Filth and Wisdom

Madonna's film-directing debut, which stars Gogol Bordello charismatic frontman Eugene Hutz, is a slight and philosophically dubious effort.

"...Richard E. Grant, Inder Manocha and Stephen Graham. With Filth and Wisdom, the Material Girl has now spliced the..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Filth

Based on a book by Trainspotting's Irvine Welsh, this film keeps close company with a nihilistic character, but unwisely pulls its punches.

"...out of the room first off and say yes, Filth more than resembles Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting. Both films are..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Filth and the Fury

"...major thorn in Rotten & Co.'s collective arses. The Filth and the Fury appears to be, among other things,..."

May 5, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Bonds of Filth

The boys behind Hot Fuzz dish the dirt

"...mouth; sometimes you've just got to go for the filth, too. And the mirror-shades, natch...."

April 20, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: Got Filth?

The LuvDoc offers up solid advice for planners

"...weeks. I would let him drown in his own filth but I have to live in it, too. What’s..."

March 29, 2013 Column by The Luv Doc

Qmmunity: Spring Has Sprung and So Has Austin's LGBTQmmunity

Producers of Filth drag collective pledges safety, The Little Gay Shop’s queer art market, and more

"...The Producers of Filth, a collective of local drag shows and troupes, are..."

March 26, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

In the Loop

In the Loop is a scabrous and funny study of how an offhand remark by a career politician can metastasize into an international conflict and, ultimately, war.

"...Armstrong, and Simon Blackwell, who give the film the filth-laden buzz and hum of a David Mamet script gone..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

One of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made, Julien Temple's film about the former Clash musician acknowledges the legend while uncovering the truth.

"...helmed the far less affecting Sex Pistols doc The Filth and the Fury) has crafted one of the most..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Glastonbury

The sense of total immersion in England's Glastonbury Festival is breathlessly complete in Julien Temple's everywhere-at-once music documentary.

"...squall, having previously helmed the Sex Pistols doc The Filth and the Fury and, long ago, the terrifically vapid..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

"...ducklings as they cluster around Roberta, clucking over the filth that Earlene has let accumulate even as they help..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Amazon

"...become dangerous tourist traps full of thieves, whores and filth. As director Kaurismaki would have it, the whole film..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dark Backward

"...is portrayed as one gigantic, seething dung-heap, rife with filth of every nature, animal, vegetable, and, of course, human...."

Feb. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Identity Crisis

The Double, Filth, and Moebius melt minds

"...The venal antihero of Irvine Welsh's 1998 novel Filth is depicted in this new cinematic adaptation by James..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan

The Pogues' frontman in all his dissolute glory

"...luminaries and their post-punk legacies, including the Pistols (The Filth and the Fury), the Clash (Joe Strummer: The Future..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

"...carved an entire career out of smuggling "as much filth and anarchy into the cinema as possible." The latest..."

Nov. 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches

Irvine Welsh's first novel 'Trainspotting' is one of the most successful first novels in recent history, but in this interview with Chronicle writer Marc Savlov, Welsh, whose new novel 'Glue' brings him to BookPeople on Monday, June 18, at 7pm, admits to thinking that "you had to be a bit strange to be a writer, to sit in your room, spending all this time with people that don't actually exist, you know?"

"...Stork Nightmares, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, and Filth, which followed in 1995, 1996, and 1998, respectively, along..."

June 15, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Wednesday Rewind

Trail of Dead hits Fallon, Filth covers Miles Davis

"...Filth “Footprints” & “Tutu” Filth is the new project from..."

Feb. 9, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Barbarian

Buried secrets make for the year's smartest, scariest horror

"...domesticity and complacency, that looks at the grime and filth under the surface dead-on and confronts the rot...."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 16-22

"...keep a journal, if not to examine your own filth?" wrote poet Anne Sexton. And yes, Sexton did have..."

July 16, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Bomb City

Infamous 1997 Amarillo punk murder exposes social division.

"...simpler, more obvious choice would have been to blast Filth all the way through (Brian was wearing a leather..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Trailer Park Has a 'Hangover'

Plus 'Elysium' and 'Filth'

"...Filth..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger is back to disturb everyone's sleep.

"...game actor Robert Englund beneath the battered fedora, the filth-encrused fashion-disaster sweater, the razored right-hand glove that in retrospect..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fireproof

God helps a firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, to repair his marriage.

"...our minds full of the most degrading kinds of filth and sinful indulgence – men with guns, men with..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Common Law

Pure rubbish – Austin style

"...of Austin ordinance that prohibits accumulated garbage, rubbish, brush, filth, carrion, or any other unsightly, objectionable, or unwholesome matter..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

Pathfinder

A Viking movie with this many graphic decapitations shouldn't be such a bore.

"...action scenes dramatically interrupted by slow-motion inserts of splashing filth, glinting swords, flying blood, and ornate battle helmets backlit..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...were a tiny chemical factory spewing out hellish toxic filth in a radius of 30 or 40 feet, would..."

May 13, 2005 Column

Narc

"...in Rush, he's discovered that hanging out with street filth gets you dirty, too), a frustrated wife, and a..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Controversial writer Hanif Kureishi teams up again with director Stephen Frears for Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, a vibrant and uneven portrait of a Thatcher-era progressive relationship in perpetual crisis.

"...carved an entire career out of smuggling "as much filth and anarchy into the cinema as possible." The latest..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Review by Will Robinson Sheff

Ratcatcher

Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.

"...delectable dream, the proverbial pot of gold across a filth-streaked city, James actually knows this paradise. One day he..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...Price's Swim Away, Duke Robillard's Swing Time, and Ministry's Filth Pig, and I was the only Thunderbird to play..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

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