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These are the 9 best things to do in Dallas this weekend

The final weekend in March brings much to enjoy, including a couple of Easter celebrations, a tribute to vintage airplanes, the latest CultureMap Social, two big music festivals, and a love story reignited on stage.

Below are the best options for your precious free time Thursday through Sunday. Don't like what you see? Lucky for you, we have a much longer list of the city's best events.

Thursday, March 24

Frontiers of Flight Museum presents Wings of Freedom Tour 2016
Aviation enthusiasts can explore and even fly in a variety of vintage aircraft during the Frontiers of Flight Museum's annual Wings of Freedom Tour, taking place Thursday through Sunday. Among the airplanes on display are a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24J Liberator Witchcraft, the B-25J Mitchell Tondelayo, and the P-51C Mustang Betty Jane.

CultureMap Social: The Ultra Edition
We kick off our 2016 events with another rad CultureMap Social. It's a white party but with a twist, as guests help us transform Seven for Parties from stark white to color with throwback art installations like paint by numbers, spin art, and more. You can also taste the new Herradura Ultra; try out a new hairstyle courtesy of Wanderdo; and enjoy drinks, food, music, and a live art activation by muralist Travis Haas McCann.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven’s Fifth
There may be no more well-known classical music piece than Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Its iconic "dun-dun-dun-duuuun" refrain is a pop culture staple, meaning you've heard at least that snippet even if you've never heard the entire piece. You can rectify that when the Dallas Symphony Orchestra plays it and other pieces Thursday through Sunday at Meyerson Symphony Center.

AT&T Performing Arts Center presents Love Letters
Forty-six years after they broke hearts around the country in the star-crossed romance Love Story, Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw are reuniting for a special production of Love Letters, a play about two people who can’t let go of each other throughout their 50-year friendship, despite marriages and families with other people. The production runs at Winspear Opera House through April 3.

Friday, March 25

Texas Music Revolution 20
After 19 years at Southfork Ranch, Texas Music Revolution is moving to a new location: Oak Point Park & Nature Preserve in Plano. The two-day festival on Friday and Saturday features a variety of national and local musical acts, including Lee Ann Womack, Chris Knight, Quaker City Night Hawks, Stoney LaRue, Folk Family Revival, and The O's.

TITAS presents Cie Hervé Koubi
Drawing from his Algerian roots, Hervé Koubi’s work combines capoeira, martial arts, urban, and contemporary dance. Using powerful and breathtaking imagery, the group of 12 male Algerian and West African dancers seem to defy gravity. The dance troupe performs twice at Dallas City Performance Hall on Friday and Saturday

Saturday, March 26

NorthPark Center's Easter Celebration
Leap into spring among beautiful tulips, daffodils, and pansies in CenterPark Garden for NorthPark Center’s Easter Celebration. The day begins with an Easter egg hunt, where a few lucky eggs contain NorthPark Gold. The fun continues with live bunnies, face-painting, photos with the Easter Bunny, storytime with Bookmarks, and snacks and treats from NorthPark’s restaurants.

Local Brews Local Grooves: The Ultimate Craft Beer & Music Festival
The House of Blues hosts the third annual Local Brews Local Grooves, a music and craft beer festival, featuring the finest local Texas breweries and hottest bands. Breweries like Community Beer Company, Deep Ellum Brewing Co., and Peticolas Brewing Company are joined by bands like Infinite Journey, Eleven Hundred Springs, Telegraph Canyon, and Valise.

Sunday, March 27

2016 Easter in Lee Park
After an unexpected break in 2015, Easter in Lee Park is back just in time to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Guests are invited to bring a picnic basket and blanket to Lee Park in Uptown Dallas for an afternoon of festivities, including the famed Petropolitan Pooch Parade, live music, Easter egg hunt, and a special appearance from the Easter Bunny.

Lee Ann Womack is one of the headliners at Texas Music Revolution 20, taking place at Oak Point Park & Nature Preserve on March 25 and 26.

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Lee Ann Womack is one of the headliners at Texas Music Revolution 20, taking place at Oak Point Park & Nature Preserve on March 25 and 26.

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Movie Review

Lazy 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' remake hooks nothing but nostalgia

Photo by Brook Rushton

Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

When the original I Know What You Did Last Summer came out in 1997, it was riding the coattails of Scream, which came out in 1996. Like that film, it featured hot young actors of the time, albeit with a story that was much more standard than the inventive Scream. Still, it made enough of an impact for some studio executive to think it was worth reviving nearly 30 years later with its own legacy-quel.

In the new I Know What You Did Last Summer, a group of five high school friends - Danica (Madelyn Cline), Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), Teddy (Tyriq Withers), and Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon) - have reunited at the engagement party for Danica and Teddy on the 4th of July. While on an impromptu trip to watch fireworks on a twisty road in the nearby hills, Teddy goofs off in the middle of the road, causing a truck to swerve and drive off the cliff.

A year later, having sworn to each other to not speak of the accident to anybody, they start getting stalked by a mysterious person in a fisherman’s slicker carrying a hook. With Teddy’s rich father, Grant (Billy Campbell), actively trying to cover up what his son did (as well as the fallout), it’s up to the group to figure out who is coming after them and how to stop that person.

Written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and co-written by Sam Lansky, the film doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel; in fact, it barely builds something that can roll. It might just be the laziest and most incompetent attempt to capitalize on an existing piece of intellectual property. There is almost zero effort put into establishing a connection between the members of the friend group, making them feel like strangers for the entire film.

It doesn’t help that the young male actors in the film - which grows to include Wyatt (Joshua Orpin), a new fiance for Danica - serve no purpose other than to be generically good-looking. The most impactful of the men in the film is the returning Freddie Prinze, Jr., who - along with Jennifer Love Hewitt - has his old character from the first two films shoehorned into the new story. The filmmakers undercut any good feelings from their return by giving them hardly anything to do and then having Hewitt deliver the line, “Nostalgia is overrated.”

The film as a whole never has a sense of momentum. The inciting incident is so tame - they even attempt to save the driver before the truck goes off the cliff - that the guilt they feel and the anger of the person going after them doesn’t feel warranted. Once the attacks start, it is shocking at how low-energy the sequences are, providing no sense of suspense or thrills. The filmmakers resort to the lamest of horror movie tropes, turning the film into a paint-by-numbers affair.

Cline (one of the stars of Netflix’s Outer Banks) and Wonders (The Studio on Apple TV+, Bodies Bodies Bodies) are the clear stars of the film, but their characters are made into inert scream queens, negating any acting talent they possess. Hauer-King, Withers, and Pidgeon don’t bring anything interesting to their characters, existing merely to have someone else for the killer to go after.

Even the worst films can have some kind of redeeming value if you look hard enough, but the only thing I Know What You Did Last Summer has to offer is that it becomes so comically bad by the end that you can’t help but laugh at its ineptitude. Both fans of the original and fans of horror movies in general will feel cheated by the experience.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer opens in theaters on July 18.

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