Brightburn

What if Superman, but bad?

"...more interested in making the audience cringe at the violence than shriek and giggle. But what his brothers have..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shadow

Zhang Yimou's period martial arts drama probes the moral grays of life in a royal court

"...the wire-fu of House of Flying Daggers. The spasmodic violence creates a stomach-churning counterbalance to the quiet palace intrigues,..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Running With Beto

Revisiting Beto O'Rourke's radical 2018 Senate campaign, side-by-side with the candidate

"...activists: the school kid who is tired of gun violence; the young woman in the Valley, determined to turn..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

El Chicano

A new superhero for the Latinx community (and everyone else)

"...belongings; he also finds journals that position El Chicano’s violence as an act of decolonization. Pablo has come to..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Hellboy

Hellboy is back, and this time he's R-rated

"...some incredibly impressive and gruesome monster designs). However, that violence is his way of navigating his divided identity and..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Her Smell

Elisabeth Moss is a the center of a rock and roll tornado in this heartbreaking ballad of self-destruction

"...but just a toxic hellstorm of emotional and physical violence against those caught up in her wake. In green..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knife + Heart

Perfect postmodernism among Paris' porn scene in this retro-giallo

"...attitude and actions toward Lois, establishing a link between violence and sex, a dynamic in which one is the..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Pet Sematary

Latest Stephen King adaptation is a pretty good horror film, but nothing more

"...a filmography that is equal parts empathy and dull violence (he’s as prone to playing kindhearted leaders as he..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Austin Struggles to Adjust as SB 4 Takes Its Toll on Immigrants

"We are not safer as a community when victims are running away from us rather than coming to us."

"...the local government, Ramos was alone and scared. Amid violence, he fled Guatemala for a better life in the..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The Beach Bum

Fear and loathing in Florida with Korine and Matthew McConaughey

"...it comes with a punchline, these characters relish senseless violence (and sex), a theme the filmmaker has explored throughout..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Dan Gentile

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