SuperFly Is Silly, Pandering and Full of One-Note Fools
Right from the opening scene, where Priest shakes down/humiliates a drug-dealing rapper and his crew, SuperFly establishes that no one can ever be as cunning and crafty as him
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Alden Ehrenreich Soars, But War Drama The Yellow Birds Is Earthbound
… Young soldiers Bartle (Ehrenreich) and Murphy (Tye Sheridan) face the unceremonious cruelties of deployment; through flashbacks and time shifts, we know that only Bartle returns and that he may be somehow responsible for Murphy being classified MIA
6 Dallas Comedians Tell Us About Their Worst Summer Jobs
Summer vacation from school is one long party with you and all your friends jumping from adventure to adventure in the lake house you rented together. At least that’s how it works in the movies. In real life, you get a summer job that barely covers the gas to go…
Steve Martin’s Bright Star Falls Flat With Emotion, But the Songs Are Good
Yes, that Steve Martin. Although best known to many as a comedian, Martin is a talented musician. Martin’s musical talent has won him Grammys, including one for best American roots album, Love Has Come For You, a collaboration with musician and songwriter Edie Brickell. The pair wrote a musical that…
Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend
Friday The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is once again teaming up with conductor Jeff Tyzik to bring epic cinema scores to life. Expect the grandiose and the moving as the orchestra explores the most enduring works of Korngold, John Williams, John Barry, Mancini and more. Classics such as Indiana Jones, Pink…
Tag Is Often Pretty Gloriously Dumb, So Too Bad It Also Seems to Want to Be More
Several grown men have been playing the same game of tag for the last three decades, spending one month each year doing everything they can to avoid one another, while also doing everything they can to secretly find and touch one another
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For Better or Worse, Pose Is a Queer Story Told Straight
From the very first scene, Pose boasts a purposefully slick veneer of artificiality — it’s a little too art-directed, a romanticized version of poverty straight from the set of Rent
Union Soldier’s Ghost Might Haunt the Texas Civil War Museum
While the Texas Civil War Museum might not be the final resting place for Dallas’ Gen. Robert E. Lee statue, the museum’s director says the Southern-style structure may house a ghost. The museum contains a private Civil War memorabilia collection featuring Union and Confederate artifacts and more than 200 Victorian…
Comic Book City of Hate, About Dallas Law Enforcement, Is a Love Letter to the City
The visual most people have of a comic book is of a brightly colored superhero flying over the city, fist-fighting an equally brightly colored supervillain. A fan of the medium is already aware of the amount of personal, story-driven works present in modern comics, but a large part of the…
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North Texas DTalks Podcast Tells Us About the Best and Worst Father’s Days
The DTalks podcast, based in North Texas, focuses on telling stories about being a father and growing up with (or without) a father. Co-hosts Joe Shaw and Galan Aldaco are fathers, and fellow co-host John Laird is not. The three of them share perspectives on fatherhood to give people a…
After Successful DFW South Asian Film Festival, Founder Brings Asian Art to Larger Stage
Jitin Higorani, founder and director of the DFW South Asian Film Festival, has been tracking the shifting demographics of visitors to his 4-year-old festival. This year’s event, expanded to four days, was the biggest to date, and Hiograni says nearly a quarter of visitors came from outside of Dallas’ South…
8 Picks From Board Game Geek’s Spring Convention That Anyone Can Learn and Love To Play
Playing board games may seem quaint in this modern age of high-definition first-person shooters and virtual-reality headsets that can make you feel like Spider-Man, but the industry is experiencing a lucrative renaissance and attracting a fearsome, fervent fanbase. “We look at hundreds of games, and it’s always more and more,”…
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Incredibles 2 Blinks in the Face of Its Greatest Challenge
Now, a slick young billionaire (voiced by Bob Odenkirk) has a plan to make superheroes popular (and legal) again by televising their exploits, and chooses Elastigirl over Mr. Incredible as the face of this new campaign …
Sign Up With the Second-Wave Lesbian Revolutionaries of Bruce LaBruce’s The Misandrists
Like 2004’s The Raspberry Reich, a satire of what LaBruce has called “terrorist chic,” The Misandrists soaks audiences in the doings (and I do mean doings) of a radical cell of sexual dissenters
FC Dallas’ Kellyn Acosta Reflects on U.S. Soccer Team’s Failure To Qualify for World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament kicks off Thursday. In a span of one month, 32 international soccer teams will compete to determine a world champion. The United States won’t be one of them. The U.S. men’s national soccer team failed to qualify for the first time since 1986. The…
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Texas Is Cruel — Here Are 9 DFW Pools To Cool Off in This Summer
Summer hasn’t officially started yet, and the 10-day forecast already looks like the grades of an elementary school art class (mostly high 90s). But any Texan worth his or her salt could’ve told you on New Year’s Day this June was going to be hot. We take heat seriously, especially with…
‘Everything We Do Is Temporary’: Annual Mural Project Finds Value in Short-Term Art
In a few days, murals that stain the walls surrounding the roof of LSA Burger Co. in Denton will be scrubbed, leaving a blank slate for artists to come. The only evidence they were there lies with those who captured them in pictures, video or memories. But this is not…
Dallas Independent Comedy Shows Are Not the Enemy, Improv General Manager Says
After a night of watching a comedy show, audience members leave talking about many things. They loved the comedian, they hated the comedian, that one joke was really clever, and so on. They’re naturally focused on the comedians, but what about the person who put the show together? A comedy…
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Plano Comedy Festival Rolls Out This Weekend Despite Some Venue Issues
Plano is getting its first comedy festival this week, but the founders of the fest had to do a little shuffling at the last minute. The first Plano Comedy Festival kicked off Thursday and runs through Sunday with more than 30 comedians performing live comedy shows at locations around Plano…
Skate Shop Owners Learn From Mistakes and Plan to Reopen in Lewisville
For the past four years, Mario Aguilar and Miguel Rivera have been trying to reopen Incite. The skate shop opened in 2014 at Farmers Branch, but because of their inexperience and low inventory, the founders were forced to close the store. Since then, they have learned from their mistakes and…
Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend
Friday The Dallas Mavericks had a terrible season on the court — and a worse one off it when a Sports Illustrated feature revealed the corporate work environment was rife with sexual harassment. But somehow, Dallas’ GOAT — greatest of all time — and our recent cover boy, Dirk Nowitzki,…
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In the Infuriating American Animals, Dumb Criminals’ Remorse Is Their Reward
For all its jittery heist drama, American Animals is, above all else, an accidental study in just how much white kids can get away with and still be welcomed back into society