Movie Review: The Rite
July 12, 2025The Rite is remarkably dull where its most obvious predecessor, The Exorcist, was sharp as a...
Video Game Review: Dead Space 2
July 12, 2025For many years, Electronic Arts was seen by most as the “evil empire” of the video...
Movie Review: The Mechanic
July 11, 2025Jason Statham, the icy British actor famous for jacked-up action romps including The Transporter and Crank,...
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...
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...
Movie Review: The Way Back
July 11, 2025The really good character work – and make no mistake, this is a good cast –...
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...
Movie Review: No Strings Attached
July 10, 2025Studios are beginning to cater to the “hookup culture” people are wringing their hands about. The...
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...
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,...




