Film, TV & Streaming

Film marketing companies work hard to create compelling moments within the first few seconds of a trailer in order to suck the viewers’ eyeballs to the screen.

An original writer for Saturday Night Live, a best-selling satire author and a former senator will accept the next Ernie Kovacs Award at the Dallas VideoFest. What do they all have in common? Everything. They’re one person. Writer, commentator, host of The Al Franken Podcast and former Minnesota Sen. Al…

Houston actress Jojo Regina plays the young version of Kya, a girl left to fend for herself in a swamp, in Where the Crawdads Sing.

Ask fans of The Office about their favorite episodes of the series, and you’ll get “Diversity Day” as a popular answer.

After a two-year hiatus, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas is back and better than ever. Kicking off this Thursday at the Texas Theatre

Harrison Ford celebrates his 80th birthday this week, and somehow he’s busier than he’s ever been. Here’s a look at some of his iconic roles and memorable displays of displeasure.

Season 4 of Stranger Things has given us plenty to talk about: The show made Kate Bush’s 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” a No. 1 hit, made Metallica popular again.

As we’ve learned from Citizen Kane and every motel with a mirror ceiling, in filmmaking and in sex, it’s all about the angles.

A lot of places closed under the financial weight caused by the coronavirus pandemic and one of the most unfortunate

Arranging a meeting with Stephen King isn’t as simple as picking up a phone or reciting a Sumarian incantation into a mirror.

Beavis and Butt-Head are back! “Ha, ha, ha. Fire.”The two beloved idiots are returning for a new adventure.

The hit 1987 film RoboCop came to life because of the city of Dallas. The story may be set in Detroit but all of the city scenes, buildings and roads for the car chases were filmed in Dallas.

There’s a disclaimer that plays before Disney-Pixars’ latest animated feature Lightyear. The title card explains that the film you are about to see is not about the toy

Twenty years ago, the city’s film commission had reached the end of its financial rope, leading the Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Film Commission to its inevitable collapse. A month later, the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau – now called VisitDallas – decided the city that gave the world movies RoboCop and…

Adam Sandler is back at it. Although it’s become the norm for mainstream movie stars to develop projects directly for streaming services, Sandler made headlines in 2014 when he signed an exclusive development deal with Netflix.

Filmmakers from all over gathered in Austin’s AFS Cinema on May 22 for the Austin After Dark Film Festival.

It’s been almost a decade since we’ve seen TV’s greatest pair of animated morons use their dwindling intellect to make a fruitless attempt to score. That ends today.

Just a few days shy of a year, Gov. Greg Abbott proudly signed a series of seven state bills into law that made Texas, as he and House Bill 2622 put it, “a second amendment sanctuary state.”

It’s taken far too long for the video game industry to deliver a game that lets horror fans control the movements and murdering abilities of some of the genre’s most infamous killers in a quality, cinematic style without committing a non-pixel based felony.

Every aspiring filmmaker has to start somewhere, and events such as the Pegasus Film Festival give them their first chance to share their vision with the world.

Even in a vast media world overrun by superheroes and lightsabers, true crime stories remain just as popular as ever with viewers.

You hear a lot about the next young artist who might be the “next Taylor Swift.” There’s a lot of the “next Leonardo DiCaprios” out there.