Posts Tagged ‘late’
We Bought a Zoo: Animal House
Like his hero, a filmmaker tries to find a new purpose.KRISTIAN LIN
There are two ways to evaluate Cameron Crowe’s family-friendly new film We Bought a Zoo. One is by the standards of other PG-rated Hollywood movies that revolve around cute animals. By that measure, this is a drama that deals...
Fair and Balanced at Trinity Tavern?
LAST CALLLAST CALL
Late in the afternoon a few days ago, I went looking for a place to have a beer and a sandwich. The obvious choice would’ve been Finn MacCool’s, but they stop serving food at 2 p.m., and I take serious issue with pe...
Late-Night in the 817
Last CallWe’re touched. You like our town so much that you’re planning on staying out until the wee hours on at least one night. Excellent –– the Weekly has a warm place in its paper heart for you hearty partiers. And the Fort h...
Starting with the Weekly
StaticFort Worth Weekly’s numerous stories during the early days of natural gas exploration in the Barnett Shale played a prominent role in research by Pennsylvania film director Josh Fox, whose documentary Gasland won a jury prize...
A Solitary Man Goes Back to School
Michael Douglas tries to hold back the years in this mild comedy.KRISTIAN LIN
Since the turn of the new century, Michael Douglas has gradually been phasing himself out of the stardom that he enjoyed in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when he often played angry white men under siege. These days, he’s ...
Stylin’
KRISTIAN LINChris Rock explains the premise of Good Hair right at the beginning. While photographs of his two young daughters fill the screen, he says, “Even though I tell them that they’re beautiful every single day, it just i...
Cadillac Cowboys
High atop East Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards, a motley crew of musos is eyeing the Big Time.JEFF PRINCE
The Cantina Cadillac’s rooftop view is brilliant, although getting up there requires climbing a rickety ladder attached to a wall that’s 35 feet high, with nothing but pavement to break your fall.
Pas de Grand
Big TicketFor its spring program, Metropolitan Classical Ballet makes a deep bow to Tchaikovsky.
The Redwalls
The ShowA lot of burgeoning artists are fortunate enough to inherit their parents’ record collections and discover music they missed during its first go-around.
Randy Thompson
Listen UpFurther On is an often dreary, often satisfying mix of traditional and modern country with deep folk influences, despite the grunge-tinged electric guitar that thunders through most of the songs. Here on his third release since...
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