Austin Terror Fest Album Reviews

Seven platters spanning the spectrum of extremity

"...Genocide PactOrder of Torment (Relapse) D.C. death metal trio Genocide..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Making a 'Killing'

Joshua Oppenheimer on the half-decade he spent filming for 'The Act of Killing'

"...of blood, dreams of decapitation, dreams of murder and genocide. They are dreams of his life. But he was..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Language Is Powerful

"...found). Problem solved. In another letter [“Gentrification Is Cultural Genocide”], the author describes the gentrification of East Austin as..."

July 24, 2012 Postmarks

Page Two: Going Places

A metaphysical jumping-off point for a return to the good fight

"...bit more of the same. But explaining and justifying genocide against the Chinese, Jews, labor leaders, Catholics, Ethiopians, Gypsies,..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Column by Louis Black

Divesting from Reality

House members try to hitch their wagons to the Sudan divestment star.

"...state's public university endowment from any investments in the genocide-stroking African government, prompted a flurry of bizarre amendments that..."

May 15, 2009 News Post by Justin Ward

On the Lege

Texas and Sudan: In or Out?

"...two Chinese oil concerns that help finance the Sudanese-government-backed genocide in Darfur. Fidelity received the state grant as an..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

Postmarks

The Real Obscenity

"...to recall the history of the Holocaust. More European genocide is taking place even as I type this letter...."

April 30, 1999 Column

The Music of Our Sins -- Part II Letters at 3am

"...For it is a dismal fact that the genocide of Native Americans, though equal in sin to slavery,..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Moneybags Moffett

Another Fine Pay Day for Jim Bob

"...claiming that Freeport was responsible for environmental damage, "cultural genocide," and human rights violations in and around the company's..."

April 25, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Amor Prohibido

Selena's Crossover Dream

"...of the Catholic Church and save millions more from genocide. (20 to 40 million indigenous people are believed to..."

June 28, 1996 Books Feature

The Off Beat: South by South Protest

Official fest flooded with grassroots organizing and anti-SX showcases

"...machine. And we just felt like, with the ongoing genocide in Gaza of the Palestinians, that it was totally..."

March 22, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

“Dumb” Rounds to Be Manufactured Nearby, Amid Calls to Stop Sending Them to Israel

Imprecise and massive Howitzer rounds kill civilians

"...critical role in what the U.N. calls "risk of genocide in Gaza." Last month, our country agreed to send..."

Dec. 22, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

Killers of the Flower Moon

Scorsese at his best for a true tale of hideous heartland crimes

"...respecting their ways, but he is quickly revealed as genocide reshaped in a suit and offering a handshake. His..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Final Account

How growing up in the Third Reich warped generations

"...if they believe they were perpetrators of acts of genocide. The responses are far more varied than we might..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

SAS: Red Notice

The UK makes an entry in the "absurd jingoistic action" sweepstakes

"...opposition in foreign countries. But when an act of genocide is caught on camera, George Clements (Serkis) is forced..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Donut King

The bittersweet tale of the man behind L.A.’s favorite treat

"...toughest period – the transition from Cambodia during the genocide to Ngoy’s first days working at a Winchell’s Donut..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

La llorona

Supernatural horror explores the wailing soul of a nation denied justice

"...Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt) is on trial for genocide, and running the oldest play in the mass murderer's..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Polish Film Festival Breaks New Ground and Keeps Up With Tradition

The 14th fest focuses on the media's responsibility and the perspectives of women

"...A Minor GenocideD: Natalia Koryncka-Gruz A documentary/animation and personal confession of how..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Something something family something. The unkillable franchise lumbers on.

"...a secret futurist society with a penchant for global genocide...."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Funan

French animation gives translucent life to a family history of surviving the Khmer Rouge

"...The violence of this slow-moving genocide takes place primarily offscreen, heard more often than it..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Street Corner Arts' We Are Proud to Present ...

Street Corner Arts' staging is more than exceptional theatre; it asks thought-provoking questions about authority, perspective, and intention

"...group of performers working on a presentation about the genocide enacted by the Germans in what is now Namibia,..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour

Klezmer in context

"...lessons from elder practitioners of a genre that even genocide couldn’t quiet. They’ve traveled to Poland to experience a..."

Nov. 27, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Luc Besson's latest is a kaleidoscopic mess

"...Besson subtly politicizes the film by incorporating the collateral-damage genocide of six million peace-loving aliens on a paradisiacal planet,..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Page Two: The Apache Wars in History and Myth

Indeh, Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth's new graphic novel

"...story of violence on all sides – the government's genocide, forced dislocation, and ongoing mistreatment of Indians; the Native..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...Her, he denied that there was a Native American genocide, here he allows for it, but only under Democrat..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

Son of Saul

Hungarian Oscar entry finds original way to present a Holocaust drama

"...and ongoing historical echoes of the Holocaust (the Rwandan genocide, the current refugee situation sweeping through Europe and the..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Confrontational Cinema

Companion doc to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence revisits Indonesian atrocities

"...of the Cold War, many Western nations applauded the genocide. The story of the atrocities has gone untold and..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: December 19

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Apparently punching the teeth out of a gay guy..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...set: 1967's The X From Outer Space and 1968's Genocide. Both are drenched in the atomic age, filled with..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Docs To Watch

"...Rising From Ashes. For the children of 1994's Rwandan genocide – in which 800,000 of their friends, family, and..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Russ Espinoza

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