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Stream These Great 2015 Movies or Die Lonely and Out of the Loop

As cinematic year 2015 reaches its end, the FOMO specter threatens to haunt us all. If you pored over the results of our film poll and felt aghast at how many apparently great movies you’ve yet to see, here at last is a chance to catch up without braving traffic.  About...
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The 15 Best Dallas Concerts of 2016, So Far

2016 has been a year of blockbuster shows in Dallas. More than any time in recent memory, the past six months have seen North Texas arenas host a seemingly endless series of bucket list shows — artists like AC/DC, the Cure and Duran Duran among them. But the great music...
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The Brunch Chronicles: Meddlesome Moth Breaks the Mold

What do good comedy and good cuisine have in common? They each take a familiar framework and start to break things, drawing new connections as they go. But the key, of course, is that things have to be broken carefully. Too heavy a hand threatens the audience’s sensibilities; too light...
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Sure, Hardcore Henry Bombed, but You Would Love It at Midnight

Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t...
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A Punk Band Faces Murderous Skinheads in the Harrowing Green Room

Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get...
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X-Men: Apocalypse Makes the Comic-Book Movie Great Again

There’s a scene during the first half of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse that is so emotionally resonant, so well-put-together and so quiet that you might briefly forget you’re watching a superhero film. It involves a raid by some Polish officers in the remote forest where Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto (Michael...
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The Ultimate Guide to Your Weekend, June 10-12

Do This! Houston resident Justin Cronin is the author of the mega-succesful trilogy The Passage. Stephen King is a fan, and you will be too once you read the story about a post-apocalyptic world where humans are forced to battle other vampire-like superhumans. The final installment, City of Mirrors, came...