With the skill of a master showman, Stanley Marcus made luxury retail shopping a distinctive Dallas experience. Mr. Stanley: The Merchant Prince, a short film detailing his life, premiered last weekend in California. The six-minute film, which screened Saturday at the Jolla International Fashion Film Festival, has been nominated as…
Despite some distracting narrative choices and sketchy character development (especially with Mara’s character, who, of course, turns into a love interest), the film does eventually find its footing
When Alfred Kainga started doing stand-up comedy 13 years ago in Dallas, there wasn’t much thought of anything other than making the crowd laugh. This weekend, as Kainga headlines the Arlington Improv for the first time, he and the crew reflect on the journey that led to his name on…
Mike Mezeul II, a Dallas photographer, is no stranger to natural disasters. Throughout his career, he has covered a hurricane, wildfires and tornadoes. However, all of his experience got thrown out the window as he drove to meet up with the National Guard to be briefed on his coverage of…
Friday The 17th annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas brings more than 30 feature-length films and loads of shorts ranging from drama to doc to experimental and more. Among all those movies screening through July 26 at the Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, there seems to be a…
… It’s as scattered and disorienting as the infamous LP Having Fun With Elvis On Stage, an official cheapie that consisted of nothing but the King’s between-songs ‘70s stage banter
In Season 2, that tension gathers over Sam and Ruth (Alison Brie), a GLOW wrestler/cast member and veteran of discouraging, often humiliating Hollywood casting calls
Sorry to Bother You sings in a voice all its own, thanks to the righteous vision of Riley, known for his 1990s hip-hop group The Coup and his vocal support for labor rights
Part of Eighth Grade’s charm comes from a refusal to go for easy confrontations or humiliations; it keeps threatening to become a cringe-fest, but pulls back, as Burnham opts instead for something more human and realistic
As with most horror films, the cast gets whittled down one by one by the killer, in this case, a cabal of folks in black hoods capable of showing up at the characters’ homes at a moment’s notice — they’re maniacally smart, always 10 steps ahead of the gang
The sequels that followed the first RoboCop to the theaters, including the most recent remake, were meager attempts to capitalize on its success. But they ignored the parts that made it work so well. Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, the screenwriters behind the original 1987 hit flick filmed almost entirely…
In a moment of serendipity, Andrew Torget and his two young children found themselves scrolling though the fabled Guinness World Records. They began looking for low-hanging fruit in hopes of adding their names to the record book, a dream deferred from Torget’s childhood. While his children had as little luck as…
The film’s half-baked story about a girl trying to live out her slutty, wonderful, deceased mother’s dream of operating a hotel on a Greek island (all set to the music of ABBA) is so thoroughly entertaining and ridiculous that the cast members can’t help but crack into dumb grins at what they’re doing
Van Helsing is a distant memory by the time we reach Dracula (aka Drac) in the present day, feeling lonely at Hotel Transylvania, his secret resort run by and for monsters, where demonic creatures and other surreal abominations of nature are allowed to vacation free of human meddling
All that lashing wind and rain, and Fuqua’s sometimes haphazard storytelling, deny us the grim pleasures of Denzel’s methodical slayings, which often take clever advantage of whatever tools happen to be handy
“Alive. Thrilled. Grateful. Exhausted. Unbelieving.” These are just a few of the words Ashley White uses to describe how she is feeling halfway through Imprint Theatreworks’ inaugural season. “There’s such a myriad of emotions,” she says. “It’s similar to having a child — you’ve created this thing.” Imprint’s first season began…
Chris Elam wakes up at the crack of dawn and dodges his way through early commuter traffic each morning to ensure his beloved giraffes will find his friendly face to take care of them another day. This is what it means to be a zookeeper. Elam is one of the…
Dallas String Quartet Electric’s a cover of “Despacito,” posted last summer on YouTube, has more than 2.2 million views. Inspired by that success, the group released a new video with a cover of “Girls Like You” by Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B. Members of DSQ Electric posed with exotic cars…
Every Friday the 13th, the staff and artists at Elm Street Tattoo, a Deep Ellum tattoo parlor, spend 24 straight hours tattooing people who line up to a “13” themed tattoo for a rock-bottom price. The place opens at midnight every Friday with a number 13 on its date and…
Ruben Buell speaks quietly. Maybe he isn’t used to media attention, but that’s unlikely. Maybe this president of a major company is just soft-spoken. Perhaps Buell doesn’t want to alert everyone in this Starbucks in Grapevine that he’s the president of Ashley Madison. Yeah, that could be it. Although he…
The Spanish term “maricón,” which translates to “faggot,” is in insult to gays in the Latino community. Some Latinx artists have reversed the insult and decided to embrace it through art. The nonprofit organization Arttitude is showing MaricónX, an exhibition that features eight LGBT and Latinx artists whose work covers…
Every Tuesday, Taylor Higginbotham, Brad McKenzie and Robbie Scheer invite a comedian to perform some stand-up comedy to a live crowd at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton for their podcast, The Brave Boys. But the comedian’s set is not recorded; only those in the packed room hear it. After the…
