The Right Snuff

Savage survivor and Sex Pistols witness Artly Snuff isn't just another face in Austin's eccentric crowd

"...with less than 48 hours in the year, Artly Snuff slowed to make a U-turn while driving his car..."

July 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Don't Snuff Out Adult Fun

March 24, 2013 Postmarks

8 MM

"...attempt to tackle that great old urban legend, the snuff film, in which unwitting young women are ritually raped..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2016: Obama's America

Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author, expounds on the president's past, and discusses what he thinks America would look like if Obama were to be re-elected.

"...such underpinnings. Technically, 2016: Obama’s America is up to snuff, but the documentary’s thought process is pure snuff...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Seagull

Chekhov's tale of Muscovite misery takes unsteady flight.

"...Nina (Ronan), and Moss’ amazing turn as the vodka-swilling, snuff-snorting Masha. In the tricky role of Irina, the grande..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Office Christmas Party

Workplace comedy lacks the laughs

"...it’s clear that this comedy is not up to snuff. Populated by an array of the usual office types,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Addicted to Fresno

Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer co-star as sisters in off-color comedy

"...women, even if their adventures aren’t always up to snuff...."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Judge

This drama starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall sounds better on paper than it is in practice.

"...pull, but the script is simply not up to snuff. Filtered backlighting is poured into nearly every scene, and..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

V/H/S/2

Horror anthology scares up few thrills.

"...stretched pretty thin. They are all variants on otherworldly snuff films in which nightmarish creatures attack the nominal heroes...."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Haunted House

Marlon Wayans spoofs Paranormal Activity.

"...not only dumb, but dull. It’s like watching a snuff film, only it’s the audience who’s dying inside...."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Millions

A sweet, emotionally complex film about faith, charity, and growing up is not what most people would have expected from Trainspotting's Danny Boyle, but this new movie is unmistakably his.

"...and charity and how the workaday world tends to snuff out such simple virtues as the years go by..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

15 Minutes

"...fact that it resorts to vacuous shenanigans such as snuff films and fusillades of winking irony to make its..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Final Destination

"...elaborate - deaths. On one level, this cavalcade of snuff is as predictable and mechanistic as anything else in..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Sweet and Lowdown

"...romance with jazz and women will at long last snuff all the speculation that Allen, now 65 and having..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

The Crucible

"...a vile social contagion whose attendant mass hysteria can snuff out all vestiges of truth and justice. Miller's play..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Timecop

In a future in which time travel has become possible, a cop's life is torn asunder by political malfeasance.

"...a decent job keeping the sci-fi/adventure pacing up to snuff, cutting away to something else just when things get..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Castle of Cagliostro

Hayao Miyazaki made his debut as a director of animated films with this story of the greatest gentleman thief of all time: Lupin III.

"...Princess Clarissa, whom the count plans to wed (or snuff -- his evil intentions are never all that clear)...."

June 26, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crossing the Line

"...elaborate coin flip between two gangsters deciding who would snuff out a rival drug dealer. Pretty damn indignant now,..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...performing unit called the Shriners with Rick Turner, Artly Snuff, and Tom Bauman. To suggest the stage was crowded..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Snuff

The shock of Snuff – about a record-breaking, 600-man sex-a-thon – is that the sexual content isn't that shocking at all

"...Snuffby Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday, 208 pp., $24.95..."

May 30, 2008 Books Review by Matthew Patin

A Regular Joe

The Revelations of Filmmaker Joe Christ

"...Sex, Blood, and Mutilation and the self-explanatory Is It Snuff? You Decide! So much for the mellowing effects of..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Blair Witch Project

Something wicked in the woods in this eagerly-awaited horror.

"...fact, BWP works in much the same way a snuff film does. What you're seeing is truly horrifying and..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Chance Harvey

Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, and a strong supporting cast elevate this simple tale of two middle-aged discontents who grab a last chance at love.

"...hesitation I pronounce Last Chance Harvey not up to snuff. Yet if we are to see any more romances..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: The Return of Artsploitation

Indie label returns with three psychosexual horrors

"...the extras: commentaries, behind-the-scenes, outtakes. They'll put all other snuff films to shame. Yup, snuff films. They have a..."

June 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Primary Source

"...Snuff Johnson photograph by T.O. Petitt..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Red Rooms

Disturbing courtroom drama with a sickening psychological twist

"...vile. Ludovic Chevalier (McCabe-Lokos) has been accused of making snuff films: torturing and murdering three schoolgirls, then selling the..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Encanto

Disney's latest animated family adventure is magical if not overly memorable

"...family matriarch Abuela Alma (Botero), stubbornly believes will never snuff out. The shutters flap open and shut to wave..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: Marriage Material

A guy who has never witnessed the "miracle of birth"

"...the cooing and ahhhing, childbirth is some really heavy, snuff-film type of shit...."

Aug. 4, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Jackie

A portrait of the First Lady in the aftermath of JFK's assassination

"...somebody, somewhere is watching Abraham Zapruder’s grainy 8mm presidential snuff film. Jackie gives us the one thing we’ve been..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: PDA

Baby Goose and Riri not included

"...would turn away from anything just short of a snuff film...."

May 13, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

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