16 Blocks

Richard Donner still has it. 16 Blocks may be a formulaic good-cops/bad-cops actioner, but it’s rarely stereotypical.

"...still has it. 16 Blocks may be a formulaic good-cops/bad-cops actioner, but it’s rarely stereotypical. In another director’s hands,..."

March 3, 2006 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.

"...addictive impulses. Costner is great here as the two-sided monster: one, a successful, bow-tie-wearing box manufacturer and devoted family..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2 Fast 2 Furious

"...thin, and just sort of hanging around), and the cops, well, the cops are clueless and loud. (And I’m..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Man Bites Dog

"...increasingly omnipresent trend of reality-based television shows such as COPS, Rescue 911 and others, Man Bites Dog follows the..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joy Ride

"...and their tails -- big breath -- and the cops won't believe you and some poor schmoe's had his..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Staple! Lives!

Indie media expo adds three big names to guest list

"...an underground comic fave from his Prison Funnies and Monster Cops days (plus, in Canada he's famous as curmudgeonly..."

Dec. 3, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Scanlines

Invasion USA

"...the captive geek escapes from the sideshow and two cops (both dressed like Ernest Tubb) are called in to..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

DVDanger: Here Be Monsters

Back in the home-release stack after SXSW

"...that revolutionary. In fact, it starts as a generic monster flick: kids in the woods (mandatory couples, siblings, spare..."

April 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Local Lawyers and Activists Come to the Aid of Protesters

A look at life after the arrests

"...a discussion for you, Target, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster."..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...fantastical than kaiju, the great Japanese tradition of giant monster movies? Back in 2016, Shinji Higuchi turned the genre..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Parts You Lose

Icy thriller has no idea what to do with its talented cast

"...launches into the kind of parable only expressed by cops in backcountry thrillers. You see, the marshal recalls, a..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...Buster, a mountain man on the run from Montana cops. Then he is Jonah, an exhausted concierge working nights..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Red Riding: 1983

This final film in the three-part series affords a great deal of satisfaction in resolving the plot’s many mysteries.

"...Constabulary’s general lawlessness. (“To the north,” goes the dirty cops’ back-slapping mantra, “where we do what we want!”) When,..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Final Countdown

Thirty-three years of Back Room shows and events can hardly be summed up in one timeline

"...Body Count roll through on their Cop Killer tour; cops line up backstage...."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Tales From the Hood

"...first, and the weakest, concerns a group of rogue cops who murder a black activist and then are subjected..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...heartpounding thriller about two abducted boys fighting off the monsters who have stolen them from their homes. The Boy..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Short Film “Stop” Finds Fear in Being Pulled Over

Austin director Steven DeGennaro on race and roadside terror

"...the audience with a metaphorical buffer by making the cops werewolves or some such nonsense. The horror of this..."

March 9, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Korea’s Blue-Collar Heroes

AFS highlights the films of Bong Joon-ho

"...about dog stew, it's a cop story where the cops are AWOL, and justice is ambiguous...."

Jan. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Austin Adds Owen Egerton's Latest

Plus sci-fi fest's closing night title, and shorts

"...murder. SciFi Shorts Program 1: How to Recognize a Monster..."

Nov. 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines

Lege makes an anti-city push, nixes a bill limiting police filming, the Senate passes its budget, and more...

"...West, D-Dallas, which creates a uniform policy for Texas cops wearing body cameras while on duty. But there's another..."

April 17, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

The film Babel is winning awards, but none of them for Best Comedy. It seems I'm fated to laugh alone.

"...the picture. In the car chase that ensues, the cops are not a quarter mile behind him; yet Santiago..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...destruction" will be found in Iraq. Just like bad cops carry a "throw-down" weapon to plant on the victim..."

March 28, 2003 Column

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...you up out of the gutter right before the cops arrest you for public intoxication. We can all use..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...telling it like it was to the evil corporate monsters out to destroy the world. Darth Vader was a..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...writes, directs, and stars in this hard-boiled story of cops and yakuza, a film whose touching blend of deadpan..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...drug-addicted call girl Monica, facing down gangsters, assassins, corrupt cops, and much more over the course of one long..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Jenn Wexler Teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, come up against..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Tales From the Hood

In the wake of Get Out, a classic anthology revisited

"...opening story, "Rogue Cop Revelation" begins with three white cops beating the piss out of a black driver, as..."

April 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...law, METH STORM: Arkansas USA is a thrilling non-fiction cops and robbers drama told from inside the American drug..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...is a psychokinetic, who finds himself rousted by the cops. That's their mistake, as he blows the windows out..."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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