American Psycho

"...Josh Lucas and Guinevere Turner. Don't believe the hype: American Psycho is no more “the most disgusting film of..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sound of One Psycho Cracking

John Cale talks abut composing the original soundtrack for American Psycho

"...American Psycho, which opens nationwide this week, is a movie..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: 'American Mary'/'Ninja III: The Domination'

The changing POV of the female revenge flick

"...martial arts potboiler Ninja III: The Domination and Canadian psycho-surgical creeper American Mary, she has finally started to control..."

June 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Psycho Beach Party'

Coming soon to theatres near you will be two productions of Charles Busch's camp classic 'Psycho Beach Party' – but despite having the same title, they'll be surprisingly different

"...If Charles Ludlam is American theatre's king of camp and kitsch, then Charles Busch..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Lost & Found

"...and tackle the title role in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, already...."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rescue Dawn

German arthouse director Werner Herzog tells the story of Navy air pilot and POW Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) and proves that he is capable – like his characters – of almost anything.

"...Dawn one of the most clear-eyed portraits of the American can-do spirit ever seen on film. Minus jingoism and..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hitchcock

Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren keep things interesting but there's more here about the marriage and partnership of Hitchcock and Alma Reville rather than a good backstage look at the making of Psycho.

"...Stephen Rebello’s book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of ‘Psycho’. Yet, as written by John J. McLaughlin (Man of..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

78/52

An effusive doc on the shower scene from Psycho

"...Imagine, if you will, witnessing Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho upon its initial release back in the fall of..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

NRA: Don't Blame Guns, Blame Kung Lao

Gun boosters break Sandy Hook silence and attack movies

"..."I mean we have blood-soaked films out there, like American Psycho, Natural Born Killers. They’re aired like propaganda loops..."

Dec. 21, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Black Dahlia

Brian De Palma returns with a new crime thriller drawn from James Ellroy's fictional account of the notorious Los Angeles murder of a would-be Hollywood starlet dubbed the Black Dahlia.

"...the County of Los Angeles City Morgue Gift Shop. American pop culture devours its own, somehow leaving the hopeless..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Bates Motel' Re-Opens for Business

A&E takes a stab at psychoanalyzing Mrs. Bates' baby boy

"...at the old publicity shots of Anthony Perkins in Psycho: Meek, mild, horrified by some unseen terror just out..."

March 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lunar Park

'You do an awfully good impression of yourself,' opens Bret Easton Ellis' first book in seven years

"...getting fucked, being fucked up, and saying fucked-up things. American Psycho lit the white powder keg with its gruesome..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Books Review by Audra Schroeder

The Devil's Rejects

A viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-‘n’-wreckage-romance.

"...favorites – it’s also the year’s most viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-'n’-wreckage-romance. If that last hyphenate doesn’t tip you off that..."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Laal Singh Chaddha

Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original

"...and the film has a firm place as an American classic. But what happens when this story is translated..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

American Psycho

Mary Harron's film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel, American Psycho, frequently hits the mark, thanks to leading man Christian Bale.

"...American Psycho..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Review by Mike Emery

American Psycho (Koch)

"...American Psycho(Koch) Like most contemporary soundtracks for period films, American..."

April 28, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

"...True Romance with Martin Sheen in the Christopher Walken psycho gangster role!”) than losing yourself in the story at..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Wild Indian

Searing and brutal tale of two Indigenous men bound by bloodshed

"...key to making the film tick, a thoroughly horrifying psychotic portrayal that feels reminiscent of a horror movie villain...."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Charlie Says

Manson Family drama place society's treatment of guilt and contrition in the dock

"...American Psycho adapter Mary Harron's version of the Manson Family..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Reign of Fire

"...heroic humans who must do battle with them. Former American Psycho Bale, as Leader of Men Quinn (it was..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 3

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 15-21

"...American Psycho Eighties greed and obsession with the body beautiful..."

July 15, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Hero Mode

Gaming romp takes a family-friendly look at developer life

"...the modern version of the business card scene in American Psycho, and will cause the same wincing for those..."

June 4, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival 2017 Preview

The writers' festival goes big

"...Script-to-Screen: American Psycho Sat., Oct. 28, 4:30pm, Driskill Hotel: Ballroom Guinevere..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

BloodRayne

This video-game-to-movie adaptation of BloodRayne poses no threat to German filmmaker Uwe Boll's reputation as the modern-day Ed Wood.

"...who’s more commonly associated with the films Go Fish, American Psycho, the upcoming Notorious Bettie Page, and the TV..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Batman Begins

Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.

"...a cipher, and whether lopping off body parts in American Psycho or going without sleep in The Machinist, the..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Machinist

Christian Bale lost 60 lbs. in order to play the unsettling title character, a man who has maybe shed his sanity along with his weight.

"...what has now become famous film lore, actor Bale (American Psycho) shed 60 lbs. from his already thin frame..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Rules of Attraction

Roger Avary does Bret Easton Ellis.

"...movie's nominal leading man Sean Bateman (younger brother of American Psycho's Patrick Bateman). The events take place at Camden..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Critics Poll 2000

"...Most Underrated FilmsAmerican Psycho, Black & White, Love & Basketball..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...125 films. 85 world premieres. 11 North American first time looks, and 51 feature debuts. The SXSW..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

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June 25, 1999 Books Feature

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