The AggreGAYtor: August 20

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...Geraldo Rivera keeps his eye on the cabal, Bill Keller forgets to cleanse the temple, and Madonna..."

Aug. 20, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Inside Man

Although with Denzel, Jodie, and Clive in tow it would be difficult to go wrong, Spike Lee and screenwriter Russell Gewirtz have created a truly original film from various shopworn genre clichés.

"...from post-9/11 treatment of nonwhites to, ultimately, a scheming cabal of backlogged evils that, even a decade ago, would..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Protocols of Zion

Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism; sadly, the end result is scattershot and never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.

"...modern anti-Semitism that advances the notion that a Jewish cabal is secretly planning to take over the world. Although..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

"...Electra complex and the dreaded Illuminati, that mythological one-world-government cabal that these days can't even seem to keep the..."

June 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Disturbing Behavior

"...but more distressing are the Blue Ribbons, a loose cabal of overachieving MENSAniacs who make up the school's jock..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Village of the Damned

"...Carpenter drags in a hackneyed, half-formed “alien visitors/secret government cabal” subplot, which has the children's true forms looking like..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rampage

"...murderers. The villains in this story are the psychiatric cabal that protects their own kind with a shield of..."

Nov. 27, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...The Cabal and Other Storiesby Ellen Gilchrist..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The X-Files' Invisible Ink

The Truth Is Out There -- Somewhere

"...it gets. The Bad Guys -- sinister, super-secret government cabals -- almost always get away. The facts are almost..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Screens Feature

Dark State

Nutty conspiracy theory flick is Pizzagate-style nonsense

"...fiction horror flick and/or documentary re: the shadowy global cabal of those 1% Comet “Pizza” Eaters, has arrived...."

March 19, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Totally Under Control

Alex Gibney drops his October Surprise in this dissection of Trump's coronavirus disaster

"...long-term villain. Yet Team Trump is clearly the worst cabal in the worst place at the worst time. The..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bad Boys for Life

Not bad, not good, just the same again from the aging action heroes

"...is currently in theatres. A rather more ominous splinter cabal of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood fanatics may also be involved.)..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

An assassination, a conspiracy, and decades of secrets unlocked in this chilling documentary

"...what may or may not be a genuinely sinister cabal of shadowy European and American spooks and mercenaries –..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beside the Point: What’d You Expect?

On immigration and elsewhere, best to have a plan

"...last week's news that ICE had arrested Julio Cesar Mendoza-Cabal­lero, a known member of the Sureños 13 gang, who'd..."

July 28, 2017 News Column by Chase Hoffberger

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...1990, Clive Barker's ill-fated adaptation of his own novel, Cabal, simply flipped the coin. In Nightbreed, the monsters are..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

You're Next

What begins on a familiar slasher/home-invasion note quickly escalates into a hellishly suspenseful, take-zero-prisoners affair.

"...that subgenre of American film derived from the original cabal of directors, actors, and writers but with more emphasis..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Announces Keanu Reeves as 'Man of Tai Chi'

Plus 'Big Bad Wolves' and 'Nightbreed - The Cabal Cut' and more

"...Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut Texas Premiere D: Russell Cherrington, 144 mins, United..."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

When the Sixties Was Happening on FM Radio

AFS Doc Night: 'Radio Unnameable'

"...mellifluous, after-hours voice of Bob Fass, his "Good morning, cabal" sign-on signaling the start of Radio Unnameable, his midnight-to-dawn..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Ambassador

With daring, gonzo filmmaking, this documentary film penetrates the blood-diamond trade in the Central African Republic.

"...dissembled his way behind the bamboo curtain and its cabal of 24/7/365 minders and returned with a wealth of..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...by – I don't want to use the word "cabal" – but it's run by a small group of..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Letters to Juliet

There's a lovely little arthouse movie buried in this romance starring Amanda Seyfried, although the film's commercial aspirations get in its way.

"...story with the real-life Club di Giulietta, a kindly cabal of older Italian women who handwrite replies to the..."

May 14, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Planet 51

In a switcheroo, animated aliens fear the human in their midst.

"...Fifties, possibly at the behest of some clandestine PsyOps cabal working out of Area 51. That in itself is..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Valkyrie

Tom Cruise seems somewhat out of place as a German officer in this thriller about the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July 1944.

"...to period detail and the mechanics of desperation. His cabal, among them Nighy as the terminally indecisive Gen. Friedrich..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

America: Freedom to Fascism

Although grounded in Libertarian theory, this documentary by producer-turned-director Aaron Russo presents provocative material about the perceived illegality of income taxes – and various freedom-restricting consequences of the new world order.

"...to task for being the work of a rich cabal of banking interests. The decline of the gold standard..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Happened to Our Buzz?

Riffing on a "Buzz"

"...As far as is known, there's not a cabal of tastemakers that determines what bands will hit it..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Music Feature

The Firm

"...law partners make them seem more like some satanic cabal than a group of unethical collaborators. Throughout, there are..."

July 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Satan Wants You

The Satanic panic as a guidebook to the dangers of crazy conspiracies

"...where she was tortured and abused by a secret cabal of Satanists...."

March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

The Luv Doc: A Smokin’ Hot Cowgirlfriend

The progressive concept of bodily autonomy seems to have taken a tenacious hold on the local female populace

"...the local female populace. Who knows what insidious left-wing cabal gave Austin women the radical notion that they alone..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Has Round Rock ISD Hit Rock Bottom?

Maybe not yet

"...group claiming that Donald Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of pedophiliac, baby-eating Democrats. In addition to endorsing Avila..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Blue Öyster Cult, Mannequin Pussy, Guthrie Girls, and more shows to see

"...to heart attack in May, the Church on Monday cabal begins a new decade not as young lions, but..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Column by Carys Anderson

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