Posts Tagged ‘eyes’
Clumsy&Shy Music Blog Does SXSW
Anthony MarianiFormer Fort Worth Weekly intern and freelance writer Marjorie Owens has been running an ultra-hip, ultra-sleek blog, Clumsy&Shy, specializing in avant-garde pop/rock and associated with Pour le Corps, a newish record label ...
Una Poca Justicia
Big TicketIt’s easy to see why The Secret in Their Eyes won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this past year. This Argentinean movie is a grand romance and a meditation on the regrets of old age, wrapped up in a cop thriller that nicely ...
Got Gas?
It's time to act to protect our health.Kendall McCook
A year and a half ago, around the time four gas wells were being drilled in my Southside neighborhood, I was driving down Berry Street past Riverside Drive when my eyesight blurred. At first I wasn’t alarmed; I figured it...
The Crash That Took Me
Anthony MarianiHuge, shimmering, occasionally fuzzy guitars. Pounding, splashing drums and syrupy atmospherics. Slinky, androgynous vocals that slowly transmit Beatles-esque melodies with lyrics about transmutation, self-reflection, and trans...
Lonnng Haul
JIMMY FOWLEREvery frame of director John Hillcoat’s reverent adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road trembles with grim nobility. “Trembles” might be the key word — the near-future America where the mov...
Idiocracy
Forest Whitaker reigns supreme over the flawed The Last King of Scotland.Kristian Lin
Throughout his career, Forest Whitaker has always been the nice guy.