Posts Tagged ‘character’s’
Worn Out
COLE WILLIAMSMan, was I looking forward to this. A CGI movie about live rag dolls fighting terrifying junkyard robots in a post-apocalyptic future? Sign me up. Different and darkly atmospheric, 9 didn’t quite look like it would be for...
No Regrets
KRISTIAN LINRob Williams is not related to the British pop singer Robbie Williams, though some people do confuse the two of them. “I get phone calls for him all the time,” said the TCU graduate who now lives in the Los Angeles ...
Supergrass
Kristian LinMarijuana makes you mellow, so movies about people who smoke lots of marijuana usually try to be mellow.
Failed States
Kristian LinOur country’s chaotic political climate has given birth to all sorts of monsters at the movie theater – look no further than the Joker’s grotesque visage for proof.
Revivals
Big TicketWith Casa Mañana suddenly going in for the newfangled likes of Spamalot and Avenue Q this summer, it’s ironic that this week the most interesting things in town are two theater troupes opening old shows.
Illuminating
StageAs the audience files in before the start of Amphibian Stage Production’s Gutenberg! The Musical!, the bellow of Broadway legend Ethel Merman charges out from the sound system.
High Score
Scott Kurtz has done the seemingly impossible: achieve 10 successful years in the webcomic biz.Books
Few people make it in the world of online comics. Few people probably even know that online comics exist.
Carrie-on Baggage
A season’s worth of Sex and the City, squished into one uneven movie.Kristian Lin
I wish the Sex and the City movie had been a musical, with our four favorite fashion plates addressing their relationship problems by bursting into song and dance.
Brains and Brawn
FWO’s Of Mice and Men registers its impact in small doses that, unpredictably, add up in the end.Stage
Last Saturday night at Bass Performance Hall, during the final scene of Fort Worth Opera’s production of Of Mice and Men, I got a little misty-eyed.
Hebrew Hammer
Adam Sandler plays an Israeli superhero, with good and really bad results.Kristian Lin
In Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, the main character and his Jewish friends are huge fans of Steven Spielberg’s Munich: “Every movie with Jews, we’re the ones getting killed.