Film & TV
August 24, 2023
No Store Does More . . . for Texas Wildlife?
H-E-B’s snazzy new nature docuseries highlights the conservationists who protect bats, bears, ocelots, and redfish.
Film & TV
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Film & TV
August 17, 2023
‘Blue Beetle’ Dumped El Paso for Palmera City. Here’s Why I Think It Works.
Batman, Superman, and the Flash live in fictional cities. The first Latino superhero needed his own.
Film & TV
August 8, 2023
The Best Little Film Town in Texas
Texas quadrupled its annual film incentives. Hollywood’s favorite Texas small town, Smithville, shows the opportunities—and hazards—ahead.
Film & TV
August 1, 2023
Justin Simien’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Is Cursed at the Box Office
The Houston director’s big-budget debut flopped—but it wasn’t set up to succeed.
Film & TV
July 31, 2023
How Paul Reubens’s ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ Defined Texas for Non-Texans
“There’s no basement at the Alamo!” and other lessons on the state from the late Paul Reubens.
Film & TV
July 21, 2023
Hollywood Is on Strike. These Texas Film and TV Productions Have Permission to Keep Filming.
As of July 19, SAG-AFTRA has granted waivers allowing 45 projects to keep rolling, many of them in Texas.
Film & TV
July 20, 2023
Carolyn Pfeiffer on Marfa, Tutoring Claudia Cardinale, and Asking Michael Jackson What He Fed His Giraffes
From her West Texas home, veteran film producer Carolyn Pfeiffer reflects on her coming of age in the world of celebrity and discusses her memoir.
Film & TV
July 20, 2023
Want to See ‘Oppenheimer’ in IMAX 70mm? Good Luck Finding a Ticket in Texas.
Only thirty theaters capable of project 70mm IMAX exist in the world. Two of them are in Texas. You'll probably have to settle for "Croppenheimer."
Film & TV
July 10, 2023
Anne Rapp Immortalized Small-town Texas on the Big Screen. But She Can’t Stop Her Hometown From Fading Away.
During Anne Rapp’s Hollywood career, she worked with the biggest names in movies. Now, at 72, she’s ready to tell her own stories about her Panhandle upbringing.
Film & TV
June 28, 2023
‘Dazed and Confused’ at 30: Wooderson Gets Older, but His Philosophy Stays the Same Age
Richard Linklater didn’t set out to make a Texas film, but Matthew McConaughey’s iconic character feels like somebody every Texan knows.
Film & TV
June 27, 2023
‘SpongeBob’ Fans Believe Sandy Cheeks Is From Houston. They’re Wrong.
H-Town is the cartoon character’s alleged hometown, but she seems more like a Conroe gal to me.
Film & TV
June 23, 2023
Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ Made Me Feel Like I’m From Another Planet
The 1950s-set comedy is being hailed as the director’s best work in years, and I can’t figure out why.
Film & TV
June 22, 2023
The Future of Texas Film Is $200 Million Brighter
The Lege approved the highest film incentives budget the state has ever seen. Here's what that massive check means for productions and the biz overall.
Art
June 21, 2023
The Best Books, Film, TV, Art, and More Coming to Texas This Summer
Meow Wolf finally opens! Jamie Foxx returns to Netflix! Erykah Badu is on tour! Vampires are at war?
Film & TV
June 20, 2023
For One Special Year, America’s First LGBTQ Cable Show Aired in Texas
'TV Montrose,' the lightning-in-a-bottle production that aired from 1998–1999, is being digitized by the University of Houston Special Collections Library.
Film & TV
June 13, 2023
Meet the Texan Director Behind Some of Your Favorite TV Shows
‘Mad Men.’ ‘Homeland.’ ‘Love & Death.’ The current golden age of television wouldn’t be the same without the work of Dallas native Lesli Linka Glatter.
Film & TV
May 25, 2023
Did Junk Science Help Candy Montgomery Get Away With Murder?
