Grappling with the power of Abraham Zapruder’s grimly immortal footage, one fraction of a second at a time.
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Watching Texas’ most-beloved TV series ten years after its debut—in one all-consuming, 76-episode binge.
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A long-ago plane crash, the lives it ended, and the lives it began.
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Jacksonville native Margo Martindale has turned herself into something unusual: a star who seems like one of us.
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Hollywood’s greatest cowboy wasn’t from around these parts, but we claim him just the same.
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Thirty years of Fandango fandom.
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Those who forget history are doomed to . . . really enjoy Texas Rising.
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Wth his creepy, career-making turn in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Marco Perella has made the leap from obscurity to semi-obscurity.
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The Texas Archive of the Moving Image reminds us that the past is a distant country—and the present soon will be too.
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Forty years ago, the star of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and I took two young women to an early screening of the movie. It worked out well for one of us.
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Searching for signs of greatness in the tepid rom-coms of this year’s best actor.
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Thanks to Netflix, DVDs, and multiplexes, nearly everything about moviegoing has changed since I first fell in love with film as a child. Then again, maybe nothing has changed at all.
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How a casual interest in kolaches got totally out of control.
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Millennia ago, the Columbian mammoth strode across Texas, stripping the bark from trees and fighting off human predators and saber-toothed cats. And for as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by these colossal creatures. So I finally went looking for them.
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I arrived at UT as just another clueless freshman from the provinces. More than forty years later, I’m happy to say that I, my friends, and the place we call home have all grown up. But not so much that we can’t still appreciate that lost golden age of cheap rent, good music, and profound countercultural time-wasting.
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