SXSW Midnighters Go Into the Woods With The Ranger

Jenn Wexler pits punks against nature

"...of Jason's victims and still have plenty of mediocre maniac movies left over. Not so with The Ranger, which..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Victor Crowley

Adam Green and Kane Hodder head back to the swamp

"...writer/director Adam Green decided to bring the modern movie maniac back to his slaying ways...."

Feb. 6, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Many Truths of I, Tonya

Sebastian Stan and Steven Rogers on unreliable narrators and figure skating's most controversial figure

"...Stan, that meant playing multiple Jeffs: the abusive twentysomething maniac that Tonya fled; the meek pawn of circumstance of..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...Takahide Hori is a maniac and a genius, which makes him the perfect stop-motion..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kimberley Jones’ Top 10 Films of 2017

"...Gain the Upper Hand in Your Romance With a Megalo- maniac would never fit on the marquee. 3) Jane..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

My Friend Coffin Joe

Brazilian iconoclast unleashed at Death By Fest

"...Maniac. Pioneer. Debaser. Maverick. Monster. Hero. Part shaman, part provocateur,..."

Oct. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Despicable Me 3

Animated franchise confirms the law of diminishing returns

"...of former pre-teen TV star and now dance-happy global maniac Evil Bratt (Parker), who’s out to steal a 4,000..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...each other with spike mauls. And what kind of maniac casts real Hell's Angels to play the Bombers motorcycle..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD

New documentary on the influential and rule-breaking comic

"...He is a maniac, but he's the unsung hero of comics. There are..."

May 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

I Love You, Jimmy

Nearly four-hour LaFave convergence petitions a greater good

"...of itself from another. Kill, maim, hate – any maniac can perpetrate genocide – but even the damned have..."

May 19, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Officer Downe

Slipknot's Clown turns director, plus more home releases

"...Shawn Crahan (best known as percussionist, backing vocalist, and maniac-in-chief Clown from mega-selling metallers Slipknot). But he's working straight..."

April 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Prevenge

Maternity can be murder

"...Lowe is probably best known to U.S. audiences as maniac-in-the-making Tina in Ben Wheatley's pitch-black romantic comedy Sightseers. Yet..."

March 17, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Prevenge

"...Lowe is probably best known to U.S. audiences as maniac-in-the-making Tina in Ben Wheatley's pitch-black romantic comedy Sightseers. Yet..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...and Bale Allen (congas), backed by Austin's finest (fiddle maniac Richard Bowden) and an equal audience, put on a..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Death Race 2050

Plus jungle Sacrifice! and street punk Parasites

"...tequila and meth, he's a sleazebag messiah, a crumbling maniac as likely to pummel his own followers as those..."

Feb. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Terry Allen’s Manifest Monographs

Lubbock don stages a vintage show for the ages

"...electric gunslinger Charlie Sexton, sharing a mic with fiddle maniac Richard Bowden. Drummer Davis McLarty, Glenn Fukunaga on bass,..."

Jan. 16, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Last Girl Standing

Austin horror goes beyond the slasher

"...is still haunted by nightmares of the Hunter, the maniac she dispatched after a bloody campsite slaying. Yet the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: She Who Must Burn

Anti-abortion terror as the new Salem witch trials

"...nowhere, Angela (Sarah Smyth) finds herself jobless after fundamentalist maniac Abraham Baarker (James Wilson) slays the doctor she worked..."

Oct. 22, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: C is for Clown

Rampant coulrophobia on DVD and VOD

"...second cousin to Zombie's greatest creation, Bill Moseley's face-flaying maniac Otis Driftwood. This is a nihilistic world of disposable..."

Oct. 8, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: VR Stories With Dark Corner

Is the future of horror shorts immersive?

"...crumbling shack at the far-from-tender mercies of a knife-wielding maniac. "Catatonic" straps you into a wheelchair as you are..."

Sept. 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...I got to the sports page, I read some maniac masquerading as Michael Corcoran claiming the U.S. loss to..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

Bray Wyatt: Follow the Buzzards

WWE superstar on horror, power, and the allure of the ring

"...Southern death cult leader. So why would a messianic maniac become a professional wrestler? “It's such a simple answer,”..."

Aug. 15, 2016 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

WWE SmackDown Live

"...Southern death cult leader. So why would a messianic maniac become a professional wrestler? "It's such a simple answer,"..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Sports Feature by Richard Whittaker

Exclusive Interview With Wrestling Legend Duke “The Rooster” Cartwright

Deposed local champ tells it like it is before Soul Grudge Showdown VI

"...vertebrae from a fight I had in Chihuahua against Maniac Mick McKenzie. But hopefully I’ll get back in the..."

Aug. 9, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Welcome to Carnage Park

Director Mickey Keating's SXSW shocker reaches VOD

"...of a woman trapped in the crosshairs of a maniac’s rifle came back. He said, “The Seventies were the..."

July 1, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...them, and why they would fall for this straggly-bearded maniac with his harebrained schemes and bad tunes (short answer:..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

"...Imaginé, soundtrack to an imaginary film inspired by front maniac Anton Newcombe's love for French film scores. A suite..."

April 29, 2016 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

DVDanger: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Bill Moseley on being Chop Top, and living as a horror icon

"...It’s all shoulder stuff." By contrast, with his straggle-bearded maniac Otis, "it’s all in the balls. It’s thumbs under..."

April 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hush

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

"...Maddie fights back, often ingeniously, against the unnamed, white-masked maniac with a crossbow (John Gallagher Jr., straying far afield..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Music: Japan Nite

Mainstay conference showcase delivers yet again

"...the window: Dexstring was a no-show as well, so maniac trash rockers Ed Woods violated the stage in all..."

March 19, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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