Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

Kubrick, Peckinpah, Dirty Harry and John Wayne: 1972 Cinema Awash in Ultra Violence!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 6 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The subject of violence has been so persistently debated and so pretentiously demonstrated in recent movies that reviewers are beginning to sound more like revivalists ... More >>

Presenting The Top 19 Most Ridiculous Lines on Das Racist's Sit Down, Man

​Even casual observers of this blog know of our great esteem for Das Racist, and our great excitement at the release yesterday of their latest mixtape, Sit Down, Man, featuring guests from Diplo to El-P, Boi-1da to Devo Springsteen. Samples include "People Are Strange" and "Return to Innocence ... More >>

The Goulden Age

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

'The Hills Have Eyes II'

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

Occult Classic

The thematic daring and genre-bending perversity of the original Wicker Man

'Raising Hell: Sam Peckinpah'

The thematic daring and genre-bending perversity of the original Wicker Man

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Conflicted directors and complicit spectators: A bloodstained century of cinema

The Way of the Gun

Blood not-so-simple: David Cronenberg takes aim at on-screen and real-life violence

Another Reason to Love Steve McQueen

Blood not-so-simple: David Cronenberg takes aim at on-screen and real-life violence

Duels in the Sun

Blood not-so-simple: David Cronenberg takes aim at on-screen and real-life violence

Meat and Greet

Blood not-so-simple: David Cronenberg takes aim at on-screen and real-life violence