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Good Shotnew
The story of a Ukrainian emigre in New York's violent Little Odessa is three-quarters of a great film, weakened by its moralizing.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-20-2005 |
Reviews
Cherry on Topnew
The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-22-2005 |
Reviews
Working Bluenew
The Aristocrats goes inside the dirtiest joke ever told and reveals a nugget of unadulterated joy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
Reviews
Where There's a Willnew
Author Will Clarke has a deal with a New York publisher and a Hollywood studio, and it only took him eight years to become an overnight success.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bad News Is Just Thatnew
You will still recognize a little of what remains onscreen, but the plastic surgeons have botched the job, rendering Bad News Bears hideously deformed.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
Steel Wheelsnew
Murderball, a documentary about quad rugby players, absolutely kills.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
Always a Bridesmaidnew
Vince Vaughn -- the role model for every guy who ever dreamed of living in his parents' basement till he was 35 -- is Wedding Crashers' skirt-chasing master of ceremonies.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-18-2005 |
Reviews
Kinky Friedman's Candidacy Is No Jokenew
The author, songwriter and animal rescuer may have announced he wanted to be governor of Texas as a gag to push his books, but his quest has taken a serious turn.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-06-2005 |
Politics
Skate Borednew
Adding only melodrama and pretty young boys, this fictional version of a documentary about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s California is no improvement on the original.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
06-06-2005 |
Reviews
We're No Angelsnew
Much of Crash, an L.A.-stories portmanteau about the suffocating embrace of racism, is hard to watch, harder still to listen to. It reminds us there's bad to be found in good people, and evil lurking even in the righteous.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-10-2005 |
Reviews
Bolton Nomination Whistleblower Learns Power of Blogsnew
Melody Townsel's letter alleging that John Bolton behaved unprofessionally in 1994 brought her fame and infamy after it was posted to the left-leaning Web site Daily Kos.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-09-2005 |
Politics
Jokes? What Jokes?new
The droll has been made dull, a most inexplicable and unfortunate turn of events for so adored a genius, goofball work as Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-02-2005 |
Reviews
Lost in Translationnew
All talk and little action, The Interpreter plays like a messy hodgepodge of moods, ideas, politics and emotions.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
04-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Sydney Pollack, The Interpreter
An Old Flamenew
The passage of four decades had all but erased the legacy of Dick and Kiz Harp, until Bruce Collier re-released the jazz duo's two albums recorded on 90th Floor Records.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
04-18-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Waiting for Erykahnew
The highest-debuting female solo artist in the history of the music charts told a packed room at South by Southwest that she started ControlFreaq Records "to free the slaves and the slave masters."
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
03-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
