Baby Yoda fever has swept the world. In the year since its first season debuted, the Star Wars live-action series The Mandalorian has generated a considerable amount of buzz and, in turn, boosted subscribers to the Disney+ streaming service. In a time of competing services with different audiences, it’s rare…
With every Halloween season comes an expectation for movie fans to prioritize their viewings around the horror genre. Classics like Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Shining are shown in regular circulation, and the characters of Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger and Jack Torrance remain just as popular as they’ve…
Borat is back! 14 years after the mockumentary films Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan made headlines for its controversial hidden camera pranks and searing cultural commentary, Sacha Baron Cohen has returned to his signature role with a sequel that tackles on everything from…
Abigail Klein is quite literally the face of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Even though it’s been more than 10 years since she cheered as one of America’s Sweethearts, it’s her photo that accompanies the cheer team’s Wikipedia page. “I mean, what an honor,” she says, laughing. “It’s pretty cool. Obviously,…
Creativity is the key when it comes to the best Halloween costumes. Sure, every Halloween party has at least one Harley Quinn or Pennywise, but the truly memorable costumes that go viral each year are those which feel original and unique. While online shopping has made it easier than ever…
The best horror movies are about people. As easy as it is to judge the genre based on what film has the most memorable deaths, the most jump scares, or the most terrifying masked killer, the scariest films are the ones where the characters feel lifted from a reality that…
Fox Nation host and right wing puppet Tomi Lahren has made an entire career out of queefing out controversial statements seldom rooted in any logic. The (unfortunately) Dallas local has been an outspoken critic of former NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s taking a knee and the Black Lives Matter movement —…
Frank Mendez, a Corpus Christi actor and one-time Dallas resident, died on Sunday. He was 57. Mendez is best remembered for a memorable scene in the 1997 biopic Selena, as the character credited as “Second Cholo.” During a scene from the film, when the singer’s bus gets stuck on the…
As a child, Merced Elizondo had an affinity for cinema. The Oak Cliff native found inspiration through interactions with his Mexican-American family, but didn’t really see much of himself reflected on screen. Now, the 26-year-old is committed to producing films with diverse casts and crews. For his latest short film…
In a tweet Saturday, Andy Cohen, Real Housewives executive producer, told a fan that the upcoming season of The Real Housewives of Dallas is a “really good season. V excited about it. Surprising.” Considering RHOD is a reality TV show made up of mostly white women who drink Champagne during…
It’s September, which means it’s time to part ways with the long, hot summer, unpack your sweaters and take a deep breath of cool autumn air. Always a festive season, there are myriad ways to get into the fall spirit: baking pumpkin pies, picking apples, drinking seasonal beers, cool afternoon…
This is the 33rd year that Bart Weiss, the founder and artistic director of Dallas VideoFest, has brought his team together to put on the annual documentary festival DocuFest. Putting one event together every year since 1987 is challenging enough. “Every year there are new challenges,” Weiss says. “We’ve always taken…
The days of comic books adaptations being looked down on as nothing more than elevated B-movies now seems like a distant memory. In the past two decades, superhero stories have become the most dominant form of mass entertainment, with the characters of Marvel and DC comics populating some of the…
Who knows when we’ll be able to go back to the movies again? Even if the worst case scenario happens and movie theaters become a distant memory like rotary phones and bunny ear TV antennas, there might be another way for you to get your RoboCop kick. Ed Neumeier, the…
There won’t be a new season of American Horror Story this fall, largely due to COVID, but also because the events of 2020 could make for an entire season on their own. This doesn’t mean that Ryan Murphy and Sarah Paulson won’t be gracing our screens with terrifying television this…
Expanding its already out-of-this-world storyline and casting, the Star Trek franchise’s latest installment, the series Star Trek: Discovery, announced the addition of a transgender and nonbinary character. The CBS All Access show plans to introduce the characters for its upcoming third season. Blu del Barrio will play Adira, a nonbinary…
Dallas is home to a plethoral of artistic productions, from music to fine art, live performance and just about every other niche on the spectrum. Our city’s latest bragging point is making its place in less common territory, in TV production. Launching from the heart of DFW, You On TV…
A moviegoer who checks the digital signage at their local theater and sees showtimes for The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, and Back to the Future may believe that they actually took a trip in Doc Brown’s DeLorean. Why, they may wonder, are three of the biggest films of 1985 making…
This week, Austin-based movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse introduced The Press Room, a massive collection of vintage movie letterpress plates. Letterpress plates were the main method used for advertising in newspapers from 1930s through the 1970s. Hollywood studios would send artwork to press setters, who would then create letterpresses for…
It’s hard to think of another young actor who’s been involved with as much Hollywood royalty as Jesse Plemons. The 32-year-old Dallas native has worked with such prominent filmmakers as Martin Scorsese with The Irishman, Steven Spielberg with Bridge of Spies and Paul Thomas Anderson with The Master. He’s also appeared as…
The world lost yet another giant Friday evening with the death of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman. Boseman had been battling colon cancer since 2016, but the public didn’t learn of his illness until his passing. The actor continued to deliver stellar performances after his diagnosis and through his treatment…
It’s been six months since I’ve seen a hit. My addiction runs deep. It goes back to the earliest days of my childhood when my parents would take me out to get my fix. The movie theaters have been closed for just over six months and … wait, did you…
