modern lore stems from the 1941 Universal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...




