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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:25:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.13 https://i0.wp.com/calitreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/clr.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://calitreview.com 32 32 3955485 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-a-science-ficsticle/ https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-a-science-ficsticle/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:41:32 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12613 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-a-science-ficsticle/feed/ 0 12613 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-unstoppable/ https://calitreview.com/movie-review-unstoppable/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:37:32 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12639 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-unstoppable/feed/ 4 12639 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-morning-glory/ https://calitreview.com/movie-review-morning-glory/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:28:32 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12630 Morning Glory is a film about morning people. I hate morning people. They’re chipper in the wee hours, charismatic go-getters by mid-day and tend to collapse just when I think things should be getting good. Morning Glory has the same problems.]]> https://calitreview.com/movie-review-morning-glory/feed/ 1 12630 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-worlds-of-fancy-and-other-wondrous-places/ https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-worlds-of-fancy-and-other-wondrous-places/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:53:34 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12731 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-worlds-of-fancy-and-other-wondrous-places/feed/ 1 12731 https://calitreview.com/book-review-how-to-live-or-a-life-of-montaigne-in-one-question-and-twenty-attempts-at-an-answer-by-sarah-bakewell/ https://calitreview.com/book-review-how-to-live-or-a-life-of-montaigne-in-one-question-and-twenty-attempts-at-an-answer-by-sarah-bakewell/#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:38:34 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12584 Essays are stocked with insights of such relevance, inspiration and humanity that they might well have been written yesterday - or tomorrow.]]> https://calitreview.com/book-review-how-to-live-or-a-life-of-montaigne-in-one-question-and-twenty-attempts-at-an-answer-by-sarah-bakewell/feed/ 0 12584 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-heroes-who-suck/ https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-heroes-who-suck/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:37:34 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12514 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-heroes-who-suck/feed/ 3 12514 https://calitreview.com/christo-in-colorado/ https://calitreview.com/christo-in-colorado/#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:28:34 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12414 https://calitreview.com/christo-in-colorado/feed/ 0 12414 https://calitreview.com/movie-time-nostalgia-part-4-we-are-all-children-of-paradise/ https://calitreview.com/movie-time-nostalgia-part-4-we-are-all-children-of-paradise/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:35:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12538 Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise). ]]> https://calitreview.com/movie-time-nostalgia-part-4-we-are-all-children-of-paradise/feed/ 0 12538 https://calitreview.com/book-review-all-by-my-selves-walter-peanut-achmed-and-me-by-jeff-dunham/ https://calitreview.com/book-review-all-by-my-selves-walter-peanut-achmed-and-me-by-jeff-dunham/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:28:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12449 https://calitreview.com/book-review-all-by-my-selves-walter-peanut-achmed-and-me-by-jeff-dunham/feed/ 0 12449 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-127-hours/ https://calitreview.com/movie-review-127-hours/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:55:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12523 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-127-hours/feed/ 1 12523 https://calitreview.com/art-review-michelangelo-pistoletto-exhibitions-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/ https://calitreview.com/art-review-michelangelo-pistoletto-exhibitions-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:52:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12459 Quadri Specchianti. These "mirror paintings" positioned life-sized and astonishingly lifelike images of people on highly polished sheets of stainless steel.]]> https://calitreview.com/art-review-michelangelo-pistoletto-exhibitions-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/feed/ 1 12459 https://calitreview.com/tv-review-amcs-the-walking-dead-shambles-onto-the-small-screen/ https://calitreview.com/tv-review-amcs-the-walking-dead-shambles-onto-the-small-screen/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:50:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12428 https://calitreview.com/tv-review-amcs-the-walking-dead-shambles-onto-the-small-screen/feed/ 4 12428 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-saw-3d/ https://calitreview.com/movie-review-saw-3d/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:41:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12403 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-saw-3d/feed/ 1 12403 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-on-this-very-night-spooky-tales-for-halloween/ https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-on-this-very-night-spooky-tales-for-halloween/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:36:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12373 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-on-this-very-night-spooky-tales-for-halloween/feed/ 0 12373 https://calitreview.com/book-review-doctor-zhivago-by-boris-pasternak/ https://calitreview.com/book-review-doctor-zhivago-by-boris-pasternak/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:28:38 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12251 https://calitreview.com/book-review-doctor-zhivago-by-boris-pasternak/feed/ 1 12251 https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-vanquish/ https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-vanquish/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:45:27 