Toast & Jam with Marco Petrilli
Students can enjoy a School of Rock experience at Southwest High School's Contemporary Academy of Music, a program that teaches kids to write, perform,...
“A Dirty Shame” Redux
The Sundance Channel has screened John Waters’ underappreciated 2004 comedy “A Dirty Shame” several times over the past month. (Another showing is scheduled January...
The Best Movies of 2013: A Look Back
As Howard Cosell once said, "Let us reflect back nostalgically upon the past." (Thus repeating himself four times in one sentence.) Awards season always...
Considering Anna Faris
I spent Saturday watching Anna Faris host a pretty good episode of Saturday Night Live that she didn’t contribute much to. Coming on the...
Sonny Carl Davis on Windsor, Alamo, Evil Bong, Willie Nelson
Sometime back in the early 1990s I stumbled across Last Night at the Alamo (1983), an obscure black-and-white film directed by the tortured Texas...
Drive-In Culture Returns to North Texas
This Friday night (May 10) is the official opening of the Coyote Drive-In just south of Lagrave Field near downtown Fort Worth. This revival...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2022
I found more good material than usual for this annual feature that I do, and I’m posting this early to see if I get...
Considering John Cena
When I saw the trailer for Bumblebee some months ago, I was skeptical. Not just because all the previous Transformers movies have sucked, but...
Quinn Shephard On Windsor, Texas, Twang, Jersey Shore
Texans don’t know what to think of New Yorkers half the time. That TV commercial wasn’t far off the mark, the one where a...
Django Unchained Toys Sell For Big Money On MLK Day
Today, some Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and honor the nation's greatest civil rights leader.
Others...not so much.
Take eBay bidders for instance.
Django Unchained...
