Academy Award-nominated director Terrence Malick is one of Texas’ most acclaimed filmmakers, and ever since his directorial debut Badlands was released in 1973, Malick’s signature films have been steadily met with critical acclaim. His latest film is A Hidden Life, a three-hour epic that follows the true story of Franz…
Environmental conservation has become a nationwide hot button issue, and Hulu’s newest family series aims to bring to light the issue in a way that younger generations can understand. Endlings takes place 20 years into the future and tells the story of four teenagers in foster care who come together…
The year just started, and it’s already trash. We’re not talking politics, but about the fact that we’ve already lost one precious thing this month: Friends. The NBC sitcom joined a long list of shows to depart Netflix, and in doing so, joined another list: Things white people mourn when…
Peter the Pilot is this season’s Bachelor and he’s only the third white pilot to ever be the lead of the show (diversity!). And if this writer knows anything about pilots (she does, she used to work with them), then she knows Peter won’t have any trouble juggling multiple women…
Creature feature fans may soon swamp the Texas Theatre. It’s been nearly five decades since indie filmmaker Charles B. Pierce brought The Legend of Boggy Creek to life on the big screen. Now, a remaster of the documentary-style, cult classic is making its way back to Dallas. “I’m thrilled it…
Writing another review of how bad the Cats movie is at this point would be a waste of time. Everyone should see it to make up their own mind, but adding another review of it to Rotten Tomatoes would be like throwing a gasoline truck on a wildfire. If you’re…
Friday, December 27 Adult Game Night 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27 Blends Daiquiri Lounge Free-ish Wind down from the holidays with throwback jams and a grown-up game night. Play spades, dominoes, checkers and other board games throughout the night. Hookah and VIP suites will be available for purchase. The Secret…
During last week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, cast member LeeAnne Locken told fellow cast member Kameron Westcott that cast member Kary Brittingham was “the little chirpy Mexican.” Westcott silently nodded. This wasn’t the first time Locken has made some questionable remarks about Brittingham’s nationality. “I should have…
Blaming the problematic characters on Friends for any residual racism, sexism or any other bad-ism is not the hill to die on. I’d like to introduce you to Al Bundy.
One of the biggest musicals in history is going from center stage at theaters to being transformed into a controversial CGI adaptation on the big screen, and right before Christmas. After the star-studded trailer and a featurette on the film dropped in the middle of July this year, Twitter had…
Monday, November 18 The Funky Knuckles If The Funky Knuckles aren’t a part of your weekly jazz intake, they should be. The Funky Knuckles have been together for nearly seven years. The fusion jazz band released an album called Meta-Musica in 2014 that climbed to No. 1 on iTunes’ jazz…
Being in a conference dedicated to the belief that the Earth is flat is surreal enough. Then one of late-night TV’s most notorious trolls enters to stir up trouble for the sake of comedy, and it somehow feels more surreal but a hell of a lot funnier. Jake Byrd, the chipper,…
The latest tour for Joel Hodgson’s movie-mocking TV creation Mystery Science Theater 3000 is special for many reasons. The Cheesy Movie Circus Tour features new gadgets and effects for Hodgson and his robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. The two movies that will face Hodgson’s firing squad include…
The Dark Hour Haunted House sets a very high bar for its very frightening attractions. The costumes are intricately designed. The rooms and sets look like something built by a movie studio with a high-priced budget. The makeup designs are seamless, striking and supremely scary. The makeup team — which…
Halloween is coming up and you probably want to celebrate this joyous season of candy and death, while the last thing you want to do is throw on a furry outfit and traverse outdoors in this wet weather. (It would not only be cold and uncomfortable, but everyone would wonder…
Dallas-based Sock Puppet Parody creates parody videos of pop, punk and metal hit songs.
It’s no surprise that Parker Vandergriff dreams big and isn’t afraid to take a long shot. Standing before a beer-guzzling crowd at Legal Draft brewery, former Star-Telegram publisher O.K. Carter describes Vandergriff as a major talent in production. As a creative producer with The Richards Group overseeing video, digital and…
CW33 is finding its stride one year after layoffs cut the TV station’s entire news department. With their merger with 97.9 — creating The Beat on 33 earlier this year— and after being acquired by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains a strong community focus. When the idea of Breakfast…
A man in an olive green spacesuit pauses mid-stride half way down a red sand dune. Leg cocked to the side, he looks off into the distance. Bright pinpricks of stars dot the sky above him and a smudge of orange-tinged cloud rises up from the horizon. It could…
This past September, the Dallas-based film studio The Contested Edge won an award for Best LGBTQ+ Short at Los Angeles’ Indie Short Fest. Led by director Brock Cravy, The Contested Edge produced Innocent Boy, a short film depicting the opiate crisis in Texas. With a predominately LGBTQ+ cast and crew,…
For many of us, October means that it’s haunted house season. For unemployed actors, it’s Christmas-is-nearly-upon-us season. With so many different haunted houses to choose from, it’s hard to decide where to spend your hard earned money. After all, what each person seeks from their haunted house experience can differ…
The creator of the Horror Museum and Chocolate Bar promised a whole heap of horrific fun for Dallas’ horror fans. Founder Ali Sheikh said back in August that his Deep Ellum attraction on Main Street would feature unique horror exhibits like a collection of artifacts that carried macabre and sordid historical…
