If you think of yourself as a Star Wars fan and you don’t have any Star Wars-related plans on Star Wars Day, you don’t get to call yourself a Star Wars fan. You might as well burn your entire Star Wars Kenner toy collection, run your special Jar-Jar-less edition of the prequels through…
Adventuring out into the wilderness to find animal bones and taking them home to wash in strong and stinging peroxide is a common occurrence for a certain crafter of big, regal, dramatic and sometimes exotic headdresses. Animal bones, antlers, wasps’ nests and feathers are just some of the unusual materials…
Tiny Shoulders starts to feel like a publicity exercise for the brand — an attempt to humanize the company by showing us the real women behind all that plastic
… Bad Samaritan — with its title sounding very Grisham — tells the story of a low-level thief who breaks into a fancy-schmancy house and discovers a woman being held captive in a plastic-lined, camera-surveilled room
It’s Dallas International Film Festival, 2018 and you’re an indoor kid who wants to sit in a chair, uninterrupted, for eight days and allow your body to atrophy naturally. But you’ve got a day job. What’s a corporate sellout to do? Well, great news: This handy guide is for you,…
Told through the unique lens of this Latinx family, Vida is a statement on upward mobility and the privilege of being able to outgrow your home
… Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have completed their trilogy of self-delusion with Tully, a gently sardonic look at a 40-year-old woman who finds herself in a cluttered house, with a clueless spouse, preparing to have a third child
It’s no surprise that Avengers: Infinity War is breaking records at the box office. The movie is the latest installment in a well-known franchise, backed by the never-ending money supply that Disney has to offer. Even under a rock, you would have received a spam email about Avengers because Disney is…
(Joaquin) Phoenix plays a hammer-wielding veteran who is paid to save kidnapped children and who brings all his rage and regret and self-loathing and desire for oblivion to the job
When Dana Adam Shapiro approached Suzanne Mitchell in 2015 about creating a documentary about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Mitchell advised him to hurry. “She said, ‘If you’re serious about this, I would get down here pretty quick because I’m dying,’” Shapiro remembers. Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of…
This epic, the first of two final Avengers films, finds the Class of ‘12 — the core Avengers — getting together for one last rager, joined by select newbies and spazzes from the ranks of sophomores and freshmen
The new Steven Spielberg movie Ready Player One, based on the popular adventure novel by Ernest Cline, takes movie audiences to a not-to-distant future when gamers log on to massively multiplayer online game called The Oasis to be whatever their pop-culture-loving hearts desire. The main character, Wade Watts, played by actor Tye…
Dentonite Deanna Smith, 24, more than held her own against some of the best tattoo artists in the country on this season of Ink Master. Smith is still a couple of months shy of having four years logged as a professional tattoo artist. However, she made it to the top…
The new season finds Maeve (Thandie Newton), the host who played madam to Westworld’s bevy of robot whores, scouring the park for the daughter she was given in a previous “narrative” … and who continues to haunt her dreams
It centers on Villanelle, a deranged assassin — Russian, of course — working on behalf of a shadowy organization, and Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), the British-born, American-raised MI5 officer who must track her from London to Paris to Moscow
For the next few months at the Checkered Past Winery Wine Pub, you might hear a commotion coming from a curtained-off area. A peek behind the curtain shows a crowd laughing one second and gasping with amazement the next. The magician onstage is not pulling rabbits out of hats. Instead…
Working from a novel by Willy Vlautin, Haigh has committed himself to making a boy-and-his-horse movie that’s scraped free of everything false or sentimental about the genre
As presented in Sweet Country, the attitudes and events leading up to the abolition of slavery in Australia play out as frighteningly similar to our own
Stephanie Johnson may or may not have gotten married at the airport to a man she just met and then spent a month traveling with. Lifetime’s new show Love at First Flight brings together four perfectly matched couples to meet for the first time and then sends them off on…
The problem with I Feel Pretty isn’t that it’s offensive but that it’s often plodding and unfunny, almost as if its creators are afraid to have too much fun with such a loaded premise
A “pictorial snipe” is anything added to a movie poster after its original printing, local artist Maxx Henry-Frazer says. Official changes are often made because text or imagery is deemed offensive, but Henry-Frazer is taking a more creative approach to this technique by painting pop-culture icons onto vintage posters. He…
“This is a David Lowery production,” says a 7-year-old Lowery at the end of Poltergeist, his short film shot with a home camera. It starred his little brother in a sheet and showed promise even then. Now 38, Lowery is still proud of that first cinematic attempt and posted it…
