The Eighth Street Survivors

They came out to protest police brutality. They were met by a life-altering wave of police violence. Eight months later, they still await justice and change.

"...attention to the Black Lives Matter movement, to the violence against Black and brown citizens that he believes is..."

Feb. 5, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Robert Lorenz Takes Aim at The Marksman

Writer/director on why Liam Neeson is the new Clint Eastwood

"...to subvert those expectations with his new meditation on violence, The Marksman...."

Jan. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Underwater

Neo-creature feature is a soggy mess

"...seems unsure of how to balance the ambitious onscreen violence – one character dies via implosion, an early contender..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

21 Bridges

Chadwick Boseman brings Manhattan to a halt as a corruption-busting cop

"...that there may be more to the night of violence than any of them expected...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Dark Waters

Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror

"...the heartland, whether it be homophobia, racism, or domestic violence. In this case, much as in his eco-paranoia meltdown..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Travis County Prosecutor to Fill County Court of Law Judicial Seat

County Commissioners selected Dimple Malhotra by a 4-0 vote

"...chief prosecutor of the Travis County District Attorney's Family Violence Unit, has been selected to fill the County Court..."

Oct. 8, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Sen. Cory Booker Tells Austin to Embrace the “Moral Moment” We’re In

Presidential candidate spoke Wednesday at Cheer Up Charlies

"...Charlies, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker talked gun violence, civil rights, and the urgency of love in front..."

Aug. 29, 2019 News Post by Roxy Bonafont

Austin at Large: You Can’t Take Our Sons Away

On gun violence, white supremacy, misogyny, and fatherhood

"...That threat's larger than the spectre of gun violence, of the bloody madness that we're supposed to accept..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Sea of Shadows

Eco-crime-documentary follow the deadly impact of cartels and animal smugglers

"...after roadblock in the form of government corruption, neglect, violence, and the sheer size of the cartel, while the..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Sam Russek

The Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg excels as the mouse that roars in this karate black comedy

"...the ways frightened men are indoctrinated into lives of violence – would feature some cartoonishly evil hate group at..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Image Book

Godard's final experiment is more thesis and installation than film

"...further meditation on film culture's complicated obsession with real-world violence, East-West relations, sexuality, and myth. Images flash from a..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Blindspotting

Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal astound in this perfect state of the union story

"...Police violence, racial identity, cultural appropriation, hipsters, NIMBYists, personal responsibility, gentrification...."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Cross-border thriller gets a bloodier, morally grayer sequel

"...show the effect that the border’s rampant criminality and violence has on its blameless children. An unexpected epilogue opens..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Damsel

Austin's Zellner brothers head out to demolish myths of the Old West with Robert Pattinson

"...story was actually a period piece, the acts of violence that likely would befall our heroine would be unbearable..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Revenge

Bloody vengeance fit for the #MeToo era.

"...This is a film about a horrific act of violence that eventually results in more bloodshed and gruesomely realistic,..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

A true-crime family mystery indicts decades of racial violence.

"...of some of the more current victims of racial violence aloud. I felt a bit awkward doing this alone..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Gringo

Long-delayed stoner comedy is a little stale.

"...its mixed marriage of dry humor and flashes of violence. In Tarantino-lite fashion, the cartel honcho’s apropos-of-nothing question about..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Cured

The zombie apocalypse is over. So now what?

"...mournfully on complicity and guilt, on the logic of violence and the seduction of extremism. That's barely the start,..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Small Town Crime

John Hawkes hits the bottle and the case as a modern day detective on the trail for redemption

"...deft knack for revitalizing these tropes and for low-key violence, as well as an ear for laconic dialogue that..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Daddy's Home 2

The daddy's daddy crash Christmas in this unneeded sequel

"...withstand, and this gets old quickly. With all the violence in the world lately, it seems perverse to insert..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Dinner

Family ties come undone in this dark drama

"...a lot of territory: ethics, class, mental illness, the violence of modern society, how our behavior affects our loved..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Free Fire

A delirious shoot'em-up comedy

"...writing partner Amy Jump, sustains a level of comic violence that might normally arrive as a single set-piece in..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Void

A gory serving of cosmic horror

"...Their arrival at a hospital triggers a gauntlet of violence that has something to do with a surgeon (none..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Dan Gentile

2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B

Be the most knowledgeable voter at your Oscar party

"...the Syrian civil war. Set in Aleppo as the violence there intensified in early 2016, “The White Helmets” highlights..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Greasy Strangler

It's lewd, crude, and full of grease

"...longer than it should, and enhanced by over-the-top, cartoony violence. But is The Greasy Strangler a contender for cult..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Purge: Election Year

The third entry in this nasty series adopts a political bent

"...away at every opportunity to gratuitous scenes of excessive violence (not that there's anything wrong with that) that render..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Keanu

A refreshingly silly, unabashed mix of humor, violence, and cuteness

"...is refreshingly silly, an unabashed mix of humor and violence topped off by a big dollop of cuteness. Even..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Barbershop: The Next Cut

Cutting hair and cutting up

"...of community, one now threatened by the senseless daily violence plaguing the streets of the Windy City. At one..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Deadpool

This sassy superhero movie is not your child’s comic-book origin tale

"...Loaded with sass, sex, and sadistic violence, Deadpool is not your youngster’s comic-book origin story. Deadpool..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

’71

A kinetic chase movie uses the Troubles of Northern Ireland as its setting

"...security forces and army sought to contain the expanding violence between the unionist Protestants and the nationalist, republican Catholics..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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