Horns Fail to Wreak Havoc in Brooklyn

"...long and lean talent, equipped to run Smart's vaunted "havoc" – a stifling, pit bull brand of defense, involving..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Sports Feature by Kahron Spearman

Another Movie About People Wreaking Havoc on the Earth

"...Dear Editor, Recently you reviewed films about “Humans wreaking havoc on Mother Earth” [“You Do It to Yourself, and..."

May 5, 2008 Postmarks

How Texas Wreaked Havoc on One Man's Journey to Citizenship

Living the American nightmare

May 19, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

What We're Listening To: Mobley

Cry Havoc! (Last Gang Records)

"...a dissident in an alternate past Eighties NYC," Cry Havoc! transmits a full narrative in the blink of an..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Annabelle Comes Home

Anybody want a slightly soiled, demonically possessed doll?

"...holy water, Annabelle nonetheless manages to again wreak hellacious havoc after the Warrens leave their precocious – and psychic!..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bomb City

Infamous 1997 Amarillo punk murder exposes social division.

"...when assembled, create a dangerous product capable of wreaking havoc and destruction. On Dec. 12, 1997, 19-year-old Brian Deneke..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

A delightful return to the world of Harry Potter

"...a chaotic and malevolent parasitical entity that is wreaking havoc in the city. Oh, and the famous Dark Arts..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Guest

With their follow-up to You're Next, filmmakers Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett prove the new kings of indie horror movies.

"...Barrett (writing) continues to wreak horrific and frequently hilarious havoc with their latest nonstop reel of severely awesome. Wingard..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The third installment of this animated series gets the job done as the animals take protective cover in a traveling circus.

"...snorkel their way across the Mediterranean in pursuit. The havoc created in the casino by the animals causes the..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The special effects in this prequel may be infinitely more elaborate, but they hold little of the charm and "humanity" of the original.

"...Caesar, the unified front of suddenly intelligent apes wreak havoc on San Francisco and set the stage for a..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2012

Big. Dumb. Fun.

"...planet's surface (solar storms boil the Earth's core; tectonic havoc ensues) and providing a 158-minute thrill ride that zips..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shorts

A magic wishing rock becomes the undoing of an entire community in this appealing new kids romp from Robert Rodriguez.

"...grant every wish – a wishing rock that creates havoc as it passes from hand to hand. The story..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Disaster Movie

We're running out of genres to spoof: This time it's disaster movies.

"...disguised as a filmmaking team, a Hollywood monster wreaking havoc on the minds of America’s youth and setting civilization..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ripple Effect

Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.

"...that took place 15 years earlier is wreaking karmic havoc on his life and that the only way to..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Over Her Dead Body

In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it's time for him to move on.

"...fiancé-in-mourning, Henry (Rudd, cashing in), and to wreak supernatural havoc on an attractive psychic (Bell) who’s using her gifts..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Margot at the Wedding

The director of The Squid and the Whale mostly falters in this follow-up film that stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jack Black as casually cruel narcissists.

"...slacker (a miscast Black), she begins to wreak emotional havoc with everyone within her sphere of contact: family, friends,..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Page Turner

In this quiet, French revenge film, a creeping malevolence wreaks havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family.

"...rusty pliers; there’s only a creeping malevolence quietly wreaking havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family. The woman with..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Unaccompanied Minors

Calling John Hughes: Former Freaks and Geekster Paul Feig has got your number.

"...kid (Kelly from Bad Santa). They run amok, create havoc, share secrets, and plug Sharper Image products – all..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Catch a Fire

Phillip Noyce explores the havoc and repercussions caused by white interlopers toward indigenous peoples in this straightforward account of real-life black South African activist Patrick Chamusso and the white Boer police agent, who hunts him.

"...Michele Burgers. Australian director Noyce continues to explore the havoc and repercussions caused by white interlopers toward indigenous peoples..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Melinda and Melinda

Woody Allen literally imagines a scenario as both a comedy and a tragedy, but we can't understand why half of this movie isn't at least amusing.

"...stories) crashes a dinner party and proceeds to wreak havoc on everyone around her. It’s a terrific premise, but..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Eye

"...Hands of Orlac horror motif: transplanted body parts causing havoc for their innocent recipients. Here the lucky winner is..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Scorpion King

"...care? The answer is no reason, in particular. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheese, indeed...."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get Over It

"...Maryse Alberti) that's part Botticelli-beauty, part foul-mouthed faeries wreaking havoc with their pixie dust. The only conclusion I can..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Remember the Titans

"...there's remarkably little bombast in this tale of the havoc that forced integration causes the football team of Alexandria,..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Some Fish Can Fly

"...the course of a 10-year-long on-again/off-again romance and the havoc it wreaks on a pair of intercontinental lives. Kevin..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dinner Game

"...man whose good intentions and bad judgments hilariously wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting. Pignon is, anthropologically speaking, Homo Catastrophus,..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lake Placid

"...sent a tooth fragment from a big croc wreaking havoc in upstate Maine. At the behest of her bosses,..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saint Clara

"...Tikel (Elohev) and bides her time, content to play havoc with the town's lottery now and again and studiously..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teenage Catgirls in Heat

This Troma film was made right here in Austin and tells the lurid story of cats that metamorphose into nubile women and "rub up against things" and cause havoc.

"...which psychically advises them to go out and wreak havoc on the unsuspecting public (i.e., two clueless males who..."

Feb. 17, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ref

"...time out created a slick little comedy that plays havoc with established genre conventions. The Ref zips along at..."

March 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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