Photo by Atsushi Nishijima – © 2014 – Universal PicturesNeeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones.Special guest Inkoo Kang, film critic at TheWrap and news editor at Indiewire’s Women and Hollywood blog, joins Alan Scherstuhl of the Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of the LAWeekly to discuss a variety of…
Thinner than Water The basis of a good family drama is the unified hatred of the patriarch. Well, hatred might be a strong word. Indifference? If there’s one thing most of America can agree upon, it’s that our parents fucked us up and we’re not to blame for our deteriorating…
They’ve done it at last: made a Liam Neeson-stomps-some-ass flick where, as the credits roll, there’s more stuff to be glad you saw than Neeson himself. Based on one of those Lawrence Block novels that’s pretty smart but also too invested in the mechanics of rape and torture, the movie’s…
Surprisingly moving for a film assembled from such familiar scenes, Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins mushes together queasy/quirky indie family drama with the beats of a romantic comedy. You know the outline just from eyeballing the poster: Kristen Wiig’s Maggie and Bill Hader’s Milo find their way toward loving each…
Kevin Smith is a bright guy who over the years has become a little too taken with his own persona, his own jokes, his own cult following. No matter how awkwardly pontifical or ill-shapen his movies have gotten in the past 10 years, there’s always a herd of noisy Jay…
In two minutes, the Beatles captured the empty life of sad singleton Eleanor Rigby. Director Ned Benson is devoting three films to her namesake — a New York divorcée (Jessica Chastain) — and this first entry, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, barely explains her at all. Wan and adrift,…
Unicorn, gryphon, bisexual man: Pick the one that’s real. The usual answer is “none of the above,” with the bisexual male lumped in alongside the Yeti, Easter Bunny and plus-sized supermodel as imaginary creatures. Yet Dallas playwright and director Bruce R. Coleman insists in his new comedy Mythical Beastie that…
“I’ve spent my whole life playing it safe,” whines Judd Altman (Jason Bateman), the middle-class milquetoast at the center of This Is Where I Leave You. Yes, well, so has director Shawn Levy, but on the basis of his latest vacuous trifle he has no apparent intention, as Altman does,…
One of the joys that rarely happens to today’s budding comedy nerds is watching the reaction of their parents when they happen upon one of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Few things can produce such a strange facial mixture of bewilderment and confusion. Imagine how they would look if they…
Head to Mesa in Oak Cliff at 9 p.m. Thursday and take your mole enchiladas with a side of flamenco. The upscale Mexican restaurant is once more hosting Julia Alcantara’s renowned dance troupe Ida y Vuelta, which specializes in that brand of Spanish folk music and dance from southern Spain…
Has there ever been a better time to just go ahead and treat yourself? I mean, first of all, getting a manicure in a bar is a thing now. Whoever thought of that should be crowned beauty queen for all time because the manicure/libation combo is some next level efficiency…
TV aficionados will tell you that most shows hit their peak somewhere between season four and season seven and that it’s only downhill from there. Of course, we’re not sure this applies to ART 21, the PBS show that explores the contemporary art world through interviews with the world’s most…
Every comedy fan has a bucket list of famous funny people in their heads that they have to see on a stage before they die. It’s a hard list to achieve because so many things that happen to great comedians that can keep them off of a stage: nervous breakdowns,…
Considering his performance at opening night last year was met with a boisterous embrace, it should come as no surprise that The Plano Symphony Orchestra has welcomed back the young and decorated 2009 Cliburn Gold medalist Haochen Zhang to open their 2014-15 season as well. The night opens with Glinka’s…
There’s no official word from Delkus, but the DADA Fall Gallery Walk may be the perfect way officially usher in the season. Keep in mind that by this point in September, temperatures in the 80s mean fall has arrived. With this 29th annual event, you can arrive yourself…at more than…
Returning for its ninth year, DanceAfrica is ready to get you on your feet dancing! Hosted by the effervescent Baba Chuck Davis, DanceAfrica promises to stimulate the senses with the melodic drum rhythms, the alluring motion of the human body, and the majesty of the ceremonial traditions deeply rooted in…
Every year, the gay community in Dallas celebrates the freedom of being “out.” After 31 years, the annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade has grown into quite the event with its march taking over Cedar Springs Road with huge displays of pride and support. This year, catch the route from…
As a city, Dallas has plenty of experience with conspiracy theories, corruption, and making headlines. But enough about us. At 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) screens a 35-mm print of The Parallax View, which follows a reporter as he unravels a multinational corporation’s conspiracy that…
Even apart from its contents, Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 is poignant. Completed just two years before the composer’s death, The Ninth serves as a complex, monstrous and terribly profound farewell to this man of genius. The sound of death, dying? The sound of anger? Melancholy? It’s all these things—a portrait…
Get your head in the clouds, y’all—summer is finally over, the temps outside are once again mostly bearable, and outdoor recreation is once again a thing we can do without considerable discomfort. And the sky’s the limit this particular weekend, kind of literally, as the Plano Balloon Festival lifts off…
Addison may be a far cry from Munich, but your eyes will deceive you this weekend when 70,000 Germanophiles descend upon the city for its annual Oktoberfest celebration that startas at 6 p.m. Thursday. There’s something for everyone —drunks, health nuts, thrill-seekers and children alike. Paulaner Bier is sponsoring the…
It’s like that book about traveling, but skinnier and less religious. While we don’t recommend forgoing food or inner peace, there’s something about this yoga and cocktails event that we do recommend. Maybe it’s the price tag, which is a big, fat zero dollars. Drink-Play-Love at the Fairmont Hotel is…
