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Yearly Archives: 2009

Film Shorts

OPENING: Angels & Demons (PG-13) Better than The Da Vinci Code at least. Tom Hanks returns with a more sensible haircut for this sequel as...

Vacant Rooms

I'll admit it, Management got to me. To the naked eye, this low-budget film may look like a cookie-cutter Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy, and...

Fútbol Flop

It's hard to make a sports film with real originality. How do you resist the siren call of the genre's cliches: the tough but...

Local Boys on Tour with Rock Giants

Local pop-rockers and Capital Records signees Green River Ordinance are going out on tour with two heavy-hitters: singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw and ‘90s radio giants...

Seven Flags Over Texas

"You ever hear the old saying, 'I often wondered what was in a hot dog; now I know and wish I didn't?' Well, I...

Scaling New Heights

I've been eyeballing Eddie V's Prime Seafood with suspicion since the upscale eatery's mid-January opening. I don't care how glitzy and glamorous it is...

Lighten Up

Some restaurants are inverters: You arrive in a bad mood, and they quickly turn your frown upside down. Some are amplifiers: You arrive in...

Phil the Skies

Night & Day has always had a soft spot for scientific debunkers who go around poking holes in myths and superstitions. So it's rather...

Movies, politicians, and gay sex

I went to the AMC Grapevine Mills this past weekend to see Private Eye, a Korean movie that's so obscure that it has neither...

Tuesday Night Special

My Tuesdays have become like a normal person’s Fridays. Tuesdays are when we put the paper to bed, meaning that I can go out...