Underbelly's Alice in Wonderland

This new adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic sends its audience down the rabbit hole – and all over the Zach Theatre campus

"...Wonderland. But we don't get off that easily when Underbelly is running the show. In adapting Lewis Carroll's tale..."

April 8, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Pop Oddity Caroline Rose Explores Ambition's Seedy Underbelly

Her first Austin album follows a character moving to L.A.

"...Rose says her strolls have revealed a much-loved "seedy underbelly," not to mention Scientology and alien conspiracists in tin..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Murder, Mayhem, and the Underbelly of Life

Friends in Low Places

Oct. 30, 1998 Books Feature

'Church of the Passionate Cat'

Underbelly Theatre takes you down some delightfully mean streets in its immersive noir adventure

"...that exhilarating exercise have banded together under the name Underbelly Theatre and concocted another immersive adventure. Church of the..."

May 9, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Destroyer

Nicole Kidman's grimy noir mistakes grit for intrigue

"...cop drama about revenge and redemption that scratches the underbelly of Southern California with dirty fingernails. It’s contemporary film..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gemini

Noir murder mystery for the selfie generation.

"...black millennial noir, a post-mumblecore take on the shady underbelly of L.A. in which Los Angeles plays itself, very..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Blue Room

Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this Hitchcockian story of l'amour four.

"...plotting and Claude Chabrol’s Hitchcockian portraits of the dark underbelly of small-town life, but The Blue Room is at..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Graceland

Ron Morales’ hostage thriller is a fluorescent-lit tour of the city’s seedy underbelly.

"...thriller Graceland is a fluorescent-lit tour of the city’s underbelly, from dank dockside encampments to karaoke clubs that double..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Killing Them Softly

Some great performances punctuate the odd pacing in this adapatation of George V. Higgins' Cogan's Trade, set within the criminal underworld.

"...to the presidential election. The portrait of the crime-world underbelly as a self-sustaining, self-policing society remains the same, and..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Midnight Meat Train

This horror film, based on a Clive Barker short story, details the nightly exploits of a butcher who plies his trade nightly on human subway riders.

"...an atypically angular performance), delves deeper into the dark underbelly of the city (in other words, the subway system)..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

This Is England

Set in Thatcherite England, this semi-autobiographical story tells of a descent from mischievous schoolboy to junior skinhead.

"...drama freeze-frames bleak Thatcherite Yorkshire and exposes its racist underbelly. Writer/director Meadows announces himself with an assertive montage of..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The World

Using a sleek visual style and bits of animation, this elegant Chinese film explores the effects of modernism, globalism, and international commerce upon its culture and society.

"...through the film’s lyrical story, grazing the city’s criminal underbelly while they drift together and apart as lovers, and..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Manson Family

Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmkaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.

"...now The Manson Family, have singularly portrayed the hideous underbelly of the American status quo. He is, in his..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mad City

"...a rote and non-too-penetrating morality tale about the crass underbelly of the TV news biz. As delivered by the..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cyclo

"...plunges the audience head first into the seamy, restless underbelly of Vietnam's most famous city. Our guide is 18-year-old..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

"...can be gleaned from the likes of Tinseltown's scruffy underbelly. There is, for example, Heidi's ex-lover Ivan Nagy, a..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angels and Insects

"...drama. The film, which is essentially about the dark underbelly lurking beneath the seemingly polite veneer of 19th-century Victorian..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Kids

"...dazed meanderings as a way to explore the seamy underbelly of America's urban youth. We see Telly and his..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Midnight Cowboy

Fueled by two riveting character studies and its exposure of New York City's seamy underbelly, this multi-Oscar-winner screams “contemporary” and “eternal” at once.

"...studies and its exposure of New York City's seamy underbelly, the movie screams “contemporary” and “eternal” at once. Originally..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Buck Dharma in the 21st Century!

Epic Q&A with Blue Öyster Cult’s “Reaper”

"...had aliases, as did the band – Soft White Underbelly, Oaxaca. What was that all about?..."

Aug. 9, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Hillcountry Underbelly

You can feel Elizabeth Doss' new play rising from deep in her past and this land

"...Hillcountry Underbelly..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Threepenny Opera

Inventive direction and fun acting make a wonderful spectacle of Brecht's dark world

"...of Threepenny is to show the similarity of society's underbelly to its bourgeois and intellectual classes, well, a lot..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony Bourdain..."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Barbarian

Buried secrets make for the year's smartest, scariest horror

"...types of film: the one concentrated on the dark underbelly of American domesticity and complacency, that looks at the..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Dog

Channing Tatum picks up a canine pal in army vet drama

"...suggests. Yes, there are moments of levity, but the underbelly of some of those laughs makes for uneasy humor,..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

American Dreamer

Jim Gaffigan shows a flair for darkness, but this rideshare thriller stays in neutral

"...as though he is revealing the angry and distempered underbelly of his warm and good-humored popular persona. It’s intellectually..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paper Chairs Makes Theatre With a Little Lone Star Surregionalism

The Texas premiere of Will Arbery’s Plano play knows place like home

"...treating the city to the Murder Ballad follow-up, Hillcountry Underbelly – another Doss-scripted show that, just as its predecessor,..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Downsizing

Alexander Payne creates a small word with big ambitions

"...Konrad (Kier). As Paul begins to recognize the dark underbelly of the downsized lifestyle, he also comes to understand..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Luv Doc: Vice Without the Ad

Existentially speaking, it's probably best not to go apeshit with the featherduster

"...vice. I am going to give you the seamy underbelly of human existence as I see it. Sure, we..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Krampus

This horror-comedy brings a demon to the holiday gathering

"...Dougherty appears determined to work his way through the underbelly of our most cherished seasonal festivities. Plus, it’s an..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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