Film, TV & Streaming

Elizabeth Olsen had her reasons to delve into the character of Candy Montgomery – her costar Jesse Plemons wanted mainly to come home to Texas.

What new shows is Hollywood gonna come up with during the writers’ strike? We can only assume they’ll turn to Yellowstone for inspiration.

DIFF is finally back and running full steam ahead of with a bunch of interesting feature length comedies and dramas and documentaries on everything from art to The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Of all the undignified ways in which you could make money in 2023, Pawn Stars is not a bad option, just saying.

If you’ve been on YouTube even for a half of a second this past month, you’ve been greeted by one of Matthew McConaughey’s ads for his free motivational smorgasbord called The Art of Livin’.

Revisit one of the films that jump-started a long string of “Daddy issues” films from Steven Spielberg and catapulted the sort-of-annoying-but-entirely-lovable Drew Barrymore into a lifelong movie stardom.

“Ted Lasso” is about to launch its final season, and if you’re not ready to say goodbye to the world’s most optimistic soccer coach, check out some of these sitcoms about Yanks trying to make it work in the U.K.

Thirty years ago, a man named David Koresh and more than 70 followers of his Branch Davidian cult held up in a Mount Carmel compound just outside of Waco when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) attempted to serve a search warrant.

As with any year, the 2022 Academy Award nominations incited excitement, anticipation, speculation and of course, backlash. It’s always been this way, as these 12 Oscar-snubbed performances from Texas-bred actors show.

The official Academy Award nominations released in late January packed in many historic moments. The indie sensation Everything Everywhere All At Once scored a record breaking 11 nominations, John Williams become the oldest Oscar nominee ever at age 90 when he topped his own record with a total of 53 nominations, Judd Hirsch received his first nomination in 42 years, and The Quiet Girl became the first Irish-language film to receive any nomination.

Michael Urie is back in Dallas. But just for a bit. This March, Urie is at the helm of LGBTQ+ theatre collective Uptown Players’ stage production of Silver Foxes as the director.

It’s hard to find someone who didn’t love the hell out of the Oscar nominated comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once. It’s hard because it’s better to avoid those people who didn’t appreciate having their mind twisted into a Möbius strip between something involving a giant, killer bagel.

Barney the Dinosaur, the giant people lizard created by Dallas mother Sheryl Leach who graced kiddie TV throughout the 90s, is one of the most beloved and hated pop culture icons of our time. That means it’s fans hold Barney dearer and may even feel more protective of it since it gets so much hate.

The wild success of Terrifier 2, the bloody sequel to the cult slasher film, took everyone by surprise. It was only supposed to be in less than 900 theaters for a three-night stretch over the Halloween weekend, but it found a huge audience of steady screamers and grossed over $800,000 in its opening weekend by grossing out audiences and building bigger crowds – purely from word-of-quivering-mouth.

Objection! The Original Night Court Wasn’t As Bawdy of a Show As You Remember

This month, you might find yourself walking into a liquor store to stock up on your nectar of choice, and before you can even question how far your life choices will spiral, you could be faced with the two most distinguished figures in the meth industry.

Early 2022, Dallas content creator Maria Foster got the direct message of a lifetime. It was an opportunity to fly to Malibu to live in a mansion for a month. Her husband of 19 years, Michael Foster, would come too. Their marriage was stale.

Video game characters have had a really hard time making the jump to other mediums. It all started when someone tried to turn Nintendo’s flagship game Super Mario Bros. into a movie in 1993.

Barbie is coming. After years in development, the movie based on the iconic fashion doll will finally be released next summer, and film buffs can hardly contain the excitement.

While the film box office in 2022 was dominated by Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water, prestige television programming offered much more diversity in terms of genre options.

Facts are facts: geeks rule the world now. While there was a time where you’d have been mocked for wearing a Superman shirt in public, pop culture fandom has steadily become mainstream.

2022 was a complex year for the film industry. Although the pandemic certainly caused a lot of major shifts in moviegoing habits, many of the film industry’s problems had been building up for a good while.