Lone Star Film Festival AMC Palace 220 E. 3rd St., Fort Worth Thursday through Sunday $10 With 35 feature-length films — and to clarify, that’s before counting shorts or student films — the Lone Star Film Festival in Sundance Square, Fort Worth, is no small creature. Individual movie tickets are…
Dog Eat Dog is like nothing Paul Schrader has ever done before. The director of films as diverse as American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Affliction and Blue Collar (and the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ), Schrader is no stranger to…
One day, Denis Villeneuve will make a truly great movie. This is, apparently, a controversial opinion. Many out there feel strongly that the Canadian filmmaker has been leaping from triumph to triumph in recent years — with Sicario, Prisoners and Enemy under his belt — while some consider him a…
It’s impossible not to think of the T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park while watching Bryan Bertino’s chilling and succinctly titled The Monster. You remember: It’s dark, and the rains have started. The Jeeps have stalled en route to their destination. The kids are in one car, adults in the other,…
It’s fun watching Ginny Baker be rude to people. I was hesitant to give a chance to Pitch, the new Fox series imagining the life and career of the (fictional) first woman to play Major League Baseball, because I feared Ginny would be impossibly noble, driven and hardworking — the…
We have yet to coin a citywide slogan urging everyone to “Keep Dallas Weird,” and the truth is we don’t really need to. Refuse to admit that you live in a city as peculiar as its people? Time to rethink that notion and take a closer look at seven spots…
Art critic and artist Darren Jones began his career as a painter before he began introducing words into his work. Now Jones says he “thinks of words the way a sculptor thinks of clay.” Nine Inch Will Please a Lady: Romance and Ribaldry in the Literary Vernacular of Scotland is…
Radioee.net: Solario 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday The Pollock Gallery at SMU 6101 Bishop Blvd. Radioee.net is a nomadic, online, bilingual radio transmission dedicated to themes like mobility, migration and transportation. The program is set to occur in tandem with the…
With films like Take Shelter, Mud and even this spring’s somewhat uneven Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols has steadily built a filmography of terse beauty. With Loving, he tackles the kind of boldface subject matter that Oscar season feeds on: It’s a historical drama about the 1967 Supreme Court decision that…
On Friday night, the opera Moby-Dick returned to the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, the site of its world premiere in 2010. Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer have tightly condensed Herman Melville’s 800-page classic into a two act, three-hour opera. They stayed true to the mood of this…
A question is posed to the main character of Barry Jenkins’ wondrous, superbly acted new film, Moonlight: “Who is you, man?” The beauty of Jenkins’ second feature, which follows his San Francisco–set black-boho romance Medicine for Melancholy (2008), radiates from the way that query is explored and answered: with specifics…
Haters Back Off!, a new eight-episode comedy streaming on Netflix, is about putting yourself out there, ignoring the haters, following your dreams no matter who or what stands in your way and utterly humiliating yourself on YouTube. Also at church socials, gay bars, funerals, rest homes — really anywhere Miranda…
Last weekend, gamers from all around the country sat down in front of computers, game consoles and big stacks of board games and played for 24 hours straight — or until their thumbs went numb. They endured the marathon session for a special cause. The nonprofit gaming-based charity Extra Life held…
Jared Schwartz and Mary Dibbern don’t exactly look or act like international chart-topping musicians. Schwartz, draining excess oil from his salad dressing, cracks jokes about avoiding “the stereotypical opera singer physique.” Dibbern speaks softly of her globe-hopping adventures, uncovering lost music and meeting the descendants of classical and operatic composers…
Tue 11/8 What’s the proper theme for an election-night party this time around? “Free at last, free at last?” How about “Sing, fat lady! For the love of God, sing!” Central Track, a local culture and news website, is hosting its first election night party where party goers can watch…
John Waters is best known for the long list of cult films he’s written and directed, including Pink Flamingos, Hairspray and Cry-Baby, but for the last 11 years he’s been occupied with other creative projects outside of the movie business. Among these are his spoken word performances, which he’s been…
Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven has dedicated his career to sifting through trash to extract ugly truths. He’s a former math and physics student who decided movies make more sense, but it’s hard to picture him crunching numbers and plugging in formulas and dealing with absolute answers, as his proudly pugnacious…
Maria Bamford, the stand-up comedian who stars in the critically acclaimed Netflix series Lady Dynamite, is very open about her struggles and triumphs with maintaining her mental health. According to a New York Times profile published in 2014, she’s wrestled with obsessive compulsive disorder, binge-eating, anxiety and type-II bipolar disorder…
“Seven minutes ’til the sale starts!” Shakespeare in the Bar tickets are about to go on sale and my coworkers are coordinating the purchase over the tops of their cubicles. “How many am I buying?” one asks. “Are you going?” These are normal people counting down seven minutes until theater…
This election has been crazy. In creating a cover for Jim Schutze’s feature, we wanted to convey that in the end we are all losers for having been witness to it. What better way to exemplify that feeling than a trash can fire? Photographer Ed Steele took on the challenge…
Little Women: Dallas is officially here. Or it’s over there, since they spent a good chunk of the episode in Fort Worth. The premiere episode begins by introducing all of the “little women.” There’s Emily Fernandez, Bri Barlup, Caylea Woodbury, Tiffani Chance, Asta Young and Amanda Loy. They list off…
Dallas women may be known for their fashion sense, but the fashion industry here isn’t nearly as robust as New York or Los Angeles. But New York-based upstart Dia&Co, a personal subscription styling service for women sizes 14 and up, is looking to help change that as it opens its…
