The Devil Conspiracy

Nineties Catholic creature feature crap flies again!

"...As someone who straddled the lines between Catholicism and horror at a young age,..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

The Warrens are back at it again ...

"...Chaves. Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, Julian Hilliard, Charlene Amoia and Sterling Jerins...."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Lords of Salem'

Or, in defense of Rob Zombie as a filmmaker

"...I have a serious question: What is it about the fact that Rob Zombie makes horror movies that drives..."

Sept. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria

"...There are any number of things about the Eighties that..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...readers, your wait to learn who will be attending the literary banquet of the year is over. The Texas..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Page Two: It's the Time of the Season for Absolute Moral Certainty

The "Anybody but Hillary" movement makes strange bedfellows of the progressive left and the hard right

"...more a given that Bernie Sanders will not receive the nomination, though many of his followers still believe it..."

July 22, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Dispatch From the Land of the Deranged

Taibbi takes on American crazies

"...do John Hagee's "Christian Zionist" San Antonio megachurch, 9/11 Truthers, and the U.S. Congress -- notably, among them, Texas..."

June 5, 2008 Books Post by Jordan Smith

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

Fleet discredits the Constitution and news outlets perform PR.

"...I got a note from the swell folks at Fleet, my credit card company. Actually,..."

Jan. 31, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Page Two: The Stravinsky Theory

The healing power of prescience, set on "repeat"

"...Hopin' for the best..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

DVDanger: Ryan Reynolds, the Most Interesting Man in the World

How Van Wilder became Hollywood's most unpredictable talent

"...If Ryan Reynolds were the actor everyone thinks he is, he would take easy..."

May 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Before the Impending Flood

An erratic list of memories and some dates

"...without really looking for or wanting it. Dreaming of the past while looking toward the future. The temporal present..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...fascination with magic, myth, alternative cultures, technology, secret histories, conspiracy theories, and sex. Webb shares his life over the..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Malcolm, Movement, Memory

With subjects that range from Malcolm X to choreographer Alvin Ailey, Orlando Bagwell's documentaries depict the African-American -- as well as American -- experience.

"...to those who introduced him before a speech. Skip the hyperbole. The significance -- and tallness -- of that..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Killing Kasztner

This documentary is about the little-remembered figure Rudolf Israel Kasztner, who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann for the release of 1,700 Jews from Hungary, only to later be castigated for Nazi collaboration.

"...an actress – she survived George Romero's Dawn of the Dead – and she appears to have developed a..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Flip It and Reverse It

Bush abandons troublesome action for the sanctity of meaningless battles and ideological purity

"...Given that this week we celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4,..."

July 7, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements of..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Going Places

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

"...They came to God in secret..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Column by Louis Black

Fantastic Fest Gets 'Looper' For Second Wave

Stage two sees newbie Joseph Gordon-Levitt join FF veterans

"...always been as much a family as a festival. The second wave of films has just been announced, with..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Keep Not Silent

The fourth Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...Before Marc Levin embarked on the series of confrontations with anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists of various..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Page Two: I Am Trump, You Are Trump

The dangerous cancer of a charismatic populist demagogue leader

"...In the devil town"..."

June 3, 2016 Column by Louis Black

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" posits the impossibility of following two..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Cult Film Corner

Burying the Ex and Patch Town

"...be aimed for? Can a filmmaker at least increase the odds that, a decade from now, a tiny cabal..."

Aug. 18, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Larry Fessenden Goes 'Beneath'

Horror auteur talks giant fish and the state of indie terror

"...If there's a dark patron saint of modern indie horror, it's..."

March 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jesse Dayton Bloodies Up for Housecore Horror

Austin rocker-turned-director talks 'Zombex,' Zombie, and Corman

"...It was a sweaty afternoon in the Mohawk. Onstage, there're three burlesque dancers doing the bump..."

Oct. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Confusion Center

The devil's in the details of collecting intelligence

"...but it's telling that civil libertarians' latest complaint about the Austin Regional Intelligence Center – a Central Texas addition to..."

May 21, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Dancing About Architecture

In the Jailhouse Now

"...Historically speaking, prison and country musicians have had their share of encounters, but it was still a shock..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

DVDanger: I Am Not a Serial Killer

Director Billy O'Brien on adapting the story of a young monster

"...The innovative and genre-busting horror/thriller/black comedy debuted at SXSW this..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Welcome Home

King Diamond crowns Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...You can't keep the devil out of rock & roll. At least not..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

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