Secure your wigs, Dallas, because the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race has more drag queens from North Texas than any other season in drag race herstory. (See what we did there? Haha? Laugh.) Although no queen from Texas has ever snatched the crown to be America’s next drag superstar…
Dex Nichols loves bad movies. Cheap props, wooden dialogue and monsters with obvious zipper lines are the building blocks to a movie night at Nichols’ home in McKinney. And for one night each month, he wants you to watch them with him. Each month Nichols selects a bad movie or two, stocks…
Clark James Gable III, the most recent host of the long-running Dallas reality show series Cheaters, died suddenly Friday. The show’s creator, Bobby Goldstein, says the show and Dallas lost more than a charismatic and likable TV personality. “He was a great friend of mine,” Goldstein says. “He was just…
This Sunday millionaires will dress up in clothes that belong to other people, sing songs and worship a gold statue. No, it’s not an Illuminati meeting, it’s the Academy Awards! This year’s Oscars — or indoor kids’ Super Bowl — will surely have some dark-horse victories, a few surprise guests…
If the locations look familiar the next time you’re binging a new show on Amazon, that’s because you’re looking at scenes of your own backyard. #Washed, a new show premiering on Amazon Prime’s streaming service, was written and filmed completely in Dallas. #Washed follows Mark, played by Corey Pratt, as…
Launching an international film festival could mean that Mansfield has graduated from small town Texas. The city, which now boasts more than 70,000 people, is not only “minutes from everything” but also “second to none,” according to its website. And the inaugural Mansfield International Film Festival may set a stage…
Corsicana is only votes away from being thrust into the national spotlight. The Texas city is one of six still in the running to be the featured destination in Hulu’s original series Small Business Revolution: Main Street. Now preparing for its fourth season, Small Business Revolution selects one city and…
One more section. James Gross stands high above the crowd at Ninja Nation and reaches out for an apple-sized object suspended in the air in front of him. Grasping it between his palms, he hangs on as the bar above him slides down a U-shaped track. At the end of…
In what has become somewhat of a time-honored tradition for Americans on their way back up or back down the ladder of fame, Lindsay Lohan debuted her first reality TV series, Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, earlier this year. Less than an hour and a half away from the birthplace of…
Last year, the cast of Pocket Sandwich Theatre’s comedy The Roof — which parodies actor, writer and director Tommy Wiseau’s unintentional comedic drama The Room — reached out to their characters’ Room counterparts before the premiere of their play. Except, of course, for Wiseau because, well, he’s Tommy Wiseau. Actor Dan…
Even if the mainstream has squandered media’s powers, television, film and new advancements in virtual technology still possess the amazing ability to transport audiences to new places and perspectives. So many new and exciting ventures are exploring these growing art forms that the Dallas VideoFest can’t share it with just…
Films like Troll 2, Plan Nine from Outer Space and Birdemic: Shock and Terror have amassed global fanbases for their terribleness, but The Room has become by critical standards the Citizen Kane of “best worst movies.” The Room doesn’t just aspire for greatness and fails. It falls so hard that…
Fans of John Cusack can stop waiting outside of his house with a boombox to see him and instead buy a ticket for the Majestic Theatre, where he’ll appear alongside a screening of his 1989 film Say Anything on May 19. Following the presentation of Cusack’s star-making role as Lloyd…
The 91st Academy Awards are a month away, but this is still barely enough time to plan the perfect viewing party. Only 30 days to buy a sheet of poster board and create a betting bracket for categories, like longest political acceptance speech. A mere 720 hours to buy snack…
Dallas visual artist Said Abusaud believes that art should never have an answer and that it should always be in the form of a question. He carries this theme in all of his work, lacing hidden messages in each piece. Viewers would be smart to keep that in mind when…
When filmmaker Todd Jenkins released his independent horror comedy film Cherokee Creek last summer about a group of horny bachelors whose party in the woods gets crashed by a furious Sasquatch, he released it on his terms. He controlled the script, filming and editing process. He chose the premiere date and…
A new year, for some, may mean extreme change and a mad dash to The Container Store. When Marie Kondo’s Netflix series Tidying Up kicked off Jan. 1, the show brought new meaning to the phrase “thin is in” as the tiny, Japanese decluttering guru coached distraught couples into getting…
The Dallas film festival scene has exploded in a short time. It’s gotten so big that occasionally they occupy the same space on the calendar. “A few years back, we had a situation where a couple of festivals fell on the same date, which of course is not great,” film…
Kim Gatlin might have been the last person to learn Good Christian Books is headed back to TV. Good Christian Bitches is a book Gatlin wrote in 2008 about a divorced woman who returns home to a wealthy Dallas suburb after spending years in godless Southern California. In 2012, Darren Star…
While working in the electronics department of a North Texas Walmart, Brandon Lewis used his homemade comedy shows to lure customers. Now, his DVD is selling on Walmart shelves across the nation, and he’s working on a second one. “[My movies] helped me sell TVs,” says the 37-year-old Dallas filmmaker…
It was a terrible year in so many ways, but onscreen, with shows including Sharp Objects, My Brilliant Friend, Better Call Saul, The Americans and Atlanta, it sparkled
The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter
