Christopher Kelly
Features
In Praise of Sissy Spacek
Why doesn’t Texas’s greatest movie actress get the respect she deserves?
No Country for Bad Movies
Once and for all: What are the ten best Texas films of all time?
Revenge of the Nerds
How did a small cadre of film geeks from Austin take an outsized role in determining what you see at the multiplex on Friday night? One dismembered body at a time.
Thank God It’s Friday
And Saturday. And Sunday. The arrival of fall means weekends spent watching football, up close and on-screen, and yet another opportunity to love the greatest game on earth for all the usual reasons. Forty-nine of them, in fact.
Columns | Miscellany
The Last Pageant Show
Faced with stiff competition from reality shows, is the decades-long tradition of Miss Texas in decline? Not if a few determined queens can help it.
Reporter
Foxxed Out
Wes Is More
In Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson lovingly embraces his fantastical streak.
Quaid in Full
After years of bad choices and bad luck, Dennis Quaid—older, wiser, and emotionally raw—proves his mettle in a new movie and his first TV series.
Men in Black Moods
Tommy Lee Jones’s charming new romantic comedy.
Sibling Revelry
Are Jay and Mark Duplass too productive for their own good?
Return to Southfork
The new Dallas smartly pretends the nineties never happened.
A Killer Role
In Killer Joe, Matthew McConaughey keeps his shirt on. For a while.
Her Bust Interests
In The Client List, Jennifer Love Hewitt tries to the breast of her ability.
Ready for Its Close-Up
The SXSW Film Festival finally starts living up to its hype.
Trite and True
We have met the enemy, and they are Good Christian Bitches.
This Is a Robbery
Were Bonnie and Clyde just a couple of crazy kids?
Perfect Execution
Into the Abyss dives deep into the death penalty debate.
His Big Year
Is Owen Wilson finally turning into—gasp!—a serious actor?
For Real, Y’all
What does a rash of new reality TV tell us about the Metroplex?
Nerd Rising
Jim Parsons, the unlikely savior of the TV sitcom.
Singular Lady
Can Beyoncé reinvent her music videos in the Age of Gaga?
Out on a Limb
Terrence Malick: Brilliant or pretentious? Discuss.
Extreme Makeover
To Have and to Hold
Can the T. D. Jakes brand go mainstream—and live to tell the tale?
Desperate Diva
Is Eva Longoria doomed to be tabloid fodder the rest of her days?
Action Heroes
Four filmmakers to watch in 2011.
All He Needs Is Love
Bill Paxton’s role of a lifetime.
Best Western
The Coen brothers deliver a truer, grittier True Grit.
It’s Here. It’s Queer.
Jim Carrey’s brilliant gay movie finally comes out.
El Underachiever
Robert Rodriguez is our most prolific filmmaker. But is he selling himself short?
Who’s That Girl?
Who are Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato?
This Is Series Business
The trouble with Texas TV shows.
The Comeback Kid
Three cheers for Woody Harrelson’s return to form.
Life Cycle
Horton Foote’s bountiful last act.
Action Heroes
Four filmmakers to watch in 2010.
Stop the Blitz
The blind side of The Blind Side.
Big D & the Women
Reality (TV) bites Dallas women.
You Lost Us at Hello
Renée Zellweger versus the Oscar curse.
Apocalypse Now
Hey, movie people, leave Cormac McCarthy alone!
Skating By
Drew Barrymore keeps Austin weird.
King of The Hilarious
How Mike Judge got his groove back.
Angel Heart
Before her death, Farrah Fawcett achieved what had long eluded her: three-dimensionality.
Dreamgirl
How Beyoncé could become a great actress. Seriously.
Mist Opportunity
Why Tommy Lee Jones’s newest film went straight to DVD.
Unreality Show
Are the Jonas Brothers for real?
Action Heroes
The best new Texas filmmakers.
No Bull
Urban Cowboy’s indelible imprint on menswear.
Bottoms Up
The brave new world of Web serials and how they make money.
We Shall Overreach
Enough with all the high-minded sports movies!
Marley and Him
Owen Wilson’s new movie is no dog.
Gossip Boys
Boy toys will be boy toys.
