The Daily Post
April 1, 2014
Alright Alright Alright: A Dark-Horse For Statewide Office
He can't be in the run-off, but Matthew McConaughey is launching a write-in candidacy for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
Film & TV
Incisive criticism, features, and news related to Texans on the screen—and behind the camera
Film & TV
March 25, 2014
Watch A Commercial For Big Kahuna Burger, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
The fictional burger chain from the shared universe of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino makes its appearance in the From Dusk Till Dawn TV series—and gets a preview here.
The Daily Post
March 18, 2014
Robert Rodriguez Is Not Suing The State Of Texas, But One Of His Financiers Is
The complicated world of film incentives has resulted in an unfortunate lawsuit surrounding the financing of Machete Kills. …
Film & TV
March 17, 2014
Wes Anderson Has Released a Companion Short to ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
If the film's Courtesan au Chocolat looked delicious to you, feel free to try to make one. …
Film & TV
March 11, 2014
Mike Judge’s “Silicon Valley” Premieres April 6th on HBO, and It’s Really Funny
Who better to produce a show skewering California tech culture than someone from Austin, which is currently overrun with those people? …
Film & TV
March 11, 2014
The Line for Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel” at SXSW Last Night Was Unbelievable
SXSW attendees lined up in unprecendented numbers to see the Texas-bred filmmaker's screening of The Grand Budapest Hotel and extended Q&A at the Paramount Theater.
Film & TV
March 10, 2014
‘Veronica Mars’ Premiered at SXSW, and This Is What It Was Like
The fan-revived cult TV series—made by part-time Austinite Rob Thomas—finally found its audience. …
The Daily Post
March 5, 2014
Alright, Alright, Alright: The T-Shirt Is Just Part Of Matthew McConaughey’s Clothing Line
The mall is a flat circle, at which one can buy McConaughey's "just keep livin" line of menswear at Dillard's. …
Film & TV
March 4, 2014
Revenge Porn Isn’t Illegal In Texas, But It Can Cost You Half a Million Dollars
"Revenge porn"—the public sharing of nude photos of someone on the Internet without their permission—isn't yet illegal in Texas. And after a Houston woman was awarded $500,000 in damages after her ex-boyfriend posted videos and images she gave him to YouTube and elsewhere, it's worth asking if it needs to…
The Daily Post
February 18, 2014
Sea World Is Still Doing Just Fine, Sea World Would Like You To Know
The beleaguered theme park strikes back at its critics with a series of videos—but given their attendance, did they need to? …
Film & TV
February 12, 2014
The Winner of Austin’s Gigabit Internet Wars Is Not Google or AT&T
The two multi-billion dollar corporations have both spent a fortune in the quest to declare themselves the Marco Polo of ultra-fast Internet in Austin, but the company that planted the flag is San Marcos-based Grande Communications. …
The Daily Post
February 3, 2014
J.C. Penney Did Not Drunk-Tweet The Super Bowl
The struggling Plano-based department store chain was trying to advertise mittens. …
Film & TV
January 16, 2014
Watch Texas Filmmaker Brandon Polanco’s Bryan Cranston-Led Short Film “Writer’s Block”
The Stephen F. Austin grad and Austin native landed Heisenberg himself for the lead role in his 13-minute amateur short. …
Film & TV
January 13, 2014
Watch The First Trailer For The ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ TV Series
Not having to deal with Quentin Tarantino's on-screen presence is a more-than-fair trade off for seeing someone other than George Clooney as Seth Gecko. …
Film & TV
January 10, 2014
The ‘Veronica Mars’ World Premiere Will Be In Texas
At SXSW, because ninety percent of the entertainment news you read over the next two months will involve the letters "SXSW." …
Film & TV
January 8, 2014
“Killer Women,” ABC’s New Texas Rangers Drama, Premiered Last Night and It Was Not So Good
Don't worry, though, the ratings were so bad that it's basically DOA.
The Daily Post
December 10, 2013
Great News. There Won’t Be a Friday Night Lights Movie.
Yesterday, Peter Berg—the guy responsible for the screen adaptations of Friday Night Lights—revealed that the beloved TV series would not add a big-screen coda, as the long-discussed project had been officially benched. Here's why that's great news.
Film & TV
December 4, 2013
Tarantino Fans Take Note: There Is a Fake Big Kahuna Burger in Austin Right Now
The fictional ‘Pulp Fiction’ Hawaiian burger joint has taken over the Stallion Grill on Airport Boulevard and there's a whole bunch of film equipment outside.
Film & TV
November 18, 2013
Will This Texas-Based Comic Book Series Be AMC’s Next Breaking Bad?
New reports surfaced that "Preacher," a comic cult favorite, may be developed by the cable network. If it is succesfully brought to a television audience, it could spark a national dialogue about what it means to be from Texas.
Film & TV
November 16, 2013
Cormac Relief
Will Cormac McCarthy’s films tarnish his literary reputation?…
Film & TV
November 15, 2013
Watch a Wes Anderson Short Film Financed by Prada
It's about a race car driver in 1955 Italy, and—spoiler alert—it stars Jason Schwartzman.
