You get three wishes. And if your three wishes are all to watch Aladdin, you’re in luck. If you live in Dallas, there are three ways to do so right now. Obviously, there’s the original 1992 Disney film in all its animated glory, with a genie brought to life by…
Film events like the Oak Cliff Film Festival aim for diversity and variety in their movie offerings, in order to offer the dream afternoon for the raging cinephile. “We’re looking for stuff that’s a little off the beaten path,” says Barak Epstein, the co-owner of Aviation Cinemas, which runs the…
Wednesday Sculpting a seemingly timeless vacuum between noise, metal and classical minimalism, Earth’s music is nothing if not brutally austere. This is metal ruthlessly denuded. With all the superfluous components deleted, all the ornate plumage slashed and burned, rock is given a new form, a sound-for-sound’s sake gauntlet that’s equally…
A mix of dance, theater and the exposition of the female body, modern burlesque has been transformed to include a range of styles, from the classic striptease to theatrical mini-dramas. The latter style is embodied by performances by one of Dallas’ rising burlesque stars, Audrey Scorn. Tall, dark and stunning,…
Texas is No. 34 in education but No. 1 in sexiness! Yes, you, I, we — we are the sexy people. Well maybe not our faces or our personalities, but our voices! Man! Have you heard the news? People looooove Texan accents. Big Seven Travel surveyed a bunch of horny…
Well, Sunday’s the big night when the world bids goodbye to HBO’s Game of Thrones, TV’s bloodiest, most treacherous and sexually overcharged fantasy drama. The show has been running for eight blood-soaked seasons and attracted an audience of millions that spans the globe. That means you’re definitely going to be…
The reason you go to film festivals like the Oak Cliff Film Festival is because you want to see films. Unlike other fan gatherings, you’re not there to wait in ungodly lines for an awkward handshake with a celebrity, blow a week’s pay on an overpriced collectible or work your…
In our heated political climate, it’s hard to agree on something as simple as what equals two plus two. Dallas-based filmmaker David Maddox explores this idea quite literally in his film, Alternative Math, which just passed six million views on YouTube. The short film, directed by Maddox and co-written by…
With so many streaming services and options, it’s hard to pick something to watch, and at this point, we’ll pay someone just to make the decision for us. Texas has long been the home to, or the inspiration for, many great works, so why not dust off an old favorite…
Peter Mayhew, the actor who played the towering Wookie Chewbacca in several Star Wars movies, has passed away. Mayhew’s family delivered the news of his passing in a statement on his official Facebook page. He died Tuesday at his home in Boyd surrounded by his family, according to the statement…
Being a fan is tough. There are no official guidelines to tell you how to be the perfect — or even adequate — fan, except for obvious ones like refraining from mailing naked pictures of yourself to the object of your affection and honoring the court-determined distance pertaining to your restraining order. That’s why…
The Texas Frightmare Weekend isn’t your typical film festival. The frames of the films at this long-running horror movie convention are stained with gallons of Karo syrup, the substance used to make the fake blood that horror movie fans crave with the strength of 10,000 methadone addicts. While other film…
LeeAnne Locken, star of The Real Housewives of Dallas, is a married woman. Everything seems to have gone according to plan. At 51 years old, Locken wore white. Now-husband Rich Emberlin wore his signature eye patch (he is blind in one eye) and a custom vest with his and Locken’s…
Alamo Drafthouse in Lake Highlands is hosting a memorial for Marvel Comic fans grieving the death of superheroes, and a franchise, for Avengers:Endgame.
You’ve always wanted to learn more about the natural world and witness some of the most beautiful parts of our environment but it’s hard to find the time and even if you find a diving suit in your size, it makes you feel like five liters of meat in a…
If you’re not a devoted follower of pop culture’s poppiest sci-fi saga Star Wars, then you’re probably not familiar with the significance of May 4. It’s known as May the Fourth Be With You. It’s got nothing to do with a significant date in the Star Wars canon like the…
When season one of Stranger Things aired, everyone inside the Allen-based game development studio BonusXP became an immediate fan. At lunch, they had to separate into camps just to safely discuss spoiler-ridden anecdotes and fan theories…
Chip and Joanna Gaines are headed for world domination. What started with a TV show called Fixer Upper has turned into an empire. There’s the Magnolia Market, a home-renovation business, a bakery, a garden shop, a restaurant, multiple books, a magazine, multiple home decor lines at Target, Pier One, Anthropologie…
Thanks to the rise of movie streaming subscription services like Netflix, movie theaters have had to step up their offerings to compete for audiences. The Alamo Drafthouse’s national chain plans to roll out its own subscription service by the end of the year to all of its theaters, which will…
This past Saturday, This World Won’t Break had its world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival. The film, directed by Josh David Jordan, is a modern-day musical that tells the story of Wes Milligan (Greg Schroeder), a Texas troubadour who fails to find success as a musician. One day,…
When people see game show host and television producer Marc Summers outside of their TVs or childhood memories, he says he loves it when they come up to him, politely introduce themselves and tell him that they grew up watching him host Nickelodeon’s messy kids’ game show Double Dare. “I get…
The Dallas International Film Festival is back, and this year it’s bringing some new additions. The most important for moviegoers is the new e-ticketing, reserved seating policy. After a year of development and collaboration, DIFF and Atom Tickets built a platform from scratch. Brandon Jones of FilmFrog Marketing says the…
