Joker: Folie à Deux

Joaquin Phoenix is back as the Joker in this musical sequel

"...and previously untouched questions of the nature of a monster. The Joker, cinematically, has been by turns a prankster,..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem , more announced for 2024 festival

"...a psycho-thriller about a woman’s search for a missing monster hunter and her growing realization that she is inescapably..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Retribution

Liam Neeson does the Liam Neeson thing, this time with exploding cars in Berlin

"...killing these people with car bombs, which means German cops are chasing him now. Who is making Liam Neeson..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Joy of Bicycling in Austin

A one-person sociological study of springtime biking where every ride is his favorite

"...Francisco, where the ride was huge and riotous with cops threatening arrests and windshield smashing clashes between angry motorists..."

April 21, 2023 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nicolas Cage Talks The Trust

The actor on working with Elijah Wood and Jerry Lewis, and "finding the jazz"

"...Brewer, co-director with his brother Alex. "We met some cops, and they provided information in helping us research the..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...And the guy's like, "Heroin killed Billie Holiday." "No. Cops!"..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

DVDanger: A Bad Case of the Sequels

Retreads, remakes, and do-overs rule the home releases

"...an apartment complex) and turned it into a full-blown monster-slasher flick called Toolbox Murders. He added a monstrous killer..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Supremacy

A timely and tragic depiction of intolerance and bigotry

"...threatening to explode into nothing more than a cartoon monster. But he never does. He is crippled by his..."

April 25, 2015 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

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

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Vampires, hip-hop, cults, and odd romance are our unreleased faves

"...(Lou Taylor Pucci) is on the run from the cops after a bad bar fight when he washes up..."

Jan. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

His Name Was Gary Poulter

Meet the homeless man who became a movie star

"...facility along the way. They approached their job like cops – always alert, instinctively hunting for just the right..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

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

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...She & Him with Zooey Deschanel and rootsy supergroup Monsters of Folk, Portland, Ore.'s M. Ward now gears up..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Take Five

Recommended at Cine las Americas

"...culture of extortion and violence. Senior officers equip beat cops with discount bulletproof vests that could not stop a..."

April 22, 2011 Screens Feature 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

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

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