OK, we’re not exactly sure that they were worn on camera. In fact, let’s just assume they weren’t. But whatever, for $20 you could have some faux turquoise chandeliers that were “issued to the set” of Dallas — OG, people — for use in several episodes. Again, not sure if…
As Intern Christina has recapped for us, Harry Potter had a 31st birthday party at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park Sunday. Butterbeer was enjoyed and Hogwartian festivities took place that were somewhat befitting of a man 31-years-old. K, maybe not. It got us thinking about all those characters of screens…
If you read Gordon and the Whale, then you already know that next month will be our last month as a functioning daily website. I announced the news at 10 a.m. Monday. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t cry — a lot — and listen to Journey’s “Don’t…
In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high school sweetheart and husband of 20-plus years, that she wants a divorce. She goes on to mention that she had an affair with a co-worker named Dave Lindhagen (Kevin Bacon), at which point…
So much petty drama has clouded the release of Michael Rapaport’s A Tribe Called Quest documentary. One version of the back story casts the first-time director as a doofus actor wannabe who persuades the seminal, but privately splintered, hip-hop crew to participate in a consummate career doc. After two and…
Ditch those stereotypes about girly girls and men’s men and check out what the theater season has to offer in fab cross-dressing, transvestism, drag, travesti and gender bending. These must-sees are either current or future features on Dallas stages — but you can always stream/rent the movie versions. Or see…
As the song in Cabaret goes, what good is sitting alone in your room? Not when there’s a big, wide world out there where you can star in your own imaginary reality show. Shoot, you may already be in one. There are three new reality shows — CMT’s Texas Women,…
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an explicit work of patriotic, political propaganda: The cover of the first edition, available months before Pearl Harbor, famously featured the titular costume hero punching out Adolf…
Project Nim, James Marsh’s documentary biopic of the ’70s chimp picked to endure an “experiment” in simian sign language and general neglect, pulls human heartstrings as wrenchingly as any creature feature in nearly half a century. Following brown-eyed beauty Nim, by turns cuddly and ferocious, from an Oklahoma cage to…
Terri, directed by Azazel Jacobs, concerns an obese 15-year-old, a de facto orphan, living in a ramshackle home with a dispirited, perhaps mentally ill uncle for whom he has to care. Although a near-pariah at school, Terri — played by Jacob Wysocki in an impressive debut — is comfortable with…
In Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Nina (Li Bingbing) is a Shanghai career girl who drops plans to move to New York when she learns her estranged bestie, Sophie (Gianna Jun), is in a coma. Soon Nina discovers the manuscript of a novel that Sophie had been writing, which…
Most people know Crispin Glover as Marty McFly’s father, the Thin Man in Charlie’s Angels or Willard, the rat loving psychopath. What he isn’t known for is performance art. Until now. Glover has been touring the world with his wildly weird two-night, one-man show, Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show,…
As Warner Bros. and JK Rowling finally put away the wands and golden snitches for the last time (while peeling our death grip off the books as we bawl in denial), we’re taking a look at the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise. I was fortunate enough to see…
The Emmy nominations came out yesterday. Since I don’t have HBO, and since the Emmys are pretty much an HBO cast party, I didn’t spend too much time with the nominations, but I did take a moment to control-find the names of my two favorite shows: Community, NBC’s ode to…
Only the biggest and coolest Potterphiles will be the ones queuing up for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 2 tonight as we anxiously wait for the clock to strike 12:01 a.m. As somewhat mature adults, it’s generally frowned upon to go all out with a head-to-toe Harry Potter costume…
Here’s what reality TV does: It takes the worst stereotypes about places and people and rolls them up into one big awful stereotype and then it makes a show about how “real” it is. Meet Texas Women, a new reality series premiering tonight at 9 p.m. on cable’s CMT channel…
Lately, my evenings have been filled with DVR sessions of the Oprah Winfrey Network, and more specifically, with Season 25: Behind the Scenes, the reality program chronicling the backstage business of the mogul’s final season of her syndicated talk show. I’m far from being an Oprah drone, but that is…
There’s a dark uprising on the Internet currently happening. Yesterday a bootleg trailer for The Dark Knight Rises showed up online. Many websites that garner almost a million unique hits per day posted it, some with misleading headlines, and Warner Bros. was quick to put out a cease and desist…
After 10 years and seven movies, we’ve finally arrived: Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. It’s a climax of truly epic proportions, not only for its narrative import but for the fact that it…
Does Jill Zarin have anything in common with June Cleaver? If you watch any of the Real Housewives shows on Bravo, you have to wonder if kids are growing up now not knowing what a “housewife” is. June Cleaver, if you don’t remember black and white TV, was Beaver and…
We’ve been following the work of actor Brian J. Smith since he was a student at Plano’s Collin College, so it’s a kick to see that he’s been cast as Blake Lively’s new love interest on the TV series Gossip Girl. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Smith grew up…
“This is Frank Drebin, Police Squad. Throw down your guns, and come on out with your hands up. Or come on out, then throw down your guns, whichever way you wanna do it. Just remember the two key elements here: one, guns to be thrown down; two, come on out!”…
