By Gary Dowell For writer-director Derek Cianfrance, filming his multi-generational crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines in Schenectady, New York, was a no-brainer (after all, the movie’s title is the translation of the Mohawk […]
By Gary Dowell A sprawling tale of fathers and sons told across generations, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines aims high, compromises rarely, and falters just a little. Cianfrance and co-scripter Ben Coccio (Zero […]
By Gary Dowell At best, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is preferable to its predecessor, in the sense that a raging hangover is preferable to a case of the bubonic plague. Originally scheduled for release last June, […]
By Gary Dowell Die Hard in the White House with a little 24 and even some Under Siege thrown in for good measure, Olympus Has Fallen is possible the dumbest of the big, dumb, and […]
By Lindsay Quinn There’s a new theater on the block and it’s upping the game for the DFW cinema dining experience. LOOK Cinemas, a newly formed Dallas-based theater company opens its doors to North Texas […]
By Gary Dowell The art house equivalent of a Girls Gone Wild video, bad-boy auteur Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers offers a mock-morality tale disguised edgy nihilism, but only after he hobbles it with an anemic […]
By Gary Dowell There is a lot of smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand involved with The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Don Scardino’s comedy about the rise, fall, and re-invention of a vain and supercilious […]
By Ryan Feldman Catch Sweden’s Crucified Barbara this week, Thursday, March 14th, at the Curtain Club (2800 Main St STE B, Dallas) with fellow Swedes, CrashDiet. The all-girl group will look to take North America […]
By Greg Holman Faith and Begorrah fellow Blitzers! St. Patty’s Day is right around the corner and the insanity of the Greenville Ave. Parade looms large on the horizon; so I thought that we’d talk […]
By Posie Pockets How important is closure in relationships? One of the most infamous words that accompanies a break-up is closure. But is it really what it’s cracked up to be? In the past I’ve […]
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