Wendy Williams wouldn’t be celebrating her 10th season of her morning talk show without Dallas. “Well, first of all, the reason why we have a season 10 is because of Dallas,” Williams tells us over the phone Thursday. “We were just a small water drop in 2007, which was our…
Its unruly scenes emerge out of disorder, out of chants and shrieks and fractured images, and always threaten to fade back into abstraction
Peretz could have given each potential pairing equal time in the story, but he sticks with the most evocative of the two; Juliet, Naked has its charms, and they are named Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke
It is to Hawke’s credit that he has invested what clout he has gathered in his industry into this study of an artist who never gathered much clout at all — and that the resulting film has the warm, weary rhythms of Foley’s own songs
This is a story of stifling manners and oppressive codes of conduct, where the wealthy “villains” wear a strained smile and an icky sheen of privilege
Like many Gothic tales, The Little Stranger hangs tantalizingly between genres: It has elements of haunted house thriller, of doomed romance, of psychological thriller, of historical allegory
Wow, has it already been 29 days since our six favorite strangers turned three favorite couples got married? Time flies when you’re watching a TV show about strangers getting married in Dallas. If you haven’t been watching but are still curious about this public social experiment and you’re relying on…
Weitz’s film, concerning a Mossad team’s 1960 hunt for Eichmann, is a sort of Argo Goes to Munich, blending heist movie jollies with some moral inquiry into justice, revenge, torture and execution
Actor Barry Corbin’s Internet Movie Database (IMDB) page doesn’t do him justice. He’s starred and performed in more than 200 TV shows and films, including beloved classics like WarGames, Northern Exposure and No Country for Old Men. He’s acted in roles for best-selling video game franchises like the Tex Murphy adventures, the…
America will get another look into Dallas drag queen Alyssa Edwards’ life. Netflix announced the docuseries Dancing Queen will be added to its queue. It will follow Edwards, aka Justin Johnson, as he tackles drag life, home life and owning a dance studio in Mesquite. In 2010, Edwards was named Miss…
Filmed in black and white in the wintry countryside of Görlitz, Germany, Schwentke’s vision of a man who would be posthumously named the Executioner of Emsland is chilling and yet, at times, almost farcical
Bujalski frames most of Support the Girls as an almost real-time delineation of chaos, but his storytelling elegance — delicate, nearly invisible foreshadowing; cogent evocations of backstory — adds reflective layers to the surface anarchy
Happytime Murders, though, demands that we take its world somewhat seriously, that we invest ourselves in the tensions between people and puppets, that we buy into its by-the-book serial-killer narrative …
The story follows a gang of misfit criminals escaping to a hideout carved into the rocky Italian cliffside, where an eccentric, society-hating artist, Luce (Elina Löwensohn), and her guests sunbathe and make bullet-ridden art
This new version, directed by Danish filmmaker Michael Noer, brings to the story a refreshing intensity and sweep, and even a sense of adventure
At its best, the show was a canny deconstruction of contemporary late-night comedy, which has been swamped with political satire since Stewart, the former Daily Show host, turned Bush-era liberal outrage comedy into its very own TV genre
Secrets get exposed, cultural barriers get smashed and re-erected, and every apparent villain will prove heroic and every hero something of a villain
Jeff Smith, festival director of Texas Terrors Film Festival and Dallas filmmaker, believes short horror films don’t get the attention they deserve. He decided to organize the inaugural Texas Terrors fest that will showcase 20 independent short films Tuesday, Sept. 18 at Texas Theatre. “I wanted to have a lot…
… I imagined how whatever scene I was watching might have been staged and shot and acted out in a more traditional film — and I was inevitably disappointed by what has been lost …
Through the stories of how these teens ended up at God’s Promise, Cameron Post suggests the rigid hegemony of American life, the all-too-common story of religious belief perverted in the service of fitting in
Few humans aren’t amused, awed and amazed by the antics of kittens and puppies in viral videos. It’s Zoloft in video form. Will Braden spends his days collecting and organizing the cutest of the cuddliest as the curator of CatVideoFest.com and tours in movie theaters across America, including the Dallas…
Scandal ensues when the charming Nick Young (Henry Golding), secretly heir to a wealthy Chinese-Singaporean real estate fortune, brings his accomplished, lower-class Chinese-American girlfriend, Rachel Chu (Fresh Off The Boat’s Constance Wu), home for his best friend’s wedding