Hypnosis played a critical role in the real-life case depicted in Max’s ‘Love & Death.’ But was it good science? Here’s what the experts say.
Film & TV
May 23, 2023
‘How to Create a Sex Scandal’: What You Need to Know About the New Docuseries
The Max docuseries debuting today sheds new light on my reporting for Texas Monthly.
Film & TV
May 19, 2023
Maren Morris, Hero, Turned Tom Schwartz’s Sob Story Into a Country Song
The award-winning hitmaker is just as obsessed with ‘Vanderpump Rules’ as we are.
Film & TV
May 16, 2023
‘Hypnotic’ Is Robert Rodriguez at His Robert Rodriguezest
Hypnotic, the supernatural thriller starring Ben Affleck that opened on Friday, is Robert Rodriguez’s twenty-first movie. The lifelong Texan is more prolific than almost any of his ’90s indie-film contemporaries—Quentin Tarantino, whose Reservoir Dogs debuted about a year before Rodriguez’s El Mariachi, has only made ten!—and that’s including a
Film & TV
May 15, 2023
Shea Serrano’s New Sitcom, ‘Primo,’ is Peak Pocho TV
Based on his life growing up in San Antonio’s Southside, the show feels unencumbered by the weight of representation.
Film & TV
May 12, 2023
Tami Taylor, Mother of Texas
Connie Britton’s tough yet compassionate Friday Night Lights character remains one of our most inspirational depictions of Texas womanhood.
Film & TV
May 4, 2023
How Elizabeth Olsen and Holly Hunter Captured the Not-So-Quiet Desperation of Texas Women
What makes the Texas woman unique? What makes her distinct from the demure Southern belle or the rugged, rifle-toting frontierswoman of the American West? As the novelist and Texas Monthly contributor Sarah Bird suggests in her 2016 essay collection, A Love Letter to Texas Women, maybe
Film & TV
May 3, 2023
Last Time Hollywood Writers Went on Strike, Landry Killed a Guy on ‘Friday Night Lights’
The show’s infamous second season was shortened because of the strike, but that’s not the whole story.
Texas Country Reporter
April 29, 2023
Confessions of a Nature-Documentary Filmmaker
For decades, Lubbock-based filmmaker Dale Johnson traveled the globe documenting the beauty, power, and fragility of the natural world.
Film & TV
April 28, 2023
Making ‘Love & Death’: Lesli Linka Glatter, Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, and Patrick Fugit
The show's cast and director reflect on the HBO Max series, based on a 1984 story written in Texas Monthly.
Film & TV
April 28, 2023
HBO Max’s ‘Love & Death’ Needed a Home for an Axe Killer. They Chose Mine.
HBO Max turned my house into that of Candy Montgomery, played by Elizabeth Olsen. Then things got hyperreal.
Film & TV
April 21, 2023
A Radical New Eco-Thriller Film Asks: Does the Climate Crisis Justify Blowing Up an Oil Pipeline?
The movie uses a classic heist format to tackle the hot topic of climate change.
Film & TV
April 11, 2023
How ‘Hud’ Began Texas’s Love Affair With the Bastard
Paul Newman plays a brutish, morally repugnant monster in the classic anti-western. So why do Texans admire him anyway?
Film & TV
April 4, 2023
‘Blue Beetle’ Belongs in El Paso, No Matter What DC Brass Thinks
A new trailer reveals that the Mexican American superhero will live in a fictional city, breaking with canon. Comic book fans are not happy.
Film & TV
April 4, 2023
The Best Books, Films, TV, Art, and More Coming to Texas This Spring
We have seven words for you: Owen Wilson in a Bob Ross wig.
Texas History
March 20, 2023
What Is Left to Say About Waco? ‘Waco: American Apocalypse’ Doesn’t Even Try
Netflix’s new docuseries revisits the 1993 standoff between David Koresh and the federal government without any agenda—or real purpose.
