Incisive criticism, features, and news related to Texans on the screen—and behind the camera
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, Andy Langer speaks with the magician and entertainer behind Scam School and The Modern Rogue.
At age 47, Ethan Hawke is finding himself with the career everyone anticipated he might have had fifteen years ago.
David and Nathan Zellner have made it as indie filmmakers in their own under-the-radar way. Now they’re going mainstream (sort of), with the Robert Pattinson–starring western ‘Damsel.’
From a breastaurant to a thriller featuring puppets, here are eight movies from Texans to watch this summer.
After the second season of his Netflix series, the Houston-born writer and filmmaker talks about the "ideological gold rush" of 2018 and whether he would watch ’Dear Black People.’
With an expanding pool of talent and steady work, animation is a promising path forward for the Texas film industry.
The film debuts at the Dallas International Film Festival this weekend.
The film captures the lives of three student-athletes in El Paso and the dual nature of the U.S.–Mexico border.
How Hollywood came to 1950s Texas with a message of change and emerged with an enigmatic legend.
Eight months after Harvey, Ellen DeGeneres gave the students of Rockport-Fulton High School a generous gift.
Earlier this week, Vulture posted excerpts from fifty screenplays that showed how female characters were described in the scripts of the films that made them famous. It was a fun, enlightening exercise in which we learned how the male-dominated field of screenwriting tends to view women (a lot
All around the world, people are gathering in public spaces to say "wow" in their best impression of the North Texas native.
The documentary, filmed before the Harvey Weinstein allegations, explores gender inequality in Hollywood.
The actor and director also talks casting Kris Kristofferson, the state of the movie industry, and the complexity of Southern men.
To some of our writers, Wes Anderson is in the doghouse.
Ethan Hawke talks to host Andy Langer about his new Blaze Foley film. Plus, a 1,700-mile road trip to reconcile political differences.
Actor Tye Sheridan and writer Ernest Cline discuss the nostalgia-filled world of 'Ready Player One.'
Houston-born director Wes Anderson gives us an inside look into how the fantastical world of his new film, ’Isle of Dogs,’ was made.
Remembering "The Alamo" through souvenir shot glasses, John Wayne toilet paper, and the family that brought the 1960 classic to Texas.
In this exclusive premiere, Jackie Venson agreed to indulge us.
Tye Sheridan's emotional vulnerability anchors the film, which premiered at SXSW.
The film, which premiered at SXSW, raises interesting questions, but its answers fall short.
The film, which takes place in a 'breastaurant' in an unspecified Texas town, is lovely, weird, and poignant all at once.
'A Quiet Place' is the sort of movie that lingers after you watch it through your fingers.
The night was packed with Hollywood luminaries who have a soft spot for Texas.
Texas’s premier portrayer of creepy, weaselly dudes once played drums in Crucifictorious.
On a pilgrimage to Beverly Hills, a lifelong fan learns that his favorite actress is every bit as charming at eighty as she was half a century ago.
”They’ve already disgraced it once. I’m not going to let them do it a second time.”
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced a commemoration of the Battle of the Alamo that includes the historically questionable John Wayne movie.
In several categories, films by women make up more than half of the titles.
Ah, video stores, where viewers—and cinephile clerks—got to develop eclectic tastes.
El Paso survived the mutant apocalypse, Irving was detached from space and time, and Matt McConaughey showed his dark side.
Texas football made the former ’Friday Night Lights’ actor a heartthrob. Will a Texas tragedy make him a bona fide star in 'Waco'?
Can a 1960s novel with a cult following finally become the blockbuster film its fans believe it should be?
Ridin’ Dirty on the stovetop.
With a challenge from Plano-based Cinemark, the subscription-based movie wars are in full effect.
Heard alleged that Depp abused her a year before #MeToo. Has the timing allowed him to evade consequences?
For the former state senator, accurate representation in the Hollywood biopic goes beyond historical accuracy.
How did the North Texas native convince a generation of TV fans that he was a dyed-in-the-wool Brit?
'First Cowboys' tells the story of how the Cowboys helped rebrand Dallas.
She just can’t wait to be queen.
In 1980, two nerds in Dallas started their own religion. Forty years later, SubGenius founder Ivan Stang and filmmaker Sandy K. Boone reveal the true story of the long con.
Between 1971 and 1977, eleven young girls from southeast Texas were abducted and killed in similar circumstances. In a new documentary, a reporter and retired police detective try to find out what happened.
Now it’s Woody Harrelson’s turn to play our thirty-sixth president on-screen. Why can’t we get enough of a man once regarded as utterly devoid of glamour?
Plus: Does Coach really deserve Tami Taylor?
Going to Gatling, meeting Landry, and discovering the cruelty of teenage girls.
Alamo Drafthouse CEO and Fantastic Fest founder Tim League is in the news after re-hiring a staffer accused of sexual assault—and his festival may suffer for it.
The Dallas filmmaker went big time with last year’s 'Pete’s Dragon' remake, so he followed it up with one of the quietest—and most moving—films of the year.
The most interesting sports video game in years tugs on some specific Texas heartstrings.
How the more or less true story of two Texas outlaws revolutionized Hollywood.
