Film, TV & Streaming

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…

Optimistic celebrities and theater owners have proclaimed that “movies are back” so many times now that it just seems redundant to say, but it looks like this vague notion is now going to be a reality. Just as everyone got bored rewatching Training Day for the umpteenth time on Netflix,…

Besides taking place during a global pandemic, this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony made history for another reason: an actress of East Asian descent received an Oscar for the first time in 63 years. South Korean Yuh-Jung Youn was named Best Supporting Actress for the film Minari, and the 73-year-old began…

A new show from the Freeform network is about to become your latest television obsession. Filmed almost entirely in Dallas, Cruel Summer tells the story of Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), a popular young blonde who goes missing one day, and Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia), an awkward outcast who becomes the…

Unlike last year’s virtual celebrations, this year’s 420 festivities could allow a good smoke circle among vaccinated friends. We’d also guess that setting up a Zoom meeting might be a challenge depending on how high you are. Disappointed stoners may have flocked to weed-centric movies last year when they couldn’t…

Our favorite quarantine-style reality competition is back. This Wednesday, Netflix released the first four episodes of the second season of The Circle. Last year, we saw Dallas native Chris Sapphire become an audience favorite by charming us with his vibrant, luminous personality. He took fourth place, but was a winner…

After months of speculation, Matthew McConaughey revealed last month that a run for the Texas governorship was something he was “giving consideration.” This wouldn’t be the first time the Academy Award-winning actor has hinted at political aspirations, but his recent comments inspired an onslaught of that routine response many performers…

Are movie theaters back? Well, maybe. The pandemic may have given Dallas audiences more time than ever to sit around and rewatch their favorite movies at home, but it’s no secret that everyone’s been itching to get back to the theater for a big-screen experience. With a wider rollout of…

“One does not simply walk” into a room and find all four hobbits together — unless you’re in the reverse Tolkien world known as Dallas. Put on your Elfin ears and listen up, precioussses: The original hobbits in the Lord of the Rings films will be attending the FanExpo at…

Peacock’s recently released reboot of 1980s sitcom Punky Brewster is as a treat for the original fans as much as it is fresh material for a younger generation. Punky (Soleil Moon Frye) is now a divorced mother of three who has a biological daughter named Hannah (Lauren Lindsey Donzis) and…

Dallas actor Stephen Tobolowsky is perhaps best known for his role as Ned Ryerson, the earnest childhood friend of Bill Murray’s grumpy newscaster Phil Connors in the comedy classic Groundhog Day. You know, the guy who famously said “Phil? Phil Connors? I thought that was you!” countless times in the movie…

This past February Disney+ added The Muppet Show to its streaming platform. Flipping through a few of the episodes — watching musical guests from John Denver to Alice Cooper — is wildly nostalgic. Those who grew up watching the felted sketch show in the late ’70s are the same ones…

This week’s 93rd Academy Award nominations set a fair number of milestones. Steven Yeun became the first Asian-American actor ever nominated for Best Actor with his work in Minari; with Nomadland, Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color ever nominated for Best Director; Riz Ahmed became the first Muslim actor ever…

Even in the midst of a global crisis, Hollywood isn’t about to stop congratulating itself. After a year in which most movie theaters were closed, the Academy Awards extended and expanded their eligibility requirements for films in contention, pushing back their ceremony to April. As a result, movies released in…

It all began one morning as Mark Birnbaum sipped coffee with a friend who’d read about Byrd Williams IV, whose lineage includes a long line of photographers. The friend asked, “Isn’t this the kind of person you make films about?” Birnbaum remembers. Indeed it was. “I never thought about making…