Score one for going home again. After misfiring with Begin Again, a film that asked us to worry over a disillusioned A&R man’s efforts to coax a folk-pop album out of Keira Knightley, writer-director John Carney has turned back to the striving Irish of Once, his breakout hit. He’s also…
Elvis Presley once watched Dr. Strangelove three times in one night at a Memphis movie theater. After that, he made them play the last reel several more times, marveling at it. It’s fascinating to wonder about: Here’s this country’s biggest musical star, the leading man in movies he knew were…
Careful what you wish for. When it was announced that Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt would be joining Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth for the followup to 2012’s humdrum action/fairy tale Snow White and the Huntsman, many filmgoers, myself included, got unduly excited. The original film, while a hit, had…
Frank Stella: A Retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth The first of its kind in over three decades, the latest exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features 100 works that showcase the highlights of Frank Stella’s 60-year career. Starting…
Last night, the worlds of the Omegans and the Koridians collided explosively in Denton and only one man could keep these furious foes from a battle that would destroy all of mankind. That man, of course, was performance artist and Adult Swim celebrity David Liebe Hart. Hart, who is best…
Along with humor, nostalgia and fantasy, Erin Stafford’s new work references the aesthetics of decay. She thinks about the past: fantasies she had as a kid, the greatest times of her life, and what point she would like to revisit if she had the chance to go back. But she…
For well over 30 years, Dallas resident Skip Hollandsworth has been an all-star storyteller as a contributor and editor for Texas Monthly. Whether he’s writing about a vicious motorcycle gang, a tragically injured high school football player or a wealthy women’s wild-ass closet, Hollandsworth’s longform stories are packed with engaging…
Episode 2: “Mad As a Hatter” Like every great reality television program, the episode begins with a review of what happened last episode. (Our take on Episode 1 and the cast viewing party is here for those who missed it.) Housewife LeeAnne Locken is angry at other Housewife Brandi Redmond for mocking her…
The latest exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth started with a simple question: Which great living artist had not had a retrospective in over two decades? Frank Stella has a 60-year career and is ingrained in contemporary art. A young art star, he actually had a retrospective…
Cracking into the arts and culture calendar this week feels a little like busting into a piñata: There’s a ton of stuff crammed in there, and enough variety to appeal to every kind of person. You don’t even have to fight over the good stuff. There’s more than enough to…
It’s 10 a.m. on a weekday and Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are cuddling kittens on the stage of a fancy strip club off Northwest Highway. The small felines have been brought to The Lodge by no-kill shelter Operation Kindness as a surprise for the comedians, who are in Dallas…
Friday, for the first time ever, Dallas Opera produced a Broadway musical. Kern and Hammerstein’s Show Boat made Broadway history with its innovations and the quality of its score, setting the standard for the American musical for decades after its run of 527 performances in New York in 1927-’29. Ninety…
Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t…
Debora Hunter is standing in front of the windows of Neiman Marcus peering in. It’s an overcast Wednesday morning just days before the Dallas Art Fair where Hunter, a longtime Dallas-based photographer, is the 2016 honoree. With that title comes an opportunity to give a talk at a pre-party for…
Do This! There is so much art to see in Dallas this weekend, it’s hella exciting for the artistically inclined. One can’t-miss exhibition is Paolo Pivi’s Ma’am. The Milanese artist works with friendly, fluorescent polar bears and fanciful multimedia installations. We’ve been promised canvases of pearls, the bears and a number…
Here’s a question faced by the creators of almost every superhero adaptation: How do do you pull this off without copying Frank Miller’s Batman? Too many modern superhero dramas — including the Dark Knight films, Arrow, Daredevil and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — either ape the dour realism…
Irving Penn achieved great artistic and commercial success and became one of the most iconic photographers of the 20th century. A touring exhibit organized by the Smithsonian and presented by The Dallas Museum of Art, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is the first retrospective of his 70-year career in nearly two…
Here’s about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book reinvigorates an oft-told tale with star power, technology and calculated charm. It’s been billed as a live-action remake (it’s too good to be called a…
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get…
The effortless charisma of Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, the headliners of the first two Barbershop movies (released in 2002 and 2004), helped keep those over-plotted comedies buoyant. Cube and Cedric are back as Calvin and Eddie in Barbershop: The Next Cut, but even their enormous appeal can’t rescue…
Hey Sunshine at Liliana Bloch Gallery From Providence, Rhode Island, Lynne Harlow’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally for 15 years. In her latest show, she continues a reductive exploration of light, color and material, placing added emphasis on the behavior of light in relation to color and space…
A week removed from the onslaught of mayhem brought into North Texas by Vince McMahon, Stone Cold, Roman Reigns and the World Wrestling Entertainment’s Wrestlemania, it’s easy to forget that for some people, stage-dives, body slams and crowd-taunting turnbuckle gestures are a year-round life. While a hundred thousand fans gathered…
