La La Land

This bittersweet musical will make your heart soar

"...the movie theatre these days. That’s a shame considering movies as an art form were built to make us..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Executed serial killer Aileen Wuornos leaves little doubt as to her sanity in this second Nick Broomfield documentary on the subject.

"...to that of the other Wuornos movie out now, Monster, which is garnering so much attention for its deglamorized..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Comin' at Ya!

3-D is back on the big screen -- again.

"...Ghosts was made to be screened using polarized lenses, movies made with the camera aren't limited to that format...."

July 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Ken Lieck

Raising the Dead

Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television

"...Most of us keep our monsters hidden under our beds. Not local actor Joseph Fotinos...."

July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

DVDanger: Four Films in Search of a Cult

Retro releases and martial arts aim for new crowds

"...Iron Fists remains one of the most gleefully berzerk movies of the last decade. Wu-tang Clan founding member and..."

April 18, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Holliston' / 'Knights of Badassdom'

A double bill of Joe Lynch genre comedies

"...your perspective. Green and Lynch are obsessives about gore movies, that's known. But they really get all the tropes..."

April 12, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Incredible Melting Man'/'Swamp Thing'

Morphing, melting and transmogrification clog up your screens

"...Something odd happened to movie monsters. Remember when they hated being inhuman and would kill..."

Aug. 3, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Wizardly Way

Human Centipede, Abe Sapien and more speak at Austin Comic Con

"...as Guillermo Del Toro's go-to guy for a rubber-suited monster, Jones is an accomplished mime and indie actor. His..."

Nov. 18, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Frankenstein

A puppet-driven hodgepodge romp through Mary Shelley's most famous work

"...parts. Spare parts. [rimshot]. Remember that Frankenstein is the monster's creator's name, not the monster's. Remember, too, that the..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Eye

Are you a Survivor? That's what 300-some Central Texans wanted to know when they auditioned for the CBS reality show.

"...features examinations of Oscar hopefuls Gosford Park, Memento, and Monster's Ball. Writers, designers, and actors from each of the..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Far more readable than the majority of critical studies of pop-culture grue, David Skal's The Monster Show is a landmark work and nearly as entertaining as that dead clown underneath your bed.

"...The Monster Show: A Cultural History of HorrorBy David J. Skal..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Jason and the Argonauts

One-eyed monsters! Great White sharks! Man-eating alligators! We look at four adventure films that take their threats (sort of) seriously: Jason and theArgonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Lake Placid, and Deep Blue Sea.

"...("Video Reviews" wishes to thank Encore Movies & Music, I Luv Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Review by Bud Simons

How Dean Fleischer-Camp Brought Marcel the Shell With Shoes On to Life

Inside the secret life of the stop-motion smash

"...and frustrating idea that the only audience for animated movies is tinies and tweens. While Mad God is definitely..."

July 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tom Noonan Explains What Happened With What Happened Was ...

Revisiting his Sundance-winning dating drama after a quarter century

"...of parts that played on his towering physicality (Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad, the psychotic criminal messiah Cain..."

Jan. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hunting Down the Clickbait Beast in The VICE Guide to Bigfoot

Zach Lamplugh and Brian Emond are on the case at the Austin Film Festival

"...for 'squatch scat, it's a scathing look at another monster: VICE, the content-creating behemoth that has spawned a generation..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...exploded, stations started scrambling for filler, often using old movies. It was the cornucopia of cartoons spoon-fed to the..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...narrative where the voiceover says, "You can fight the monster or invite him to the table." Is that your..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...1.0 stars (M.S.) Great Hills, Lake Creek, Lakehills, Lincoln, Movies 12, Northcross, Roundrock..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

My Obsession: The Dick Van Dyke Show

Was the Sixties sitcom a harbinger of horror?

"...to anybody paying attention. Rob Petrie isn't actually a monster, and his marriage to Laura wasn't really a sham...."

Oct. 13, 2017 Screens Column by Joe Gibson

Nacho Vigalondo on Colossal

Combining the mediocre and cosmic with the creature feature director

"...she discovers that she's mystically connected to a giant monster that's been stomping through Seoul. Possibly not the best..."

April 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Last House on the Left

Louis Black reviews Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chain-saw Massacre, and Halloween -- all featured in IFC's new documentary, American Nightmare

"...It used to be monsters and now it's maniacs. Great American horror films were..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

Here Comes the Judge

Beavis and Butt-head's Hollywood Score

"...you happen to catch glimpse of a tremendous black monster truck devouring the asphalt around town, with Wes Archer's..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Meg 2: The Trench

It's Jason Statham versus a giant, ancient shark again

"...be absurd in the manner of the lowest-grade sharksploitation movies, the 5-Headed Shark Attacks, House Sharks, Sharkansas Women's Prison..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Maneater

Trace Adkins versus sharks is a soggy mess

"...are studios in Hollywood, there will be executives greenlighting movies about killer sharks. With Shark Week wrapping at the..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke is a villain for the ages in this brilliant horror

"...a bad guy, but as a true villain, a monster who relishes delivering pain? Is there some inherent likability,..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Cursed

Historical werewolf horror takes an innovative bite

"...Director Sean Ellis took on monster hunting of a different kind in Nazi-killer drama Anthropoid,..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Black Widow

What happened in Budapest no longer stays in Budapest as Marvel learns spycraft

"...and fitting solo outing for Johansson, who spent multiple movies turning what could have been a background character into..."

July 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Brea Grant, Modern Scream Queen

The Stylist star, 12 Hour Shift director and UT grad becomes a powerhouse of horror at Fantastic Fest

"...All the Creatures Were Stirring, and hybrid relationship drama/midnight monster attack After Midnight...."

Sept. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tenet

Time goes backward and forward these days …

"...(Debicki), Sator's wife who wants to flee the bullying monster but is kept at his side for the love..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Invisible Man

Universal Monsters update thrills as a high-octane Gaslight

"...February has truly been a landmark month for genre movies about gaslighting. Hot on the heels of the outstanding..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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