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…
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
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
Some of them gave me hope for America, others invited me into foreign-to-me cultures and one even made me delightfully nauseous
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
Sad news came down Friday that Teddy Davey, singer, actor and owner of the Balcony Club, had died. He was 54. Davey’s widow, Lorena, posted an obit Sunday morning on her Facebook page and his: “Theodore Joseph Davey was born May 11, 1963, and was peacefully ushered from time into…
Thu 12/28 We all have friends who say they’re going to write a book someday. But former Observer staffer Paul Kix really meant it. Kix, who’s now deputy editor at ESPN The Magazine and has contributed to The New Yorker, recently published his first book through HarperCollins. The Saboteur is…
The Saboteur Reading The Wild Detectives 314 W. 8th St. 7:30 p.m. Thursday Free We all have friends who say they’re going to write a book someday. But former Observer staffer Paul Kix really meant it. Kix, who’s now deputy editor at ESPN The Magazine and has contributed to The…
It takes all kinds, and if we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that Dallas has them. The Observer published a lot of profiles in 2017, and in them you’ll meet everyone from mermaids to sheriffs to movie producers. Here are 10 of the most interesting people we talked to. The Cowboys…
Over the course of the film, we go from seeing the elder Getty as a figure of great power to one of no power at all, and that is perhaps the most fascinating part of the movie …
The reckless teenager is a common figure in comedic films, like Superbad and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but most of them depict rich kids. How else would teenagers get away with crimes like smuggling beer out of a private residence in detergent bottles or hacking into a school district’s computer system…
Fri 12/22If you want a traditional Christmas music experience, you can sing some carols with your family, Mom on piano and Dad on eggnog-spiking duty. Or go to church and try to stay awake during verse four of “Joy to the World.” But if orchestral prog-rock majesty with about a…
Guadagnino adeptly captures not just physicality of a burning love but also the emotional and intellectual components, and the film is all the more salient for that careful, realistic interpretation
The title character of S. Craig Zahler’s novel Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child is a child with deformities. His teeth are all sharp fangs. One of his legs is smaller, and the other is curved and can barely hold the weight of his body. His spine is serrated…
Hugh Jackman is charming as ever, and two dance scenes are mildly inventive and well-executed, yet Jackman’s goodwill and a splash of inspired choreography are not enough to earn the “greatest” in the title
The new one is bigger and dumber than the previous, a feat considering the relentless clatter of the 1995 iteration …
North Texas kids and their parents can now feel a little more relaxed watching movies together. With animated films like Zootopia and Finding Dory hauling in more than $1 billion each at box offices worldwide, Plano-based Cinemark has rolled out the beanbags for younger viewers. Its new kid-friendly concept, Camp Cinemark,…
Dallas sure is Moody, and that’s a good thing. The Moody family name appears on buildings at Southern Methodist University (Moody Coliseum) and in the Arts District (Moody Performance Hall) and belongs to the $10 million Moody Fund for the Arts endowment, which for the first time this year is…
The Pitch Perfect films have offered an increasingly unpalatable blend of pop-song empowerment, rah-rah women’s friendship and broad gross-out comedy
The printing press. Penicillin. Airplanes. These are just a few of the life-changing inventions the modern world has produced. 7-Eleven’s addition to that list: 7Now, an app that delivers goods from your favorite Dallas-based convenience store right to your desk or couch. The free app, which allows customers to place…
Thu 12/212018 is the year it’s going to happen. You’re going to sign up for that cheap gym membership in January and actually go. We can feel it. Confidence! Get a jump on prepping yourself for the new, fitter you with the nighttime Jingle Bell Run. A Dallas tradition for…
The Post tells the story of the late Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), the longtime publisher of The Washington Post, who took over its operations after her husband committed suicide in the 1970s
