Dear Dad: Listen, I know we haven’t spoken in a while, since you’ve been dead the past 10 years, but I was wondering if you could do me a favor and PLEASE GET OUT OF MY HEAD. See, I have to tell people about The Moonlady Fest: A Celebration of…
Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series (Classic Media) Army of the Dead (Maverick) Arranged (Film Movement) Ben 10: The Complete Season 3 (Turner) Billy Wilder Film Collection (MGM) Dead Moon Rising (Anthem) Half Moon (Strand) Lonesome Dove: Season One (Echo Bridge) Magnum P.I.: The Complete Eighth Season (Universal) Mr. Magorium’s Wonder…
Into the Wild (Paramount) Sean Penn waited a good decade before adapting Jon Krakauer’s book about Chris McCandless, who graduated college in 1990, then disappeared into the American unknown, re-emerging as Alexander Supertramp before his final, tragic farewell in the Alaskan wilderness in ’92. Penn’s patience is evident in every…
To all the gun-toting video-game bad guys out there: Please stop standing next to exploding barrels. Seriously now. Of the hundreds of places you could squat and shoot, you and your henchman pals always camp beside the neon-orange canister with “Flammable!” painted on the side. Really, we don’t need your…
Pocket Sandwich Theatre gets no respect. The only for-profit theater in Dallas, the charming but grungy playhouse tucked into a corner of a two-story shopping strip on Mockingbird Lane has been pumping out low-budget entertainment for more than 25 years. They do popcorn-tossing melodramas and cheap-to-produce comedies. Actors, directors and designers…
Based on a true story,” brags The Bank Job before diving into the clear blue water of the Caribbean, where, in 1970, a topless woman frolics with two swimming mates—just another day in paradise. The trio retires to a hotel room for a sweaty, breathless afternoon quickie, which is photographed…
Near the beginning of The Counterfeiters, a fact-based Holocaust drama by Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, we meet Jewish money forger and former jailbird Salomon Sorowitsch (brilliantly played by Karl Markovics), packing to flee Berlin in 1936 with a suitcase full of fake money. We know from an opening coda that…
Beautiful Boy is author David Sheff’s moving account of his own son’s struggle with meth addiction, a subject many families can no doubt identify with. It’s also possible even more people can identify with this in Southlake, where Sheff will sign his book at the local corporate coffee mecca (One…
Barbie: Mariposa and Her Butterfly Friends (Universal) Comanche Moon (Sony) Day Zero (First Look) Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale (HBO) Family Affair: Season Five (MPI) The Fugitive: Season One, Volume Two (Paramount) Goya’s Ghosts (Sony) Highlander: The Source (Lionsgate) Jesse Stone: Sea Change (Sony) The Last Emperor: The Criterion…
Lost Odyssey wants to be Microsoft’s answer to Final Fantasy — not that that’s such a good idea. Like Star Wars, Final Fantasy survives as a power brand thanks to the shining stars of its past, rather than the overwrought installments of recent years. Final Fantasy XII — the most…
Justice League: The New Frontier (Warner Bros.) Based on Darwyn Cooke’s comic-book miniseries — a masterpiece starring all of DC Comics’ major-leaguers at the dawn of their immortality during the Cold War — this animated adaptation plays stronger, faster, and further than any direct-to-DVD in recent memory. It’s a grown-up…
Semi-Pro’s much better than Blades of Glory, which wasn’t nearly as good as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which was a little better than Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which was almost as funny as Old School, which was better than everything else Will Ferrell had done…
Last fall, The Band’s Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel’s foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards—an ironic fate, indeed, for a movie that takes language as its very subject. The official ruling of the Oscar referees was that too much of the film’s dialogue is in English,…
Count on these things in most every Uptown Players production: cute guys kissing and at least one young man stripping down to scanty man-panties. There you have Uptown’s latest show, bare, a pop opera/peepshow about hot Catholic schoolboys in lust with each other. It’s a big, gay high school musical…
Is it looking like it might just be you and a twelver of light beer tonight? Got nowhere to be in the morning? Well, Trinity Hall Irish Pub at Mockingbird Station is hosting “Tuesday Tastings” to help you broaden your palate as well as your social life. Each week of…
J.M.W. Turner could paint the shit out of anything——fires, a battle scene, seascapes, some sunlit mountains…you name it. After all, he was “one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art.” From the stuff I’ve seen (like “The Battle of Trafalgar”), though, homeboy was just painting the news…
Artist Terence Hannum may hail from Chicago, but from the sounds of things he’d be just at home at Denton’s House of Tinnitus, reveling in noise. Hannum’s Web site features two droning instrumentals entitled “Obelisk Pt. 1” and “Obelisk Pt. 2,” and he’ll open his new exhibit, Don’t Give Up…
Oh, how the Li’ls have grown bigger and badder over the years. From 1935-1977, Al Capp’s classic Li’l Abner cartoon featured a bumbling man-child prone to long trips. More recently, Cash Money Records features Lil Wayne, a bumbling man-child prone to long trips. ‘Course, Lil Wayne bumbles ’cause he’s always…
I spent most of my high school years living under the delusion that I would one day be Mrs. John Linnell. I mean seriously, who doesn’t love a floppy-haired goofball with an accordion? Alas, my dreams were thwarted by that crazy thing called reality, but for the record, They Might…
It’s not like you haven’t been listening to Van Halen every single day for the past couple of months. In fact, chances are, if you turn on any footage from a campaign rally, you’re going to get a big dose of Eddie and Co. belting out of someone’s speakers be…
Oh, what it must be like to be Valerie Bertinelli. If I had to spend the rest of my life known as a) that chick from One Day at a Time, b) the fool who spent more than two decades of her life married to Eddie Van Halen and c)…
Imagine how hard life would suck if you had a trio of killers after you. Now imagine how much worse it would be if all three were in your apartment and you were a blind chick. Despite the suckage factor, this premise makes for one of the best plays in…