Minor Movie Star
The Jessica Simpson oeuvre.
I Wish I Knew How To Depict You
The gay cliché.
American Booty
Alan Ball’s near-great teen sex flick.
Porn Yesterday
A porn classic turns thirty.
Frozen Asset
The best sitcom you may never get to see.
Urbane Cowboy
Julian Schnabel’s metrosexual Texanness.
Bombing Iraq
Hollywood loses the Iraq war.
Action Heroes
Action Heroes 2008.
All Your Movie Are Belong to Us
Geeks from Austin will destroy American cinema.
Sorry, Charlie
Charlie Wilson’s warts.
Crude Truth
Paul Thomas Anderson drills a dry hole.
Blood Brothers
The Coen brothers do Cormac.
Fatally Hip
Hip-checking Wes Anderson.
Grounds for Suspicion
Conspiring minds want to know …
Please Stop Directing
An open letter to Ethan Hawke.
This Just In
The news about Making News.
We’ll Always Love You
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at 25.
Arousing Success
A slasher flick to die for.
The Lost Boys
With friends like these …
Action Heroes
The best of the new auteurs.
Failed Coup
News you’d Rather not use.
Fumble!
Dim the Lights.
Immaculate Misconception
Catherine Hardwicke’s bad faith.
Err America
Bush bashing on the big screen.
Fries With That?
Richard Linklater supersizes Fast Food Nation.
Terror Alert
Revved up for Chainsaw.
Fanfare for the Common Man
In praise of Mike Judge.
Shooting Blanks
Ten years later, Lone Star is still overrated.
Royal Flush
Ignore the critics. See The King.
The Perfectionist
Terrence Malick’s self-defeating art.
The Snooze Brothers
How the Wilsons became legally bland.
Web Exclusives
Big Rich Texas's Big Unlikely Success
Despite withering reviews, the Dallas-based reality television show has enjoyed increased ratings and has spawned a franchise.
The Dallas Arts Scene Is Ready for Its Close-Up
As the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination approaches, the eyes of the world will be upon the city, and its cultural leaders are prepared for the attention.
Tackling the Cowboys
Joe Nick Patoski takes on America's most storied football franchise in his new book, The Dallas Cowboys.
How to Successfully Release a Conservative Film
Movie distributors of 2016: Obama's America, which is on track to be one of the five highest-grossing documentaries of all time, focused their initial marketing strategy on a Houston release. Why?
The Renaissance of Ann
Nearly six years after her death, Ann Richards, who is the subject of a new documentary, book, and stage play, still casts a long shadow.
TNT’s Dallas Spurs Its Namesake to Prosper
The time-honored TV show is finally back, and it's bringing Dallas economic and tourism growth, as well as a certain sense of pride.
The Indie Film Scene of Dallas
The city is home base for a growing community of young filmmakers, who are making their mark on the independent film scene.
From Blogging to Book Deal
Houston Chronicle blogger Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) found herself at the center of a two-day auction among twelve publishing houses for the rights to her debut memoir, Let's Pretend This Never Happened. How did she rise from unpaid blogger to New York Times bestseller?
Somebody Up There Likes Bob Byington
The Austin-based writer and director's new film, which is premiering at the South by Southwest film festival, may soon find mainstream embrace.
Did It Their Way
Austin filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner prove that Sundance still embraces their type of idiosyncratic, shoestring-budgeted work.
From Screening Movies to Releasing Them
Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League starts an independent film distribution company, but can he make it work?
Dagoberto Gilb Returns to Writing After His Stroke
Before the End, After the Beginning, the author's first collection since his stroke, draws on his personal crisis for inspiration.
Putting the Band Back Together
Thunder Soul, a documentary about the Kashmere High School Stage Band's return to the stage after 35 years, makes a powerful argument for the necessity of arts education.
Drama King
Less than two years after moving into the Wyly Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center has become the state’s drama darling. Is it the final curtain on the Alley Theatre’s time at the top?
21st-Century Slacker
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Slacker, a couple of dozen filmmakers remake Richard Linklater's indie flick.
Angel Heart
Before her death, Farrah Fawcett achieved what had long eluded her: three-dimensionality.
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