Posts Tagged ‘working’
Counting Down New Year’s Eve
Famous actors squeeze into this flat comedy.KRISTIAN LIN
The financial success of last year’s Valentine’s Day inspired director Garry Marshall and screenwriter Katherine Fugate to team up for yet another star-packed omnibus comedy themed around a holiday. New Year’s Eve takes p...
Caine is Working Stiff
Fort Worth novelist Rachel Caine spins another fempowered adventure yarn.JIMMY FOWLER
Earlier this year, the Weekly ran a cover story on Fort Worth-based urban fantasy novelist Rachel Caine, whose real name is Roxanne Longstreet Conrad. After publishing many books under various pen names in the ’90s, Conrad hi...
They Call Me Warrior
This effective generic drama uses MMA as a hook.KRISTIAN LIN
The powers that be are marketing Warrior as a mixed-martial arts movie, but it’s not really about MMA any more than The Social Network was about Facebook. It’s really a story of two brothers from working-class Pennsylvania ...
Trinity Shakes Rosalind
The TCU festival recruits a top-notch talent to tackle one of The Bard’s greatest characters.JIMMY FOWLER
If any Shakespearean character deserves to be rediscovered by contemporary audiences, it’s Rosalind from As You Like It (probably written in the year 1600). Literary critics and amateur bardolators alike have long been infatu...
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Michael Laursen started out as a pupil at Firehouse Art Gallery, working with lengths of pipe and strands of leather. His work impressed Firehouse’s Keith Thomson enough to suggest adding clay pieces to his sculptures.
High Class Haunting
Some of the best scares in the country are happening right here.Peter Gorman photos by Byrd Williams IV
Brent James is a fireman and a paramedic in the city of Glenn Heights, which straddles the Dallas and Ellis county lines. But for a couple of months each year, he has another gig: He’s a madman with a chainsaw in a parking lot.
City Island: An Actor Prevaricates
This little indie film should have confined its drama to the stage.KRISTIAN LIN
Writer-director Raymond De Felitta made an excellent movie in 2000 called Two Family House, a drama that drew heavily on his early life and his memories of his dad. Since then he’s made only three films, including this one an...
Rocking Their World
StaticJeana Cole’s mother-in-law thought an earthquake had struck their family home in south Arlington on Monday. Wrong — the window-rattling tremors and noise were from the heavy-equipment crews building a natural gas pipeline i...
The Nightmare Underground
StaticA group that the Associated Press has called a “green dream team” of policy experts and scientists has concluded that the future is anything but green for groundwater resources in many parts of our country, thanks t...
Round Ones
KEN SHIMAMOTOWas it really seven years ago — an eon in restaurant years — that my oldest daughter had her wedding reception in the very same room as Chubby’s Burger Shack? (It was called something else back then.) One cons...