Think of your favorite movie character. It doesn’t matter the genre or the franchise. Just think of the movie character you love the most and always wanted to become if money, opportunity and the basic laws of physics weren’t standing in your way. Now imagine getting a phone call from…
Comics have always been a family affair for Dallas artist Brie Underhill. Her grandfather helped shape her love for the art form by introducing Calvin and Hobbes, The Wizard of Id, Nancy and B.C. to her as a child. “We would always read comics in the newspaper together,” she says. “I…
Local theater stalwart Kitchen Dog Theater is in the midst of its 26th season, and big changes have been coming left and right for the company. One is the introduction of a new program that will release 20 free tickets for every performance. In 2016, Kitchen Dog Theater was forced…
With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn’t even know we’d never seen. For me that includes Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy (Arrow Video), a trio of quick, down-and-dirty crime-gang pulp rockets (1995-99) that established Miike as Japan’s fin-de-siècle…
The 34th season of Survivor began airing last night. It was also the 500th episode. Jeff Probst has won four Emmys for hosting the show, and yet I had never seen one minute of it. Fort Worth native Michaela Bradshaw returns for this season, which takes place in Fiji. She…
Don’t hold it against Martin Zandvliet’s land-mine drama that its English title is the dopiest movie-title pun since John Singleton’s Poetic Justice. That film concerned a poet named Justice; Land of Mine a land of mines. Called Under Sandet in the original Danish — roughly Under the Sand — Zandvliet’s…
Let’s say you had to make up a list of historical moments that might serve as grand backdrops for sweeping, old-fashioned, Hollywood-style romantic dramas. How high would you rank the Armenian genocide? How high would you rank any genocide? Watching Hotel Rwanda, you probably never hoped that, amid the carnage,…
Even as some members of the Texas Legislature work to kill state incentives used to draw television and film productions to cities like Dallas, a big one is preparing to come to town in a couple of weeks. A film crew from the Fox network is planning to shoot an…
Almost no one ever asks young women what they desire — in movies or reality. Feminine cravings are still seen as a dire threat, a grand disturbance to the power structure, and the few movie men who dare speak the words “What do you want?” — like Noah in The…
Three Links Anniversary Three Links 2704 Elm St. 9 p.m. Friday $10 Back in 2013, we talked to the guys who opened the Deep Ellum bar and music venue Three Links. “We want this to be a good spot to get a stiff drink and see a great show,” they…
Dallas’ newest film festival addition feels especially prescient. EarthXFilm’s inaugural showcase will focus on “films and emerging media that explore conservation, climate change and the environment” in hopes of generating awareness and sparking action. Housed inside of Dallas’s Earth Day celebrations, EarthXFilm will have 35 films, 50 screenings, panels, workshops,…
The horror anthology — multiple short films, often from different directors, all tied together with a wraparound framing device — has been a staple of the genre since at least 1919 and the German Eerie Tales. Since then, horror has thrived in the short form, though television was the preferred…
Every Western that gets made feels like it could be the last one, and yet the genre refuses to ride off into the sunset. Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone doesn’t breathe new life into the oater, but the Dutch writer/director has clearly studied the gunslingers of yore. His film strives for a…
Women don’t have to be gracious. They can be monsters. Mothers. And mothers of monsters. XX, the new collection of spooky shorts by four female filmmakers, drills down to the meat of these ideas. Fresh off of Sundance, it’s getting a local screening — charmingly — on Wednesday, March 8,…
Frida Kahlo PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., Suite 154 Ongoing through April 15 Paintings by the iconic Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo are on display at PDNB Gallery in an exhibition highlighting the playful and candid portraits of the artist taken by her close companion, Lucienne Bloch. Bloch and Kahlo…
Tue 3/7 If you’ve lived in Texas long enough, chances are you’ve driven through a tiny-ass town that makes you wonder exactly who lives in such a small corner of the universe. The award winning Tribeca Film Festival documentary Uncertain looks at the lives of a Texas town called, you…
Artistic couple Frank and Lee Dufour figure the interpretation of dreams is better left to psychoanalysts. That’s why their current project instead focuses on another aspect of our dream lives. “We’re trying to illustrate the mechanics of dreams and how movement happens inside them,” Frank says. Dreams, as you’re probably well…
Tax refunds are finally rolling in, which means it’s officially treat-yo-self season. Skip run-of-the-mill spa centers and stretch your dollars by choosing something extra special. Whether you find yourself in a flotation cabin, Russian banya or Himalayan salt cave is totally up to you. Salt Cave of Southlake 200 N…
The teen angst was palpable this weekend as 10,000 vessels of raging hormones packed into the Irving Convention Center for the North Texas Teen Book Festival. Without intentionally eavesdropping, we heard no fewer than four variations of: “Hey, after this, want to take a selfie?” Headlining Dallas’ Comic Con of…
It’s hard to review a production as huge as Public Works Dallas’ The Tempest, which featured 200 Dallasites in the cast and five professional actors. On the one hand, you had the play: lights, music, acting, words, dancing, chaos. And there was chaos. The Friday premiere was a gorgeous mess at…
Science fiction has gotten so high and mighty on TV that it now can be easy to admire but hard to love. Westworld and Mr. Robot may win Emmys and prompt think-pieces, but their self-reflective chill keeps the audience at arm’s length — few things are as annoying as getting…
For a movie in which a major character’s death is discovered when a giant lizard-monster vomits out his skull, Kong: Skull Island is a surprisingly breezy affair. It’s not so much that the characters or situations are particularly lighthearted. The film offers up plenty of wartime atmosphere and grim backstory,…
