Review: Satan Wants You
The Satanic panic as a guidebook to the dangers of crazy conspiracies
Matthew Monagle
31-60 of 233 entries
SXSW, March 12, 2023
Film Review: Talk to Me
Séance chiller saves the best for first and last
SXSW, March 11, 2023
Reinventing the Fantasy Movie With SXSW Opening Night's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Writers/directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein on dungeons, dragons, and heists
Screens, March 9, 2023
Cocaine Bear
The ursine Dr. Rockzo goes on a bloody comedic bender
Movie Review, March 3, 2023
Fear
Pandemic horror is overshadowed by better films about fear
Movie Review, Jan. 27, 2023
The Wandering Earth II
China's sci-fi apocalypse blockbuster gets an equally massive prequel
Movie Review, Jan. 20, 2023
The Devil Conspiracy
Nineties Catholic creature feature crap flies again!
Movie Review, Jan. 13, 2023
The Pale Blue Eye
Star-studded horror finds Edgar Allan Poe in a Gothic mystery of his own
Movie Review, Dec. 23, 2022
The Video Store Lives Again as We Luv Video Hits Crowdfunding Target
New nonprofit gets community support to revive physical media rentals
Screens, Dec. 8, 2022
Emancipation
Will Smith's stunning Civil War drama is a B-movie in award-bait clothes
Movie Review, Dec. 9, 2022
Violent Night
David Harbour cracks down hard on the "naughty" list in the Christmas slugfest
Movie Review, Dec. 2, 2022
New Nonprofit Plans to Bring Back Austin’s Video Rental Culture
We (still) Luv Video
Screens, Oct. 27, 2022
Scary Movie Comes Back From the Grave
Austin's 1991 indie horror rises again
Screens, Oct. 20, 2022
Slash/Back
Smart Canadian horror sets Indigenous teens against alien invaders
Movie Review, Oct. 21, 2022
Don't Look at the Demon
Malaysia-set horror film employs skill and style to scare
Movie Review, Oct. 7, 2022
The Antares Paradox
Single-location sci-fi thriller stays in shallow end
Screens, Oct. 4, 2022
Missing
Depressed dad seeks serial killer in low-impact Japanese thriller
Screens, Oct. 3, 2022
Nightsiren
Tereza Nvotová’s bewitching horror makes her one to watch
Screens, Oct. 3, 2022
Medieval
Brutal historical epic gives gritty, accessible life to a Czech icon
Movie Review, Sept. 9, 2022
Maneater
Trace Adkins versus sharks is a soggy mess
Movie Review, Aug. 26, 2022
Summering
Tale of teens searching for a corpse is more than a new Stand by Me
Movie Review, Aug. 12, 2022
The Phantom of the Open
Mark Rylance raises this fantastical golfing biopic above par
Movie Review, June 24, 2022
Lightyear
Pixar's Toy Story spin-off never achieves lift-off
Movie Review, June 17, 2022
Jurassic World Dominion
Nothing new in the DNA of this dinosaur trilogy capper
Movie Review, June 10, 2022
Montana Story
Death in the modern West underlies this poignant family drama
Movie Review, May 27, 2022
Escape the Field
Labyrinthine thriller knows to just follow the old map
Movie Review, May 6, 2022
The Contractor
Mercenary drama fails its mission of being good
Movie Review, April 1, 2022
Film Review: Boycott
The real victims of the GOP war on free speech
Screens, March 22, 2022
Film Review: Slash/Back
Indigenous alien invasion horror-comedy is an icy blast
SXSW, March 15, 2022
Film Review: Deadstream
Horror-comedy that gets the laugh/scream ratio right
