Hugh Jackman is charming as ever, and two dance scenes are mildly inventive and well-executed, yet Jackman’s goodwill and a splash of inspired choreography are not enough to earn the “greatest” in the title
The new one is bigger and dumber than the previous, a feat considering the relentless clatter of the 1995 iteration …
North Texas kids and their parents can now feel a little more relaxed watching movies together. With animated films like Zootopia and Finding Dory hauling in more than $1 billion each at box offices worldwide, Plano-based Cinemark has rolled out the beanbags for younger viewers. Its new kid-friendly concept, Camp Cinemark,…
Dallas sure is Moody, and that’s a good thing. The Moody family name appears on buildings at Southern Methodist University (Moody Coliseum) and in the Arts District (Moody Performance Hall) and belongs to the $10 million Moody Fund for the Arts endowment, which for the first time this year is…
The Pitch Perfect films have offered an increasingly unpalatable blend of pop-song empowerment, rah-rah women’s friendship and broad gross-out comedy
The printing press. Penicillin. Airplanes. These are just a few of the life-changing inventions the modern world has produced. 7-Eleven’s addition to that list: 7Now, an app that delivers goods from your favorite Dallas-based convenience store right to your desk or couch. The free app, which allows customers to place…
Thu 12/212018 is the year it’s going to happen. You’re going to sign up for that cheap gym membership in January and actually go. We can feel it. Confidence! Get a jump on prepping yourself for the new, fitter you with the nighttime Jingle Bell Run. A Dallas tradition for…
The Post tells the story of the late Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), the longtime publisher of The Washington Post, who took over its operations after her husband committed suicide in the 1970s
It’s a Wonderful Life Majestic Theatre 1925 Elm St. 8 p.m. Thursday $10 The holidays can suck. They aren’t geared for the financially strapped, the deadline-rich or the grieving. A certain amount of nostalgic comfort can come from sweetly lit displays and tradition, but both bring aches along with them…
The new Alamo Drafthouse movie theater that’s coming to Denton next year won’t look like just another theater in the company’s chain. “We definitely are working on some fun stuff to celebrate the city with the opening,” says James Wallace, creator director for Alamo Drafthouse DFW. “Maybe even a very…
The AT&T Performing Arts Center announced the lineup for its next season of #hearhere lectures a few weeks ago, but there’s already a major change to the schedule. Tavis Smiley’s “Death of a King” multimedia presentation, scheduled for Feb. 25, has been removed from the lineup amid claims of sexual misconduct…
Over the past year, we’ve seen interpretive dance performances, heard the splendor of live orchestras and enjoyed getting swept up in the storytelling in numerous plays. Yet unfortunately, among our biggest takeaways was this: Some of you really don’t know how to behave in public. Most people don’t have the…
Two years ago, comedian Josh Johnson was at the top of his form. He was opening for comedy greats like Janeane Garofalo at Granada Theater; scored features on two major comedy showcases, Fox’s Laughs and Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party; and recorded his first album, Tabitha. Then Johnson’s depression…
Chastain seems at times to be both the lead and her own supporting actor in this story, as she oscillates between traditionally feminine and masculine modes of behavior
It takes more than superhero outfits to make people superheroes. It’s what they do when they wear them. For the last two years, Dallas On-Air founder and On-Air Media founding partner Jantzen Ray and his girlfriend, Catherine Chensky, have turned their Christmas Day celebration into a chance to play Santa…
Those expecting camp or catfights won’t find them in Gillespie’s movie, which instead offers thoughtful and somewhat objective critiques …
After years of fire marshal crackdowns on Dallas arts spaces that effectively limited what artists could do inside their galleries and studios, Ash Studios clapped back by contesting its citation in court. The artists’ collaborative run by Fred Villanueva and Darryl Ratcliff was fined $700 in March for hosting a…
Fri 12/15My fellow anti-Christmas warriors, the drag queen holiday event isn’t the only battle plan we’ve drawn up for this week. Nearly Naked Nutcracker is a ballet-inspired burlesque performance sure to tempt otherwise upstanding Christian dads and their sexually repressed adult sons while stirring the unacknowledged same-sex lusts of the…
Any thinking person watching Downsizing is 10 steps ahead of Damon’s blinkered schlub, and watching him piece together the bare facts about how this future America works — and how our America works today — makes for a frustrating sit
In Latin American and especially Mexican culture, posadas (meaning “inn” in English) are an annual holiday celebration re-enacting Mary and Joseph’s journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, where they sought refuge to give birth to Jesus. Usually at homes or churches, posadas traditionally occur during the nine days leading up to…
Joe Bob Briggs, the B-movie buff who celebrated blood, breasts and beasts with his Dallas newspaper column, is planning a trip back to the town that made him the sage of the drive-in movie theater. The outlaw drive-in movie critic from Grapevine with a massive collection of bolo ties will…
The name Lee Trull, the director of new play development at Dallas Theater Center fired last week over allegations of sexual misconduct, wasn’t spoken at a meeting of local theater groups about sexual conduct within Dallas’ stage companies. But he was clearly on the audience’s mind. In fact, he unwittingly…
