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.
Widespread vaccinations promise Dallasites something that they didn’t have last year: an actual summer. It was hard to enjoy the season last year — what’s to love about warm weather if you can’t enjoy summer concerts, cookouts, waterparks or festivals?
Have you heard of the television program Schitt’s Creek? It’s a little-known Canadian comedy that introduced the world to newfound international sex symbol Dan Levy whilst reminding us that his father, Eugene, is a certified DILF.
Interminable news stories in the last year have especially proven that racism is alive and well, and keeping up with all of its subcategories is tough.
Six years ago, Dallas filmmaker Alex Kinter set out to make Poolside, a short film set in the 1950s. Starring Anne Beyer, it tells the story of a lonely, isolated high society housewife who starts to hear voices in her indoor swimming pool.
Parenting is for the crazy. You’d simply have to be crazy to undertake such a role requires you to be responsible for a tiny life, on a 24-hour cycle. You have to give up sleep for the first half of the kid’s childhood.
On the count of three, tell us who you think of when you think of “outstanding mothers.” One, two, three: the women of The Real Housewives of Dallas! Wow, do we think alike. These women make motherhood look easy and fun and it has nothing to do with the fact…
