Why Darren Lynn Bousman Came Back For Spiral

Rock, racks, vices and games: the story behind the new Saw

"...Darren Lynn Bousman, director of Spiral, has one promise about the the infamous body-mangling, limb-wrecking,..."

May 12, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spiral

Chris Rock reinvents the horror morality tale for the BLM era

"...again, but not in the way one would expect. Spiral, helmed by longtime franchise director Darren Lynn Bousman, doesn’t..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

One in a Crowd: Spiral

Local doc featuring Michelle Trachtenberg needs finishing funds

"...Local filmmaker Jennifer Hutchins for new mental health documentary Spiral. What's the project?..."

Dec. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spiral

Portland-based creeper about a lonely painter and his muse/potential prey was a big hit at last year's Fantastic Fest.

"...week – means you've only got six shots at Spiral...."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Travis County 'Death Spiral'

Facing a personnel dilemma, the commissioners respond: Fire everybody!

"...eventually became what one county employee called a "death spiral." Ultimately, commissioners came to believe their only solution was..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two: Downward Spiral

Aesthetically, we have gone insane and dull

Aug. 10, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Luv Doc: A Bit Desperate

A gateway to a very dark shame spiral

"...up being a gateway to a very dark shame spiral, but my memory has always been spotty and unreliable...."

Dec. 10, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

Sorry to Bother You

Sly sci-fi satire puts class, race, and selling out under the microscope

"...but its humor, its commentary, its continuous and relentless spiral into madness is grounded by Stanfield’s laconic shuffle and..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Whitney

Another glimpse behind the curtain at the late musical legend

"...the obvious answers to what caused Houston’s notorious downward spiral. However, the question that no one seems to be..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mustang Island

A deft millennial comedy of manners

"...kiss-off from his girlfriend Molly (Karrasch). Thus begins Bill’s spiral of post-breakup depression, an all-consuming pity fest into which..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amy

Doc about the life of Amy Winehouse is revelatory, amusing, and deeply devastating

"...should have begun. Watching a supremely talented hot mess spiral downward into the black maw of too much, too..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Solitary Man

In this small-scale drama, Michael Douglas plays a disgraced businessman and inveterate skirt-chaser who makes one bad decision after another.

"...successful businessman, Ben is already well-entrenched in his downward spiral at the time of the movie’s start (that is,..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Happening

In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.

"...Sadly, if unsurprisingly, The Happening continues the director's downward spiral. The film's apocalyptic, Mother Nature-in-revolt scenario feels like something..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2008

Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.

"...on Your Street" is just flat-out cool, utilizing a spiral-bound notebook as the background for some seriously manic stop-motion..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lookout

The Lookout, an odd caper story, marks Scott Frank’s directorial debut after years of working as a screenwriter on movies like Get Shorty and Out of Sight.

"...works. Pratt’s involvement leads him on a precipitous downward spiral into a world of nasty, black-clad gangsters and shootouts..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Edmond

William H. Macy stars in this film penned by David Mamet about one man's long night's journey of the soul.

"...– leads to the next in a relentlessly downward spiral. This is Mamet World: an urban jungle of garish..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

5x2

Ozon's film begins at the end and leads backward over the slow death of a couple's marital bliss, but even while we’re flipping through the snapshots of two people’s disenchantment with each other, it never feels tawdry or excessive or, for that matter, very interesting.

"...bracing performances – for his unwillingness to let things spiral out of complete control. Even while we’re flipping through..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Auto Focus

"...propelled his personal and professional life in a downward spiral until he was found bludgeoned to death in a..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Novocaine

"...provided some insight into the upright dentist's befuddling downward spiral later. Is it middle-class malaise that prompts him to..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The House of Mirth

"...her charms who becomes caught in an inevitable downward spiral brought on by the fickle rewards of trying to..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

"...course, but in the hands of Williamson events quickly spiral out of control until Leigh Ann and her friends..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Under the Skin

"...two sisters, one of whom descends into a self-destructive spiral after the sudden death of their mother. We are..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cyclo

"...means of livelihood, Cyclo is caught in a downward spiral that relentlessly sucks him into the corrupt heart of..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

"...allows the last 30 minutes of New Nightmare to spiral down into the hack and slash cookie-cutter plotting of..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Airheads

"...Michael Lehmann's career path is following that same downward spiral as Michael Cimino's: one brilliant film, and then... nothing...."

Aug. 12, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When a Man Loves a Woman

"...the 12-Stepper's 12-Stepper, Stuart Smalley) have penned an upward spiral, if you will, an answer to the downward slides..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

American Heart

"...bound to come -- Bell serves up this downward spiral with an earnestness that keeps you watching and hoping..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Léolo

"...entombing his spirit forever within the pages of a spiral-bound notebook. The dream, at the outset an amusing if..."

May 28, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Fisher King

"...man to call. The Fisher King is a fanciful spiral of mythology, madness, cynicism and salvation in which a..."

Sept. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Instant Thanksgiving!

Advice for the Culinarily Challenged

"...pound; also available, smoked hams (15lb. average): bone-in, $3.69, spiral cut, $3.99 1917 Manor Rd., 236-0283..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Food Feature by Mick Vann

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