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June 22, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Letters at 3AM: A Pattern of Subversion
President Obama regularly oversteps his bounds of office
"..."Though the president deserves praise for improving matters [regarding torture], the changes were not as drastic as most Americans..."
April 6, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura
The Whistleblower
The international crime of human sex trafficking is the subject of this melodramatic and often harrowing drama.
"...of naivete, the film’s inclusion of disturbing scenes of torture (one scene in particular) shows questionable judgment. And while..."
Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
City Council Should Not Be Allowed To Meet in Secret
"...Riley, there are three Dick Cheneys setting up secret torture prisons and engaging in corporate malfeasance. This is why..."
Feb. 7, 2011 Postmarks
Point Austin: Call Them Irresponsible
The Statesman ponders journalism and secrecy
"...unacknowledged civilian deaths in Iraq; U.S. military indifference to torture by its allies; massive corruption in Afghanistan; a secret,..."
Dec. 17, 2010 News Column by Michael King
The Killer Inside Me
Director Michael Winterbottom makes some fatal storytelling miscalculations in this screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel that stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson.
"...are killed in sadomasochistic frenzies that become indistinguishable from torture porn. The killer’s penchant for sex slaps and choke..."
July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Just Keep Walking
Shannon McNally & Hot Sauce hit the Continental tonight
"...“It was torture,” she says of her time with the original home..."
June 30, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri
Do Not Try This at Home
Tom Six on the surgical horrors of The Human Centipede
"...that's OK. But like the Hostel films, which are torture and so on, I wanted to make something that..."
May 7, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
"...mothers" as part of "confrontational therapy." (See "Rehabilitation or Torture?," May 23, 2008.) Last year, former inmate Kerry Wolf..."
Sept. 25, 2009 News Feature
The Hightower Report
New Elephant-in-Chief?; and Man vs. Wall Street
"...lead role in what the Bushites called "enhanced interrogations." Torture is what it was. The FBI (a somewhat gentler..."
Sept. 11, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower
Res Publica
"...WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE Local activist Suzette Ermler discusses her participation in a..."
April 24, 2009 News Feature
The Hightower Report
What's the Word for Wall Street Greed?; and Why America Needs a Truth Commission
"...and defy the rule of law on everything from torture to illegal wiretapping. Finally, having misled Congress, he was..."
Feb. 20, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower
Point Austin: A Few More Shoes
An Iraqi journalist waves goodbye to the Bush era
"...crime were others, most notably the official adoption of torture as a military and intelligence tactic, the abolition of..."
Dec. 26, 2008 News Column by Michael King
Changeling
Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in this Depression-era-set mystery/thriller/proto-feminist drama based on a true incident.
"...length. As Christine's quest turns into persecution and outright torture at the hands of the increasingly pugilistic LAPD –..."
Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Body of Lies
Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe star in Ridley Scott's new film about the different types of CIA operatives fighting the global war on terrorism.
"...a physicality that almost borders on masochism. (The brutish torture he undergoes at one point is almost unendurable to..."
Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Letters at 3am
If one is to vote for McCain-Palin, what, precisely, would one be voting for?
"...Times, Jan. 1, p.10). McCain has spoken forcefully against torture, and, as we know, he was severely tortured for..."
Sept. 12, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura
Mirrors
Spooky stuff crosses over from the mirror world to the real world, and it places Kiefer Sutherland in a world of hurt.
"...don't bow completely to the supremacy of the modern torture-porn ethos. After the international attention he received with 2003's..."
Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Tell No One
The many pleasures of this riveting psychological thriller from France derive more from the perplexing questions it raises than the discovery of the answers.
"...motivating forces; crooked cops; back-alley gangsters; random violence; not-so-random torture; at least one top-notch foot chase; and a soundtrack..."
Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Hightower Report
God and Oil Prices; Autocracy in Action
"...illegal domestic spying, falsified intelligence, presidential annulment of laws, torture, unconstitutional defiance of congressional authority ... and more. Now..."
May 23, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower
Page Two: Duck Amuck
Cultural touchstones for the gray spaces
"...that Bugs Bunny is animating the cartoon just to torture Daffy...."
May 23, 2008 Column by Louis Black
Happenings
May 8-14
"...CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE A talk from Bonnie Tamres-Moore on the U.S. role..."
May 9, 2008 News Feature
Exit Music for a Film Fest Producer
Sending off South by Southwest's Matt Dentler
"...opposite, that polarizing mishmash of sex and violence, the torture-porn film? Dentler caught Eli Roth's debut feature, Cabin Fever,..."
May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
A Sincere Call to Reason
"...of involvement with 9/11? Round up and soften up (torture) suspected insurgents? The mass killings of "suspected terrorists"? The..."
April 12, 2008 Postmarks
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...ever there were one. Despite years of abuse and torture, the family seems fine, and we wait with them..."
March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick
Naked City
"...their mouth and pouring water down their nostrils is torture, after all. The U.S. Senate, by a slim 51-45..."
Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature
Persepolis
This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.
"...an independent-minded uncle who had been merely jailed and tortured by the Shah’s secret police was now executed by..."
Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Untraceable
This tepid, borderline-offensive cyber-serial-killer thriller rehashes both better and worse examples of the current, vapid clamor for so-called "torture porn."
"...worse examples of the current, vapid clamor for so-called "torture porn." Untraceable strives to gussy up its narrative cheat..."
Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Letters @ 3AM
Before the presidency is anything else, it's a job – a job that requires a dash of corruption
"...Torture quiz: Does Huckabee, a self-described "Christian leader," approve of..."
Jan. 18, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura
It Came From Barton Springs!
"...& entertainment events: Fantastic Fest, a film festival that tortures audiences with a week of ghoulish violence, gore, and..."
Oct. 2, 2007 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt
In the Valley of Elah
Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.
"...gangsters? Did he threaten his platoon buddies? Did he torture civilians in Iraq? It doesn’t really matter. What matters..."
