Alanis Morissette will play an exclusive show at White Oak Music Hall on May 29.
Photo by Shervin Lainez
A very limited number of fans will be able to see an exclusive concert by singer Alanis Morissette, who will perform at White Oak Music Hall on Friday, May 29.
The concert will be part of the Wells Fargo Autograph Card Exclusives concert series, meaning that only Wells Fargo credit cardholders will be able to buy tickets.
Morissette visited the Houston area relatively recently, playing at Cynthia Wood Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands on June 16, 2024, but this will be a rare opportunity for fans to see her perform in a small, 1,000-capacity venue.
The singer just celebrated the 30th anniversary of her 1995 breakthrough album, Jagged Little Pill, which featured hits like "You Oughta Know," "You Learn," "Hand in My Pocket," "Ironic," and "Head Over Feet."
She has gone on to release 10 albums in her career, most recently The Storm Before the Calm in 2022.
She also turned Jagged Little Pill into a Broadway show of the same name, which came to Houston in 2023.
Tickets for the concert are now available for Wells Fargo Autograph cardholders. Tickets will go on sale for all Wells Fargo credit cardholders beginning at 10 am on Thursday, April 9.
The show marks the 11th concert in the Wells Fargo Autograph Card Exclusives series, with previous concerts across the country featuring Fall Out Boy, Mumford & Sons, Dave Matthews, Lionel Richie, Brandi Carlile, Imagine Dragons, and more.
Jason Segel and Samara Weaving on Over Your Dead Body.
When dysfunctional couples are depicted in movies, about the worst that typically happens is an acrimonious divorce. But in the new comedy/thriller Over Your Dead Body, the husband-and-wife have already gone way past that point by the time they’re introduced to the audience, with their plans leaning toward murder.
Dan (Jason Segel) is a low-level filmmaker relegated to directing pop-up ads, while Lisa (Samara Weaving) is an actor making do in small theater productions. The film finds them heading toward a rare getaway to a remote lake cabin, but it’s clear from the start that the married couple has been at odds for months, if not years. As the film begins, Dan clumsily drops hints at an alibi for his planned murder of Lisa to his ailing dad (Paul Guilfoyle) and others.
His shoddy planning was already sussed out by Lisa, who turns the tables on him when he tries to attack her, revealing a plan of her own. The situation naturally heightens their shared enmity of each other, but their blind hatred turns out to reveal the presence of Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and Todd (Keith Jardine), two escapees from a nearby prison who were helped by guard Allegra (Juliette Lewis). What was once a shared murder plan turns into a fight for survival, forcing Dan and Lisa to work together.
Directed by Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island) and written by former SNL writers Nick Kocher and Briand McElhaney, the film aims to mine comedy out of darkness. Dan and Lisa’s ire for each other is palpable, and their interactions early in the film are uncomfortable. As the film turns increasingly violent with the introduction of other unsavory characters, most of the humor is derived from the creative ways people are attacked and the ultraviolence that results from them going after each other.
It’s a little tough to get fully invested in the story when the filmmakers throw the audience directly into the plot with almost zero setup. There’s not even a cursory montage of Dan and Lisa being in love, so it’s hard to care a lot about their current hate for each other. Likewise, the presence of the prison guard and escapees is completely random, and the three of them aren’t utilized well in the story despite having a couple of well-known actors portraying them.
The saving grace of the film, though, is the twists and turns it takes in the final act. Everyone on screen is put through the wringer, with each of them suffering multiple injuries or worse. The mayhem becomes so chaotic that it’s almost impossible to tell what’s going to happen next, which slightly makes up for the fact that the story as a whole is lackluster. Even though the audience knows they’re being manipulated, the sequences are entertaining enough to overcome that fact.
The cast as a whole is solid. Segel (How I Met Your Mother, Shrinking) uses his comic sensibility to keep the proceedings light. Weaving (Ready or Not) has done multiple movies in this vein, so she knows how to navigate the comedy/thriller waters. Olyphant feels a little out of place, but he has a presence that elevates his part. Lewis goes a little too manic in her part, and Jardine ably embodies the dumb brute.
The comedy history of Taccone, Segel, and Weaving keeps Over Your Dead Body as a positive experience even when the story doesn’t quite measure up. The film never becomes fully predictable, giving the audience a great dose of pandemonium that lifts it up despite its other faults.
