Film & TV
March 13, 2024
Border Pundits Need to Watch ‘The In Between’
The Eagle Pass–set documentary is a thoughtful meditation on nostalgia, grief, and what life really looks like on the border.
Film Directors
Film & TV
February 6, 2024
Why a German First-time Filmmaker Spent a Decade Making a Comedy About Willie Nelson
For ‘Willie and Me,’ Eva Hassmann enlisted an Elvis impersonator, Peter Bogdanovich, and Willie himself to tell a story of how Willie’s music crosses cultures.
Film & TV
August 1, 2023
Justin Simien’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Is Cursed at the Box Office
The Houston director’s big-budget debut flopped—but it wasn’t set up to succeed.
Film & TV
June 13, 2023
Meet the Texan Director Behind Some of Your Favorite TV Shows
‘Mad Men.’ ‘Homeland.’ ‘Love & Death.’ The current golden age of television wouldn’t be the same without the work of Dallas native Lesli Linka Glatter.
Film & TV
July 19, 2022
How B.J. Novak Got West Texas Right in His New Movie, ‘Vengeance’
B. J. Novak talks about his directorial debut, ‘Vengeance,’ a dark comedy set in West Texas—and about Whataburger’s “Dunkin’ Donuts moment.”
Film & TV
April 26, 2022
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.
Film & TV
July 19, 2019
‘Veronica Mars’ Creator Rob Thomas Talks Revivals, Texas, and ‘Friday Night Lights’
The longtime Texan returns to TV with Hulu’s ‘Veronica Mars’ revival.
Film & TV
January 31, 2019
Catherine Hardwicke Puts a Female Action Hero on the Border in ‘Miss Bala’
A decade ago, she broke box office records with ‘Twilight.’ Now the McAllen-raised director is breaking gender barriers in Hollywood.
Hollywood, TX
March 1, 2008
Action Heroes
Action Heroes 2008.
Film & TV
June 30, 1998
Truckin’
A filmmaker’s long view of Longview
Film & TV
March 1, 1998
Robert Benton
We moved to Waxahachie in the early forties, when I was about ten years old. I was a seriously dyslexic child, and no one quite knew what dyslexia was in those days. People just thought I wasn’t too swift. And my way out of it was drawing. It was something
Film & TV
January 1, 1997
Stephen Herek
I went to the University of Texas at Austin to play baseball. In high school I wanted to be a pro baseball player, and I never really thought about movies outside of taking dates to them and stuff like that. And when I tried to walk on to the UT
Film & TV
April 30, 1996
To B or Not to B?
Cesar Alejandro’s low-budget action movies aren’t exactly number one with a bullet, but the El Paso director is sure he’ll be hot in Hollywood—some day.
Music
August 31, 1995
Border Music
A veteran filmmaker’s new documentary looks at the rich history of tejano.
Film
July 31, 1995
A Killer Sequel
Sorry, Bob Dole. Austin director Robert Rodriguez’s follow-up to El Mariachi may be violent, but it’s also art.
Film & TV
September 1, 1994
Aaron Spelling
The trash-TV titan.
Film & TV
May 1, 1986
How Bad Were They?
Larry Buchanan made movies that were so cheap, so incredibly flawed, and so dumb, they’re lovingly celebrated as the worst movies ever made. And he made them all in Dallas.