It’s the take as old as time. Yes, Beauty and the Beast’s love story can be read as a tale of abuse and brainwashing, of a woman imprisoned by a tyrant until she starts chatting with the table settings — and then, as seasons pass, chastising herself in song for…
Country Living, a magazine that sits in a pine needle basket in your mother’s sewing room, is giving away a trip to Waco as part of its sweepstakes prize. Yes, Waco, the town you pass through to get to other cities. The one that has recently been rocked by sexual…
It was during an uneventful drive, a few months back, when my boyfriend and I first fixated on the obscenely tacky sign belonging to the Anchor Motel. Its neon lights flash from blue to green to red, as the innocent maritime image etches into our eyes. Across from the Anchor…
Daiso Japan, the obscenely well-organized Japanese $1.50 store, was enough of a magnet to draw lines of obsessive shoppers to Carrollton, but now the same strip mall on Old Denton Road has added Kinokuniya, upping the ante and making the shopping center the ultimate destination for those of us who live…
Gia Woodrum, a third-grader who lives in Arlington and goes to school at the Garner Fine Arts Academy in Grand Prairie, has two passions in life: art and helping people. She’s combined the two things she loves doing most in life. She sells her portraits at auctions and through her…
Tue 3/14 Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West follows an inspired affair between a man and a woman escaping violent dangers to find a new, safe place to call home. Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy examines what it means to be a mother, and what maternal rights really are when a mother is…
Think of your favorite movie character. It doesn’t matter the genre or the franchise. Just think of the movie character you love the most and always wanted to become if money, opportunity and the basic laws of physics weren’t standing in your way. Now imagine getting a phone call from…
Comics have always been a family affair for Dallas artist Brie Underhill. Her grandfather helped shape her love for the art form by introducing Calvin and Hobbes, The Wizard of Id, Nancy and B.C. to her as a child. “We would always read comics in the newspaper together,” she says. “I…
Local theater stalwart Kitchen Dog Theater is in the midst of its 26th season, and big changes have been coming left and right for the company. One is the introduction of a new program that will release 20 free tickets for every performance. In 2016, Kitchen Dog Theater was forced…
With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn’t even know we’d never seen. For me that includes Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy (Arrow Video), a trio of quick, down-and-dirty crime-gang pulp rockets (1995-99) that established Miike as Japan’s fin-de-siècle…
The 34th season of Survivor began airing last night. It was also the 500th episode. Jeff Probst has won four Emmys for hosting the show, and yet I had never seen one minute of it. Fort Worth native Michaela Bradshaw returns for this season, which takes place in Fiji. She…
Don’t hold it against Martin Zandvliet’s land-mine drama that its English title is the dopiest movie-title pun since John Singleton’s Poetic Justice. That film concerned a poet named Justice; Land of Mine a land of mines. Called Under Sandet in the original Danish — roughly Under the Sand — Zandvliet’s…
Let’s say you had to make up a list of historical moments that might serve as grand backdrops for sweeping, old-fashioned, Hollywood-style romantic dramas. How high would you rank the Armenian genocide? How high would you rank any genocide? Watching Hotel Rwanda, you probably never hoped that, amid the carnage,…
Even as some members of the Texas Legislature work to kill state incentives used to draw television and film productions to cities like Dallas, a big one is preparing to come to town in a couple of weeks. A film crew from the Fox network is planning to shoot an…
Almost no one ever asks young women what they desire — in movies or reality. Feminine cravings are still seen as a dire threat, a grand disturbance to the power structure, and the few movie men who dare speak the words “What do you want?” — like Noah in The…
Three Links Anniversary Three Links 2704 Elm St. 9 p.m. Friday $10 Back in 2013, we talked to the guys who opened the Deep Ellum bar and music venue Three Links. “We want this to be a good spot to get a stiff drink and see a great show,” they…
Dallas’ newest film festival addition feels especially prescient. EarthXFilm’s inaugural showcase will focus on “films and emerging media that explore conservation, climate change and the environment” in hopes of generating awareness and sparking action. Housed inside of Dallas’s Earth Day celebrations, EarthXFilm will have 35 films, 50 screenings, panels, workshops,…
The horror anthology — multiple short films, often from different directors, all tied together with a wraparound framing device — has been a staple of the genre since at least 1919 and the German Eerie Tales. Since then, horror has thrived in the short form, though television was the preferred…
Every Western that gets made feels like it could be the last one, and yet the genre refuses to ride off into the sunset. Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone doesn’t breathe new life into the oater, but the Dutch writer/director has clearly studied the gunslingers of yore. His film strives for a…
Women don’t have to be gracious. They can be monsters. Mothers. And mothers of monsters. XX, the new collection of spooky shorts by four female filmmakers, drills down to the meat of these ideas. Fresh off of Sundance, it’s getting a local screening — charmingly — on Wednesday, March 8,…
Frida Kahlo PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., Suite 154 Ongoing through April 15 Paintings by the iconic Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo are on display at PDNB Gallery in an exhibition highlighting the playful and candid portraits of the artist taken by her close companion, Lucienne Bloch. Bloch and Kahlo…
Tue 3/7 If you’ve lived in Texas long enough, chances are you’ve driven through a tiny-ass town that makes you wonder exactly who lives in such a small corner of the universe. The award winning Tribeca Film Festival documentary Uncertain looks at the lives of a Texas town called, you…
