Going bald is the best thing that ever happened to Jude Law. Britain’s prettiest export did the best he could with his burden of good looks. He played a genetic ideal in Gattaca, a robotic ideal in A.I. Artificial Intelligence and in The Talented Mr. Ripley, his golden god perfection…
The promise of seeing Scarlett Johansson fully nude is probably enough to lure lots of people into Jonathan Glazer’s alien-among-us fantasy Under the Skin, and the vision doesn’t disappoint: Her figure, seen in long shot, is a grand and glowing thing. But her nakedness is the opposite of a sleazy…
Sometimes it’s helpful to know certain details about how a film has come together. And sometimes it’s just so much information. Transcendence, the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan’s go-to cinematographer, Wally Pfister, was shot on film rather than digitally, as most big Hollywood movies (and nearly all small ones) are…
When Wally Pfister won an Oscar for Inception, his sixth film with Christopher Nolan, he went home and put the statuette on his mantel. “And then it moved to the corner, and then my office, and then the closet because you go away for a few months, and then it…
Do you have a burning question you’ve always wanted to ask someone older and wiser than yourself? Do you feel like your lunch hour could be better spent than with water cooler American Idol conversation? Follow-up question: Does anyone still watch American Idol? If you’re looking for wisdom in the…
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear Joe Rogers play. Right this way, your table’s waiting. The monthly Sammons Cabaret is a darn good reason to put down your knitting. Local personality Sheran Goodspeed Keyton takes the stage at 8 p.m. Thursday to channel Etta, croon some…
Marijuana gained acceptance so fast that the country really doesn’t know what to make of it. We’ve got two states on the books that made recreational usage legal with more certain to follow their example. It wasn’t that long ago that we were making anti-drug movies to scare young people…
Robberies, stabbings, murder. Welcome to Thor Johnson’s world. This visually talented Dallas artist’s solo show, Trigger Warning, opens at Ware:Wolf:Haus, 425 Bedford St., with a reception from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Thor said he chose the date of the show because of its historical significance. A few of the…
Rumor has it that to snag his role in Nymphomaniac, Shia LaBeouf sent Lars von Trier a sex tape he made with a girlfriend. You can thank me for that excuse next time you try to talk your significant other into filming your intimate moments. Plus, if you’re creative enough,…
Look, we don’t want to jinx anything, but we think it’s finally safe to wear fewer clothes without fear of frostbitten … extremities. (Just mind your ACs, now.) And naturally, spring makes us immediately think of well-choreographed, if not scantily clad, frolics and gravity-defying jubblies. Wait, that’s not everyone? Well,…
On one end of your block, there may be a neighbor who is devoutly religious, while just down the street, there might be a marathon runner, and two doors over a painter, then three blocks behind you a professional bull rider. The many varieties of human beings make life vibrant…
Traveling is not the same. Memories from trips blur together, lost amongst the thousands of photos uploaded to Instagram. Nobody uses printed pictures anymore to capture life’s more precious moments. Except perhaps professional photographers. Dallas artist Sally Warren, for example, who currently works in the realms of found digital images…
Slapstick will always be funny whether it’s the Three Stooges pounding each other’s faces into hamburger meat or some schlub on a security camera falling into a mall fountain because they don’t possess the motor skills one needs to look at a cell phone and walk safely at the same…
Ever play the cinematic trope drinking game? That’s where you take a shot every time a Hollywood flick uses blunt editing to make a point, employs caricature to drive something home or leans mightily on a visual metaphor. Pick out a random sample of Oscar-winning films, and you’ll be guaranteed…
As our old pal Bill Shakespeare once said: “The play’s the thing.” He would know — the play certainly was his thing, thus ensuring that it became “the thing” that every high school English student plowed through, CliffsNotes in one hand and forehead clutched with the other. For many, it…
When you think of the most iconic building in Dallas, what comes to mind? Fountain Place or Reunion Tower (you know, the spinny ball restaurant)? More important, what comes to mind for the majority of your fellow citizens? These are the kinds of questions that will be asked at Firmily…
Do you ever pick up a newspaper from a few days ago and read that your favorite band was in town and wonder how you missed it? Or log into Facebook to see pictures from a party you forgot to attend? Don’t let that happen to you with the USA…
Do you ever pick up a newspaper from a few days ago and read that your favorite band was in town and wonder how you missed it? Or log into Facebook to see pictures from a party you forgot to attend? Don’t let that happen to you with the USA…
Are you unfamiliar with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the Tom Stoppard play being produced with a cast of 10- to 16-year-olds at Fun House Theatre and Film? Allow us to sum up the plot in one word: Cabbage, zinc and talcum powder. OK, so that’s not one word, and…
In a hilarious joke from the universe, Easter finally falls on April 20. You know, the pot-smoking holiday. While it’s unlikely that any special ingredients will make their way into your grandma’s deviled eggs, the holidays don’t need to be mutually exclusive. I mean, Jesus was a hippie, right? If…
WaterTower Theatre has a mean case of the blues in its newest show. Based on three short stories by Zore Neale Hurston and adapted by George C. Wolfe, Spunk is a play with music that explores love and triumph in the lives of early 20th century African-Americans. The songs by…
Last year a biology major at University of Texas at Dallas was joking around with his friends about starting a fraternity. To Ali Mahmoud the idea of sitting around drinking mango juice and reading the Quran didn’t sound particularly appealing. But when Alpha Lambda Mu, the country’s first Muslim fraternity,…
