If Quentin Tarantino were to drunkenly scrawl a rough outline for a movie on a bar napkin, toss it into the trash after deciding to go another direction, and then another writer came along to fish it out for a screenplay of his own, something like 2 Guns would be the result. There’s all the violence, drug deals, and colorfully drawn characters you’d find in a Tarantino script like True Romance, but without the gloriously fluid dialogue. Meaning it’s significantly less fun than it’d like to be. Based on a graphic novel, 2 Guns stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlburg as an undercover DEA agent and an undercover U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Each is working undercover and believes the other to be a criminal who’s helping him infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel. They team up to rob a bank full of the cartel’s money, the legitimate reasons for which were never clear.

Cullen Hoback's movie is a piercing, thorough and often witty investigation into the way the internet corporations – like Google and Facebook – take our personal information and use it to their own benefit.

How far back does the anticipation  stretch for Thursday night's debut show from the band called Overseas? The first interview I conducted about the group was in February, of 2012. It may as well have been the year before, and it took some time for the matter to become pertinent; the interview was posted over a year later. That's a ton of pressure for a new band, but it's understandable, since everyone in the group is basically an all-star. Guitar, vocal, and rhythm assignments will all be handled by noteworthy songwriters. The gentlemen in Overseas have all made careers off of mountain-like piles of sad, slow music, and that includes the Kadane Brothers, Matt and Bubba, who were in Bedhead and The New Year; Will Johnson, of Centro-matic; and finally, David Bazan, of Pedro the Lion. Bazan is the only member with no obvious North Texas ties, but also the member with most visible national profile, so he is just fine. One wonders if there is a correlation.