Filmmaker and Dallas native Cooper Raiff is only 25, but his second film, ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth,’ should establish him as Texas’s next great director.
Moviegoers have returned to theaters in droves to see the long-awaited sequel—and we have Texas to thank.
‘King Rex,’ based on Lawrence Wright’s 1980 article about millionaire turned drug kingpin Rex Cauble, will star Henry Winkler.
The storied actor and Fort Worth native always wanted to direct. His gripping debut, released twenty years ago, showed us why.
Vin Diesel, in a long, feelings-heavy Instagram post, revealed how close the venerable Texas star came to playing Lucas Hobbs.
After a two-year pandemic delay, the Austin native will appear in ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ But that’s only one of his recent projects to launch.
Ahead of its April rerelease, members of the 1997 biopic's cast and crew recall a set overcome with emotion as loved ones grappled with Selena's tragic death.
SXSW showcased a bevy of films by or about Texans this year. Two sports legends and a disabled Texan were the subjects of three that stood out from the pack.
Writer-director Ti West’s return to horror is set in a creepy house in rural Texas. But that’s where the similarities with classic slashers ends.
As it turns out, even the best films and TV shows about the Lone Star State have their share of gaffes. (Yes, even ‘Lonesome Dove.’)
A grassroots campaign—and a multibillion-dollar corporate real estate acquisition—kept the bulldozers away.
From newcomers to reliable veterans to a pop star remaking her TV career, these were the actors worth watching this year.
How an Amarillo oilman stole the mask right off the Lone Ranger’s face, and made one of film’s most infamous failures in the process.
Over one hundred movies later, a virtual movie club learned some surprising things about classic movies—and about friendship in dark times.
The 1981 slasher spoof prominently features Houston and a future Texas politician, but that’s not all that’s notable about it.
The Houston filmmaker’s latest is a valentine to defiantly idiosyncratic storytellers like Wes Anderson.
The sequel to David Gordon Green’s franchise reboot is all filler, same old killer.
Kick off the football season with this underappreciated, Denton-filmed comedy, which captured some truths about Texas football that later, more-serious movies would expand on.
Cowboys, ghostbusters, and aliens, oh my! The autumn months are abloom with Texas actors, filmmakers, and locales on the big (and small) screen.
The debut feature from Scott Brignac, starring Alan Tudyk and Michael McKean, argues for Houston's place among film’s default “big cities."
At Cannes, the Houston native’s latest inspired a nine-minute standing ovation and equally fawning reviews.
The SUV will get a star in Arlington commemorating its thousands of movie and TV appearances.
The Austin-based artist is adapting his West Texas–set tale for the screen.
The film, based on a true Fort Worth story and starring Dallas native Luke Wilson, is a welcome post-pandemic balm.
The Richardson-bred actor and former ‘Supernatural’ star has two major roles this year, after a lifetime of near-misses.
Plano probably had more to do with the invention of the snack than Richard Montañez's inspirational tale did.
The actor stars as a gun-toting Smiths fan in ‘Shoplifters of the World.’
The first COVID films are poised to address a pandemic that isn't through with us yet. Here's why these early, imperfect takes on the past year are still worth watching.
From ‘Urban Cowboy’ to ‘Northern Exposure’ to ‘No Country for Old Men,’ Texas’s finest character actor isn’t hanging up his spurs just yet.
The owner of the now-shuttered Austin mainstay I Luv Video hopes to ensure the collection remains publicly accessible.
Kevin Willmott’s unsettling film revisits the Houston riot of 1917, in which an all-Black Army unit mutinied after enduring months of harassment.
Its influence is evident in the way new releases such as ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ and ‘Cobra Kai’ use time in their storytelling.
The annual mock-government summer camp—which I attended in 1995—hits the national spotlight thanks to an engaging new documentary.
"We need to have a good cry," Smith says. "Then I want us to hit the streets and demand real, systemic change."
The feature debut, which was awarded SXSW’s Louis Black “Lone Star” Award earlier this year, centers on the story of a mother and daughter navigating a scholarship pageant.
Out this week, the actor's first album, ‘The Mother Stone,' is not unlike background music at a haunted circus.
The post-McConaissance period has been rough, but the actor’s turn in ‘The Gentlemen’ would have fit into that golden age.
Known for his ‘mumblecore’ films, Andrew Bujalski takes a new direction for Disney+’s first feature film.
’The Immortal Alamo’ says much about the silent film era, and how San Antonio could have been Hollywood.
’21 Bridges’ won’t be the film to get him there.
Will Boone’s first solo exhibition probes what the Lone Star State means to outsiders and insiders alike.
In one of the first scenes of Diane Paragas’s film Yellow Rose, protagonist Rose Garcia (played by Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada) goes on a date with a boy named Elliot (Liam Booth). The pair gallivant through the streets of downtown Austin, and they
Katy native Renée Zellweger is getting rave reviews for her portrayal of Judy Garland, but biopics are tricky to nail.
The ambitious Texas filmmaker announced a two-decade shooting timeline for ‘Merrily We Roll Along.’
Twenty years on, the band is Texas’s most subliminally recognizable export.
The El Pasoan reflects on violence in her hometown, and why it’s important for the Latinx community to tell their own stories.
On the latest National Podcast of Texas, the South Texas-raised stand-up comic talks about Mexican-American representation in Hollywood, the border situation, and writing jokes for Clint Eastwood.
The film captures the lives of three student-athletes in El Paso and the dual nature of the U.S.–Mexico border.
Houston-born director Wes Anderson gives us an inside look into how the fantastical world of his new film, ’Isle of Dogs,’ was made.
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.
