April Movies
By Gary Dowell Evil Dead: Five friends head to a remote cabin for vacation, unwittingly release an evil force, and are gruesomely picked off by it one at a time. This remake of the 1981 […]
Entertainment
Diamond In The Green On Screen
By Jay Betsill Springtime is here in North Texas and for sports fans that often brings up conversations about major league baseball’s opening day and professional golf’s first major championship, the Masters. Will the Texas […]
Inside The Mind of Derek Cianfrance
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 […]
The Place Beyond The Pines – Movie Review
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 […]
G.I. Joe: Retaliation – Movie Review
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, […]
Olympus Has Fallen – Movie Review
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 […]
LOOK is Getting Your Attention
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 […]
Spring Breakers Movie Review
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 […]
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone – Movie Review
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 […]
Crucified Barbara From Sweden to Dallas
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 […]