Rooster Teeth Debuts Battlesloths 2025: The Great Pizza Wars

The party game you never knew you needed

"...You're making a video game. You're looking for compelling characters to populate a postapocalyptic,..."

July 7, 2017 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Witch

Madness, mayhem, and witchcraft beset a family in 1630s New England

"...better – it’s that kind of movie, but the surface story follows a Puritan family cast out of their..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Knock Knock

Keanu Reeves stars in Eli Roth's latest horror film

"...victims usually dying in some sort of agonizing torment: face chewed off, genitals raggedly removed; the Greeks did not..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

aGLIFF Announces Lineup

Austin's favorite LGBTQ fest drops next month

"...The Surface / U.S.A. (Dir. Michael Saul) - Southwest Premiere..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Poltergeist

They're here … again. But why?

"...bottle rather than puff some pot, and a melting face takes on the vaguely icky consistency of black goo...."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Coherence

What seems at first a normal dinner party, slyly turns into an eerie and ominous Something Else.

"...story credit with Manugian) has cooked up a parlor game that Rod Serling might have loved. Using minimal special..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Nothing Bad Can Happen

The title is grimly ironic: In fact, a whole lot of bad things happen in this German horror film.

"...his ground and turning the other cheek in the face of escalating cruelties...."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Room 237

Pet theories about what really went down at the Overlook Hotel abound in this documentary about Stanley Kubrick's intentions in The Shining.

"...from The Shining. Without visual cues matching name to face to interpretation, the narration becomes a kind of indistinct..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Soccer Watch

Horns face big test with Oklahoma State, and more

"...The UT Longhorns, coming off a rare bye week, face a huge test Friday night, hosting nationally ranked Oklahoma..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Silent House

Silent House gives the game away too easily but it does have some effective shocks along the way.

"...comes to the near-preternatural mastery she displays over her face. In Martha Marcy May Marlene, Olsen radiated anxiety and..."

March 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life During Wartime

Todd Solondz revisits the family from his film Happiness, but the characters are all played by different actors, and the result is no less disconcerting.

"...the jaundiced worldview is back on top of his game. (And, really, it does feel like some sort of..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Edge of Darkness

This thriller marks a middling comeback for Mad Mel Gibson

"...how to tidy up the minor mishaps of their game over brandy and cigars. But Campbell, who helmed the..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sugar

Sugar, by the makers of Half Nelson, follows a major league hopeful's path from a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic to stateside spring training and single-A ball in rural Iowa.

"...to grapple with cultural isolation, the specter of a "game-over" injury, and the pressure of keeping his family out..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stuck

Stuart Gordon tells his own creepy version of the story about the Fort Worth woman who locked her car in the garage for days with the mangled-but-still-living body of a human victim stuck in her windshield.

"...and high, and with the luckless, mangled fellow lodged face-first through her windshield, Mallard pulled her wrecked car into..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What a Crazy Weekend for the Horns

"...League or the Bigs. We might never see another single-game effort like it. In the series opener on Friday,..."

April 16, 2008 Sports Post by Christopher Bond

Semi-Pro

If basketball must be mocked, it deserves to be mocked well, and unfortunately, Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro isn’t up to the challenge.

"...of kings, a thing of beauty and elegance, America’s game. Which doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be mocked but..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Lucky You

This romantic drama is set against a Las Vegas background and stars Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore, but it rolls snake eyes all the way.

"...players, Cheever still manages to walk away from every game in Lucky You dead broke. He haunts the casinos..."

May 11, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Blades of Glory

This ice-skating comedy demonstrates that just because Will Ferrell is game for anything that might draw a laugh, it doesn't mean he should follow through with every idea that comes his way.

"...Nick Swardson and Rob Corddry. Just because Ferrell is game for anything that might draw a laugh, it doesn't..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Possession Arrow': Badgley->Razook

"...need now, after watching yet another nail-biter of a game from Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla. This time, the..."

Jan. 23, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

American Dreamz

American Dreamz tries to satirize the vapidity of American popular culture; instead, the film gets trapped beneath its own wheels.

"...the president can’t keep that constipated smirk off his face. That’s what your movie is really about, dawg. It’s..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Burton and Depp's screen version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book is truer to the source material and generally splendid, artful, and often sinister, yet it doesn't completely displace the earlier screen version.

"...seether Veruca Salt (Winter), over-competitive Violet Beauregarde (Robb), and video-game addict Mike Teavee (Fry) – all of whom arrive..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trapped

"...Abby -- the camera angrily jerks to the distraught face of Karen, who has just learned that Abby's been..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

State and Main

Mamet's story about a big-budget Hollywood production that steamrolls into a little Vermont town is told with a gentle smirk.

"...the sex with minors and wanton acts of vandalism.) Basset-hound-faced William Macy stars as the harried director -- slick..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Red Planet

"...as the spaceship's science officer, plays within Hoffman's basic game plan and delivers some of his least histrionic --..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Jack Frost

"...parental and spousal obligations by missing the umpteenth hockey game of his son Charlie (Cross) and failing to fix..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Friend of the Deceased

"...thoughts about the self-imposed death sentence bubble to the surface, and suddenly Anatoli finds himself taking out a second..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wedding Singer

"...stand. Sandler is actually at the top of his game here; he plays Robby as a genuinely nice guy..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Slammer Vacation

How I Spent...

"...Sunday before the competition, taking in the surreal, lit-against-darkness face of the World Trade Center, that I had the..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

The Scarlet Letter

"...And so it goes with all sorts of trite, in-your-face symbolism, though, not all of it is quite so..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

World Cup Daily: June 22

A daily update on the action in Brazil

"...things up well for today’s USA-Portugal, the last 5pm game of the tournament, and indeed, one of the most..."

June 22, 2014 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

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