Friday It’s rare enough that I answer my phone when I know who’s on the other end. When I don’t recognize the number, that call is going to straight to voicemail every time. The thought of spending a full hour speaking to whoever is on the other end of the…
Out of the eighty-two feature films at Fantastic Fest this year, eleven were directed by women, and four of those were co-directed by a man. For the slow in math, that means women directed only about 13 percent, which is pretty dismal, though on par with Cannes and 8 percent…
Lording over the colonies is all bore and bother for the queen in Stephen Frears’ sumptuous yet centerless Victoria & Abdul. The film dramatizes Queen Victoria’s spirited friendship with Abdul Karim, a charming clerk from northern India who — in this telling — jolts the Empress of India from her…
Mike White’s father-and-son college-trip comedy-drama Brad’s Status is legitimately more frightening than anything in It. Quite aside from the fact that real life is always scarier than monsters from the beyond, the writer-director’s deep understanding of envy, entitlement and embarrassment has never been more nightmarishly effective. But don’t expect one…
Jim Norton will perform at Texas Theatre this Friday, Sept. 29 Comedian Jim Norton can’t remember the first embarrassing, sexually perverted story he told. All he remembers is where it happened and that two other comics found it hilarious. “It was a Radisson hotel [in New Jersey] that had a…
If I could sum up my experience this week at the Austin-based genre film festival Fantastic Fest in a word, it would be “exhausting.” In years past, that complete physical and mental breakdown might come mostly from the mind-blowing cinema and rowdy events of the festival, but now it is…
BoJack Horseman streams on Netflix It’s not a huge surprise that my sensitive and kind-hearted spouse could be left sobbing by an episode of a popular TV show. She’d say herself that she’s an easy mark, TV showrunners. But it’s definitely a surprise when any show even tries. TV writers…
Gerald’s Game premieres on Netflix on Sept. 29 One of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen on television comes early in The Langoliers, a 1995 ABC miniseries adapted by Tom Holland from a Stephen King novella. It’s the one about a small group of travelers waking up on a…
Thursday Dallas Contemporary invites you on a journey — several journeys, in fact — into an alternative past, to Asia’s invisible cities and along a woman’s life path. Before you go, though, you have have to buy a ticket by becoming a member of the gallery. Prices range from $35…
Members Only Opening Reception Dallas Contemporary 1616 Glass St. 7 p.m. Thursday $35 and up Dallas Contemporary invites you on a journey — several journeys, in fact — into an alternative past, to Asia’s invisible cities and along a woman’s life path. Before you go, though, you have have to…
Spending the majority of the year on the road isn’t a new experience for seasoned comedy couple Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher. They first met in the Chicago comedy scene and got to know each other while doing road gigs together. So what makes their Back to Back tour, which…
The Waco couple that took America by storm in 2013 by renovating one Waco home at a time announced the shocking decision on their blog Tuesday. In a post on magnoliamarket.com, a somber Joanna Gaines holds hands with her husband, the ever chipper Chip Gaines, to announce their megahit show,…
In Battle of the Sexes, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ film rehashing the most infamous tennis match in modern history, Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) must brawl with the coed United States Tennis Association for equal pay as she comes to terms with her attraction to women and what might be…
In its third year, the Nasher Prize is a fledgling, yet it’s as important to sculpture as the Academy Award is to film and the Grammy is to music. It’s the only international award dedicated to the practice of sculpture, honoring a living artist with a $100,000 prize and the…
Mikey Neumann had not planned on earning a living just from his YouTube channel, but the Plano resident hadn’t planned on much of what has occurred this year. Complications with his long-term diagnosis of multiple sclerosis resulted an extended hospital stay in March, and shortly after he ended a 16-year…
The Dallas Observer is headed to the big screen. “Analogue People in a Digital World,” a short documentary produced in collaboration with filmmaker duo Daniel Driensky and Sarah Reyes, is one of eight short films that will screen at Studio Movie Grill on Sunday, Oct. 8, as part of the…
For young, aspiring lawyers fresh out of law school, landing a job at a prestigious firm is often the next goal. But for Dallasites Ashley Ogbonna and Asya Mitchem, getting jobs as a lawyer was just half of the vision. The pair also dreamed of becoming successful boutique owners. With…
Trey Egan: Future Glow Cris Worley Fine Arts 1845 E. Levee St. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays Free Cris Worley Fine Arts, 1845 E Levee St., hosts its third solo show with artist Trey Egan for his exhibition Future Glow, which includes large-scale paintings in oil on canvas. His…
Just a little more than three months ago, Tom Cruise starred in a lifeless wannabe-blockbuster called The Mummy that made little use of his innate charisma (shut up, he still has some) or his star persona, turning him into an anonymous action hero. Now comes American Made, a picture that…
Over the weekend, I did something heroic, mind-blowing, but ultimately anticlimatic. Well, it was exciting for me but absolutely no one else. I competed in Funniest Reporter in Texas, and no, there is no video proof of it. This happened because my editor — we’ll call him Joe Pappalardo — forced…
Please accept what follows as a considered statement, arrived at through observation and experience, and not as film-review hype or boilerplate: Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock is the rare drug movie that, as you watch it, if you surrender to it, stirs the sensations of having taken drugs. I’m…
Friday Before Nine Inch Nails, Muse or even Marilyn Manson, there was Depeche Mode. A pioneer in popularizing electronic music, the English band peaked in the 1980s, offering a musical alternative to the exhausted bubblegum pop of Top 40 hits. The band has released 14 studio albums since its conception…
