The Bourne Ultimatum opens in Russia as the amnesiac super-spy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) does what he does best: elude capture, crack skulls, brood. Lickety-split he’s en route to Paris, nursing his wounds and breaking out with a bad case of those itchy-scratchy hallucinations known as Hollywood Flashback Syndrome. Choice…
It’s impossible to write about David Wain’s The Ten without first making passing reference to Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. The former, originally made for Polish TV 20 years ago and first shown in the United States in 2000, offered a modern-day take on the…
In 1987, Bart Weiss viewed his nascent Dallas Video Festival as a way to collect “ephemeral media, the throwaway stuff no one paid attention to,” he says now, as the 20th Dallas Video Festival gets under way at the Dallas Theater Center and Angelika Film Center. The first festival included…
Saw a strange new play about a handsome thief named Edward whose hands are amputated by court order. New ones are transplanted onto the stumps. The convicted thief is white. The recycled mitts are brown. The thief begins channeling the thoughts of the hands’ former owner, a Dalai Lama-like religious…
Oh, wipe that starchy Masterpiece Theatre moue off your face—pop Jane Austen is fun, especially when it’s almost completely made up. According to Becoming Jane, a new addition to the plentiful Austen spin-off canon, off duty our lady of graceful letters was hot stuff at cricket and kissing and had…
Hot Fuzz (Universal) The second feature from writer-director Edgar Wright and writer-star Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) has been available on home video for decades: Hot Fuzz is, after all, a witty and wisecracking montage of clips from some hundred-plus A-list and bargain-bin action films, chief among them Lethal…
What says “Dallas” more than Neiman Marcus presenting a salon on fashion? I don’t care if people say this is a shallow town only interested in big hair and plastic surgery. Would we like our Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and Mavs Dancers any other way? I like having umpteen Starbucks. I…
Ah, the circus. What little boy hasn’t dreamed of running away and joining the circus? Besides virtually every other boy born in America since 1913, we mean. Nevertheless, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey keeps chugging along, a cultural artifact kept alive by fans–parents mostly, one presumes–indifferent to the fact…
Generally, the most attention we pay to tiles is when we’re scrubbing them. Luminous and delicate aren’t words hat we’d use to describe them, even when they’re not covered in goop. So, we’re ready to be enlightened with the Meadows Museum’s new exhibit of Spanish tiles, many of which are…
If you love the power of slaying dragons and using a “saving throw” to escape a cave filled with “orcs”, then this is your week. Come out of your parent’s basement and embrace your love of Dungeons & Dragons at the DFW Roleplayers Game Night. A night when all you…
Defending the Caveman is the longest running solo play in Broadway history at two years. It’s about male/female relations with comedic insights on feminism, masculinity and the naughty bits of both parties in the light of amateur anthropology, prehistory, psychology, sociology and mythology. The play is not so much a…
One of the inherent rights of a child is to have their own playhouse. It can be made from couch cushions and blankets or wood and nails; hell with just a little imagination even an empty box can be the coolest land of escape ever. So if you had any…
Surely whoever named “Hippiefest” intended some winking self-deprecation with such a dated and square-sounding moniker. It’s like a panic-inducing word that law-and-order types would pin on any gathering of nonconformists. Better yet, it’s what cooler-than-thou hipsters would condescendingly call a concert of half-dead relics from a less jaded era, an…
Let’s play a word association game. What word comes to mind when I say, “dance”? Do you think of “poise”? How about “leotard”? Or perhaps, “feet”? I’m no mind-reader, but I’m pretty sure your word had nothing to do with food. And yet, that’s the theme of Addison’s upcoming dance…
If you have a soft spot for honky tonk music but have outgrown the actual honky tonk then here’s a classy way to enjoy some quality country songwriters without having to deal with the obnoxious drunks and cigarette smoke of your usual watering holes. The artists on the bill for…
It has all the makings of perfect summer entertainment: romance, plastic surgery, thugs, mercy killings and bastards. Arsenic and Old Lace ran for 1,444 hysterical performances on Broadway during WWII, when the nation was obviously keen to find something funny about death. Frank Capra’s follow-up movie starring Cary Grant is…
Only a radio station like Jack FM could put together a show featuring Don Henley, The Pretenders and Stray Cats and make it seem like a match made in heaven. Sure, each band is good in their own way, but traditionally speaking, eagles and cats don’t travel well together, regardless…
From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, Demure Models is hosting a car wash at Sonic (America’s Drive-in!) on 8092 Ferguson Road. I’m sure that this is the most American thing happening anywhere on the planet all weekend. You got burgers, fries, sundaes, dirty trucks, six-packs (of the abdominal…
Who among us hasn’t caught a few minutes of a soap opera and fantasized just for a moment about being a soap star? Soap operas level the great acting playing field because you don’t have to be particularly talented nor particularly attractive to be a soap star. Sure, being hot…
Recent studies suggest that if your friends are fat, you’re likely to be a porker, too. No wonder. It’s much easier seat six for some tasty apps at Applebee’s than it is to cram them into a doctor’s exam room for some BMI analysis. So load up the whole crew…
Imagine going through life shunned by society, enduring drug addiction, homelessness or prostitution, just hoping the afterlife turns out better than this one. Jesus kicked it with hookers and tax collectors, and even told a crucified thief he’d go to Heaven, so surely he’ll accept you, right? Then you croak…
We say: “pink baby head.” You think: WTF? Us too, when we heard about the Pink Baby Head party-exhibit-art-installation-thing at the Pawn Gallery in Deep Ellum this Friday. We’d love to tell you more about Pink Baby Head, but all we found on pinkbabyhead.com was a pink baby head. Even…