Film & TV
November 7, 2013
Meet The Cast Of The ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ TV Series That Robert Rodriguez Is Directing
To help launch his forthcoming cable network, Robert Rodriguez is blowing up his cult classic film into a ten-part television series—but unsurprisingly, original From Dusk Till Dawn star George Clooney isn't reprising his leading role. Here's who the series has cast instead. …
Film & TV
October 18, 2013
Wes Anderson Has Not Been Replaced By A Robot
As the trailer to his new movie proves, only Wes Anderson could make a movie this Wes Anderson-y.
Film & TV
October 14, 2013
Suffer, Dude
Matthew McConaughey plays a bigoted man dying of AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club—and proves once again that he should be taken seriously.
Film & TV
October 11, 2013
Let’s All Be Glad That We Don’t Live In Machete’s Texas
Machete Kills, the second installment of Robert Rodriguez's over-the-top action franchise set on the border, opens today. Thankfully, it's not a documentary.
The Daily Post
September 19, 2013
This Barbie Can Dance
Barbie Thomas lost her arms when she was two years old but that didn't stop her from becoming a professional bodybuilder.
Film & TV
August 26, 2013
Why Filmmakers Are Choosing to Shoot in Louisiana Instead of Texas
"Ain’t Them Bodies Saints" is a Texas film in many ways—the setting, the story, the director, and two producers—yet there wasn't enough incentive to get the filmmakers to shoot the film in their home state.
Film & TV
July 15, 2013
Enchanted Forest
Longview’s Forest Whitaker is having the sort of year that should put him in the Hollywood elite once and for all.
Film & TV
June 10, 2013
Miss Conventionality
Thought winning an Oscar would make Sandra Bullock take chances? Think again.
Film & TV
April 10, 2013
Roiling on the River
In his next film, "Mud," Austin filmmaker Jeff Nichols tackles the novel that Hemingway once called the source of all modern American literature.
Film & TV
March 10, 2013
The Ten Greatest Texas Documentaries
When Texas Monthly created a list of the ten best movies about Texas, they chose to not include documentaries. What gives? So now, just in time for SXSW, a list that applauds the films about the true stories of Texas.
Film & TV
March 10, 2013
“Spring Breakers:” Little Selena Gomez, All Grown Up
The former Disney star busts a very R-rated move.
Arts & Entertainment
February 17, 2013
Matthew McConaughey Has a Presidents’ Day Gift For You
The Texas actor pays tribute to a fellow Hill Country native.
Film & TV
February 14, 2013
The Terrific Marcia Gay Harden Movie You Didn’t Get to See in Theaters
Why has almost nobody had a chance to appreciate the UT alum's Oscar-worthy turn in the delightful domestic farce "If I Were You"?…
Film & TV
February 12, 2013
Dazed and Amazed
Has Richard Linklater just completed the greatest trilogy in film history?…
Film & TV
January 23, 2013
The Explosion of Texas Filmmakers
The number of Texas-based filmmakers at Sundance proves that our vibrant filmmaking community is thriving.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Two New Documentaries Focus on Bush 41 and Ann Richards
Political junkies sad the legislature is in an off year can dig their teeth into two new documentaries about Texas politicians premiering this month.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Barbara Walters: LBJ Would Have Loved ‘Pubic Affairs’ Typo
The unfortunate typo on the commencement programs for the LBJ School of Public Affairs was discussed on The View Tuesday.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Lights, Camera, Carthage!
Nearly fifteen years after Richard Linklater and I started talking about turning a Texas Monthly story into a major motion picture, it’s finally hitting the big screen, with a little help from Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine—and a seventy-year-old retired hairdresser from Rusk named Kay Baby Epperson.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
The Spirit of ’76
How Matthew McConaughey got discovered, why Renée Zellweger’s part is so small, why some of the actresses can’t eat ketchup to this day, and everything else you didn’t know about the making of the classic high school flick Dazed and Confused.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Vanity Farrah
All she did was walk into the bar, sit down, and smile. But I knew right away why, even at age fifty, Farrah Fawcett is still an angel.
Film & TV
January 20, 2013
Bill Paxton
“The only way you hit that next level in terms of film persona is to let go and accept the fact that, for better or worse, you’re all you’ve got . . . The camera’s not as concerned with what you are can do as who you are.”…
Books
January 20, 2013
True West
Twenty-five years ago, Larry McMurtry published a novel called Lonesome Dove—and Texas hasn’t looked the same since. Listen in as more than thirty writers, critics, producers, and actors, from Peter Bogdonavich and Dave Hickey to Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, and Anjelica Huston, tell the stories behind the book (and…
Film & TV
March 31, 2009
Catherine Hardwicke
“When you come with absolutely zero connections, you have to claw your way up, which I did.”…
Film & TV
December 1, 2006
Forest Whitaker
“What does it say about us as humans beings when we listen to leaders who lie to us and, as a result, thousands of people are killed?”…
Film & TV
August 31, 2006
Betty Buckley
“I’m a good ol’ girl from Texas, and sometimes people misinterpret that Texas thing. I’ve learned to tone it down, but it’s been a drag. It’s the unfortunate aftermath of having gone to the mat with the wrong guys in Hollywood.’…
Film & TV
April 1, 2005
Thomas Haden Church
“I knew immediately that they’d be serving ice water in hell about the same time I’d be cast in [Sideways].”…