If five Oscar nominees lose two young girls in the woods, will their wailing make a sound? That’s the key question of Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve’s prestigious puffery about a father (Hugh Jackman) and a cop (Jake Gyllenhaal) trying to catch a kidnapper. Prisoners is a dog-whistle for Academy voters keyed…
Forbidden fruit has never seemed so poisonous than in Thanks for Sharing, a remarkably sensitive and surprisingly romantic ensemble drama about sex addiction. A winsome mix of funny, harrowing and smart, it’s most commendable for making characters who are addicted to bad behavior — and who refuse to blame themselves…
Written, produced, directed, and edited by Rena Riffel, who also reprises her role as Penny from the original Showgirls, Showgirls 2: Penny’s From Heaven has been available on VOD for at least a year, but is now being released on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing, thus conferring onto it the…
The sheer newness of last year’s Expanded Cinema project, the public art offering organized by the Dallas Video Fest, caused thousands to pull over and watch awestruck as locally designed video pieces reprogrammed the Omni’s massive LED canvas. Well, guess what? This year, they’ll do it again. A few artists…
When beloved and locally operated gallery Kettle Art was forced to close its doors last May, the loss resonated far beyond Deep Ellum’s periphery. Fortunately for all parties, Deep Ellum 42 — the Dallas property management company known for reaching out to and working with local artists — stepped in…
The circus has always been a place of mixed emotions. Of course you’re relieved when the tightrope walker makes it across safely, but deep down you’re wondering what it would be like if he fell. You’re impressed that the lion tamer has so much control over her animals and at…
Ever been parking? You know, in public, just for the thrill of it? Well, this time you can do it with people in more than 35 countries across the world, and you don’t have to risk breaking curfew or pissing off your mom. In fact, she’ll probably be pretty proud…
At the behest of Mayor Mike Rawlings, county commissioner Elba Garcia and council member Dwaine Caraway, the City of Dallas will host four panel discussions about race. The first of these discussions kicks off Saturday at the Dallas City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St, at 10 a.m. While later panels…
There’s almost too much happening during Saturday’s Fall Gallery Walk and Bike Swarm to allow for easy navigation, so here’s what you need to know: Just block the whole damn day out. Seriously. Thirty-five of Dallas Arts Dealers Association’s galleries and spaces are participating with extended hours and a relaxed…
For the first time in Red Bull Flugtag history, five cities will be pitted against each other. Only one will claim victory. (Someone cue the theme to Highlander.) Saturday at Lake Carolyn in Las Colinas, Dallas will compete against four far less capable cities — Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Long Beach,…
To be kind, let’s just say that your Olympic opportunity never quite arrived. Your dog-paddle wasn’t the stuff of body-waxed giants. Your ice skating experience is limited to slapstick laps at the Galleria. Let’s not discuss the gymnast phase. Still, you’d like to think that even at your age and…
Way back in 1888, Composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky referred to his Fifth Symphony as a failure that would never please the public. Clearly, history has viewed the work quite differently. Now you can judge which side was right at the Meyerson Symphony Center (2301 Flora St.) when the piece kicks…
It’s not often you get the feeling of being lighter than air, particularly when your feet are planted firmly on the ground. Often, we’re so weighted down that the gift of flight requires an expensive round-trip ticket and a struggle with an overhead compartment. But sometimes on the happiest of…
The smart ones know that, rather than spreading yourself thin across this vampire show and that fairy tale adventure series, you can get all of your paranormal needs met from just one program: Supernatural. For Supernatural enthusiasts who can’t wait for next month’s ninth season premiere, an early fix is…
When you think Oktoberfest, you think Germany, October and beer. But, dear schnitzel, you’re thinking wrong. Change the first two to “Addison” and “September” and you’re in business, Mister. Addison Oktoberfest is here and that means four days of nonstop German things. Beer, tavern-style snacks, arts and crafts, a yodeling…
The job of a comedian is to take an event, a philosophy, an everyday experience, and explain it in a way that underscores both the hilarity and the universality of it. We slap our knees, we look at everyone else in the audience to ensure they’re laughing, too, and we…
We’re coming up on the end of Breaking Bad, possibly one of the most successful shows in history to feature both crystal meth and exploding tortoises (remember that?). To help gear up for the coming finale, the manic quiz masters at Geeks Who Drink have organized Los Geeks Hermanos: A…
The story of Peter Pan is the literary gift that keeps giving. Over 100 years after J.M. Barrie’s masterpiece was first published, the story of the boy who wouldn’t, couldn’t grow up continues to spawn a legacy of stories and sequels, appropriate for a tale of imagination without bounds. We’ve…
Profanity, the play written by Sylvan Oswald that’s making its world premiere this season at Undermain Theatre, 3200 Main St., is about real estate agents in Philadelphia in the 1950s selling land that doesn’t exist. While that may sound vaguely related to David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, the profanity here…
The Perot opens its first touring exhibition this week with Animal Inside Out, a Kingdom offshoot of the popular Body World series. Dallas is the second American city to get the show, which just finished dazzling audiences at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The presentation looks at…
Arsenio HallIt’s been 19 years since Arsenio Hall last barked at the camera, and the world has changed. Shoulder pads are passé; (“Unless you play football, you can’t have them anymore,” Hall jokes), hip-hop is mainstream and, after our so-called first black president, the country elected a real one –…
As the name implies, when it comes to chamber music — music composed for a small ensemble as opposed to a large orchestra — the space in which the music is performed matters. The slimmed-down size of a chamber orchestra creates a sense of intimacy and vulnerability between the performers…
