Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin’s sweet nectarine of a jazz standard “Easy Living” figures, in a glancing yet potent way, in Todd Haynes’ Carol, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt. Even though the lyrics speak of contentment — “Living for you is easy living/It’s easy to…
Gilmore Guys is a comedy podcast with a devoted following reminiscent of the TV show it chronicles. Kevin T. Porter and Demi Adejuyigbe are dissecting all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, devoting a podcast for each episode. Hundreds of thousands of listeners tune in each week and live recordings have…
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots This one is obvious. Seriously, though, there have been too few exhibitions of this caliber, both in curation and in work on display. Each of these pieces warrant a bout of serious looking at the piece. Particularly in some of the later works in this exhibition,…
It’s here! Finally, Christmas is upon us — which means that the hard work is almost over: Booze will be flowing, gifts will be given and the love will be palpable. At least for a few precious hours. As for the rest of the week, you should give yourself the…
Lurid, muscular and unafraid to look at turn-of-the-century Manhattan’s rotting guts, The Knick has distinguished itself in the crowded antihero-drama landscape through its mosaic portrait of a city on the verge of implosion and epidemic — detailed with an extraordinary visual expressiveness (courtesy of Steven Soderbergh, who directs every episode)…
If there’s a running theme in this year’s entries in N47 Theatre’s A Very Nouveau Holiday mini-fest at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park, it’s that Christmas just isn’t the same after Mom dies. Or if you’re stuck at the airport with the Abominable Snowman. Or if a comic…
If Joan Davidow’s name sounds familiar, it’s likely because of her tenures as the director of the Arlington Museum of Art and Dallas Contemporary. She’s one of the city’s go-to experts about art and she has an eye for up-and-comers. These days she imparts her insight in segments for KERA,…
Shad and Leigh Kvetko are collectors. Shad for life and Leigh for as long as she’s known Shad. They love a lot of things and they know even more … things. With all their knowledge they could probably teach a class at the learning annex, if we had one. Or…
Do This! Star Wars Weekend at Alamo Drafthouse, 100 S. Central Expwy. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, if you already have your tickets to Star Wars at least. This weekend, Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theater across North Texas and it’s mostly totally entirely completely…
Owners Missy and Brent Finger are listening to Christmas music while relocating in lieu of having Christmas this year. PDNB is leaving Dragon Street to go be with the Dallas Contemporary on Glass Street. “I’m not having Christmas, I’m moving,” says Missy Finger. “I have to listen to the music…
How good was 2015 for movies? My first draft of a top 10 was a staggering top 30. I had to make some agonizing cuts and punt by giving documentaries their own sidebar — this year, they’ve earned it. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: Watch every one…
George Lucas is the L. Ron Hubbard of Hollywood. Both men were sci-fi dreamers turned mega-millionaires who spun their pulp adventures into a religion. Tap the power within yourself, they urged. The faithful forked over their dollars. Then both Lucas and Hubbard mucked up their simple premise with add-ons like…
Site 131 If Joan Davidow’s name sounds familiar, you likely recognize it from her time as the director of either Arlington Museum of Art or Dallas Contemporary. This weekend, she and her son, Seth, open a new non-profit art space on Payne St. Site 131 plans to focus on the…
This time of year, even if you genuinely love and enjoy your family, tensions run high. Your family is going to get on your nerves, and you’re going to want to respond in some way other than just drinking all the whiskey and hiding out in the corner. This can…
Life is hard for the extravagantly wealthy lounging about in one of the world’s most beautiful hotels. Paolo Sorrentino’s latest, Youth, might seem easy to mock — here, after all, are Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel, playing a composer and a film director, moping in a Swiss spa about old…
No sentence distills the essence of one strain of cinephilia — mine especially — better than this one: “Motion pictures are for people who like to watch women.” Bracing in its profound simplicity, this line was written in 1983 by Boyd McDonald (1925-1993), author of the essential collection Cruising the…
Here’s a true story about a St. Louis murder that changed America. In 1837, a black freeman named Francis McIntosh stepped off a Mississippi riverboat and blundered into two white cops chasing a drunk sailor who’d called them names. They ordered McIntosh to stop the perp; when he refused, they…
This year turned out to be a challenging one for couch potatoes. In 2015, the “more programming, more problems” state of television held just as true for viewers as it did for network executives; there was simply too much to watch. But this year of Peak TV has delivered some…
Chances are you don’t yet know who Kylo Ren is, and what he means to the plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Children have not yet had the chance to re-create his on-screen action with their action figures. But the adults, who would rather keep them boxed for future…
As we approach the end of another year in moviegoing — and as the industry prepares for its annual spasm of awards and accolades — it seems an apt time to look ahead. Here are 10 films you won’t want to miss in 2016. 1. The Invitation (Dir. Karyn Kusama)…
What’s quietly revolutionary about Sisters is that it’s a dumb party movie like a million others. The hosts score booze, invite over dozens of friends and frenemies and then watch in horror — and a touch of self-congratulatory awe — as their house gets trashed. With the sunrise come lessons,…
A while back, a friend expressed concern that her son, a 10-year-old, was watching too much My Little Pony. “It’s sweet,” she said, “but not what I’d choose.” I asked what she would prefer that he watch. “Well, his dad started him on that new Star Wars cartoon.” That cartoon…
