Don't Laugh; It May Happen

"...makes perfect sense to require a pedophile or a serial rapist to register with the authorities as a sexual..."

Sept. 16, 2010 Postmarks

Sex Offenders Exposed

Are sex offender laws causing more harm than good?

"...the list each week. The database includes not only serial rapists and pedophiles but also thousands of offenders like..."

Sept. 10, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Fantastic Fest Won’t Stop Announcing Awesome Stuff

May the Schwartz be with all of us

"...live show. Imagine a modern spin on the radio serial that combines projections of 1250 hand-drawn comic illustrations, 3..."

Sept. 8, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

They Went West

Back in the saddle with a faded genre's favorite stars

"...transition from silent film to sound, from B-movies and serials to event films and series TV...."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Mondo Mink

Mink Stole on life with John Waters and death in the new horror-comedy All About Evil

"...my favorite, especially of the early ones. I guess Serial Mom would be my favorite from the later ones...."

May 14, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Red Riding: 1980

This second installment in a three-part dramatization of dirty dealings in Yorkshire is concerned with the notorious corruption mill that powers the region’s law enforcement.

"...detailing the victim roll call of the UK’s notorious serial killer – but in truth, that’s a bit of..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Charles Dickens Unleashed

Schmaltzy Victorian costume-drama improv, gamely and rather adroitly rendered

"...just-passed December brought to the Hideout Theatre a Victorian serial drama in full costume, featuring the madcaps of Parallelogramophonograph..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

John Krasinski makes his directorial debut with this screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace's stories.

"...does have an eye for casting: Charles, as a serial monogamist going through the paces of his exit speech,..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...from a self-obsessed ruler in this one-of-a-kind science fiction serial musical comedy from the director of The American Astronaut...."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Alleged Bike Thief Nabbed

Police believe they've landed a big one in bike fancier James Clayton

"...10. "I highly encourage folks to record their bike's serial number," Askew said. "It gives you the greatest chance..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Salon Concerts

A violin and a cello made together in 1863 Paris are reunited in 2008 Austin

"...of wood, and the instruments were given the same serial number. One hundred forty-five years later, Lewis and Douglas..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Repo! The Genetic Opera

This cyber-gothic opera set in an unsavory world of the near-future stars Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton, among others.

"...identity, however. He's also the organ Repo Man, a serial vivisectionist clandestinely employed by the corrupt head of GeneCo,..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fall

Astonishing and hyperstylized images mark Tarsem's stunning but mournful movie, which is also layered with fairy-tale subtext and thickets of moral and motivational ambiguity.

"...out of Kipling (if Kipling had scribbled Saturday afternoon serial scenarios for Monogram Pictures). The Fall is actually two..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

88 Minutes

Al Pacino stars in this dull and formulaic procedural.

"...the creation of this muddled, joyless, and deadly dull serial killer-meets-forensic psychiatrist snoozefest should be forced to spend –..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Brits Do Texas

Wire in the Blood comes to Austin

"...helps "hunt down a missing girl, ritualistic killers, a serial rapist, and a serial rapist and a killer –..."

April 3, 2008 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Zodiac: Director's Cut

Spencer Parsons has been waiting for a proper DVD of Fincher's essay on the dorkiness of evil since end titles rolled in the theatre

"...Brad Pitt hits the library in search of a serial killer's literary influences, where he turns up Dante, Milton,..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Hills Snyder: All Good Children

In the Gallery 68 show, the artist posed as a serial killer being executed for his crimes

"...the Flatbed Press building. It presents Snyder as a serial killer wanted for the murders of 16 victims –..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Senate Candidates on Centex Parade

Last Thursday's Central Texas Democratic Forum might be as close as Democrats get to hearing Ray McMurrey and Rick Noriega spar face-to-face

"...the race. Another is San Antonio's Gene Kelly, a serial candidate who never campaigns but always attracts votes because..."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Tripper

David Arquette directs this horror film in which a Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies.

"...co-wrote and directs this horror film in which a serial killer who wears a Ronald Reagan mask targets a..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zodiac

The director of Fight Club and Se7en switches gears here from psychological thrillers to something that more closely resembles a police procedural.

"...frustrations and disappointments rather than an exposé of the serial murderer, although the re-creation of the Zodiac’s assaults are..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scoop

Woody Allen's second British film with Scarlett Johansson finds the director falling back into the rut he carved for himself with every forgettable comedy since the underrated Deconstructing Harry.

"...small talk with the victim of a notorious London serial killer and discovers that the murderer is likely famous..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

Art School Confidential

This follow-up to Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes’ transcendent Ghost World is too scattershot to be truly great, but their smarty-pants campus yarn is on fire with satire.

"...is actually surrounded by urban blight and crime, including serial killings by the so-called Strathmore Strangler. Jerome gets two..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

When a Stranger Calls

Simon West’s do-over of Fred Walton’s 1979 creepfest – in which babysitter Belle menaced by a stranger with a phone who probably isn’t that guy from Verizon – is a hollow, shallow, and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.

"...Rejects or John McNaughton’s wicked Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Sadly (and worse, predictably) the deep red frissons..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Juarez: Stages of Fear

This film is a passionate if clunky cri du coeur for the kidnapped and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico – a silent epidemic of as many as 450 crimes in the last 10 years.

"...portion of the murders are being committed by a serial killer, possibly an American citizen (a modus operandi Alejandro..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cry Wolf

A tech-centric but bloodless teen horror thriller that works best as a stinging critique of post-adolescent whininess.

"...to include the whole campus by foisting off a serial-killer scare on the entire student/teacher population, they’re game and..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crónicas

John Leguizamo plays a TV reporter in Ecuador in a film that examines the ethics of tabloid journalism.

"...children killed by the notorious "Monster of Babahoyo," a serial killer who has already raped and tortured some 150..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Culture Flash!

The funniest person in town now, Austinite responsible for critical mass, 'Intergalactic' to go national, and the Map covers downtown

"...firm Rena Shagan Associates to tour its retro radio serial The Intergalactic Nemesis nationally in 2006 and 2007. To..."

June 3, 2005 Arts Column

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Veering from moments of breathtakingly visualized valor to outright stupidity, Sith is a vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it’s no Star Wars.

"...pacing aside) Star Wars is essentially a hack Republic serial knockoff, but true to the mettle of what it..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chrystal

Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.

"...name, but you probably know his face: as a serial killer from a later episode of The X-Files, as..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Seed of Chucky

Over-the-top gore is the rule when Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their anatomically incorrect offspring.

"...(voiced by Brad Dourif), you will recall, is a serial killer trapped in the body of a plastic Good..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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