The Beckers: Cannibalism and Your Teen

"...Fifties health films, the neighborhood boy starts experimenting with cannibalism, and it prompts pipe-smoking Mr. Becker to have a..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Alive

"...they eventually were forced to the gruesome extreme of cannibalism; “In their death is our life,” comments one of..."

Jan. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour's psychedelic Western

"...is a beautiful and shambling Western, plus it has cannibalism and machine gun-wielding pregnant women...."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Road

Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel survives the transition to the screen with remarkable veracity.

"...a blighted American wasteland beset by some (unnamed) catastrophe. Cannibalism, rape, and worse are the order of the day,..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hannibal Rising

Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?

"...or suspense. Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ravenous

"...so on. Griffin's script cleverly uses the idea of cannibalism as a ripe, rich metaphor for the country's voracious..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Echoes From a Somber Empire

"...he was condemned to death for, among other crimes, cannibalism. Though it is believed that Bokassa is in prison,..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Redefining "going postal," and dirty, dirty Americans

"...year.Scientists claim to have cleared the Donner Party of cannibalism. Using CSI methods, they examined bone remains and found..."

March 31, 2006 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Hunted

Oddball riff on Red Riding Hood gets weirder and wilder

"...telling a child (Ryelandt) a campfire story about crusaders, cannibalism, and forest spirits. What exactly this has to do..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

High Life

The tedium of space is nothing compared to the tedium of an unfulfilling story

"...ship, filled with semi-feral dogs who have survived through cannibalism, is so on-the-nose that its arrival would be painful,..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

The Academy's five favorite animated shorts, plus two ringers

"...has trouble finding a partner because of that sexual cannibalism thing (and her 1,000 babies), and an assortment of..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Neil Gaiman's short story gets an inessential musical makeover.

"...singing a blistering duet about her race’s predilection for cannibalism and, woe, the pointlessness of it all. In the..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival: Tear Me Apart

A very British post-apocalypse film

"...into the strongest survival habit of the new world: cannibalism...."

Nov. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)

Did anyone really ask for a third helping of this stomach-turning provocation?

"...abused in ways we won’t go into here), castration, cannibalism, and clitoral mayhem. Like I said, ick...."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two

'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.

"...offered, "Sin City has more severed heads, dismemberments and cannibalism themes than The Silence of the Lambs and Freddy..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Articulations

Austin Script Works has a changing of the bard, Austin officially becomes a capital of culture, and the Texas Fine Arts Association is renamed Arthouse.

"...Play and Craving Gravy: Love in the Time of Cannibalism, leaves town at the end of December, he'll also..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Keep the River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

"...the jungle. They goad him to talk about the cannibalism despite his admittance of taking a single bite during..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Armchair Adventures

"Good adventure books do the same thing as a good adventure," Chronicle writer Dan Oko writes in this roundup of recently published adventure books.

"...Sea, and The Hungry Ocean form a trilogy of cannibalism, shipwrecks, whaling, storms, and sharks, though I dare anyone..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Suddenly, Last Summer

"...Albert Dekker. Tennessee Williams here uses homosexuality, lobotomies, and cannibalism as plot points in this sanitized version penned for..."

May 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Most probably, the film is a parable about Thatherism, although it can also be viewed at face value as a story about a browbeaten cook, his thuggish employer, his martyred wife, and her bookish lover. Quite visceral, this film includes unspeakable brutalities, voracious sex, and cannibalism.

"...visceral, the film includes unspeakable brutalities, voracious sex, and cannibalism. Most probably, the film is a parable about Thatcherism,..."

May 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Qmmunity: Serving Corporate Cxnt

Thee Gay Agenda decides to girl boss, gaslight, but not gatekeep in their new show Gags to Riches

"...TGA turned to pyramid schemes. These hallmarks of capitalistic cannibalism made a perfect parody target. "Pyramid schemes are both..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Column by James Scott

The Power of Platonic Intimacy in Close

Director Lukas Dhont explores tender moments of boyhood in his new drama

"...she was going to have the only film about cannibalism – and really, why could she not – but..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Culture 50 Years in the Making: The Kerrville Folk Festival Experience

Life-altering and deep-listening scenes from the oldest music festival in Texas

"..."Springtime in Uganda." In addition to references to rumored cannibalism by the African republic's notorious dictator, the song contains..."

May 20, 2022 Music Feature by Hank Erwin

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2020

The pandemic picks you wanted to read about

"...blanch from the gore implicit in a story of cannibalism. Yet he also balanced the bloodshed, and fear of..."

Dec. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Midnight Shorts

The best of the fest's late night micro-horrors

"...the Lambs (or more recently, Raw) and thought, “Maybe cannibalism is kind of sexy?” Director Meredith Alloway stars in..."

March 20, 2019 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...the sickening madness, macabre witchcraft, ghastly beheadings, and gory cannibalism...."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...the saddle. Instead, you’re lucky if you don’t get cannibalism...."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Paging Through the "Page Two" Archive

A look back at Louis Black's long-running column now at the end of its run

"...“What? Have I gone insane?! A film about hookers, cannibalism, killers, corrupt cops, politicians, and religious leaders is in..."

Sept. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: House on Willow Street

Kidnapping meets possession, plus more home releases

"...a horde of messianic hillbilly Renfields, mixed with rising cannibalism, is a darker future than even the first film...."

March 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

We Learned It by Watching Movies

A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment

"...Ravenous, director Antonia Bird's wintry jaunt through 19th century cannibalism. Guy Pearce stars as Capt. Boyd, an unlikely war..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

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