Ted's Ghost

The death of Ted Westhusing leaves a widening circle of sorrow

"...Oklahoma, writes, a year and a half after Ted's death, that "Ted always made us feel like we were..."

April 27, 2007 News Feature by Tom Palaima

Ray

Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.

"...2 1/2-hour running time, Ray concludes well before Charles’ death this past summer, making it seem like the movie’s..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Son's Room

"...Morante and Nanni Moretti. A teenage boy's sudden, accidental death leaves his family members struggling to find the means..."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gone in Sixty Seconds

"...films such as 8MM, Con Air, and Kiss of Death, he appeared in some of the best American movies..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What Dreams May Come

"...film's absolute gravity about its subjects of life and death make it an original exception to our standard romantic..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Six-String Samurai

"...Falcon, Justin Mcquire and Stephane Gauger. The whole Road Warrior/Death Race 2000 post-apocalyptic hero genre is stone-cold dead, and..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

To Gillian On Her Thirty-Seventh Birthday

"...David Lewis (Gallagher) faces two years after the tragic death of his wife Gillian (Pfeiffer) during the annual Nantucket..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

"...hardly be better. Ever since his sudden and premature death in 1973 at the age of 32 only a..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In SXSW Documentary Other Side, an Activist Fights to the End for Access to Medical Aid in Dying

Lynda Bluestein’s battle to die on her own terms

"...would be the subject of a documentary about her death, he wasn’t surprised. “It was in line with how..."

March 7, 2025 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

TDCJ’s Bryan Collier Challenged at Public Meeting

Families and advocates complain of death, misery in the state’s prison system

"...– that it had been 165 days since Motley’s death, but TDCJ still has not adequately explained what happened...."

May 3, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Planning to Execute Men in Its Faith-Based Program

Saving souls, destroying bodies

"...Since late 2021, Texas has been working to rehabilitate death row inmates through a new project known as the..."

Nov. 8, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him

"...to say, except to mention and mourn his 2004 death – oddly fitting for the master of menace and..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living by Rachel Heng

This debut novel about a future in which people can live forever is a bittersweet yet life-affirming story of eternity versus death

"...and ready to do it again. The inevitability of death occasionally crosses your mind, but you keep going...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Arts Review by M. Brianna Stallings

BPM (Beats Per Minute)

France's AIDS community battles big pharma in the 1990s

"...rigueur, a dark time when a diagnosis meant a death sentence and the inaction of governments and pharmaceutical companies..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teenage Time Bomb

Can you handle the suburban hellscape of Blonde Death?

"...last bit of daredevilry is exactly what makes Blonde Death a major triumph in the Eighties low-budget universe. True..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Screens Feature by Zack Carlson

Sandra Bland Remembrance Today

Evening event includes march from Victory Grill to Capitol

"...to continue organizing on the second anniversary of Bland’s death in a Waller County jail. The event will start..."

July 13, 2017 News Post by Maria Mendez

Bitter Harvest

In 1930s Ukraine, young lovers fight Stalin and forced starvation

"...leaving the entirety of the nation to starve to death, a U.N.-recognized catastrophe known in its native tongue as..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Salesman

Gripping drama from the director of A Separation

"...they’re both performing in a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (he’s playing Willy Lomax, and she’s..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wiener-Dog

Todd Solondz sets a pup in a world of humans who are all bark and more bite

"...little boy (Cooke) who’s recently completed chemotherapy (and cheated death) and ending with a lonely old woman (Burstyn) knocking..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Big Stone Gap

An Appalachian "spinster" learns the truth about her past

"...school days. Opening night concludes in tragedy, with the death of Ave’s mother. Ave is unmoored, especially after she..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lester Bower Awaits Wednesday Execution

67-year-old has spent 31 years on death row

"...Lester Bower has spent 31 years on death row for the 1983 murder of four men in..."

June 2, 2015 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Trials of Tribulation

Ghoulish death hounds return for a Texas-style massacre

"...Swedish death metallers Tribulation lunge at you in corpse paint brandishing..."

Jan. 29, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Paranormal Activity 4

Five years after the end of PA3, things are still going bump in the night.

"...franchise is subtextually trying to say something about the death of suburbia and the ghosts that linger there; the..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Judge: Ready to Rule Against Swearingen

Transcripts aren't yet in, but judge has decided

"...Although attorneys for death row inmate Larry Swearingen have not yet seen official..."

Aug. 20, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Is Druery Sane Enough to Die?

Brazos County judge apparently thinks so

"...years, believes that he and his cell on Texas' death row are "wired," and has spent a significant amount..."

July 24, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Art of the Steal

This documentary looks at the quandary faced in Philadelphia about moving the Barnes Foundation, home to a premier Postimpressionist collection.

"...up a trust that explicitly stated that upon his death, no piece in the collection could be sold, loaned,..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Animation

This year's five nominees for the best animated short Oscar are available for viewing. This year’s five Academy Award-nominated animated shorts include “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” the latest stop-motion Claymation piece from Nick Park and Aardman; “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” by Nicky Phelan; “The Lady and the Reaper" by Recio García; “French Roast” by Fabrice O. Joubert; and the winning “Logorama” by the H5 collective.

"...Directed by: Various. Bitter. Bilious. Deluded. Death-obsessed. And that ain’t all, folks – this year’s five..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Love Happens

You can probably guess what happens when Aaron Eckhart's widower meets Jennifer Aniston's lovelorn florist.

"...he himself has hardly recovered from his wife’s accidental death three years prior. On the cusp of signing a..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Orphan

A married couple adopts a child who turns their lives into a horror show in this atmospheric, above-average but overlong addition to the "cuddly hellspawn" genre.

"...manages to inject some seriously warped life (and, natch, death) into the almost completely strip-mined genre of evil children..."

July 31, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Repo! The Genetic Opera

This cyber-gothic opera set in an unsavory world of the near-future stars Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton, among others.

"...is a hugely ambitious affair, chock-full of love and death, hideously disfigured trickery, and foolhardy fathers who love their..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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