Studio Visits: Matt Rebholz

Conspiracy theories and the painstaking work of being a graphic novelist

"...started on this sprawling intergalactic epic. "The intersection between conspiracy theory and religion really interests me," says Rebholz, "Atlanteans,..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Reporting an Assassination

"Parkland" director Peter Landesman on JFK research

"...If you've got a conspiracy theory about the JFK assassination, Peter Landesman doesn't want..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Greg Abbott Versus the Black Helicopters

After decade of cooperation, AG threatens election experts

"...Greg Abbott played a card straight out of the conspiracy theory deck by raising a ruckus about overseas elections..."

Oct. 25, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Kool-Aid for the Sheeple!

Burning the Reichstag in a hall of mirrors

"...a number of columns noting my many problems with conspiracy theories. Those involved protested the word "theory" and, respecting..."

June 4, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: The Vision Thing

Championing idealism over realism is not inherently good, moral, or noble

"...item would be the argument made by a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who wrote to this paper to say that..."

April 25, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Down the Rabbit Hole With Something in the Dirt

Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson explain their favorite conspiracies

"...in Something in the Dirt from the spiral into conspiracy theories that swallows them whole. Trapped in their neighboring..."

Nov. 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

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

"...jaw-dropping descent into a maelstrom of politically fraught history, conspiracy theories, and what may or may not be a..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they are out to get you, either

"...My interest in (or obsession with, if you insist) conspiracy-theory politics is that it is an arena that so..."

May 27, 2011 Column by Louis Black

JFK

Oliver Stone gives the "lone gunman" assassination theory a run for its money.

"...line is the demolition of the “lone gunman” assassination theory. On that score, Stone does a bang-up job. In..."

Dec. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Moving Pictures

Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition

"...can be changed. I thought instead of a JFK conspiracy theory, you might have an Obama birth certificate conspiracy..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

On Death Row: Texas' 'Law of Parties'

Kenneth Foster's capital case highlights arbitrary state law

"..."should have anticipated" Brown would kill LaHood. The DA's theory was that the four intended to rob LaHood and..."

July 6, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Stealth

Masterful aerial action sequences don't compensate for earthbound plot.

"...get a Mach-5 work-over in the newest big bang theory from Rob Cohen (XXX, The Fast and the Furious),..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Adomian's Ascension

This year's SXSW is James Adomian's festival – we just laugh in it

"...Jesse "The Body" Ventura in another bone-chilling edition of Conspiracy Theory Live With Jesse Ventura. And the script he..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Russ Espinoza

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.

"...income taxes. Although Russo’s film is grounded in Libertarian theory, the producer-turned-filmmaker presents some very provocative information in the..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Firestarter

Annoying adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of pyrokinetic terror

"...of the film was a mixed and overly long conspiracy theory horror thriller that's not aged especially well, in..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Room 237

Pet theories about what really went down at the Overlook Hotel abound in this documentary about Stanley Kubrick's intentions in The Shining.

"...that, in that blurred space between textual analysis and conspiracy theory, the questions themselves can be more rewarding than..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Let's Go to the Videotape

"...Whittaker dressed down Alex Jones for his career of conspiracy theories, the latest being a lunatic “false flag” explanation..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Postmarks

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...of the ultra-right John Birch Society. Birchers roiled with conspiracy theories. The civil rights movement was a commie plot...."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Letters at 3AM: The Mob, 9/11, and Your Garbage

Don't look too closely at your garbage collection

"...September 11th conspiracy theorists point to the collapse of World Trade Center..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Bank Job

When a gang of thieves break into some London safe-deposit boxes, they enter a world of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness.

"...universe of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness. In other words: a..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Big Films of Summer: Picking the Winners

"...CONSPIRACY THEORY: Decent word of mouth, but director Donner rarely..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature

The Pelican Brief

"...Pakula returns once again to the fertile fields of conspiracy in high places (perhaps he should think about teaming..."

Dec. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is Who We Are #9: Mary Moody Northern Theatre's bobrauschenbergamerica

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...Baseball. Martinis. Conspiracy-theory movies. Chicken jokes. Chocolate cake. Illicit kisses. Start listing..."

May 18, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

bobrauschenbergamerica

This theatrical tribute to the artist is a glorious jumble, an exuberant hodgepodge

"...Baseball. Martinis. Conspiracy-theory movies. Chicken jokes. Chocolate cake. Illicit kisses. Start listing..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Why We Listen to What They Say

"..."They" Say, with "They" in quotation marks. It's an anti-conspiracy-theory book. I tell how conspiracy theory got started. I'm..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

This Is Your Brain on Conspiracies As Duncan Hits Panic Fest

John Valley's comedy warns about ignoring conspiracy theorists

"...Not that it felt that way when he first..."

April 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...neither buy nor want to sell a more elaborate conspiracy theory."..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Column

Page Two

Never mind the consipracy theorists, the death of literacy, and the Democrats' chronic foot-shooting – 'Page Two' needs a break.

"...The most unforgiving critics are the conspiracy theorists. Why isn't the Chronicle investigating what really happened..."

July 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Village Idiot Alex Jones Must Spill His Secrets

Lawsuits by Sandy Hook families want to look at Infowars’ books

"...zone, but report the news we must. Austin's homegrown conspiracy clown, now an international embarrassment, had a bad day..."

Jan. 18, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Phantom Thread

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson reunite for one last glamorous yet muscular tale

"...wide release to 2018. Still, I have a pet conspiracy theory: that the notable lack of frothing at the..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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