I sincerely hope that there’s a five-hour cut of Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit somewhere, a version with cleaner through-lines, deeper characterizations and a more organic narrative. But the version that we have right now — a messy, troubling beast clocking in at around 150 minutes — is riveting in its own…
It’s hard to imagine a less promising film title than An Inconvenient Sequel. Maybe Another Imposition Upon Your Time? It’s clear, in the opening minutes, as we watch him shake off the slights and smears of his critics, that Al Gore is too savvily upbeat a technocrat to give the…
Twelve-year-old Dallas comedian Saffron Herndon broke the internet in 2015 when a Buzzfeed article introduced the world to her irreverent and edgy sense of humor. That exposure led to a performance on NBC’s Today Show, and the following year we learned Herndon had been given her own A&E reality series, Little…
A year ago, many vape shops and vape enthusiasts across the U.S. were trembling in their boots. A spate of U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations were aimed at their hobby, livelihood and lifeline and originally were set to be enacted Aug. 8, 2016. A year later, those threats seem…
“Our mission is to show the range of voices women have,” Justina Walford says, speaking of round two of the Women Texas Film Festival, which kicks off at Studio Movie Grill on Aug. 16 and runs through the 19th. Short films, long films, weird films and sweet films all will…
It’s August, which means it’s even hotter than July and you need TV now more than ever. Manhunt: Unabomber, Aug. 1 (Discovery) Essentially, this is American Crime Story: Unabomber. It’s an eight-episode scripted series about the manhunt to find Ted Kaczynski and will probably be interesting, if only to see…
Ben Willis: Candy Man Fort Works Art 2100 Montgomery St. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays until Sept. 9 Free After being introduced in 1949, Candy Land was marketed on the box as “a child’s first game,” which explains why King Kandy, Queen Frostine, the Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain…
At 5 p.m. Thursday, I became one of the first people in this country to see The Emoji Movie a second time. (Aside, obviously, from the folks who made it — though I’m not entirely sure that some of them actually bothered to see it all the way through once.)…
Marcel Duchamp’s prankster anti-art resonates a century after the Society of Independent Artists rejected his urinal sculpture titled “Fountain” in a New York City exhibition. The committee didn’t consider the readymade porcelain piece signed “R. Mutt” to be art. Dallas Central Library will celebrate the spirit of Duchamp and the…
Friday Although the electronic music genre has typically been dominated by men for the past few decades, Suzanne Ciani’s innovative approach to music making during the 1970s and ’80s made her a pioneer in popularizing the genre. The classically trained pianist and composer turned her attention to computer-generated music in…
Agustín Arteaga can consider his job very safe. In his first year as the Eugene McDermott director of the Dallas Museum of Art, he’s played an instrumental role in attracting 802,870 visitors to the museum, its best attendance in a decade and second highest in history. More than a sixth…
Joe Folsom is quick to defend one of the most influential and controversial performers of the 20th century, Lenny Bruce: “He’s wasn’t an asshole; he just didn’t suffer assholes,” he says. Bruce was famously misunderstood and was arrested numerous times for violating obscenity laws. Words and terms that are common…
Joanna Gaines is everywhere. But that’s not enough. First, there was the renovation business, then the HGTV show, then the store in Waco, then the book, then a Waco restaurant. But now, she’s gone too far. She’s invaded the one thing we thought was safe — Pier 1 Imports. Below…
The Last Tycoon premieres July 28 on Amazon Prime Here’s how a fan magazine might profile the hero of The Last Tycoon (Amazon), played by Matt Bomer. His name belongs in marquees, but he deserves a place somewhere higher. Monroe Stahr toils as an angel on Earth, making dreams come…
ThursdayAt 19 years old, not a lot of folks are thriving in their careers. But R&B singer-songwriter Khalid certainly is. In fact, the El Paso native started his at age 17 and has collaborated with Logic and Calvin Harris, among others. That’s something to be proud of. His latest single, “Location,”…
Officially, the brutish thriller Atomic Blonde takes place in Berlin just before and after the toppling of the Wall, in early November 1989. But this seismic event is really just a backdrop for another epochal marker: the decade that saw the birth of MTV and the height of New German…
The gaming world may be new compared to movies and music, but it already has some interesting myths. Lost and fabled relics are being uncovered, like Atari’s “E.T.” cartridge landfill dump and the infamous “Hot Coffee” mode in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which sparked another national debate about children…
Black & White and Read all OverKettle Art 2650-B Main St. Opening reception 7 p.m. Thursday Three prolific lowbrow artists from Dallas have teamed up to bring you Black & White and Read all Over, a nod to the importance of print illustrations. Brad Albright’s line-art illustrations tend to revel…
The Incredible Jessica James premieres July 28 on Netflix Sometimes critics and filmmakers agree. We suggested, in our 2015 review of People Places Things, that writer-director James Strouse should please give more screen time to supporting actor Jessica Williams. Now, in his new rom-com for Netflix, The Incredible Jessica James,…
The titular child of S. Craig Zahler’s Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child is a boldly conceived, cinematic protagonist. The boy, whose mother died giving birth to him and whose father is unknown, has pink skin with white patches. The inside of his mouth is purple and fanged. White…
We’re in Dallas! After weeks and weeks of long, emotionally exhausting two-hour episodes in which everyone is wine drunk and crying, Dallas lawyer and Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay finally took her suitors to her “beloved” hometown. In Dallas, they would meet her family in her parents’ wonderful Highland Park home. But wait…
You can’t expect a storyteller to wring much suspense out of a real-life plot to assassinate Hitler. In the case of Georg Elser, the subject of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s German drama 13 Minutes, the filmmakers must contend not just with the fact that we know Elser’s 1939 bomb won’t end the…
