Angel Has Fallen

An unexpected twist in the franchise is all for the better

"...in director Ric Roman Waugh’s films. Whereas the previous Fallen movies moved in a predictable manner – foreign invaders..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Fallen Angels

Shot as a companion piece to Chungking Express, this film captures Wong Kar-Wai's fascination with young urban pilgrims and their nocturnal wanderings and cinematographer Christopher Doyle's narcotizing wizardry with light and color.

"...of his films since 1988's As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels focuses on rootless young folks who are torn..."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Fallen

"...Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini and Elias Koteas. Demons, angels, and Denzel. What starts off as a typical police..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bringing Real-World Trauma to Action Blockbuster Angel Has Fallen

Ric Roman Waugh flies on broken wings

"...in charge of the latest installment in the blockbuster Fallen franchise. In the third film, Angel Has Fallen, the..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...Or perhaps it was her choice of dress, an angel-like costume, filmy and flowing. Whatever it was, the hippies..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Return to Sin City

Gram Parsons, back in a big way even if he never left

"...Near the end of Fallen Angel, an impressive new documentary about the life, death,..."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Greenland

Gerard Butler brings back the classic disaster movie

"...Waugh exactly one movie to bring the Olympus Has Fallen franchise back down to Earth. In Angel Has Fallen,..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Kandahar

Tense exploration of Afghanistan's chaos camouflaged as an action flick

"...about minimum mandatory sentencing). He even turned the absurd Fallen franchise into an analysis of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy)..."

May 26, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

National Champions

Ric Roman Waugh places the NCAA on trial in this chilling sports drama

"...it’s a complete break: In his other Butler collaboration, Angel Has Fallen, the hero is a banged-up mass of..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...in times like these, indeed. – Doug Freeman Leeann Atherton: Fallen Angel..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Just Another Manic Monday

The Alamo Drafthouse's music / film synergy: Music Mondays and more

"...synergy. Whether it's a director Q&A, like Gram Parsons, Fallen Angel director Gandulf Hennig, Ian McLagan's Faces live set..."

July 7, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Empathy for the Devil

Discourse on Evil

"...ethical relativism... Mario Cuomo leaves an Augustinian phone message... Angel Man sees a silver lining in Oklahoma... and Maury..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Books Feature

The War for Change in Kandahar

How Austin filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh made the first major Western film in Saudi Arabia since Lawrence of Arabia

"...Like every filmmaker, the Angel Has Fallen director had a weird few years due..."

May 26, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The New Moneyball in National Champions

Ric Roman Waugh calculates the human cost of NCAA profits

"...production of his third collaboration with Gerard Butler (after Angel Has Fallen and Greenland), action-thriller Kandahar: but if his..."

Dec. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Lorenz Takes Aim at The Marksman

Writer/director on why Liam Neeson is the new Clint Eastwood

"...was actually one of his first jobs in Los Angeles. It was one of the Dirty Harry movies, The..."

Jan. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

King Crimson Kills

Approaching a half-century of progress

"...Tunes like “Fallen Angel,” originally recorded as a threepiece, and “Easy Money,”..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Music Post by Michael Toland

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

The “world’s first Iranian feminist vampire spaghetti western” is a spooky doozy

"...and possibly an answer to unspoken prayers, an avenging, fallen angel and close kin to Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45...."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Horns

Daniel Radcliffe sprouts horns in this spiky fable about the devil in all of us.

"...forehead, a metaphorical manifestation of how others perceive this fallen angel. His provocative appearance has a startling effect upon..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

I, Frankenstein

Aaron Eckhart stars as a modern-day Frankenstein, who faces off against supernatural creatures in this film based on the graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux.

"...heaven and hell, with Otto as queen of the angelic gargoyles, and fallen angel Nighy marshaling his Savile Row-bespoke..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Butterfly Kiss

"...impersonation of a human being, yet a being (a fallen angel, perhaps?) possessed with a sensitivity that can recognize..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Identity Crisis

The Double, Filth, and Moebius melt minds

"...plot rewrite that undermines exactly how far Bruce has fallen, and makes him less of a demon, more of..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point of Entry

Fun Fun Fun is Judas Priest roaring back to Austin

"...Sad Wings of Destiny, around the neck of a fallen angel. It's come to symbolize the triumvirate of two..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Adam Ganderson

Thanks Raoul!

"...I appreciate the wonderful review of my new record, Fallen Angel. I have been influenced by those great singers..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Postmarks

Pedestrian Safety

"...our sympathies and prayers with the family and their fallen angel; and to the lady who recently wrote about..."

June 15, 2016 Postmarks

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...eye makeup about 12,000 years ago. Others blame a fallen angel named Azazyel who took an Earthly wife for..."

April 22, 2016 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Steve Stockman Finally Shuts Up

Congressman is mum about business ventures

"...the more curious entities, mostly dissolved, are Cherokee Solutions, Fallen Angel, the Radio Underground Network, and Friends of Congressman..."

Nov. 26, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Critics Poll

"...Gray: The Black Angels..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature

Wings of Desire

After several years in the States, where he directed four films, German-born Wim Wenders decided to head back home and compose a love letter to Berlin

"...film, we see Berlin through the eyes of two angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander). Wenders' penchant..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Review by Audra Schroeder

TV Eye

A New Year's Eve bout with cedar fever made me feel like 2005 is just an extension of 2004, and it looks like the same on the small screen

"...Tying the child of the world's infamous fallen angel to the classic mommy abandonment trope is an..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Cat Stevens

"...man's a seraphic opposite to the bitters-and-blue ruin of fallen angel Tom Waits. Of course, Stevens' eventual answer was..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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