Crosstown Sounds 6.26 // Independence Day Shows
Happy birthday, America! In celebration, let’s all go to a ton of local shows this month. Deal? For more Independence Day ideas, check out next...
Janet, Dammit
I seem to lack the proper appreciation for these lyrical, contemplative films about girls growing up with distant parents. You may remember that I...
Film Shorts // June 26 – July 2, 2024
OPENING
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi (PG-13) The big-screen version of the anime series follows Seishiro Nagi (voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki) before he enters the youth...
Thelma: Scoot on Over
Can you make a thriller with a 93-year-old main character? Maybe it’s not as difficult as we think. Sure, a nonagenarian actor is unlikely...
Til Tuesday
“And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die,” wrote John Donne. The 17th-century metaphysical poet had a powerful imagination, but I doubt...
Film Shorts // June 19-25, 2024
OPENING
Agent Recon (NR) Derek Ting writes, directs, and stars in this action thriller as a young soldier sent to track a mysterious disturbance at...
Awazing
When Smoke’N Ash Tex-Ethiopian Smokehouse first came on the Arlington scene in 2020, its remarkable concept of combining Ethiopian flavors and spices with traditional...
Electric Cowboy
After arriving fully formed on the scene in 2021 with the electro-country track “Tarrant County,” G.W. Childs signed with COP International (Stabbing Westward, Chiasm),...
‘Woke Attacks’
Multiple speakers and a venue pulled out of a prominent Texas activist group’s July conference after we revealed its plans to amplify white nationalist...
Deepen Sorrow
On Friday, religious watchdog blog The Wartburg Watch posted a story that shocked the nation’s evangelical community. The epicenter? Tarrant County.
As of this week,...
