With election day in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke closing in, Austin filmmaker Steve Mims reveals their opposing views of governing during a historic period of national political tumult. Mims’ documentary film, Run Like the Devil, is on tour and will make…
This alien being, which helpfully calls itself Venom, is a fairly terrifying creation: a many-fanged, slobbery, snake-tongued monster that loves to eat people’s heads
Bad Times is a much better time in its mysterious middle, which tingles with darkly comic possibility, than in its final 40 minutes, when Goddard’s cards are on the table
Its centerpiece is a breathless break-in at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, as two 30ish suburbanites, played by Gael Garcia Bernal and Leonardo Ortizgris, attempt to loot artifacts from what is known as the Mayan room
The filmmakers capture Honnold’s 2016 and 2017 attempts to complete the first “free solo” climb of these granite cliffs, and the suspense is thrilling, agonizing, perhaps indecent
Friday Mockingbird Station just added music to its list of things to do there. It already has shopping and eating, and at 5 p.m. Oct. 5, it will also be home to the Mockingbird Station Music Festival. Friday Night Fights, a power pop group, will headline the festival, while guests…
Comedy is hard. Musical comedy is harder, much harder. Musical comedy requires great timing and delivery for the comedy part. The other half requires a dancer’s build, a strong voice and hours of sweaty rehearsals and run-throughs. Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino, the hosts of Earwolf’s musical comedy podcast Off…
Double-stuffed with kill squads, killer ’80s couture, and mood-killing howlers, Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s Loving Pablo is more a greatest hits than a story, the kind of radically compressed life-of-a-legend movie where everything happens in a giddy, ridiculous gush
Its leads, feminist writer Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti), a one-time wunderkind of no-budget theatrical productions, find themselves desperate to conceive a child even as the doctors they pay (with borrowed money) thousands to speak frankly of the odds
Each beat of this plays out with exquisite delicacy, as does the exchange where the crook lays out, with exacting detail, how he’d rob this diner if it were a bank — and then takes it all back, letting her think he was joking
The new comedy film The Oath would sound like a totally unthinkable dystopian world at any other time in history. Except now. The Oath, written, directed and starring Ike Barinholtz, who came to town for an advance screening and Q&A last month at The Angelika before its limited release Friday,…
October is here and now that the weather in Dallas went from 98 to a cool 96, people are ready to get in the fall spirit. Pumpkin spice is in the water, fake cobwebs are strung from the ceilings and haunted houses are opening their doors for business. Whether it…
To fall in love with A Star Is Born is to embrace these paradoxes and, to quote a song Gaga sings in the film, go “off the deep end” and submerge oneself “far from the shallow.”
When the Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall formed back in the 1980s in a weekday slot at a Toronto rock club, comedy troupes were a rare commodity. Now thanks in part to The Kids in the Hall’s massive rise as a comedic touchstone, more of them…
It’s hard to know where to start a discussion about Neal Brennan’s career with the man himself. In fact, the idea makes him laugh. “I didn’t really have an end goal,” Brennan says. “I guess I always wanted to be a popular comedian. I’ve always thought that’s the coolest thing,…
The sounds of children’s amazement and the adults’ laughter rise in mixed harmony and respectfully fades as the man onstage focuses on his next illusion. The magician’s broad smile evokes the confident demeanor that the crowd is right to trust in him, to believe him, but his eyes tell the…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra just launched its 2018-19 season with a black-tie gala event and visits from Grammy-winning guest stars. Across the street, at the smaller, more casual Moody Performance Hall, the other symphony orchestra in Dallas is preparing for its seventh season with slightly less fanfare. The Dallas Chamber…
We hope you’re thirsty because two tall drinks of water are coming to town. Drew and Jonathan Scott, twin brothers, best-selling authors and stars of Property Brothers among other major career ventures, are making a pit stop in Frisco to promote their first children’s book, Builder Brothers Big Plans. Women…
As her marriage opens up, and Colette begins to take lovers of her own, Knightley summons up a moving sense of both relief and recklessness
At times, Green’s film feels too familiar, exploring what we already know — cops can be dirty and may retaliate if they’re crossed
The idea practically sells itself: Kevin Hart has to take night classes to get his high school degree, and Tiffany Haddish plays his suffer-no-bullshit teacher
Young Anna (Galatea Bellugi), intense and charismatic in the manner of another teenaged French seer, reports that Mary has imparted to her a message calling for the building of a church and caring for the world’s poor
