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I Know Who Killed Me
Lindsay Lohan knows there are fates worse than her current legal quagmire – starring in this clunker, for example.
"...the time Aubrey/Dakota finally confronts the killer in a torture room decorated with prosthetic arms and legs dangling from..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

More and More of the Same
"...and all of us. They are aching to summarily torture and execute freethinkers such as Mr. Black. It is..."

Aug. 2, 2007 Postmarks

Point Austin: Endless War
One, two, three, four – what are we fighting for?
"...the war and President Bush's defiant executive order reauthorizing torture of "terrorism" suspects. (It wasn't called that, of course...."

July 27, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Violating Human Rights May Come Home to Family
"...Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. This interrogator was discussing American torture techniques. I feel that if any member of our..."

July 19, 2007 Postmarks

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
This first feature from Bosnian director/writer Jasmila Zbanic offers up a slice of life after hell in which a widowed mother and daughter still veer perilously between fear and hope.
"...the less-obvious psychic damage brought on by years of torture, rape, and worse. Sarajevo remains in ruins, but widowed..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Condemned
Steve Austin stars in this WWE-produced movie about a death row convict who is brought to a remote island to fight nine other killers to the death for a televised bout.
"...Then writer/director Wiper cuts back to a scene of torture he’s devised for us. It’s as effective an indictment..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Naked City
"...conflict in the tourist city of Oaxaca and permitted torture and illegal arrests," reports Reuters. José Luis Soberanes, head..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature

The Ascension of the Toros; and the Joys of Minor-League Basketball
"...15-second snippets between plays. What a special brand of torture it was. (What I’m trying to say is that..."

Feb. 6, 2007 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

An Opera for Wartime
Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians arrives when its message is urgently needed
"...an enemy has been used to justify repression and torture, in which those who have not supported the war..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Apocalypto
The ever-astonishing filmmaker Mel Gibson continues his (probably unintentional) study of the mortification of the flesh through the ages.
"...Only now, after the graphic displays of extreme physical torture in Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ, can..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Return
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a woman who keeps seeing a dead murder victim in her dreams, so of course she must get to the bottom of this mystery.
"...broach the subject of the now-popular (and ethically challenged) torture genre that too frequently slimes across theatre screens these..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Prestige
Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.
"...Borden bungles the tying of a knot during a water-torture illusion – or did he? The truth is superfluous..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters @ 3AM
On September 28, key rights guaranteed by our Constitution, plus the central tenet of the Magna Carta, were nullified by an act of Congress – specifically, the Military Commissions Act of 2006
"...law: "Statements ... in which the degree of coercion [torture] is disputed may be admitted only if the military..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

The President's Counselor: The Rise to Power of Alberto Gonzales
Despite Bill Minutaglio's admirable approach, many interviews, and access to a wide range of documents, the attorney general rarely comes into focus in his first biography.
"...and law, he is probably most known for the torture memos, documents denying the applicability of the Geneva Convention..."

July 21, 2006 Books Review by Michael Yang

RV
Robin Williams loads his family into a camper and goes on vacation.
"...instrument of, shall we say, information extraction. Who knew torture could be so zany?..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hard Candy
Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.
"...jittery horror-show theatrics by the third act, complete with torture, nasty home-surgery disasters, and a morally confusing tone that..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scary Movie 4
What's new in this fourth edition of the popular-culture spoof machine? Well, Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil, for starters.
"...to sit through the rest of the film, a torture so heinous it makes Nurse Ratched look positively divine..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Air America Not 'Knee-Jerk'
"...speculation. We have become not the world protector against torture but the world purveyor of torture. These are not..."

March 21, 2006 Postmarks

Why They Hate Us, Continued
"...We've seen the Saddam regime put on trial for torture and murder, by the Bush regime, which is openly..."

Jan. 3, 2006 Postmarks

Christian Peacemakers
Texan activists worry about their abducted colleagues in Iraq
"...man with whom Jackson spoke had not suffered any torture while detained, CPT has heard firsthand accounts of torture..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Syriana
One of the most uncompromising movies of the year, Syriana is like a living tableaux composed from all the stories that lurk just behind the news, the stories that put human faces on the demand for oil.
"...political thriller Syriana has several good moments, plus a torture scene that’s guaranteed to make you wince. One of..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Requiem for decency
"...overly obsessive affection for constitutional guarantees are shut down. Torture, the most advanced destructive weapons possible, and a commitment..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Close Guantanamo Now
"...agents are continuing to commit crimes against humanity. The torture has not stopped. More than a hundred prisoners there..."

Oct. 24, 2005 Postmarks

The War Within
This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.
"...an offer of assistance and enduring three years of torture at the hands of his English-speaking inquisitors that leaves..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Back to the Grind House
On the occasion of QT 6, an ode to the demented poetry of triple bills in iniquitous theatres
"...and Ilsa She Wolf of the S.S.; Bloodthirsty Butchers, Torture Dungeon, and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Bela Lugosi Collection
'Poor Bela,' Boris Karloff once lamented to an interviewer who asked him about his old rival. 'He was his own worst enemy.'
"...a delirious pre-Code pastiche of perversions, including incest, pedophilia, torture, and Satanism, all topped off by an imposing post-Bauhaus..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.
"...internal Rubicon it becomes downright horrific, with blood and torture and the vertiginous sense of being unable to wake..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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"...human rights organization has real information about real abuses, torture, death, and lack of due process for detainees in..."

June 17, 2005 Column

What's Really Absurd?
"...human rights organization has real information about real abuses, torture, death, and lack of due process for detainees in..."

June 6, 2005 Postmarks

Concerned Over Lack of Organized Hispanic Opposition to Nomination
"...the Geneva Convention, and a refusal to publicly condemn torture? Even his much reviled predecessor John Ashcroft condemned torture..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Postmarks

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