Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s films implicitly promise a number of elements that give his fans that warm, familiar, fuzzy feeling. Simply watching one of his trailers sends shivers of joy when the smushy-faced Dominique Pinon appears on screen. The director of Amelie and City of Lost Children promises a number of things…
Payback is due this weekend at Dr Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, where the hometown RoughRiders will take on the Springfield Cardinals. The ‘Riders put up more Ls than Ws against the corn-fed Cards at their last meeting in April. Time to even the score, boys. The three-game series against the…
The Texas Rangers break hearts in North Texas every year, maybe even more so than our beloved Cowboys. We expect the Cowboys to win, and we get pissed when they don’t. But the Rangers always give us just a glimpse of greatness; the team always seems to heat up this…
Just as this show’s girl-group, The Dreams, get a makeover on their way to stardom, the show itself has received an overhaul by director-choreographer Robert Longbottom. Though set in the 1960s, the 1981 musical now benefits from 21st century technical glitz on Robin Wagner’s video- and light-heavy industrial-metal scenery. Moving…
We’ve never really understood the appeal of the UFC (or Ultimate Fighting Championship), but then again, we don’t understand Twilight, Justin Bieber or truck nuts, either, and they seem to be doing just fine without our support. This Saturday, ultimate fighters Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin will take it to…
Many people debate over the pronunciation of potato–po-tay-to or po-tah-to. Others spend hours disputing nature versus nurture. Those at the Amon Carter Museum will be deliberating the meaning and significance of more than 80 paintings included in its newest exhibit, Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-’50s…
If you’ve had your fill of patriotism and explosions by Monday, head to Good Records (1808 Greenville Ave.) for a dark evening with the Lizard King and a band of pretentious Canadians. Starting at 8 p.m., the latest installment of Good’s Music Movie Mondays features When You’re Strange, a critically…
Miyavi performs at House of Blues this weekend. And if the Internet videos are anything close to what the Dallas show’s going to be like, bring your fangirl-scream-canceling headphones. Miyavi is a J-rock (Japanese rock) artist participating in the Visual Kei movement (which basically means he looks like Gwen Stefani…
It’s true. Good things come to those who wait. Nearly 40 years after its creation, Gone With the Pope is making its way to a Dallas theater. This ’70s crime saga, released by Grindhouse Productions, is a gem for all B-movie lovers. Paul, played by Duke Mitchell, is a gangster…
The Old-Fashioned Family Fireworks Picnic promises music ranging from “Elvis to the Eagles to Tchaikovsky’s explosive 1812 Overture.” Performances of the 1812 Overture traditionally incorporate cannon blasts. Instead, they should use the cannonballs to obliterate the orchestra if they start into “Hotel California.” Performances are 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday…
Want to avoid the loud booms and sparkly sky madness this Fourth of July weekend? We won’t hold it against you–we know you’re celebrating Independence Day in your heart, but we do have something you can enjoy. This Thursday through Sunday, July 1 through 4, Michael Colyar will be headlining…
Like a good mix tape, there’s an art to making a really fine diptych. You need a connection between the two images, but you don’t want to make it too obvious. Layer a few ideas together in some fresh relationship that’ll make people think. A shot of a man lying…
Independence Day traditions can be a bit of a bummer to attempt in the heat of Texas summers. Outside activities are not at the top of everyone’s list when the mercury hits the triple digits. So what can you do to salute the red, white and blue and stay cool?…
The cult (and pothead) classic Reefer Madness (1936) was originally titled Tell Your Children, but definitely do not tell your children to attend Ohlook Performing Arts Center’s musical production of the tragic tale. The show includes adult humor, religious parody, drug use, suggested violence, sexual explicitness and more, so, yes,…
Most artists would agree that painting in order to duplicate what a photograph could do is a betrayal of the medium. But if a camera can depict an object as we can imagine it, or dream of it, then it can probably be called art. This is especially true when…
Fantasia has been described as Walt Disney’s acid trip, and with all of those dancing fish, cavorting Greek gods and stressed-out dinosaurs, we’ve got to agree. Not that we think Disney did acid, but in the face of the sheer dizzying, imaginative brilliance of Fantasia, you can’t deny it’s a…
When my wife and I found out that our first child was going to be a daughter, I’ll admit that one of the first things that crossed my mind was the frightening fact that at some point in the next two, three, maybe four decades, I would likely have to…
We’ve bemoaned holding fireworks displays on the third of July ever since the trend got started, but apparently no one listened, as the vast majority of this year’s fireworks displays are happening on Saturday. But at least we had our Fair Park Fourth. That is until the city canceled the…
You know and love Jason Bourne as an implacable killing machine. But what if he were a mouthy asshole instead? That’s the provocative question posed by James Mangold’s Knight and Day, which casts Tom Cruise as a Bourne wannabe who seriously can’t shut up. As Roy Miller, an agent gone…
“Never ask for what ought to be offered,” 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her little brother in Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik’s dark and flinty Ozark fairy tale. Those are words to live by for Ree and her people, scattered across the hardscrabble crooks and hollers of the southern Missouri…
As unrepentantly grandiose and ludicrous as its title, Luca Guadagnino’s visually ravishing third feature suggests an epic that Visconti and Sirk might have made after they finished watching Vertigo and reading Madame Bovary while gorging themselves on aphrodisiacs. That it works so well—despite frequently risible dialogue (“Happy is a word…
Once upon a time people actually milked their own cows, produced their own meat and grew their own fruits and vegetables. Kids’ chores consisted of tending to the farm instead of cleaning their room, and people couldn’t fathom mothers working anywhere but in their own household. Needless to say, things…
