
Bill Paxton’s ‘Frailty’ Was Nervy, Blasphemous, and Just About Perfect
The storied actor and Fort Worth native always wanted to direct. His gripping debut, released twenty years ago, showed us why.
The storied actor and Fort Worth native always wanted to direct. His gripping debut, released twenty years ago, showed us why.
The obscure indie ’Taking Tiger Mountain’ offers a glimpse at the late Hollywood star as a teenager.
El Paso survived the mutant apocalypse, Irving was detached from space and time, and Matt McConaughey showed his dark side.
When my friend Tom Huckabee and I were seventeen, we pooled our money and bought a new Kodak Ektasound Super-8 system. One of the first films we made was a black and white pseudodocumentary called Victory at Auschwitz, which we shot in the old train yard off West Vickery in
After more than two decades in the movie business—including star turns in Apollo 13, Twister, and now his own Traveller—Fort Worth’s Bill Paxton is finally getting what’s coming to him.