“If they made a movie, Holden wouldn’t like it,” Martin Sheen opines deep into the new documentary Salinger. He’s speaking of the possibility of a film adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye, a disastrous idea that J.D. Salinger prevented in both life and death. Sheen, of course, could be…
It’s tempting, after watching the exceptional new film Museum Hours, to describe director Jem Cohen’s visual style as chiefly “observational.” The film, a kind of hybrid between understated drama and essayistic tourism, approaches its subjects with uncommon patience and curiosity, lingering over objects and faces as if to savor their…
We’ll always have Iron Man, they must be telling each other in Hollywood. As summer wanes, the hulking corpses of would-be blockbusters litter the home-video distribution channels like fallen Kaiju from Guillermo Del Toro’s giant-’bots-vs.-giant-beasts movie Pacific Rim, the most enjoyable of 2013’s many urban-renewing summer blockbusters. In Del Toro’s…
Understandably, Peter Mayhew is not as well-known as Harrison Ford or Mark Hamill. But W. Ryan Ziegler wants to change that. The first-time filmmaker is now raising money on Kickstarter for Standing in the Stars: The Peter Mayhew Story, a documentary about the 7-foot-3 actor who played Chewbacca in the…
Is your vinyl collection more Munny than Mudhoney, more Kid Robot than Kid A? Do you relish the thought of tearing through generic boxes (and your checking account) in hopes of a one-in-a-million variant? Then this, vinyl toy aficionado, is your holy grail: the Vinyl Thoughts Art Show from 7…
When Ben Affleck was outed as the new Batman, people banded together to pollute newsfeeds with Important Fury. And wow — poor Ben. He can’t have anything nice without someone giving him shit about it. Take for instance that Oscar for Good Will Hunting. Mindy Kaling and her best friend…
Friday the 13th is more than an excuse to rubber-bat your cubical and sip red wine from an IV bag while doing data entry. (We’re all doing that, right?) It’s also a chance to explore your threshold for terrifying attractions as our area’s haunted houses pry their doors open for…
You know a good movie when you see it, but it’s hard to describe in abstract. Good writing, good acting and good cinematography seem like obvious requisites, but sometimes one aspect is just so damn good that you’re willing to forgive the others being kinda shitty. It’s just as hard…
Hangovers are a particularly spiteful affliction because on top of the poisoning in your brain and gnarled barbed wire in your stomach and the random vomiting, there’s a lingering sense of guilt. You spent all of the day before watching a Millionaire Matchmaker marathon and now you’re too hungover to…
In a city of staggered fall openings, blowing your art wad in one weekend is a rookie mistake. Hopefully you’ve saved a bit of room in your Franzia hump after last Friday and Saturday’s affairs because three shows now deserve your attention. Talley Dunn brings a double hit of Some…
Some people consider a marathon an accomplishment. And running 26.2 whole miles is definitely something to be proud of, but there are other stamina-heavy activities that require more finesse. Like tattooing for 24 hours straight. Or holding a world record for most tattoos done in 24 hours. Oliver Peck made…
“Music and Masterpieces” is an artist one-two punch of music and visual art. Beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Dallas Museum of Art’s Horchow Auditorium, Texas-born tenor David Portillo will perform a concert in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Presented by The Dallas Opera, the concert is free…
I can say two words and then just pretty much fill the rest of this space with one long HEEEEEEY. The words are Pride Parade. As in gay pride. As in the grandest celebration of them all. If you’ve never been you seriously have no idea what you’re missing —…
There’s an old saying about how a day without wine could have been better. It’s true — there isn’t much that a glass of nicely fermented grapes can’t brighten up, unless you count your teeth. So get that call in to the dentist now to postpone your whitening session: The…
Is it wrong to define a comedian’s career by one glorious public moment? Let’s hope not, because when Josh Androsky was called onstage during a live taping of the Price is Right, loaded on booze and mushrooms, he became our daytime television spirit animal. Dressed in a Dolly Parton T-shirt…
There’s an infamous tale in the world of modern art about “The Jungle,” a spectacular modernist piece by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. Though now considered a masterpiece, the 1943 stunner hung outside the coatroom at New York’s MoMA for years, eventually prompting a critical outcry and a front-and-center conversation about…
You bought one of those home kits a couple months ago thinking maybe your special brew would be your ticket to total beer-industry domination. The reality was an epic grain-steeping, yeast-activating disaster that resulted in a concoction that’s a non-potable hops of wrath. Maybe it’s time for a little inspiration…
While we’re still giggling from The Book of Mormon, Theatre Arlington (305 W. Main St., Arlington) will kick off its 41st season at 8 p.m. Friday with Altar Boyz, one of the 10 longest-running off-Broadway shows ever. The Boyz are a Christian boy band: Matthew, Mark, Luke and Juan (get…
We’re standing in an Oklahoma City Museum of Art gallery, caught in the crossfire of three wrong-eyed critters. These puppets are big enough to make us feel miniature. Tugging on their connected gym ropes activates their pulleys, causing the beasts to shuffle and dance. Cobbled out of cardboard, bicycle parts,…
Shelby Miller and Cody Phillips’ Vinyl Thoughts Art Show, a celebration of custom-carved collectable toys, returns to the Quixotic World this Thursday. It’s their fourth show in two years, and for this installment expect twisted participation by more than 40 local, national and foreign artists. Much of what will be…
Tattooing the number 13 on Friday 13th has been a tradition among tattoo addicts long before Jason Voorhees climbed out of Crystal Lake and donned a hockey mask to silence a few horny campers by using every-day garden tools like a hatchet, a shovel and a machete. It’s a day…
Summer 2013 was a strong season for that oft-maligned genre, the romantic comedy. Excellent films like The Spectacular Now and Drinking Buddies for the most part avoided rom-com cliches, and reinventions like Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing made timeless story lines seem fresh. Still other on-screen romances were held…
