Film, TV & Streaming

There was a time we got excited for new movies and not just confused.

There’s not a whole lot in the last few years that hasn’t felt straight out of satire.

The phrase “a bad guy we love to hate” has seemingly been retired, because now we’re asked to empathize with those famous villains we use to dismiss as just purely evil.

The acting career of German actor Udo Kier seeps into almost every facet of the film industry.

When Said Abusaud first launched Afterglow Photography in 2015, he wanted to give Dallas a facelift through its arts scene, putting diverse artists and subjects at the forefront.

In theaters this past weekend was the biographical tear-jerker Joe Bell, which tells the true story of a heartbroken father who walked across the nation to raise awareness about bullying and discrimination following the tragic death of his teenage son.

The rules for making it to the big show in Hollywood terms have evolved. For a while, getting your likeness drawn in a Mad Magazine parody was one sign of stardom. Getting your drawn likeness on the wall of the Brown Derby restaurant was another sign at one point in time…

Hitting theaters this weekend, The Green Knight adapts one of the iconic tales from Arthurian legend from a mature, thoughtful perspective. However, for filmmaker David Lowery, it brought back childhood memories of a 7-year-old boy sword fighting his brother in cardboard armor. “Here I am now over 30 years later…

“I did not hit her. It’s not true! It’s bullshit! I did not hit her. I did not. Oh, hi, Mark.” For nearly 20 years, this iconic monologue has baffled moviegoers. The rooftop conversation is only one of the bonkers conversations that make up Tommy Wiseau’s cult movie masterpiece The…

It’s not just the pandemic that makes this year different for the Olympics. New sports that aren’t exactly familiar to ancient Greeks are being included for the first time, including karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding. Is horseshoe pitching next? Maybe we can try to lobby the Olympics committee before…

When the first Dallas VideoFest launched in 1986, it started at a time when film festivals and media conventions weren’t a weekly occurrence or even a massive industry like it is now.

Dallas writer and director Jerod Couch went from the start of a promising career at ESPN and the Texas Rangers to his lowest point in a short amount of time.

This year’s Emmy nominations promise many exciting races, and the lead actor category is no exception.

Superheroes! They’re everywhere! Movies about folks in capes and tights have been a mainstay in American cinema since 1978’s Superman: The Movie, and the genre rose to new heights thanks to the efforts of Tim Burton and Michael Keaton in 1989’s Batman.

Adam West. Michael Keaton. Kevin Conroy. Val Kilmer. George Clooney. Christian Bale. Ben Affleck. Robert Pattinson. At this point, Batmen are as common as brand cereal.

Dallas will soon have a new luxury movie experience.

Julia Roberts is more than just one of our greatest living actors — she’s a living legend. Between winning the Academy Award for Erin Brockovich, starring in some of the greatest rom-coms ever made (we mean, of course, Pretty Woman), and appearing as Tess Ocean impersonating Julia Roberts for a brilliant bit of self-indulgence in Ocean’s Twelve, she can do pretty much everything.

Filmmaker Chyna Robinson is no stranger to telling ambitious, timely stories. The Fort Worth native’s debut film, Greenwood: 13 Hours, was a historical short about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

If a traffic jam on Interstate highway 35 inspired you to let out a “D’oh!” then we might have the place for you.

Guy Mayfield’s debut short film, The Butterfly Keeper, will be premiering in a matter of days.

The plans for last year’s Oak Cliff Film Festival didn’t go as they were originally planned.

The bright side of 2021 is that we’re all a little better prepared for a zombie apocalypse. We’ve been paranoid about the symptoms of a disease that’s easily spread, and anxiously watched for warning signs.