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Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

That Which is Yes: JourneyDance with Katie Toohil

A couple weeks ago, I'd expressed some anxiety about attending JourneyDance with Katie Toohil at SYNC Yoga and Wellbeing in Oak Cliff. Dancing, huh? My own my mom has likened my moves to Elaine from Seinfeld; but, they might be described more accurately as Woody Allen: the Broadway Musical. Furthe ... More >>

Transformers: Baying at the Moon

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

More Awesome Local Music Facial Hair!

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The Dark Knight by Moonlight: Free Film Series Returns to Main Street Garden Next Month

​This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It's a reprise of last fall's successful ser ... More >>

Tommy Invites You Into His Room

​This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It's a reprise of last fall's successful ser ... More >>

Tamara Drewe and the comedy of going plastic in a rustic world

​This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It's a reprise of last fall's successful ser ... More >>

Please Give: Liberal Guilt's Got Soul

​This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It's a reprise of last fall's successful ser ... More >>

Yes, Mexico Has Professionals, and No, We Don’t Mean Wrestlers

​This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It's a reprise of last fall's successful ser ... More >>

When Scary Met Sally

​This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It's a reprise of last fall's successful ser ... More >>

Charlie Kaufman Embraces Synecdoche

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Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Heist Flick The Bank Job is Too Fun to Fact-Check

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Definitely, Maybe Digs Deeper Than Most Romantic Comedies

While channeling Woody Allen, this film offers a dinged-up love story

Dreamy Delpy

While channeling Woody Allen, this film offers a dinged-up love story

Hot for Hombres

While channeling Woody Allen, this film offers a dinged-up love story

349 Movies to Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival

349 Movies to Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival

After Sunrise

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next (i.e., the hard part)

Fluff Done Right

Life and art meet sweet in this breezy French comedy

Unromantic Non-Comedy

Trust us: Save your $9 on this one

Painted Petals

Warren's realistic works really bloom

Pop Rocks

The shiniest and catchiest of 2005's snap and fizz

New releases available this week

The shiniest and catchiest of 2005's snap and fizz

Till Death. That's It.

The In-Laws is bigger and broader than the original, but not better

Hallway Gangstas

When bad things happen to good kids, their Luck always holds

Fallon Fast

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

French Fried

My Wife makes the woes of a superstar's husband seem not so funny

Where Every Man's Gone Before

Captain Picard makes it so-so with King of Texas

Say Nothing

When two lovers meet in Serendipity, it's a rather unfortunate accident

Letters

Sex Offenders

Easy Target

The DTC's A Christmas Carol is a show loaded with blanks

Flash Fame

A supermodel flies high and falls fast in Arcand's witty, stylish Stardom

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

The Offender

The Contender is a candidate for the year's most high-minded trash

For the Love of Mic

Duets explores the world of karaoke singing, and rather sweetly at that

Jaws of life

Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster finally receives the DVD treatment it deserves

Young man inside an old man

With Mock Tudor, Richard Thompson proves you can go home again

The 1998 Jimmys

Undaunted by last year's tepid reception, our theater critic presents his awards to local theater artists again

Making a mountain out of an anthill

The craftsmen at Pixar delight with the inventive and enchanting A Bug's Life

On the fringes

Most of the year's best films were from the outside looking in

Bad medicine

Critical Care tries to do for medicine what Network did for TV, and fails

The 1997 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Critical Care tries to do for medicine what Network did for TV, and fails

Signs of the times

Paul Mazursky's art lies in his topical films about the modern American landscape

They shoot movies, don't they?

Sydney Pollack does -- and his reliable, sturdy movies earn him this year's Great Director Award

USA Film Festival

Sydney Pollack does -- and his reliable, sturdy movies earn him this year's Great Director Award

Last laugh

All in the Timing illustrates the demise of sketch comedy

Junkies

In a choice between Bard addicts and science ghouls, the play's the thing

Overstuffed bird

With Home For the Holidays, Jodie Foster has created a sloppy paean to family disharmony

Personal best

From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites