Monster Hunter

The beast-slaying game gets the Paul W.S. Anderson treatment

"...put their number two gaming series, the massively successful Monster Hunter series, in his more-than-capable hands...."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tracking Down Grief With The Head Hunter

Filmmaker Jordan Downey on a monster movie with a fractured heart

"...Grief is a monster, and vengeance is its bastard spawn that will consume..."

April 10, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rick Baker: Monster Maker

An American Werewolf in London

"...was presented to me by Vincent Price and Kim Hunter, who played Zira in Planet of the Apes...."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Reanimating a Monster Franchise

Producer Robert Rodriguez on Predators

"...1990's Predator 2) and immediately relocated the interstellar, mandibular hunter to a planetary game preserve where a group of..."

July 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Van Helsing

Hugh Jackman's mysterious monster hunter is pittefd against nearly the entire pantheon of Universal’s classic monsters, including Dracula and and the Wolf-Man.

"...the nominal star and focus of Stephen Sommers’ all-star monster mash Van Helsing, cranks the melodramatics all the way..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: Kryptic

Goopy creature feature is a muddled take on self-discovery

"...a lifetime. It usually doesn’t come cloaked in a monster-hunting adventure, but that’s where Kryptic switches things up...."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Mortal Kombat

Blood knives! Fatalities! GORO!

"...openings. At least the year's other big game-to-film adaptation, Monster Hunter, had the good grace to avoid most of..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Rookies

Milla Jovovich sleepwalks through an action-comedy dud

"...the heels of her work in Paul W.S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter, actress Milla Jovovich is once more working with..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Zeram

"...an alternate dimension to assist a cute female bounty hunter in capturing a seven-foot-tall monster known only as Zeram...."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Kong: Skull Island

The big ape is back

"...course I’m referring to what Robert Armstrong’s big game hunter Carl Denham referred to as “the eighth wonder of..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Missing Link

More than just fuzzy fun in this latest stop-motion wonder

"...decades, but its shared roots in the great white hunter narrative of the image of imperial expansion have made..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Innocent Blood

"...Innocent Blood is a commentary on the nature of monsters, of vampires and human fascination with them. Everywhere the..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...Saber Tooth Kitty. For years, my backyard sandbox-cum-mudpit was Monster Island, and, three decades later, I remember painstakingly constructing..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lake Placid

"...the end times are upon us, this scattershot, PETA-friendly monster movie is penned by the same wag who weekly..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Here's to Holly Hunter

"...First, there's Holly Hunter. She stars as Grace Hanadarko, a hard-working, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed..."

July 20, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her. Cast: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, Jan Bluthardt..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Harriet

Overdue biopic of the fearless anti-slavery hero loses sight of reality

"...Monáe, Clarke Peters, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Henry Hunter Hall, Zackary Momoh and Jennifer Nettles...."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...staff to the wrestling ring: SXSW just unleashed a monster wave of guests, speakers, and extra film titles for..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: I Am Not a Serial Killer

A teen sociopath on the trail of a monster

"...Remember the old aphorism about fighting monsters lest you become one? Sometimes, as revisionist teen horror..."

March 14, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: Scumdogs of Eternity in This Is Gwar

New documentary gets under the latex of the monster metalers

"...Blood jets. Pummeling riffs. Decapitations. Grammy nominations. Monsters that split into three. Lyrics built around social satire...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2014: Norway

A disco vampire descends on the Mediterranean

"...When aging party monster Zano arrives in town on a late-night train, his..."

Sept. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Kiddie Spree

Local curmudgeon and Style Avatar Stephen Moser takes a gaggle of tykes on the shopping trail. O-mi-god.

"...that, while Zack may be the Great Brave Cyber Monster Hunter every afternoon, he's still a little boy, too..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Collective Wisdom

The Tonewheel Collective spins off Austin's indie scene of tomorrow

"...paper from his gray wool blazer, Ashworth calls Red Hunter to the stage. The Peter & the Wolf catalyst..."

May 11, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...office-cum-fanboy-playpen, viewing a sequence from the director's upcoming vampire hunter epic Blade 2. Even on the grainy, rough-cut VHS..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Midnighters, such as Brea Grant (star of the upcoming monster romance After Midnight) who leads Lucky, one of many..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...Breaking a Monster Director: Luke Meyer Breaking a Monster chronicles the breakout..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Species

"...assembles a group of diverse talents -- lethal bounty hunter Madsen, sensitive telepathist Whitaker, and two other tag-along scientists..."

July 7, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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

R-e-s-p-e-c-t

The State of Austin's Hip-Hop Scene

"...local acts like Relax, Disgruntled Seeds, and Big Game Hunter, and visits from national hip-hop heavyweights like the Roots,..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Legend of Ochi

Storytelling sorcery meets movie magic in this A24 fantasy adventure

"...This is where Maxim (Dafoe) roams and roars, a hunter of Ochi with a pack of young wards whose..."

April 25, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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