For a movie in which a major character’s death is discovered when a giant lizard-monster vomits out his skull, Kong: Skull Island is a surprisingly breezy affair. It’s not so much that the characters or situations are particularly lighthearted. The film offers up plenty of wartime atmosphere and grim backstory,…
Last week, final votes, in this case “likes,” were cast in the 42 Murals Instagram contest to determine which three Deep Ellum murals get to stay up. The winners will be announced March 15, but some artists are already calling the judging process unfair for allowing contestants to purchase votes. Several murals…
Mike McCurry opened his lecture at Southern Methodist University’s Vester Hughes Auditorium by saying the school invited a self-described “certified, international, world class loser.” The former White House Press Secretary for Bill Clinton was referring to the failed presidential campaigns of John Glenn, Bruce Babbitt and Bob Kerrey. “If you catch me…
One of the more entertaining videos on David Gallup’s YouTube channel features two of his young sons hunkering underground and frolicking around what looks like a Soviet-era bomb shelter. But this isn’t the red scare. It’s the first week of busy season for Gallup, the Sherman-based businessman who calls himself…
It’s March! Time to celebrate spring by staying inside and watching more TV! National Treasure (Hulu), March 1Originally a UK Channel 4 miniseries, this is a four-hour deep-dive into rape and sexual assault allegations against a beloved celebrity comedian. Sound familiar? I have some apprehension that it’ll try too hard…
Dallas doesn’t long for film festivals, big or small, long or short. And that’s fine by us. The window into various topics, cultures and technologies provided by fests is invaluable, if not always entertaining. And c’mon, that’s not meant as an insult. There has to be one real dinger each…
On Saturday, Cara Mia Theatre Co. will give a Dallas debut to a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, who also collaborated with Hamilton playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda on his first musical In the Heights. The play, Yemaya’s Belly, is the story of a Cuban boy’s dream to…
Nightmares on Wax It’ll Do 4322 Elm St. 10 p.m. Friday $10 to $15 Despite the catchy name, Nightmares on Wax is neither an ’80s horror movie inspired tribute band nor a recreational party drug. It is the nom de plume of George Evelyn, a legendary English DJ and respected…
How could this not work? Table 19 boasts the right premise and a top-shelf cast: Anna Kendrick, Stephen Merchant, June Squibb, Craig Robinson and the great Lisa Kudrow as the randos consigned to a wedding reception’s least choice table, the one way in the back by the bathrooms. Mostly strangers…
The one thing I know for sure is that most Oscar voters don’t care that a film as seemingly pleasant as Damien Chazelle’s modern musical La La Land has proven so divisive. Even as lyrics from “City of Stars” have become inspirational memes, artists like songwriter Elon Rutberg are calling…
Movie actors intend no less than to live forever, a goal that seems likely for the ever-likable, endlessly surprising Bill Paxton, who died last weekend at age 61 from complications following heart surgery. (Too damn soon.) No softie, Paxton created memorable movie villains, including the loves-his-work vampire in Near Dark…
A stylized painting of Woody Allen, a golden gun to his forehead, stares down at Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) in the astonishing third episode of Girls’ final season. She’s seated in the study of a best-selling wunderkind novelist, planted in the middle of his sofa while he faces her, coldly,…
Bizarro — Robert Barsamian Conduit Gallery 1626 C Hi Line Drive. Ongoing through March 25 DC Comic’s antihero Bizarro first appeared in 1958 as an antagonist to Superman. In pop culture, the character has come to be known as a metaphorical mirror to Superman: Everything seen in a mirror is in…
Today the Dallas Theater Center announced the full lineup for their 2017-2018 season. The season includes two world premieres, a sequel to 2016’s All the Way, and another round of the Public Works initiative. Seeming to respond to prior criticism regarding lack of diversity, DTC will produce works by two…
It’s doubtful that the Nasher Sculpture Center had ever been the site of a multi-religious prayer ceremony prior to Monday night, but the world renowned institution is thankfully taking chances on a lot of things that might not be typical museum fare with its recent Artist Circle installments. The Artist…
Most of the world knew the late Bill Paxton as an actor, a film and TV star, a musician and even a director. However, some of the people who got to know the Fort Worth native who appeared on so many movie and TV screens over the last 40 years…
Logan is a punch in the gut in all the right ways. Onscreen, the X-Men series has always found ways to morph and expand, from time-traveling fantasy to social allegory to political thriller. And it’s done so as other comic-book franchises have ossified, with the DC movies (foolishly) doubling down…
The American dream is becoming harder and harder to achieve, but the ABC reality show Shark Tank is doing its small part to keep it alive, one creative idea at a time. Since its debut in August 2009, over 300 entrepreneurs have obtained financing and partners for their companies through…
There’s a reason Zoey Deutch is often “the girl” in comedies. Her face expresses multitudes, and the funny guys need a woman with priceless reactions to sell their punch lines. She’s endured dick jokes for Robert De Niro and Zac Efron in Dirty Grandpa, played oblivious straight woman to the…
It literally takes a village to put on an event like the Scarborough Renaissance Festival. Just before spring every year, hundreds of actors, jugglers, jousters, costume makers, crafters, artists and others dedicate a huge chunk of their time to turning a 35-acre stretch of land in Waxahachie into a 16th…
This weekend, Dallas will become the first city outside of New York to participate in the Public Works project, which taps hundreds of non-actors for productions of Shakespeare. The first play being tackled here is The Tempest. According to Dayron Miles, who moved here to head up Public Works Dallas, the…
Tue 2/28When reality is too tiresome, entertainment becomes our salvation. It serves as an escape from the stressors of the news cycles, of our daily lives — and its effects are pretty magical. Especially in the case of The Illusionists, which brings a production chock full of sleights of hand, disappearing acts…
