Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shot: Body Count

Ice-T’s ‘Cop Killer’ crew made no friends with the law

"...good thing you missed his metal tendencies hours earlier. Body Count doesn’t have a stellar relationship with Lone Star..."

Nov. 10, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Coal's Body Count

"...the lungs and absorbed into the bloodstream, evading the body's natural defenses and causing respiratory and cardiac damage and..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Iraqi Body Counts in Dispute

"...in “War Watch” [News, April 21] that "Iraqi civilian body count, as reported in the media, is at 36,841.”..."

April 26, 2006 Postmarks

It's the Thoughts That Count

To essay meaning

"...coffee cake, a homunculous (an illustration of the human body with proportions drawn according to each part's sensitivity), Mr...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Self/less

The film starts off as promising sci-fi, but turns into a disappointing shoot-’em-up

"...makes him Damian is transferred into a new, younger body that’s just waiting to be inhabited. The only stipulations..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man Who Knew Too Little

"...(Mad Dog and Glory, made that same year, doesn't count seeing as absolutely nobody remembers it). Since then he's..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho heats up South Korea's cold class war

"...If anything, the Kims embody a discussion that Bong began in Snowpiercer with Curtis,..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gamer

Gerard Butler stars in this futuristic thriller set in a multiplayer online gaming universe.

"...24 hours after watching Gamer's nonstop fireballs and fragmented body parts, all that comes to mind is the late..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rambo

In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo's tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.

"...acts and righteous reckoning with equal degrees of flying body parts and arterial sprays. In this wholly unnecessary fourth..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Last House on the Left

Two parents take revenge on the scum who raped and savaged their daughter in the remake of Wes Craven's grisly horror landmark.

"...an eye on the clock as opposed to the body count, The Last House on the Left is perfectly..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hills Have Eyes II

This sequel to last year’s remake is as witless and simpleminded as the irradiated humanoids that serve as the franchise’s bad guys.

"...commercial and video director Weisz is merely a murky body-count movie that pits the hateful mutants against a group..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

National Treasure

Odd casting and unimaginative, workmanlike direction make the painfully overlong National Treasure an exercise in mediocrity.

"...gunpowder, while maintaining a very Disneyfied (and virtually nonexistent) body count and a gravely silly respect for off-kilter Americana...."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pitch Black

"...exercise in interplanetary mayhem and the logistics of the body count. Its lack of a backstory (who, exactly, are..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rock

Explosions and tough-guy heroics rule in this Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer production.

"...Wagnerian strains of the soundtrack and its stunningly high body count. It's also a hell of a lot of..."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City Unplugged

"...a dark, morbid wit as well as an impressive body count and exhilarating direction. Over the opening credits, we..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Speed

Action. Action. Action. More Action.

"...terror ?before it's too late.? Impressive firegags galore, heavy-duty body count, several genuinely hair-raising, edge-of-your-seat near-misses, and De Bont's..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point of No Return

"...version contains far more big-bang explosions and an elevated body-count than the French source material. Big deal. In a..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Voices From the Front

"...little early. We're convinced early on, but as the body count rises and the atrocities mount, it threatens to..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Boyz N the Hood

Singleton's 1991 movie about three black boys growing to manhood in the combat zones of L.A.'s South Central remains a searing cultural indictment.

"...the message “Increase the Peace.” Judging from the opening-night body count, though, nobody seems to be listening...."

July 19, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Apocalyptic monster mash makes big crash.

"...predator (of the dreadlocked variety that tormented Jesse “the Body” Ventura back in the Eighties), who’s hunting down the..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Bringing the War Home

No More Victims works for peace, one wounded child at a time

"...keep a tally of civilian deaths or injuries. Iraq Body Count, a London-based organization that bases its count on..."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Playback: Fun Fun Fun Fest 8

Fun Fun Fun Fest finally arrives

"...strong possibility there may be a hot tub on-site." Body Count's in the House..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Ray GoodrichIraqi Body Counts in DisputeDear Editor,..."

April 28, 2006 Column

17 Again

Tween idol Zac Efron graduates into a nonsinging and nondancing world in this body-switch movie, and the result should keep ’em coming back for more.

"...first nonsinging and dancing feature film (if we don’t count the yet-to-be-released Me and Orson Welles by Richard Linklater),..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slamnation

"...an audience-driven form, in which showmanship and raw charisma count at least as much as the absolute artistic merit..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Horror sets sail with the scariest section of Dracula

"...Impaler – in a copy of William Wilkinson’s An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia that he..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

A stunning portrait of the life of activist Nan Goldin

"...a large looming hand in the opioid epidemic’s high body count...."

Dec. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Quiet Ones

The venerable Hammer Film studio gets into the found-footage horror genre.

"...scaring an audience are two different things. On that count, The Quiet Ones is a whimper of a horror..."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Grudge Match

This boxing riff stars Stallone and De Niro, but it's hardly the stuff of Rocky vs. the Raging Bull.

"...pablum melodrama all the way down to the final count. Two veteran actors playing two aging warhorses, both nursing..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Castle

"...is an actor of tremendous solidity. His face (and body, too, which is used to excellent effect in one..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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