Billy Crystal

Monsters University's Soundtrack will Feature Mastodon. How Did That Happen?

Why are Mastodon writing music for the new Monsters Inc. prequel, Monsters University? As this blog's self-appointed Mastodon Correspondent (the position pays as well as you'd imagine), I have been ordered to conduct an immediate investigation into this somewhat unexpected turn of events, lest we al ... More >>

Aw, Nuts

Susan Miller's Oscar Prediction Tweets Left Hollywood's Fate Up To The Universe

Susan Miller doesn't throw words like "retrograde" around willy-nilly, even when there's an Oscar at stake. The celeb psychic put a celestial spin on last night's Academy Awards by droppin' fate cards via Twitter. More entertaining than the ceremony itself, Miller's astrological decrypting of the 8 ... More >>

Yelawolf - Trees - 2/18/12

Yelawolf Trees Saturday, February 18 Yelawolf went on stage at 11:30 p.m., a pretty average start time for a Saturday show, but those assembled were chanting his name for so long and so aggressively that it felt like ages before he finally hit the stage. If this wasn't the experience of everyone at ... More >>

Robert Wuhl Assumes the Position at WaterTower's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival

Robert Wuhl​Robert Wuhl is bringing his solo show Assume the Position to the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at WaterTower Theatre in Addison next week. The two-week festival opens tomorrow with a lineup of more than 20 different performances of drama, dance, music and comedy. It's an enjoyably fr ... More >>

Meet the Fort Worth Film Buff Who's Updating and Preserving the Bobbie Wygant Archive

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.I could read to you from this stack of press releases for big-deal Thursday happenings ("Boone Pickens, Mayor Leppert, Chief Brown unveil New Jubilee Park Buildings" and "Mayor Leppert, Dr. Hinojosa to launch first-o ... More >>

Bridal Show

Billy, Crystal Clear

Bruce Vilanch For the Win

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dallas's AT&T Performing Arts Center is Open for Business

Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert and council member Angela Hunt closed out Monday morning's ceremony with some thespian assistance. ​ The AT&T Performing Arts Center kicked off its grand opening week with a dedication ceremony this morning that was long on speeches about just what it ... More >>

True Love

Dream Cleaver

Matthew Vaughn hacks at Neil Gaiman's fantasy wonderlandBy Robert Wilonsky

Scared Stiff

Wayne Kramer's latest casts a Paul over the proceedings

The Wiz

Miyazaki returns with a beautiful but confounding fairy tale

The Summer of Wrong

It's August. Who knew there'd be so much sports news? Not me.

Block Party

It's not easy being Greenville

Punish This

The latest comic-book movie might just kill you

Dear INSERT YOUR NAME HERE

An apology/explanation/thank you for the Dallas Observer MusicAwards ceremony

Dirty Jokes

Blondes have more fun

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped, the Folksmen turn it way down from 11

Country in Crisis

Plus: War,the Sequel; French? Toast!

Eyes at Front

At the 16th Dallas Video Festival, you cannot--and should not--look away

That's Better

De Niro delights, even if this sequel's slight

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Deep Freeze

In the Ice Age, three mammals and a baby try to keep us warm

Are You In or Out?

Or, one man's passion for Clooney, killers, kooks and corn

Boo Who?

Monsters, Inc. opens the door to a world so good it's scary

Nothing Hill

It's hard to fall in love with America's Sweethearts

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

Black Man's Burden

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men subtly explores racism and personal responsibility

Mr. Fixit

"Ex-gay" minister Randy Thomas prays to put gays and lesbians on the straight and narrow

Squirrel meat

Animated duo return in a very Rocky road movie

Saving Private Mel

The Patriot is sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving--and a crowd-pleaser

Blue in the face

Hugh Grant plays at being a goombah, and it's an offer you can refuse

The Prozac don

The boss of movie bosses skewers himself in the hit-and-miss Analyze This

Reconstructing Woody

He's mean, he's nasty, he's hilarious--and finally, Allen's back

Muscle bound

Disney's Hercules is all brawn, no brain

Pop, pop, fizz, fizz

In Fathers' Day, Crystal and Williams need some comic relief

Oy, Claudius

Branagh's Hamlet may be complete, but something's still a little rotten

A strange goodbye

Odd sights--and musings--at Mickey Mantle's funeral

Billy, clubbing

Crystal's latest directorial outing, Forget Paris, applauds itself too often

Stupid Dave tricks

Letterman's hijacking of the Oscars reveals his limitations