Angels & Demons

The chase is on, but there's no Holy Grail to be found in this suspenseless trail of decoded symbols.

"...snickering at composer Hans Zimmer’s opening salvo: Nothing intimates doom like the Carl Orff-like combo platter of timpani and..."

May 15, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bolt

Bolt is a canine who plays a cybernetically enhanced dog on TV but has no knowledge of how to cope in the real world in this new animated film.

"...by McDowell) and his two feline fur balls of doom. His mission? Protect, at all costs, his beloved "person,"..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I.O.U.S.A.

This documentary manages to do something damn near impossible: make the subject of the U.S. national debt understandable and, moreover, render it interesting and urgent.

"...In fact, the film concludes its litany of certain doom with lists of suggestions for further action. Creadon (whose..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Quarantine

An L.A. apartment building is quarantined in this new horror film, and a news crew's videotape may be the only proof of the strange goings-on.

"...up with LAFD members Jake (Hernandez) and Fletcher (The Doom Generation's Schaech, who fully invests himself in a relatively..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City of Ember

Despite some inventive production design and a comically villainous turn from Bill Murray, this film based on a young-adult novel never really picks up much steam.

"...The Goonies to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to The City of Lost Children. I haven't read..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.

"...unlike himself lounge around watching an endless series of doomsday movies on DVD. It's somehow heartening to see that..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney puts the famed journalist, icon, and myth Hunter S. Thompson before his lens and comes away with a telling portrait of the man and his era.

"...mortal to self-indulgent deity, a conversion that would eventually doom him, first as a writer then as a human..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Six, Three Times

An abridged guide to Boris

"...demonic growl and drone sequences bridge the tangents into doom metal ("Huge"), panoramic kraut-rock ("Hama"), and pummeling MC5 punk..."

June 27, 2008 Music Feature

Living Maya

Austin becomes a hotbed of past and future Maya knowledge

"...shift in global consciousness that will benefit mankind or doomsday events like meteors, floods, supernova explosions, and a variety..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

The Counterfeiters

Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.

"...an individual's moral compass can become a source of doom, as when scruples, a cause, or ideals get in..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Signal

The Signal is an audacious horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy.

"...only adds to the film's overall sense of claustrophobic doom. Both apocalyptic and suitably vague, The Signal's only serious..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Macbeth

This Australian film puts a modern, hyperstylized spin on an old tale: Should it be, "Out, damned spot" or "Off, damned Ray-Bans"?

"...long string of crimes that consolidate Macbeth’s power but doom him to a shortened life full of delusion and..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Joshua

The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.

"...his camera with such a nuanced sense of impending doom and dreamy, chilly dread, which only makes Joshua that..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vacancy

Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale play a couple who try to escape from the snuff-film motel at which they're stranded.

"...the mailbox of your chosen rest stop sports the dual-doom address "1313" or that a legion of unseen peepers..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

A wickedly entertaining postmodern take on the hallowed, Eighties-era slasher flicks.

"...giddy, witty, cardio-pumped theatre nerd with a pocketful of doom in lieu of the usual, you know, stardust. (Even..."

March 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bridge

An emotional and aesthetic whirlpool of horror, fascination, beauty, and resignation gives Eric Steel's Golden Gate Bridge suicide documentary an eerie power.

"...who travel there every year – these pilgrims of doom – to put an end to their lives. Fascinated..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters From Iwo Jima

In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.

"...who was clearly disappointed by his superiors' decision to doom his plan. The other strategic character is Saigo (Ninomiya),..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Old Joy

Old Joy is an accurately observed slice of that moment between postadolescence and parenthood, when friends cling or scatter, and circumstances force buried feelings to the fore.

"...a pinched, hangdog quality and a cloud of antenatal doom about him. Old Joy is an accurately observed slice..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Man of the Year

Instead of being the hippest kid on the block, this comedy plays like a schizophrenic exercise in shrill cinematic politics.

"...and Walken (as Dobbs' chain-smoking manager) tussling with pulmonary doom. None of these subplots is necessary or all that..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The 2006 Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Schedule: May 24-Sept. 8

"...Lost Ark; 7pm, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; 9:25pm, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade..."

May 12, 2006 Screens Feature

The Wild

Despite its title, Disney's new animated film, The Wild, is about as pedestrian as you can get.

"...bear (Izzard), and best pal Squirrel (Belushi) from certain doom. The animation is top-notch, and the film sports some..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Skies Partly Cloudy

Two years down the road, liberal network still struggles to establish itself

"...And despite the constant prophecies of impending doom from O'Reilly and his ilk, Krantz insists Air America..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Spotlight: Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter's unstaring DIY

"...to be on it. Thus, Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom, her debut, was born from 10 years of home..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Jana Hunter

Texas platters

"...Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom (Gnomonsong)..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Eating Out

Crude comedy of sexual errors falls flat.

"...over-the-top (and bottom) early work like, for example, The Doom Generation, which at least had the good sense to..."

May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Head-On

The marriage of two Turks who meet while in a German psychiatric hospital grows from a relationship of convenience into a genuine love affair.

"...threat – but for all the film’s griminess and doom, bad behavior and bad luck, it’s hope that engines..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Tale of Two Sisters

Dread and mystery are the hallmarks of this South Korean psychological thriller.

"...a petit four dipped in tears and dusted with doom...."

March 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Constantine

Adapted from Alan Moore’s groundbreaking DC/Vertigo comic title, Constantine is sure to divide the series’ most rabid fans, but those who can set aside their preconceptions will discover one of the more artfully designed comic-based films in some time.

"...is Reeves himself. With his black trenchcoat and jaded, doom-centric mien, he pulls it off, capturing, however improbably, the..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Christmas With the Kranks

Holiday pap and circumstance.

"...of pap and circumstance: The black ice rink of doom that is the holiday film season has commenced its..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

Cry over the election if you must, but don't let the bastards sap your vitality. American progressives started seriously mass-scale organizing only about a year ago, and in just one year we came within reach of victory.

"...this loud: THE ISSUE OF GAY MARRIAGE DID NOT DOOM THIS ELECTION. You may measure the unhappiness of heterosexual..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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