The Replacement Killers

"...people at the packed-to-the-rafters preview screening of The Replacement Killers were under the impression they were about to see..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Killers

Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play a married couple, but the wife doesn't know her husband is a government assassin. Comedy ensues.

"...Day, which is scheduled for release later this month. Killers contributes little to the form and otherwise coasts on..."

June 11, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Natural Born Killers

Stone grabs our collective viscera and never lets go for the next two hours.

"...and Tom Sizemore. Berserk from the outset, Natural Born Killers lunges for our collective viscera in its opening sequence..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ACL Review: Killers

Bland and uninspiring

"...Credit the Killers for dispensing with necessities early. The Las Vegas outfit..."

Oct. 9, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

A Life Reconstructed in Noir Classic The Killers

A death in New Jersey

"...the doomed protagonist of Robert Siodmak's 1946 noir The Killers ends up being his last, setting off a nonlinear..."

June 21, 2019 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

Killers

"...Killers 8:15pm, American Express stage..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Feature

Sunday ACL Fest Face-Off: Gorillaz vs. The Killers

Compare the headliners!

"...The Killers8:15pm, American Express stage..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Stoners, Killers, and Kissing Miss Piggy

Topher Grace on assassination comedy American Ultra

"...Hitman: Agent 47, and the upcoming Deadpool), it's the killers that get the above-the-title credit and all the sympathy...."

Aug. 21, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Bloodthirsty Killers of Circle C

Victims take flight! ... Officials shrug! ... Stealthy predators stalk the suburban streets!

"...the calm, uniform, even antiseptic appearance fool you: Bloodthirsty killers are on the loose...."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Black Tight Killers

"...Starring: Akira Kobayashi and Chieko Matsubara. The Black Tight Killers is a group of go-go ninja women assassins who..."

May 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Omenihu: Dream Killers Bow to TLC

Local rhymesayer’s affirmation of overcoming scrubdom

"...dropped visuals for his latest single, the introspective “Dream Killers.” Shot and co-directed by filmmaker Jessie Rodriguez, the video..."

July 11, 2017 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

As the D.A. Delays, Michael Ramos' Killers Remain on Duty

The Ramos probe plods on

July 3, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Kansas, the Wheeled Giant Killers and More on the Texas Shootout

Kansas City Roller Warriors roll to victory at the world flat track championship.

Oct. 1, 2007 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Some Time-Killers Do Matter

Oct. 5, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

DVDanger: Real Monsters

Documentarian John Borowski studies Serial Killer Culture

"...Gacy. Dahmer. Gein. Serial killers are the ultimate folk monsters, media obsessions from news..."

Jan. 10, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Natural Selection

This locally shot black comedy examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media, and, not least, our own bad selves.

"...to skewer our pop culture's wearisome infatuation with serial killers, beers are on me when I meet Natural Selection..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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.

"...Jason Lewis, Aisha Hinds and Lindsay Ann Crouse. Serial killers are a dime a dozen in this often beguiling..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alleluia

A Belgian riff on the pitch-black legend of the Honeymoon Killers

"...riff on director Leonard Kastle’s 1969 film The Honeymoon Killers (itself based on the Lonely Hearts Killers’ real-life crime..."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Taste of Killing and Romance

"...scattershot, and occasionally tired, results. The plot follows two killers-for-hire, played by pop icon Andy Lau (Savior of the..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Psychopaths

More murder and mayhem from Mickey Keating

"...to an unseen but interventionist narrator (Phillips), all the killers and ghouls of the world come out to play...."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Love & a .45

Early Renée in a heap of bloody Texas trouble.

"...of a spate of similarly themed films (Natural Born Killers and Kalifornia spring readily to mind) and tends to..."

Nov. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Highwaymen

Costner and Harrelson face death and mortality on the hunt for Bonnie & Clyde

"...retirement and set on the trail of the notorious killers. Director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, The Alamo)..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review

Blood Fest

Comedy-horror provides plenty of GIF-able gags

"...of movie monsters, from killer clowns to mask-wearing, chainsaw-wielding killers, starts mowing down the crowd...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Work

Doc on a powerful Folsom Prison therapy group

"...homes. True, these hardest of the hard men are killers, kidnappers, and gangbangers, but watching them collapsing into shrieking..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

I will always love you

"...word ‘motherfucker.’” One thing that unites these two hard-boiled killers, however, is that they’re both fools for love. Bryce’s..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unleashing the Hounds of Love

Director Ben Young on his serial-killer couple drama

"...as lone wolf is terrifying enough. Yet two serial killers bonded by blood seems infinitely more frightening. That hideous..."

May 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Accountant

Math, mayhem, and murder abound in this somewhat confusing thriller

"...launches the motivationally unclear actions of a group of killers (led by Jon Bernthal). Meanwhile, Ray King (Simmons), over..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

London Has Fallen

This jingoistic blow-’em-up takes no prisoners

"...known levels. “Them,” of course being people of color, killers driven to demonic deeds, in the end, by the..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Liam Neeson has taken to shooting at bad guys again in this slow-burning Matthew Scudder mystery.

"...antihero’s inherently Luddite tendencies. Turns out that tracking serial killers is a lot tougher without an iPhone or a..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Abyss

In his latest documentary, Werner Herzog tackles the subject of the death penalty in Texas.

"...operandi. Utilizing police crime-scene videos and interviews with the killers, the relatives of the slain, and even the death-house..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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