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A Weekend-by-Weekend Guide to This Summer's Biggest Movies

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

In The Campaign, Hijinks and F-Bombs on the Trail with Will and Zach

Woody Allen Takes a Roman Holiday to Fantasyland

Who Was at the Midnight Showing of Rock of Ages?

"I hate Tom Cruise, but I'll still see it for the music." - My 49-year-old mother when discussing a Rock of Ages commercial. If that wasn't enough to make me interested in seeing the movie musical-cum-Broadway take on the late '80s Sunset Strip, then the thought of discovering who exactly would att ... More >>

Rock of Ages Posits Tom Cruise as a Hair-Metal God and Hair-Metal as Something Un-Awful

ABB: Always Be Baldwin

Top 5 Man vs. Nature Survival Films, in Honor of The Grey

Liam Neeson has become quite the badass as of late (IMO he's always been a badass...Darkman!), with machismo roles in Batman Begins, The A-Team, and of course Taken, in which he kills, like, more than 50 dudes with his bare hands in a manner that would make even Jack Bauer think twice about crossing ... More >>

Bill Hader as Rick Perry: "I'd Be Such a Good President If There Wasn't Talking Involved"

Pretty lackluster episode of Saturday Night Live last night -- and no, that isn't a cue for you to go on about how the show hasn't been worth watching since (insert whatever era during which you first saw the show). It's been strong lately, a nice mix of "funny ha-ha" and "funny weird," as comedy ... More >>

Conservative Moms Claim They Don't Like Schweddy Balls in Their Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry's​Recently we told you all about Ben & Jerry's new ice cream Schweddy Balls, which is based on the SNL skit featuring Alec Baldwin. Well, One Million Moms, a project of the American Family Association, which promotes "the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary e ... More >>

Ben & Jerry's New "Schweddy Balls" Flavor Gives New Meaning to Ice Cream Social

Ben & Jerry's​Our favorite hippie ice cream makers from Vermont might have lost their minds, but they have not lost their sense of humor. Today they announced their new flavor: "Schweddy Balls." According to B&J's, the Saturday Night Live inspired dessert has "vanilla ice cream with a hint o ... More >>

Bill Maher's Coming to Dallas This Sunday. But Not Before His Unfair Park Interview.

​There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who's-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She Wrote and Newhart amo ... More >>

Just Remember, Mayor Dwaine: Confession is Good for the Soul, Better for the Memory

​I covered part of last week's school board meeting on the budget crisis. I was way back in back of the room gossiping with other reporters, which is really the only thing I like about news events any more, and nobody wanted to talk about the school board crisis. We all wanted to talk about Dw ... More >>

Varsity Grill: Deep-fried Menu Would Go Better With Beer.

Sippin' Spiked Sweet Stuff at the Kessler

Just an iced tea here in Oak Cliff. Nuthin' to see here. Honest. I have no vodka in me.​After a full-belly dinner at Smoke, girl drinker Marla and I headed off to meet other girl drinkers Sarah, Lindsey and Amy, and some other homies at the Kessler Theater. The Beaten Sea and The Naptime Shake wer ... More >>

15 Foods That Can Seriously Wound You

​It's a dangerous world out there. Some of these foods are scary; some create tooth, skin or jaw damage. We're not talking about the unhealthy monstrosities in the fast-food world or the trans-fat-laden chain-restaurant menus. For the purposes of this list, we're picking a choice bunch of oversi ... More >>

A Golden Night

What the What Was Rhett Miller Doing on 30 Rock Last Night?

No doubt your Today in Music News item's forthcoming. But till then, this bonus video from last night's so-so 30 Rock season ender, where, as Pete has pointed out a few times, a certain Old 97 made a cameo alongside the likes of Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Michael McDonald, Moby, Mary J. Blige, Cla ... More >>

A Little Insight Into Rhett Miller's Appearance On Tonight's 30 Rock Finale

Curious as to what Rhett Miller's appearance on 30 Rock will entail? Well, this two-minute preview of tonight's show should shed some light on what to expect: Basically, Alec Baldwin's character blackmails every musician he can think of into performing at a benefit concert for his newfound father, ... More >>

Lymelife

Robert Towne's Coming to Town to Get AFI Dallas Award. Also, More Films Added.

AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year's AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits in ... More >>

Two-Timing

T-3 doubles your pleasure with House and Garden's interlocking production; not a lot of funny things happened at WaterTower's Forum

Review: Glengarry Glen Ross

DTC builds on the real estate of David Mamet's Glengarry

Seasons in the Sun

Schmoes 1, Pros 0

The Big Valley

Royal Flush

Burning the Yule Log

A Guide to Recognizing Your Shrinks

Coming of age and coming out in the Me Decade

Now Dirtier Than Ever

Backhanded Slapstick

Jim Carrey's brand of fun warms a reheated Dick and Jane

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

U.S.A.-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Lucky in Love

The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale

Kitty Litter

The Cat in the Hat forms clumps for easy scooping and disposal

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Sucks, Dickie

Or: Just how does David Spade keep getting work?

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Nuke It

It's up to Ben Affleck to save the world, and that's The Sum of All Fears

Royal's Screwups

Wes Anderson's film is like its characters: flawed genius

Flesh for Fantasy

Video-game adaptation is cool to watch but cold to the touch

All Bark

Cats & Dogs doesn't quite build a better mousetrap

Bora! Bora! Bora!

Pearl Harbor's sound and fury signify nothing

Sexual Perversity in Vermont

In a small town, folks swallow Hollywood's American bull

Greed is very, very bad

Boiler Room serves up the sons of Gordon Gekko

Tough love

The Farrelly brothers explore their soft sides by going Outside Providence

Round midnight

Sure, Mighty Peking Man stinks, but that's half the fun

It's a wonderful life

Marvin's Room makes suffering bearable, while Ghosts is just insufferable

Heaven's gait

Loopy pacing and awful performances doom the hell-bound Heaven's Prisoners

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