Lone Star Film Festival Report (Days 1-2)
Hello, and welcome to my first dispatch from the 2014 Lone Star International Film Festival. I had to recuse myself from the opening film...
LSIFF Gets in Iranian Vampire Western
I will be covering the Lone Star International Film Festival on this blog all weekend, but I have an update to pass along to...
Halloween DVD Pick: The Innocents
I was lucky enough to see The Innocents when I was a teenager, and it turned me off horror flicks with faceless slashers running...
Fort Worth Film Festivals Join Forces
Somewhat buried in the Lone Star International Film Festival's recent announcement of its headlining films is the tidbit that this year, the LSIFF has...
Final Thoughts on Windsor, Barry Corbin, Joe Stevens & Co.
The ol’ notebook is about emptied out, the camera card is picked clean, and my buzz is finally subsiding after visiting the set of...
Sonny Carl Davis on Windsor, Alamo, Evil Bong, Willie Nelson
Sometime back in the early 1990s I stumbled across Last Night at the Alamo (1983), an obscure black-and-white film directed by the tortured Texas...
Quinn Shephard On Windsor, Texas, Twang, Jersey Shore
Texans don’t know what to think of New Yorkers half the time. That TV commercial wasn’t far off the mark, the one where a...
Nick Krause On Hollywood, Austin, George Clooney, Madelyn Deutch
People warned me that watching a movie being shot is like watching sap run down a tree. However, what they described as slow, methodical,...
Frontera Opens in Dallas This Weekend
Earlier this summer, Edward Brown and I co-wrote a feature story about Fort Worth-based actor Julio Cedillo that was pegged to Frontera, in which...
“Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” at The Modern
Right now we’re in that frustrating transitional phase from summer to fall that Texans know all too well: It’s still hot and humid, but...
