The year is almost over, and now’s the time to start making a list of New Year’s resolutions — not for yourself, of course. You’re perfect. No resolutions for you are needed, and you can’t give people you know resolutions because that’s called an intervention. So what do you do…
Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either
Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband … argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
Christmas Day can be a hard time to find a place to go. Everything closes down, and when you realize you’re missing ingredients for Christmas dinner, you’re forced to scrounge at a 7-Eleven and make a judgment call on whether anyone will notice the ham is just five cans of…
Baldwin’s central story, dialogue and time-jumping narrative structure are all in place, but so, too, is a sumptuous visual style that serves to deepen the novelist’s themes of racial injustice and the powerful countering force of love
Friday You would think Santa Claus would be a bit crunched for time two days before Christmas Eve, but the jolly old elf has made time to lead a few horseback trail rides at Southfork Ranch, home of the prime-time oil opera Dallas’ Ewing family. Apparently reindeer-driven sleighs aren’t Old…
With the quickest blink or nervy glance, Roberts communicates to us both what her character, an ordinary woman named Holly Burns, has convinced everyone around her to think she’s feeling but also all of her secret doubts, fury and anguish
True to the spirit of the chipper, somewhat aimless live-action Disney day killers that inspired it, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns gets better the further it wanders from its actual story.
The annual pride celebration in Dallas will move from its traditionally scheduled September spot to a few months earlier, in June. Jaron Turnbow, executive director of Dallas Tavern Guild and Dallas Pride, made the announcement via a statement on the Dallas Pride website after speaking with community members in an…
Not incidental to Aquaman’s pleasures is its vision of a mixed-race hero, played by a mixed-race actor, fighting to protect and understand clashing aspects of his heritage
In a packed Addison Improv showroom, the Funniest Comic in Texas Contest, a competition that sprawled over multiple rounds going all the way back to October, crowned its winner, Dallas comedian Wes Corwin. The finals, held Dec. 12, were a showdown of comedians from all over the state, hosting both…
Wednesday If your idea of the holidays is about a baby Jesus and a virgin Mary and also some old fat man dressed in red, maybe it’s time to explore outside your world views. The Interfaith Council of the Thanks-Giving Foundation is here to help with its 2018 Winter Festival…
With Tim Tebow’s celebrity influence and his brother Robby Tebow’s guidance and football expertise, Jake McEntire’s script about two brothers growing up in the South was coming to life at a live football game. “When you have Tim Tebow as one of the producers … it’s very helpful,” says Jake…
Starting Jan. 1, the South Dallas-located NYLO Hotel will become the CANVAS Dallas hotel. Designed as a beacon to both artists and art lovers, CANVAS is the love child of an art gallery and a modern hotel. It’s a place for the Picasso at heart to spend the night, grab…
The January, February and March months of 2019 are already boasting a strong slate, with U.S. distribution of international festival favorites along with welcome returns of first-rate genre filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and Jordan Peele
Friday Thanks to a lonely toy’s wish being granted by a genie, his fellow playthings are coming to life and wreaking vengeance upon their oppressors. The monstrous Krampus is leading an evil army of elves against the rogue toys. And, should you choose to visit a haunted attraction rather than,…
As you enter the lobby of one particular movie theater in Plano, you’ll see all your favorite movie refreshments: soda and candy and dog treats. K9 Cinemas is the only theater designed specifically for dog owners to bring their pets along for a movie night. Eric Lankford, the creator of…
The actresses share only one scene in the film, but Mary Queen of Scots sets them up in counterpoint, two divergent approaches to the question of how women who wield power can actually govern the men around them
“I want people to know Native Americans are still here,” says Damon Neal, a member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Neal, whose mother is Apache and whose father is of Cherokee, Wichita, Caddo and Delaware descent, will turn 41 on Friday. He spends about 25 percent of his time making…
The film plays as if a three-hour epic has been sliced down to size in the editing, but only the scenes establishing character and context have been cut
Dee Simmons doesn’t really give a rip. Or a dog’s rip. Or a flip. Or a rat’s ass. Dee Simmons is the larger-than-life, all-knowing and all-giving woman of Dallas society, and she isn’t concerned about what anyone thinks of her. It’s a Friday afternoon when Simmons’ housekeeper opens the front…
Wednesday We wonder. If one were to poll a random group of American twentysomethings, how many could give a knowledgeable account of the birth of Jesus, the flight into Egypt and other details of the Nativity? And how many, do you think, could tell the entire plot of A Christmas…
