Here’s the thing that sucks when you have to write about someone legendarily funny: There’s not enough time or space to cover everything, and you’ll never truly do the subject justice. Take Lily Tomlin, for example. She’s giving a solo performance, An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin, at the Meyerson…
In their song “Love Train,” the O’Jays ask people all over the world to join hands and start a “love train.” On Valentine’s Day, the Grapevine Vintage Railroad wants people all over the metroplex to ride one. The trip begins at Stockyards Station and includes strolling violinists, a meal, a…
For the easily bored, traditional aerobic exercise is an activity akin to being forced to push giant rocks in Dante’s fourth circle of hell. Elliptical machines, spinning classes and running are just too repetitive and tedious. At least a few of the recent fitness crazes have added interesting kicks and…
Society underrates Hans Christian Andersen’s brilliance. Just look to his fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes for an example. The story is about a vain and greedy leader so obsessed with his appearance that he spends all his time and money on the quest to be well-dressed. And while it’s…
Wouldn’t it be cool if Montre Bible’s name was pronounced Moan-Tray Beeb-lay, and instead of signing copies of his debut novel Heaven Sent at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, he was singing the song “Heaven Sent” with his Christian heavy metal band at Barnes & Noble? That would be cool…
Nick Di Paolo’s Web site boasts, “In this day of watered-down comedy, Nick Di Paolo’s brutally honest performances stick out like a Catholic priest at the Little League World Series.” Hmm, nice, tasteful and not exactly a great comparison. In fact, there’s nothing that makes me laugh harder or entices…
I can’t quite understand the timing here, but on Valentine’s Day a local gentleman’s club called the Lodge is offering a class on how to “strip for your lover.” It would seem that if you actually had a lover, you’d prefer to spend the evening in a more romantic setting…
Tommy Lee Jones’ feature directorial debut is probably much as you’d expect: a blast of nostalgia that nonetheless accepts the realities of modernity, which isn’t surprising coming from an actor who’s getting up there in years but has found more fame as an old man than as a young’un. The…
Anthony Hopkins lends style points to any movie in which he appears. The thing may be a dog, but the actor who brought the gruesome psychopath Hannibal Lecter to life and got deep inside a repressed English butler always gives us something fascinating to behold. The depth and gravity of…
A Good Woman, Mike Barker’s adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere’s Fan, has been gathering dust for some time. It played the Toronto Film Festival in the fall of 2004 before opening in 2005 in every country in the world except this one. Such dawdling doesn’t bode well…
It happens so often these days. A comedy opens with clever jokes, endearing characters, and an enjoyably brisk pace, all of which put you at ease. This’ll be fun, you think, settling into your chair. Someone trustworthy is driving, so let’s enjoy the ride. And then, just when you thought…
January has earned its reputation as the month in which studios unload all their cheapie horror flicks, but February is the month when we invariably get yet another middle-of-the-road black-urban-professional romantic comedy. (It’s both Black History and Valentine’s month, hence the logic.) In that regard, Something New is anything but…
Say you get some fine pâté de foie gras. You spread a big dollop of it on a thick, crusty slice of warm French baguette along with generous slivers of rare black truffle. First-class ingredients all the way around. Gourmet grub. But when you think about it, when you break…
Dune: Extended Edition (Universal) On paper it sounds insane: A mammoth sci-fi epic directed by David Lynch, based on an intensely weird Frank Herbert novel about ecology and giant worms. What resulted was a flop that has yet to be remedied by multiple edits through the years. This disc includes…
Every fighting game needs a hook to stand out: Mortal Kombat has gore, Soul Calibur has weapons, Def Jam has hip-hop stars. And Dead or Alive? It has boobies. The DOA series — developed by Tecmo — made its name with a cast of fighters who look like pinups and…
Benny Hill: Complete and Unadulterated — The Hill’s Angels Years, Set Four (A&E) Billy Graham Presents: Gift Set (Fox) Bubble (Magnolia) Captains Courageous (1937) (Warner Bros.) Drake & Josh Go Hollywood (Paramount) Extreme Comedy Collection (Team America: World Police, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, and Jackass: The Movie) (Paramount) Four…
So our movie guy here gets to do the Sundance bit and interview famous actors and directors and yell at Hollywood for a lack of intimate movies. Thus it’s always with great hope that he’ll sign on for any blurbs regarding film, considering his encyclopedic knowledge of the cinema. Or…
For those who don’t know their Flying Dutchman from their fat lady singing, the Dallas Opera has paired with the Angelika Film Center for a series of films that they hope will bring their music to the masses. From Moulin Rouge! to Raging Bull, the series’ films each illustrate opera’s…
Driving the High Five every day, it’s hard to imagine the awesomeness that is modern architecture in your rearview mirror. For such an established metropolis, we haven’t been proud of a feat of architecture since Reunion Tower or the Meyerson. Tadao Ando made his mark in Fort Worth a few…
“Tied to apron strings” is thrown as an insult to exploited, homebound females only able to cook, sew and clean…whoa! ‘Scuse me, but I pay dearly for people to do that for me! Our great-grandmothers could make their own soap in a backyard kettle that got the skidmarks out of…
“Tied to apron strings” is thrown as an insult to exploited, homebound females only able to cook, sew and clean…whoa! ‘Scuse me, but I pay dearly for people to do that for me! Our great-grandmothers could make their own soap in a backyard kettle that got the skidmarks out of…
Sometimes I feel that the modern artists are in league against me. Against all of us, really. In a very Emperor’s New Clothes-like conspiracy, they stupefy us with incomprehensible, weird “artworks” that we ignorantly marvel over while they titter behind our backs. We have no idea what we’re looking at;…