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12300 https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-vanquish/feed/ 3 12300 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-scary-movies-for-the-whole-family/ https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-scary-movies-for-the-whole-family/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:34:27 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12197 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-scary-movies-for-the-whole-family/feed/ 1 12197 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-paranormal-activity-2/ https://calitreview.com/movie-review-paranormal-activity-2/#respond Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:29:27 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12315 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-paranormal-activity-2/feed/ 0 12315 https://calitreview.com/book-review-gauntlgrym-neverwinter-book-1-by-r-a-salvatore/ https://calitreview.com/book-review-gauntlgrym-neverwinter-book-1-by-r-a-salvatore/#respond Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:28:27 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12241 https://calitreview.com/book-review-gauntlgrym-neverwinter-book-1-by-r-a-salvatore/feed/ 0 12241 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-the-most-disturbing-movies-weve-seen/ https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-the-most-disturbing-movies-weve-seen/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:36:33 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12288 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-the-most-disturbing-movies-weve-seen/feed/ 7 12288 https://calitreview.com/movie-time-nostalga-part-3-raising-the-stakes-with-raising-arizona/ https://calitreview.com/movie-time-nostalga-part-3-raising-the-stakes-with-raising-arizona/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:31:33 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12149 Raising Arizona is as much sentimental as aesthetic. But don't be fooled. It is a great, great piece of work.]]> https://calitreview.com/movie-time-nostalga-part-3-raising-the-stakes-with-raising-arizona/feed/ 2 12149 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-red/ https://calitreview.com/movie-review-red/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:29:33 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12226 Red, she gets to show off how beautifully she’s aged and shoot big guns (life’s not fair for us mortals).]]> https://calitreview.com/movie-review-red/feed/ 2 12226 https://calitreview.com/in-defense-of-the-social-network-movie-demonizes-sexism-doesnt-glamorize-it/ https://calitreview.com/in-defense-of-the-social-network-movie-demonizes-sexism-doesnt-glamorize-it/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:28:33 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12126 https://calitreview.com/in-defense-of-the-social-network-movie-demonizes-sexism-doesnt-glamorize-it/feed/ 7 12126 https://calitreview.com/movie-review-secretariat/ https://calitreview.com/movie-review-secretariat/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:47:47 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12079 Secretariat is one of the best bets of the year… but when viewed any other way it’s merely decent.]]> https://calitreview.com/movie-review-secretariat/feed/ 4 12079 https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-castlevania-lords-of-shadow/ https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-castlevania-lords-of-shadow/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:42:47 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12104 https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-castlevania-lords-of-shadow/feed/ 0 12104 https://calitreview.com/book-review-washington-a-life-by-ron-chernow/ https://calitreview.com/book-review-washington-a-life-by-ron-chernow/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:39:47 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=12067 https://calitreview.com/book-review-washington-a-life-by-ron-chernow/feed/ 0 12067 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-stepchildren-of-the-horror-masters/ https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-stepchildren-of-the-horror-masters/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:28:47 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=11998 https://calitreview.com/the-weekly-listicle-stepchildren-of-the-horror-masters/feed/ 0 11998 https://calitreview.com/book-review-the-fort-by-bernard-cornwell/ https://calitreview.com/book-review-the-fort-by-bernard-cornwell/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:48:31 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=11962 The Fort. You won't find any shellacked heroes here. His patriots range from the committed few to the mercenary many and include a host of men who have been shanghaied ("Impressed" was the term of the day) into serving their country involuntarily.]]> https://calitreview.com/book-review-the-fort-by-bernard-cornwell/feed/ 5 11962 https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-dead-rising-2/ https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-dead-rising-2/#respond Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:41:31 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=11882 Dead Rising hit upon many of the same consumerism tones as George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Dead Rising 2 is all about America’s allowance of base indulgences in places like Las Vegas. From overzealous mall cops and sex-obsessed basement dwellers to the shattered ambitions of terrible stage magicians and musicians, many of the psychopaths you encounter in the game are people of unfulfilled ambition.]]> https://calitreview.com/video-game-review-dead-rising-2/feed/ 0 11882 https://calitreview.com/art-review-chaos-and-classicism-art-in-france-italy-and-germany-1918-1936/ https://calitreview.com/art-review-chaos-and-classicism-art-in-france-italy-and-germany-1918-1936/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:40:31 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=11939 Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage of trench warfare, sensitive spirits in Europe craved artistic depictions of beautiful bodies, unscathed by shrapnel, and timeless, uncluttered architecture inspired by the Greek and Roman past. Yet, it was not long before this craving for life-affirming art was transformed into the soulless ideology of Mussolini's Fascist Italy and Hitler's Third Reich.]]> https://calitreview.com/art-review-chaos-and-classicism-art-in-france-italy-and-germany-1918-1936/feed/ 2 11939