Film & TV
March 16, 2023
In ‘Swarm,’ the Beyhive Is Out for (Literal) Blood
The new Beyoncé-inspired, must-watch TV show explores what happens when fan culture goes too far.
Film & TV
March 15, 2023
Eva Longoria Is a Flamin’ Hot Movie Director
The Corpus Christi native’s directorial debut is a self-assured, joyful ode to inclusivity and snack foods.
Film & TV
March 14, 2023
Why 1980 Was the Year Texas Went Worldwide
The current Yellowstone-fueled “Westerncore” aesthetic is little more than a cultural blip compared to what Dallas and Urban Cowboy unleashed in 1980.
Film & TV
March 7, 2023
When Texas Took Over the Oscars
Forty years ago, a crop of films led by ‘Terms of Endearment’ and ‘Tender Mercies’ reimagined the way we see Texas.
Film & TV
March 6, 2023
How Christy Carlson Romano Lost Her Disney Money and Founded an Empire
Ren Stevens and Kim Possible led the early aughts star to the role she was always meant to play—content strategist—in the place she was always meant to live.
Film & TV
March 3, 2023
Jonathan Majors Has Arrived
With two blockbusters hitting theaters in the span of a few weeks, the newly minted A-lister is doing Cedar Hill proud.
Music
February 10, 2023
Chanda Dancy, a Fearless Houston Violinist, Is Breaking Boundaries in Hollywood
The film composer behind the scores for ‘Devotion’ and ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ has never bought into the rigid rules of classical music.
Film & TV
February 8, 2023
This Twentysomething Texan Is Already an Award-Winning Film Director
Katherine Propper’s student films have won awards at major film festivals. How does she do it? By knowing the rules of filmmaking—and breaking them.
Film & TV
February 1, 2023
Three New, True Stories From the Texas-Mexico Border
The El Paso–born wrestler Cassandro, Edinburg High School mariachis, and a Matamoros teacher all shone at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Film & TV
February 1, 2023
In ‘Magazine Dreams,’ Jonathan Majors Builds Himself Up to Fall Apart
The Texas-raised actor returned to Sundance for the premiere of his latest film—a brutal, impressive character study of a troubled bodybuilder.
Film & TV
January 31, 2023
The Year’s Most Fascinating Documentary Won’t Be at the Oscars
Margaret Brown’s remarkable ‘Descendant’ deserved to take its case for reparations to an audience of millions.
Film & TV
January 25, 2023
Kandy Kaye Horn Was Unknown When She Ran for Governor. A New Documentary Only Deepens the Mystery.
With ‘The Baroness From Kaufman County,’ two Austin filmmakers help the East Texas philanthropist tell her story the way she sees it.
Film & TV
January 20, 2023
How Well Texas Cities Would Survive a Zombie Apocalypse, Ranked
The HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ spent its first act showing us how Austin would handle people-eating monsters. Houston, on the other hand . . .
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
What Does It Mean to Be a “Texas Actor”?
Jonathan Majors and Tommy Lee Jones don’t just have their home state in common.
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
In the Decades Since Farrah’s Iconic Poster, Texas’s Beauty Standard Has Evolved
Fawcett set the standard in the 1970s—blond, thin, and smiling. Thankfully, that’s changed.
Film & TV
January 5, 2023
‘Yellowstone’ Is Set in Montana. But the Show’s Music Comes Straight From Texas.
The TV sensation, largely set elsewhere, leans on Texan artists from Uncle Lucius to the Panhandlers to set an authentic Western tone.
Film & TV
December 29, 2022
Ten Notable Performances From Texan Actors in 2022
From ‘Stranger Things’ to the Sex Pistols, from the Houston suburbs to the outskirts of Texas City, these were the actors who got our attention.
Art
December 27, 2022
The Best Texas Art, Movies, Music, and TV of 2022
This is the year that returned Beyoncé to our ears and Beavis and Butt-head to our screens.