Taking aim at the best and worst of movies and television.
Nov. 06, 2014 at 4:16pm | Permalink
Courtesy KXAS
Lindsay Riley, who has been KXAS/Channel 5’s weekend-morning meteorologist since November 2012, is leaving the station for another gig, news director Susan Tully confirmed Thursday. Read more
Nov. 06, 2014 at 8:36am | Permalink
Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH — The Lone Star Film Festival celebrated its largest opening night ever on Wednesday at Bass Hall with about 1,000 moviegoers attending the world premiere of Virtuosity, a documentary about the 2013 Cliburn Competition. Read more
Nov. 06, 2014 at 7:54am | Permalink
Star-Telegram
The 2014 Lone Star Film Festival got off to a classy start Wednesday night at Bass Hall with the world premiere of Virtuosity, a documentary chronicling the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which took place at that same venue last year. Read more
Nov. 06, 2014 at 4:00pm | Permalink
Radius-TWC
In the months that followed the 2010 BP oil spill, people far from the disaster were up in arms over the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 men and countless animals and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Read more
Nov. 06, 2014 at 12:00am | Permalink
HBO
There’s no better evidence of how insular Hollywood is than the steady stream of films and TV shows over the years about the only subject Hollywood really knows well: Itself. Read more
Nov. 05, 2014 at 1:38pm | Permalink
Melinda Sue Gordon
Quantum physics. Relativity. Event horizons. The laws of gravity. Singularities. Wormholes. The possibility of alternate dimensions. These are not the building blocks of your typical $160 million Hollywood blockbuster, which tends to treat science as a convenient way to explain pesky plot holes a... Read more
Nov. 04, 2014 at 4:18pm | Permalink
AP
The spirit of 2001: A Space Odyssey surrounds Interstellar like a cloud. Read more
Nov. 06, 2014 at 12:00am | Permalink
Walt Disney
At first glance, you wouldn’t think that a mouthless robot that looks like a hybrid of the Pillsbury Doughboy and Frosty the Snowman would have much depth of character. Read more
Nov. 06, 2014 at 4:00pm | Permalink
A24
Lynn Shelton’s made-in-Seattle comedy Laggies takes on a rare topic in the movies: a young woman suffering from arrested development; in other words, a woman-child. Read more
Nov. 04, 2014 at 10:33am | Permalink
Causeway Films
The eighth Lone Star Film Festival kicks off Wednesday night at Bass Hall with Virtuosity, a documentary about the 2013 Cliburn Competition. That’s just the start of a film celebration that crams more than 70 features, documentaries and shorts into five days in... Read more