Morrissey has postponed his May 8 show in San Antonio.
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Well, it happened again. An arena representative has confirmed that the Morrissey show scheduled for Thursday, May 8 at Boeing Center at Tech Port has been cancelled. The sold-out performance has been rescheduled to January 10, 2026.
The former Smiths frontman has a long history of ditching San Antonio performances. In a six-month stretch between 2016 and 2017, he cancelled three scheduled concerts, citing health concerns. The singer has not made an official announcement about the cause of the latest postponement.
The show delay did come with some omens. With little warning, the British rocker recently jettisoned a May 1 set in San Diego and a May 3 show in Rancho Mirage. Reps said he was suffering from a severe sinusitis attack but promised the tour would remain on track.
Morrissey has been one of rock music’s most unreliable acts in recent years. Website We Heart Music has been tracking the crooner’s cancellations since 1991. In 2024, he cancelled 39 percent of his tour dates. In 2023, he skipped 28 percent of his shows.
The 65-year-old singer has become a lightning rod for controversy in recent years for his comments on immigration and the Me Too movement. Still, he retains a sizable fanbase in San Antonio and the Mexican-American community. A 2005 documentary, Is It Really So Strange?, documented the phenomenon.
Even if Moz makes it to the stage in January 2026, there’s no guarantee he will perform a complete set. The singer frequently cuts shows short, citing various concerns. In 1992, he abruptly ended a San Antonio performance at Municipal Auditorium after fans rushed the stage.
Actor Jimmy Stewart, thanks to movies such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Shop Around the Corner, and The Philadelphia Story, had the reputation early in his career as the everyman in Hollywood, someone to whom most audiences could relate. That became even more true when Stewart entered the military during World War II, a period that is explored in the new biopic, Jimmy.
Stewart (KJ Apa) was riding high in 1941, coming off his first (and only) Oscar win for The Philadelphia Story. As depicted in the film, his life is upended when he receives a military draft notice as the U.S. prepares for war. He’s determined to serve, but people like studio head Louis B. Mayer (Jason Alexander) try to talk him out of it. Already an experienced pilot, he eventually joins the war in Europe, flying the B-24 bomber.
Despite his celebrity status, Stewart requests to be treated the same as any other soldier, which means flying multiple missions over enemy territory. He moves up the ranks, becoming a leader tasked with, among other things, reporting the deaths of service members to their families. He also starts a friendship that develops into a romance with Lady Julia (Kara Killmer), giving him a distraction from the horrors of war.
Directed by Aaron Burns and written by Justin Strawhand, the film has the clear goal of being a hagiography for Stewart, showing all of his good qualities and few of his bad ones. In fact, the character of Stewart is harder on himself than the actual movie is, chastising himself over the deaths of fellow soldiers that he likely could not have prevented. The filmmakers go to great lengths to show how good and well-respected Stewart was, something that may well be true, but doesn’t make for great drama.
The bulk of the film features Stewart at war, following him and others as they fly multiple missions and commiserate over the price of combat. The sequences are fine, but the film’s budget does not appear to be high, and so the CGI needed to recreate the scenes is noticeably subpar. Because Burns and Strawhand usually keep to surface-level storytelling and don’t go deep on any character besides Stewart, his time at war is engaging but slight.
The film is bookended by Stewart and Frank Capra (Max Casella) making It’s a Wonderful Life, Stewart’s first film after coming back from war. It’s here that the movie becomes most interesting as Stewart, still affected by his war experience, struggles to bring the character of George Bailey to life. The behind-the-scenes look at the film-within-the-film and the recreations of its iconic scenes are catnip for anyone who knows/loves the Christmas classic.
Apa, best known for starring as Archie on the TV show Riverdale, does extremely well as Stewart. He nails Stewart’s quavering voice and the way he ambles about plays right into the actor’s established persona. Casella and Killmer get the most play in supporting roles, and each does solid work as characters trying to understand Stewart. Alexander, Sarah Drew as Hedda Hopper, and Rob Riggle as a colonel each go a little too big in their respective parts.
Jimmy is probably best watched as an approximation of the man Stewart was in the 1940s, not as something that’s completely true to life. The film elides or stretches the truth on multiple occasions, which is par for the course in biopics. It could have used some stronger storytelling to make Stewart feel like a real person, not merely a replica of the famous actor.
