The movie follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphaned teenager living in Columbus, Ohio, in 2045, who spends pretty much all his time, along with everyone else in this world, inside a virtual universe called The Oasis …
Viewers will need to be quick with the pause button to catch a mention of late Dallas businessman Robert K. Hoffman in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the new Netflix film about the founding of the National Lampoon humor empire. The film’s name comes from a line from Animal House…
Probably the deepest impact Dallas has had on the lexicon of pop culture (save for greatest of the Kennedy tragedies) was the ever-popular TV show of the same name. A mere two years after its debut, 83 million people sat in front of TVs to find out “Who shot J.R.?”…
If you were old enough to pay attention in the 1970s, you might remember attempts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment. State after state ratified the bill, which the majority of both houses of Congress had passed in 1972, and its passage seemed foreordained — until the rhetoric heated up…
A splendid jewel box of a movie about rather grisly matters, the filmmaker’s latest represents another example of the clash between his playfully self-aware aesthetic and his growing obsession with our inhumanity
If you’ve ever wondered what it might look like to crossbreed an edgy cable comedy with a jovial network sitcom, A.P. Bio, created by former SNL writer Mike O’Brien, suggests just that sort of Frankenfood
The film tells the story of a terrorized woman in a mental hospital who’s trying to convince the staff and patients that she shouldn’t be there and is being held against her will
Think of Flower as a little like Sofia Coppola’s teen-thief satire The Bling Ring with the realism and consequences to bad behavior of Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen
Even as Maoz seems to be addressing his themes head on, he’s cleverly setting up the conditions for tragedy, and when it hits, it’s somehow both shocking and inevitable
Making it rain has long been mainstream, but the FX show presents a more novel sight: average Atlanta residents, reckoning with what often gets treated as a national rite of passage
The film chronicles Roxanne’s teenage years — her brief time in the limelight — when she became one of the greatest in the game
“The robots were the good guys, because humans drove them. So maybe they weren’t technically robots. Well, some of them were.”
It’s fun stuff, but in a deeply corrosive way — daring to suggest that people engaged in a soul-sickening endeavor will find, well, their souls sickened
Hollywood is smack dab in the middle of another busy pilot season, and one production vying for a full season on a major network is being filmed here in Dallas. ABC Studios officials confirmed that film crews are scheduled to shoot a pilot for a new dramatic television show titled…
… Everything about the series, from plotting to character development to tone, feels contrived, with every speck of subtext hauled up and nailed down to the show’s slick surface
Uthaug’s film, like the recent reboot of the video-game series, gives us a grittier Lara Croft, one stripped of the advantages of her wealth and all bruised up from the rigors of her adventure
The Strangers: Prey at Night … has a slow and rather grim first half, but then, in the home stretch, takes a welcome turn into the seriously silly
… it’s worth reconsidering The X-Files’ feminism today, especially when so much of the series’ fan goodwill is based on the quietly political leaps it made in the last century
… This first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Virzi (Human Capital, Like Crazy) is at times moving in its sincerity, thanks to stellar casting and the director’s clear-eyed perspective on aging and dementia …
Car collector and builder Dave Scott McDonough always gets noticed when he goes for a drive. The car he uses to drive to work and take his kids to school is a model of the Ecto-1 used in the movie Ghostbusters. His backup ride is a Jeep fashioned to look like…
Here is a movie made for and about the people who believe they are the essence of American normalcy, a movie that dutifully flatters and celebrates them even as it works to expand who that normalcy actually includes
Alamo Drafthouse is expanding once again. Alamo Drafthouse Lake Highlands, in Dallas’ Creekside Shopping Center, will host its soft open March 20 and its official grand opening March 28. This is the movie chain’s third location in DFW. The Lake Highlands theater will include everything that makes the chain so famous and…
