Just in time, Paddington 2 Reminds Us to Celebrate Human/Bearish Decency
In Paddington 2, the emigre bear (again voiced by Ben Whishaw) appears to be the glue holding the Browns’ diverse, colorful neighborhood together
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Teens Tell the History of Everything in Ambitious New Play at Margo Jones Theatre
If you were to write your own history of “everything,” what would you include? That’s the premise of A History of Everything, the new, original play from Cry Havoc Theater Company. Cry Havoc is an all-youth troupe. It made a splash last year with Shots Fired, a documentary-style play compiled…
Drive-In Movie Critic Joe Bob Briggs Returns to the City That Killed Him
Dallas gave birth to Joe Bob Briggs and his legendary drive-in movie column, but it also killed him. John Bloom, the real-life writer behind the movie critic persona, is going to overlook that small detail, however, and make an appearance in Dallas as Briggs later this month. It will be…
Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend
Fri 1/5The glitz and glamour of New Year’s might be over, but that doesn’t mean that you have to stop being fabulous. Society Fashion Week lands in Dallas just in time to extend your sartorial celebrations into 2018. This touring fashion extravaganza launches its DFW edition at 5 p.m. Friday…
Interactive Art Program Figment Raising Funds for Dallas Event in the Fall
For some people, art is just another way of making money. But for many others, it’s a passion, and that’s what a new group coming to Dallas this fall is hoping to celebrate. If all goes according to plan, New York-based nonprofit group Figment will host its first event in…
Christian Bale and Hostiles Brood Their Way Through the Frontier
This surge of internal agony seems intended to pulse throughout the movie’s gruesome state-crossing trek, but Bale, in the part, is much less caricature-adjacent in the lighter beats …
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Spielberg’s The Post Weaponizes Nostalgia — for Good
Bradlee and Graham learn over the course of The Post to abandon the clubby congeniality that allowed politicians to lie to the press for so long without ever getting called on it
North Texas Film Critics Association Gives The Post Ensemble Award Named for Gary Murray
The Oscars are in March, but if you can’t wait to see which actors and filmmakers walk away with shiny gold trophies, the North Texas Film Critics Association thinks it has a good idea who will win awards — or who should. The association comprises 17 broadcast, print and online…
Escape the Feel-Bad Present With the Feel-Worse Future of Black Mirror’s Nightmarish Fourth Season
The show exists in a vaguely defined future time and place — its world’s particulars seem to vary from episode to episode, although fan theories suggest they do all take place in the same universe
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Fixer Upper‘s Joanna and Chip Gaines Are Expecting Their Fifth Child
True to their word, Joanna and Chip Gaines are leaving their hit home renovating show behind to focus on family. In a series of Twitter and Instagram posts yesterday, the couple revealed that Joanna is pregnant with their fifth child. The couple’s other children, Drake, Ella, Duke and Emmie Kay,…
21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week
Thu 1/4Director Tim Burton is probably better known among moviegoers for Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands, but his big screen adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish is one of his most breathtaking works. A dying father known for telling larger-than-life stories prompts his son to find out…
Cheap and Free Events in Dallas This Week
Thursday Director Tim Burton is probably better known among moviegoers for Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands, but his big screen adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish is one of his most breathtaking works. A dying father known for telling larger-than-life stories prompts his son to find out…
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Former Classmate of Warhol Vandal: ‘To Me It Sounds Like a Defense Tactic’
It’s the date heard round the world. On Dec. 23, 29-year-old Dallas court reporter Lindy Lou Layman became an international celebrity after her rendezvous with 49-year-old Houston trial attorney Anthony Buzbee ended with her being arrested for vandalizing art in Buzbee’s $14 million mansion. According to allegations in the lawsuit Buzbee…
In 2013, Arturo Torres Was Struggling at the Common Desk. Now, He’s a Best-Selling Artist.
As a child growing up in Garland, Arturo Torres was surrounded by conflict. His father was abusive, his neighborhood was populated with feuding gangs and eventually his family moved into the Genesis Women’s Shelter. But through all of the hardships, Torres’ love of art gave him a sense of inner…
Save Us, TV: Here Are the Shows to Cling to This January
Sure, it felt like 50 centuries, and we all look like Medusa, but we’re still (kinda) standing, so holy hell. I think that calls for some TV!
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Dallas Teen Is the Youngest Female Cub Scout Den Leader in History
Many teens spend their free time at malls and movie theaters. But not Autumn Cragle. The 16-year-old aspiring teacher is the youngest female Cub Scout den leader in history. Her 10-year-old brother, who was begging to be a Webelos Scout, gave her the idea to start volunteering her time to…
Meet the Brothers from Plano Who Helped Sell the Hand-Painted Film Loving Vincent
When you think of animated movies, family features like Walt Disney’s groundbreaking classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarves or Pixar’s computerized Toy Story may come to mind. But lately, animation means more than a colorful movie that will keep your kid in a seat for 90 minutes. Brian and…
Best Things to Do in Dallas New Year’s Weekend
Fri 12/29Let’s see: It’s not in the Cotton Bowl anymore, but at the Cowboys’ stadium in Arlington; the Southwest Conference is long dead; the game is not a semifinal in the bowl championship series this year; and it’s not even played New Year’s Day. “Classic” must be one of those…
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The 12 Best Films of 2017
First, these are my favorite movies of the year, not a claim to rank the definitive best, so don’t write to tell me that your favorite should have made it
The Top 10 TV series of 2017
I won’t waste your time attempting to sum up the totality of this year’s output, because I can’t, and any critic who claims to have seen enough of the more than 500 scripted series that aired in 2017 to do so is lying
April Wolfe’s Top 10 Films of 2017
Some of them gave me hope for America, others invited me into foreign-to-me cultures and one even made me delightfully nauseous
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10 Movies to Look Forward to in Early 2018
The first few months of the year are notorious for being a period of drought at the movies, but the January–March 2018 release calendar offers a surprising deluge of highly anticipated films