DVDanger: 'Scum'
What's scarier than Ray Winstone? A young Ray Winstone.
"...has no idea to handle. That's the world of Scum (now on DVD from Kino Lorber,) When natural predator..."
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June 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Praise for Pond Scum
New pond will help keep pollution out of Barton Springs
June 17, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum
In a Valley of Violence
Ti West takes a break from horror with this Ethan Hawke Western
"...has been shot to death by the appropriately lowdown scum that more or less run the town – which..."
Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Max Payne
Film version of the popular video game stars Mark Wahlberg … unfortunately.
"...after his wife and child were killed by cityscape scum and he went edgewise. A loose cannon with no..."
Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Righteous Kill
There's nothing righteous about this tired and tiresome good cop/bad cop NYPD procedural.
"...flesh, a real rain of black-jacketed ballistics washing the scum off the streets for good. Pacino's Detective Rooster (get..."
Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Day After Tomorrow
A new Ice Age cometh
"...cascades over the Twin Towers’ footprint and washes the scum off the street, finally vindicating Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle...."
May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Stupids
"...Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex Mckenna and Jenny Mccarthy. Dear Scum Pig of an Ex-Husband://¶//I swore that I would never..."
Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Trial by Jury
"...as Tommy Vesey, an ex-cop irreversibly tainted by the scum he once fought against. As a character, Pirone is..."
Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor
Grief
"...by the whims of the homophobic executive producers (“pond scum”) who are never seen on camera but exercise their..."
June 3, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Hated: G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies
"...front row with him and thereby ensuring his grimy scum rock legend for all time. No such luck, though...."
Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Crossing the Line
"...all plays like a bunch of righteous indignation, drug scum treachery and moral compass reading. The story is based..."
Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Ambassador
With daring, gonzo filmmaking, this documentary film penetrates the blood-diamond trade in the Central African Republic.
"...well-conceived. At least, the ideas percolating just beneath its pond-scum sheen are journalistically hubristic and well worth dissecting. But..."
Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Church of Misery
Japandroids
"...Church of MiseryThy Kingdom Scum (Metal Blade) CoffinsThe Fleshland (Relapse)..."
Sept. 6, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Shock and Awe
Subverting genre and tingling spines in 'Kill List'
"...for some reason, but these guys aren't heroes. They're scum. And now you, the audience, likes scum, identifies with..."
March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...the bottom and the impurities form on top as scum or sludge, which should be discarded. Our liberal friends..."
Feb. 11, 2005 Column
The Sludge Also Rises
"...the bottom and the impurities form on top as scum or sludge, which should be discarded. Our liberal friends..."
Jan. 31, 2005 Postmarks
Postmarks
"...Scum Against Stratus..."
July 19, 2002 Column
Lipstick Traces
Pretenders
"...I'd really like to suck it." Too bad he's "Scum" ("You're the scum of the earth. You're the worst..."
July 16, 1999 Music Review
Soft & Quiet
Insidious racism becomes a rabid nightmare
"...is powerful filmmaking that goes beyond just vilifying racist scum, and asks hard questions about what hate hath wrought...."
Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Rod Machen
Wolf
An astounding performance at the heart of this strange tale of identity
"...into Alan Clarke's still-unmatched depiction of British institutional brutality, Scum. Yet it's really MacKay's physicality that makes what Biancheri..."
Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Come to Daddy
Family freakout with Elijah Wood in this slick and twisted thriller
"...of David Cronenberg’s Rabid), Norval’s father is a hideous scum demon, prone to guzzling outrageous amounts of booze –..."
Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Something Weird This Way Comes
Alamo Drafthouse pays tribute to Mike Vraney
"...producer Dave Friedman, creator of such sinful classics as Scum of the Earth. Yet Something Weird's exhaustive collection didn't..."
March 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Church of Misery’s Riff Worship
Japanese tsunami hits Red 7 on Monday
"...AC: The new album, Thy Kingdom Scum, reassembles my favorite COM line-up. How did that come..."
Nov. 15, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Drafthouse Films Heads to 'A Field in England'
Local distro house acquires newest shocker from Ben Wheatley
"...for some reason, but these guys aren't heroes. They're scum. And now you, the audience, likes scum, identifies with..."
May 9, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Safe Haven
Director Lasse Hallström can't find the pulse in this Nicholas Sparks sudser starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel.
"...a damn bath, even as you’re staring down soap scum and limescale. The heart wants what it wants...."
Feb. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Hobo With a Shotgun
Though it's a great title, this Rutger Hauer movie is an unfocused throwback to Seventies exploitation films.
"...for proof, if needed). Director Eisener knows his Seventies scum-films well enough, but the digitally lensed Hobo is more..."
May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Hancock
Will Smith is the titular Hancock, a character as befuddling as the odd movie that surrounds him.
"...PR man, Ray, is Jerry Maguire minus the desperate, pond-scum algae bloom of bitter, endless self-recriminations. Instead, Ray seeks..."
July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Death Sentence
Vigilantism is alive and flourishing in this revenge thriller from James Wan, the so-called Splat Pack director of the original Saw movie.
"...guilty gangbanger does little good since even the lousiest scum apparently leave behind aggrieved family members. Thus, the lives..."
Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Day Trips
"...spray." The big sellers for the current generation are Scum Balls, Extreme Pop Rocks, and Butt Ugly Martians. The..."
April 18, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Dark Blue
"...for the preceding 90 minutes that Perry’s a maverick scumbag in the old, Daryl Gates LAPD. Director Shelton and..."
