It’s about 40 minutes after 7 p.m. and the Beyond Belief Dance Company dance moms are wondering where owner and director Justin Johnson is. “You know he always has to make an entrance,” one mom says to the other. Johnson is fashionably late to his own party celebrating the opening…
Ella Jerrier, daughter of local pizza magnate Jay Jerrier, has gone on to show that talent does indeed run in the family. The quick-witted 12-year-old and her father have been in L.A. for the last few weeks, hard at work setting up what seems to be the beginning of a…
The teacher in question, played by an excellent Maggie Gyllenhaal, takes an insistent interest in the life and (apparent) art of 5-year-old student Jimmy (Parker Sevak), who occasionally goes into a shuffling trance and mumble-recites evocative verses of his own invention
Footage of Studio life — the lavish lights, the Broadway-style props and performance numbers, the heaving mass of beautiful people — plays here mostly in chaotic montage, with few shots related to the one coming next
Victor Perry can’t stop smiling. After earning a broadcasting degree earlier this year from UTA, he’s working toward a second degree in public relations and getting ready to open a film studio in downtown Arlington. These days, the 51-year-old DeSoto resident has a lot to smile about. But he says…
Friday Neil Diamond’s songs have never needed anything to punch them up. If you’ve ever heard a bar full of last-call patrons slurring “Sweet Caroline,” you know this is true. Those tunes stand on their own. That said, putting a little orchestration behind those well-worn, iconic hits adds a good…
… Like that of I Love You, America, Cohen’s apparent goal of exploring America’s multitudes belies his show’s actual focus on belittling, baiting or simply giving a platform to white Americans in particular
The Hate U Give takes time to focus on the nuances of Starr’s life, on the ways Williamson has split her consciousness, on the effort of code-switching, on the layers of self that Starr must sort through in everyday interactions
Crafting his pseudo-realistic account of the crimes and trial of anti-Islamic murderer Anders Behring Breivik (Anders Danielsen Lie), writer-director Greengrass … examines the attacks through the pinhole lens of post-disaster trauma
When your doorbell rings Halloween night, there’s a limitless possibility of what you’ll see. Anything from superheroes to monsters to princesses can be waiting on your doorstep, ready to collect candy. But Dallas attorney Chad West noticed more and more that instead of a famous character, it was a costume-less…
A tense, terse drama that plunges us headlong and handheld into the high-risk world of the space race in the 1960s, the film spares few moments for reflection or reverie
There’s more than a twinge of excitement in comedian Tom Arnold’s voice as he talks a mile a minute about his adventures with some of America’s most powerful political leaders. They’re even more impressive to hear when you realize he’s not a political comedian. Even Arnold doesn’t seem to understand…
You’ve already missed your chance to see Piff the Magic Dragon perform live unless you can afford to drop everything and go on a road trip to his next gig. But don’t worry, we’ve found the next best thing. The Las Vegas comedy magician, who performs regularly at The Flamingo,…
Wednesday Get ready to feast your eyes on Dallas VideoFest’s dozens of documentary features and shorts on topics ranging from history-makers, some right here in Texas, to humor (Peter Bogdanovich’s doc on comic great Buster Keaton). Screen opener at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday takes place at Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson…
With subscription business models dominating more and more markets, the ability to offer as much of anything as possible has become a necessity. Netflix, Spotify, MoviePass — these and similar companies have given the public a chance to explore massive amounts of end products within their respective mediums. Now consider…
It seems like just yesterday the fair had its opening day, but now there’s only two weeks left to make it out to the State Fair of Texas. If you’ve been thinking about going but are living the modest life where you’re relieved every time your debit card gets approved,…
With election day in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke closing in, Austin filmmaker Steve Mims reveals their opposing views of governing during a historic period of national political tumult. Mims’ documentary film, Run Like the Devil, is on tour and will make…
This alien being, which helpfully calls itself Venom, is a fairly terrifying creation: a many-fanged, slobbery, snake-tongued monster that loves to eat people’s heads
Bad Times is a much better time in its mysterious middle, which tingles with darkly comic possibility, than in its final 40 minutes, when Goddard’s cards are on the table
Its centerpiece is a breathless break-in at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, as two 30ish suburbanites, played by Gael Garcia Bernal and Leonardo Ortizgris, attempt to loot artifacts from what is known as the Mayan room
The filmmakers capture Honnold’s 2016 and 2017 attempts to complete the first “free solo” climb of these granite cliffs, and the suspense is thrilling, agonizing, perhaps indecent
Friday Mockingbird Station just added music to its list of things to do there. It already has shopping and eating, and at 5 p.m. Oct. 5, it will also be home to the Mockingbird Station Music Festival. Friday Night Fights, a power pop group, will headline the festival, while guests…
