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…
Most seasons on Ru Paul’s Drag Race, some queens on the show are looking to be seen and gain a bigger audience by being contestants. Dallas native Asia O’Hara says her reason for being on Drag Race has more heart and meaning behind it. O’Hara began her drag career at…
The film opens with a dreary series of fake-outs and fantasies, culminating in a gunfight and car chase that suggest Broken Lizard would rather be making a different kind of movie
… What makes O.G. so fresh and appealing is how, while it’s a laugh riot, the characters are both written and portrayed as grounded, fully realized folk
Lost in Space is nearly Steven Spielberg airy, telling the story of a super-smart family selected to populate a Utopian space colony but who get lost somewhere along the way
Fresh ideas are rare in the horror game, so it’s not surprising that Truth or Dare quickly devolves into a riff on the Final Destination films, which had Death wittily and methodically hunting those it failed to nab in plane crashes and other disasters
… You Were Never Really Here follows the disjointed, tormented inner journey of Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), a former soldier and law enforcement official who now works as a kind of hammer-wielding vigilante-for-hire, finding missing people (usually, it seems, kids)
… This is a movie where everyone in Johnson’s radius accuses his character of hating humanity, when the actor himself can’t help ingratiating himself to everything …
Brad Anderson’s talky-smartish thriller Beirut, like the first half of Million Dollar Arm, sets Hamm’s sharpie loose in a country — in this case a fractious Lebanon — where the rules aren’t his
Consider this your annual Real Housewives of Dallas update. At least three of the Housewives have been spotted filming a new season of the show. Observer reader Nick Hance saw Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken and Kameron Westcott with a film crew at Lark on the Park. Hollman and Locken together?…
Carey Stinson was a 23-year-old Chili’s employee in 1991 when a co-worker first introduced him to Barney, the purple dinosaur. “One of the employees asked me, “Can you work Saturday for me because I have to be Barney?’” recalls Stinson, a Dallas native. “I said, ‘What in the world is…
