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    This Week's Hot Headlines

    Mysterious deaths, hot restaurant news and Dallas' best dressed top 5 most popular stories this week

    Claire St. Amant
    Jan 4, 2014 | 9:00 am

    Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and there's a lot we all probably missed. But we're looking out for you, kid. Here are the most popular stories from this past week:

    1. Dallas attorney dies in shootout with police at luxury Uptown condo. A decorated Dallas attorney died in a puzzling early-morning shootout with police at a luxury Uptown condominium. Michael Schmidt of the Schmidt Law Firm was shot and killed around 2 am January 2. Police were responding to reports of a burglary when Schmidt, 47, allegedly opened fire on the officers from a barricaded area in a hallway.

    2. Mysterious death at Katy Trail in Dallas leaves more questions than answers. A 50-year-old woman was found dead near the Katy Trail around 7:30 am December 29. The body has been identified as Christie Pennington of Kemp, Texas. Her body, which was in the 3300 block of Maple Avenue, did not exhibit any physical trauma. Police have listed the death as unexplained, though homicide detectives continue to investigate.

    3. Who's in, who's out: 2013 Dallas restaurant openings and closings. Reporting on new restaurants is one of our favorite hobbies, along with making lists and checking them twice. Dallas-Fort Worth diners enjoyed a wild year of restaurants openings, big and small, and welcomed all sorts of new concepts and cuisines. Also, in the least surprising news ever, Sfuzzi Uptown admitted it's closing.

    4. The 20 most fabulous looks from the 2013 Dallas social scene. We can always count on the Dallas social set to pull out all the stops, style-wise, before painting the town. These are some of our favorite looks from the most fashionable and philanthropic events of 2013.

    5. The 6 best new Dallas bars of 2013 to get your boozy fill. It’s the end of another year, and that means that things have to be labeled and listed lest we forget. In this edition, we examine the six best new bars in Dallas that abused our livers this year. It’s a pretty wide array of styles and neighborhoods, ensuring that if you were looking around, you weren’t likely to be bored.

    Attorney Michael Schmidt died in a puzzling shootout with police January 2.

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    Movie Review

    War is hell takes on new meaning in intensely personal film Warfare

    Alex Bentley
    Apr 11, 2025 | 1:49 pm
    Cast of Warfare
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    Cast of Warfare

    At this point in movie history, there are precious few ways to make a war film feel original. Every major American war, including the most recent ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been covered, and the “war is hell” idea has been featured in too many films to count. So for a film like the new Warfare to stand out, it needs to do something that other war films have not.

    To say that it accomplishes that goal is an understatement. Set in Iraq in 2006, it follows a platoon of soldiers tasked with helping to gain control of the city of Ramadi, a hotbed of activity in the war at that time. But this is not a story of good triumphing over evil, nor one that tries to examine exactly what the U.S. military was trying to accomplish in the war. Instead, it’s just a story of a group of young men trying to do the job they’re asked to do, and what happens to them during that mission.

    It presents as fact, with no judgment either way, that one squad of the platoon overtakes the home of two Iraqi families as part of the mission. An ensuing firefight pins the soldiers down with almost no way to escape, and subsequent rescue attempts by other squads result in multiple casualties. The bulk of the film focuses on how the shell-shocked and injured soldiers react to the situation in which they find themselves.

    Written and directed by Alex Garland (Civil War) and Ray Mendoza, the film is based on the memories of Mendoza and his fellow soldiers of this exact situation they experienced. As such, the film does not attempt to add extra drama or even emphasize one character over another. In fact, the first 30-40 minutes of the film are relatively boring, as the squad relays information about their position to other, unseen people.

    The men in the platoon are not exactly interchangeable with each other, but the way the film is structured, they’re essentially equals. It’s easy to tell who the leaders are, but those giving orders are not treated as more important to the film than those carrying them out. This is especially true when things go to hell, as each person goes from trying to fight to trying to survive, with their training coming into play in different ways.

    The situation depicted in the film is somewhat mundane - it’s not some big battle or a turning point in the war - but the intensity with which Garland and Mendoza stage it makes it enormously impactful. They put the audience right in the thick of the carnage, and the horrific injuries inflicted on some of the men, as well as the seemingly never-ending screams of pain emanating from them, can be difficult to take.

    The cast features a few actors who are starting to make names for themselves (Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn, Noah Centineo, Charles Melton, Michael Gandolfini), others who’ve had smaller impacts (D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai, Cosmo Jarvis, Evan Holtzman), and plenty of others who have yet to get their big breaks. Each of them does their job extremely well, which in this case means that they complement each other’s performances, with none of them overshadowing the others.

    Warfare is not an overtly political film, and yet the politics of war are inextricable from the story it tells. Neither anti-war nor pro-war, it simply lays out the facts of one individual mission in a larger conflict, and each viewer will likely take away something different from the experience of watching it.

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    Warfare is now playing in theaters.

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