The lineup for the Oak Cliff Film Festival will rock, literally. Festival officials announced the lineup of feature-length movies, documentaries and short films for the 2018 Oak Cliff Film Festival at the Texas Theatre that runs June 14-17. The list consists of 25 feature-length films, including 10 that will make a…
Underage drinking. Drawing genitalia on a sleeping friend’s face. Getting high and going to work. Being arrested with your best friend. All the trials of youth are on display in the new red-band trailer for Augustine Frizzell’s feature-length directorial debut, Never Goin’ Back. Never Goin’ Back is a comedy about…
Stephen Ketner, a Dallas-based musician, is known for his band Stevie James Trio and for his long political Facebook rants. Here, he shares his experience of eating dinner with Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck is a really nice guy. I can remember sitting up on school nights with my conservative parents…
… This is an intimate portrait of the artist in recent years as she returns to Jamaica, the country of her birth and childhood, for a family reunion
Schoenaerts and Exarchopoulos exhibit the kind of empathetic, in-sync performances that legitimize onscreen romances, almost selling why Bibi would throw her life away to be with a man who incessantly lies to her
Here’s a woman who has spent her entire life helping others and not being a piece of shit, and unless she or the club touched you personally, you probably didn’t know she existed until you read this or saw the film
As they leap through the years, West and Cohen give us a compelling account of Ginsburg’s key cases, starting from her days as a lawyer with the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project.
For the young cowboys at the heart of Zhao’s film, mounting a horse and galloping across a field represents more than just freedom — it becomes a communion with the past and the future, allowing these riders to imagine and inhabit their best selves
Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife has a pungent scent all its own — a combination of baby head, breast milk, sex fluids and that acrid, vinegary extreme perspiration that either comes from bodily trauma or not sleeping for three days straight
After more than a decade of grinding away in various production roles in Hollywood, Dallas-area native Tim Newfang is bringing his first feature documentary film home. His award-winning Sons of St. Clair follows Bone Thugs-n-Harmony members Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone as they create their latest album, New Waves. The…
At their core, both Overboards are traditional rich-person-learns-how-to-be-a-real-person farces, the kind of films Frank Capra and Preston Sturges used to direct in their sleep
Director Ty Roberts and actor Lane Garrison have done something that the Hollywood machine hasn’t been able to do in more than 60 years. They made a movie based on Tom Pendleton’s acclaimed 1966 novel, The Iron Orchard, about an ambitious wildcatter seeking his fortune on the West Texas oil patch…
If you think of yourself as a Star Wars fan and you don’t have any Star Wars-related plans on Star Wars Day, you don’t get to call yourself a Star Wars fan. You might as well burn your entire Star Wars Kenner toy collection, run your special Jar-Jar-less edition of the prequels through…
Adventuring out into the wilderness to find animal bones and taking them home to wash in strong and stinging peroxide is a common occurrence for a certain crafter of big, regal, dramatic and sometimes exotic headdresses. Animal bones, antlers, wasps’ nests and feathers are just some of the unusual materials…
Tiny Shoulders starts to feel like a publicity exercise for the brand — an attempt to humanize the company by showing us the real women behind all that plastic
… Bad Samaritan — with its title sounding very Grisham — tells the story of a low-level thief who breaks into a fancy-schmancy house and discovers a woman being held captive in a plastic-lined, camera-surveilled room
It’s Dallas International Film Festival, 2018 and you’re an indoor kid who wants to sit in a chair, uninterrupted, for eight days and allow your body to atrophy naturally. But you’ve got a day job. What’s a corporate sellout to do? Well, great news: This handy guide is for you,…
Told through the unique lens of this Latinx family, Vida is a statement on upward mobility and the privilege of being able to outgrow your home
… Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have completed their trilogy of self-delusion with Tully, a gently sardonic look at a 40-year-old woman who finds herself in a cluttered house, with a clueless spouse, preparing to have a third child
It’s no surprise that Avengers: Infinity War is breaking records at the box office. The movie is the latest installment in a well-known franchise, backed by the never-ending money supply that Disney has to offer. Even under a rock, you would have received a spam email about Avengers because Disney is…
(Joaquin) Phoenix plays a hammer-wielding veteran who is paid to save kidnapped children and who brings all his rage and regret and self-loathing and desire for oblivion to the job
When Dana Adam Shapiro approached Suzanne Mitchell in 2015 about creating a documentary about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Mitchell advised him to hurry. “She said, ‘If you’re serious about this, I would get down here pretty quick because I’m dying,’” Shapiro remembers. Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of…
