Woo, All Right Now, And Don't It Feel Like You're Going Bald and Homicidal!

Thirty years later, Jeff Lieberman is still walking on 'Blue Sunshine'

"...Hairless homicidal ex-hippies on a rampage? Politicians with nefarious hidden agendas?..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lady Macbeth

A violent, desperate housewife plots murder

"...With no backstory to inform the psychology of its homicidal central character, the movie dictates that you sympathize with..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Vatican Tapes

Pray for us; it's exorcism time again

"...by subsequent strange behavior, institutionalization in the loony bin, homicidal and suicidal mayhem, and the inevitable rite of exorcism..."

July 24, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

West of Memphis

Eighteen years of wrongful imprisonment and four documentaries still don't put to rest the trials of the West Memphis Three.

"...wearer of black T-shirts, was the ringleader of a homicidal satanic cult, and that Baldwin and Misskelley were his..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Rubber

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

"...rampage that’s viewed from afar by a binocular-wielding "audience." Homicidal, telekinetic, and jealous (one can only assume) of the..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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.

"...exports, Wallace and Gromit, must do battle with a homicidal maniac. That would be “A Matter of Loaf and..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Saw VI

Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood. Promises, promises.

"...sadly, by much. The series setup: Jigsaw (Bell), a homicidal maniac with a warped moral sensibility who has been..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punisher: War Zone

Marvel Comics' Frank Castle again comes to the screen as a one-man vengeance machine in this stylishly violent and gory opus.

"...of Castle's origin story. An ex-Marine, Castle becomes a homicidal maniac after mobsters murder his wife and daughter, and..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anywhere But Here

"...teenage Ann feels toward her unconventional mother, Adele, isn't homicidal -- at least, not seriously so -- but it's..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Apostle

"...two critical ones being a wandering eye and a homicidal jealousy. After committing a very serious infraction against the..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

"...about emancipated women run amok. Though I'm told these homicidal bosom buddies have developed a bit of a cult..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Killing Zoe

"...Dog Day Afternoon: Eric turns out to be a homicidal maniac, offing customers and tellers and cops left and..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Surviving the Game

"...the hunting party. Racism is only one of this homicidal group's problems, however. Their behavior is like that of..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gunmen

"...regarding the location of the treasure). Leary plays a homicidal killer, Stewart plays Mr. Big, Hardison plays Dwayne Wayne..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rampage

"...citizens are intrinsically worth more than the lives of homicidal murderers. The villains in this story are the psychiatric..."

Nov. 27, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dr. Giggles

"...(Drake -- Benny of L.A. Law) is the thoroughly homicidal M.D.-wannabe, playing out his revenge fantasies in a smallish,..."

Oct. 30, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shadows and Fog

"...and Bates as world-weary whores, Michael Kirby as a homicidal maniac and Malkovich and Farrow as a squabbling clown..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Sound of Violence

Murderous melodies never hit the right note

"...subjects. All in a day’s work for a budding homicidal musician...."

May 28, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Howard

The soaring music and short life of the man who made Disney sing

"...provincial town and Seymour Krelborn begging his not yet homicidal house plant to “grow for me”...."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda's era-defining political musical brings hope home on Disney+

"...pugnacious Hamilton; Groff’s micro-expression swerves between courtly, bored, and homicidal; Leslie Odom Jr., as Aaron Burr, history’s most infamous..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hush

Well-executed horror nightmare features sick torment of a deaf woman

"...his supernice-guy role on The Newsroom). Like many a homicidal maniac in horror movies, this guy is a sadist..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Hyperbolic Acid

Enhancing the emotional impact of an otherwise unremarkable set of facts

"...can we kill her without leaving a corpse? - Homicidal..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Column by The Luv Doc

Castlemania

One boy's induction into horror

"...Sarah Palin gutting a deer in the 1961 Psycho-homage Homicidal, but we also get Castle's own self-reflexive newsreel footage..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Moon

A man (Sam Rockwell) and his computer (voiced pitch-perfectly by Kevin Spacey) – alone on a moon-based work station of the future – plumb the depths of identity and inner space.

"...a cozy name (Gerty to 2001's HAL) and maybe homicidal tendencies. But where 2001, so maddening and inscrutable, wanted..."

July 10, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Skinwalkers

Another subpar, bite 'n' slash, PG-13 bloodless-bath.

"...imagine Joe Dante directing in a stripey Johnny the Homicidal Maniac long-sleeve T? Me neither. But that's just the..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Brooks

Serial killers are a dime a dozen in this often beguiling but essentially ludicrous movie that stars Kevin Costner in an unconventional role.

"...But her father seems to fear the worst: His homicidal impulses might be a hereditary addiction. By the time..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.

"...young bike messenger who wouldn’t allow a horde of homicidal zombies to rumple his good looks) and his first..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Pitt and Jolie, who are reduced to set dressing in their own star vehicle, nevertheless pack a lot of bang for the buck.

"...we’re meant to find it humorous when they turn homicidal on each other (it’s not unheard of – Danny..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Man Apart

"...finally nab the Big Guy (Silva), a new, extremely homicidal thug by the name of El Diablo begins slicing..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Double Trouble: James Fotopoulos & Julia Halperin

"...us down the slippery slope of an American woman's homicidal crack-up. The film is based on the real-life story..."

Nov. 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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