In the Spy Kids trilogy, the robots have thumbs for heads, the chewing gum is high-tech, and the kids are respected. Which feels least realistic to you?

Texas Monthly

21.03.2024

‘Girls5eva’ Has Immortalized Fort Worth in Goofily Accurate Song

With “Tap Into Your (Fort) Worth,” Netflix’s fictional girl group has paid more (and better) attention to Cowtown than, well, some of you.

Texas Monthly

19.03.2024

The Duplass Brothers Want to Do for TV What They Did for Movies

With a wide-ranging television showcase at SXSW, Mark Duplass shared how he plans to bring the offbeat creative freedom of indie film to the small screen.

Texas Monthly

16.03.2024

How ‘Civil War’ Managed to Thread an Impossible Needle

Alex Garland’s film, which premiered in Austin during SXSW, accomplishes something few movies have.

Texas Monthly

15.03.2024

How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything – Texas Monthly

The most powerfully restrained of actors is an open book. He and wife Kirsten Dunst welcomed us into their L.A. home and to Mart, Texas, to meet his folks.

Texas Monthly

15.03.2024

Jesse Plemons’s 13 Most Unforgettable Roles – Texas Monthly

Martin Scorsese, Kirsten Dunst, and other collaborators on what makes the Texas-born actor so in demand.

Texas Monthly

14.03.2024

Border Pundits Need to Watch ‘The In Between’ – Texas Monthly

The Eagle Pass–set documentary is a thoughtful meditation on nostalgia, grief, and what life really looks like on the border.

Texas Monthly

13.03.2024

A Rennie’s Guide to HBO’s Docuseries ‘Ren Faire’

‘Ren Faire,’ a three-part “docu-fantasia,” is ‘Succession’ meets Dungeons and Dragons.

Texas Monthly

12.03.2024

Is It Still ‘Road House’ If the Plot Makes Sense?

Amazon’s remake, which premiered at SXSW, swaps Patrick Swayze’s soulfulness for a more coherent script—but is that a good thing?

Texas Monthly

24.02.2024

What ‘God Save Texas’ Gets Right About the Border

El Pasoan Iliana Sosa, who directed a border-themed episode of the HBO documentary trilogy, speaks with Texas Monthly about capturing “in-betweenness.”

Texas Monthly

23.02.2024

What ‘God Save Texas’ Gets Right About the Border

El Pasoan Iliana Sosa, who directed a border-themed episode of the HBO documentary trilogy, speaks with Texas Monthly about capturing “in-betweenness.”

Texas Monthly

15.02.2024

‘Reality Bites’ Is Thirty Years Old. It's More Relevant Than Ever.

The concept of “selling out” at the heart of the film feels like an artifact from another time. But it may be that we’ve just stopped talking about it.

Texas Monthly

24.01.2024

How Real Cowboy Ty Mitchell Ended Up in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Ty Mitchell has been a Navy sailor, a saloon owner, and a rancher. He’s also a scene-stealing part of Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated epic.

Texas Monthly

24.01.2024

Seven Texan Stories at Sundance 2024

Texan talent has descended on Park City. Here’s our guide to the Texan entries in this year’s film festival, and how to watch from home.

Texas Monthly

12.01.2024

Why Are So Many ‘Love Is Blind’ Contestants Suing the Show? – Texas Monthly

Multiple veterans of the Netflix dating show have filed lawsuits claiming negligence, sexual harassment, and illegal nondisclosure provisions.

Texas Monthly

21.12.2023

Comic Vanessa Gonzalez Wants to Bring Border Humor to the Rest of the Country

With a new Netflix comedy special and an upcoming tour with Chelsea Handler, the Laredo native is taking her Texas-Mexican experiences to the stage . . . with a little help from Mom.

Texas Monthly

21.12.2023

Why Are So Many Reality Dating Shows Set in Texas?

‘The Ultimatum,’ ‘Married at First Sight,’ and ‘Love Is Blind’ have all shot in the state. Maybe single Texans have a certain je ne sais quoi.

Texas Monthly

16.12.2023

Where Are All the Great Texas Christmas Movies?

Christmastime in Texas has inspired countless songs, but when it comes to classic holiday movies, we’ve long been left in the cold.

Texas Monthly

13.12.2023

‘The Iron Claw’ Captures the Tragedy of the Von Erichs, but Not the Triumphs

The film portrayal of the Dallas wrestling titans delivers an emotional suplex, but it could have used more moves.

Texas Monthly

20.11.2023

In ‘Lawmen,’ Bass Reeves Gets the Blood-and-Suds Treatment

Taylor Sheridan’s bingeable ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ takes one of Texas’s most deserving legends and imbues it with a pulpy sensibility.

Texas Monthly

11.11.2023

The Time Has Come for a ‘Real Housewives of Austin’ – Texas Monthly

Andy Cohen, please heed this modest proposal.

Texas Monthly

28.10.2023

The Horror Sequel That Made All of Texas Out to Be Insane

Tobe Hooper’s ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2’ satirizes yuppie greed by painting the entire state with a broad and bloody brush.

Texas Monthly

18.10.2023

Ken Burns’s ‘The American Buffalo’ Isn’t Really About Bison

Now on PBS, the documentary explores the violence that white settlers wrought upon the West.

Texas Monthly

16.10.2023

The Endless Assassination of John F. Kennedy

After his murder in Dallas, our perception of what happened has been shaped by the pop culture—and subculture—it inspired.

Texas Monthly

13.10.2023

How ‘North Dallas Forty’ Shattered the Cowboys Myth

‘North Dallas Forty’ revealed the ugly truths behind America’s Team. But nearly 45 years later, it inspires more nostalgia than outrage.

Texas Monthly

13.10.2023

Leave ‘The Exorcist’ Alone – Texas Monthly

David Gordon Green’s decades-late and beyond-unnecessary sequel, ‘The Exorcist: Believer,’ commits various forms of cinematic sacrilege.

Texas Monthly

19.09.2023

‘Hit Man,’ Based on Texas Monthly Reporting, Acquired by Netflix in $20 Million Deal – Texas Monthly

Richard Linklater's newest project is making news on the heels of the Toronto Film Festival.

Texas Monthly

03.09.2023

‘Hit Man’ to Premiere Worldwide at Venice Film Festival – Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly has had a big year in film and television. After the success of Max's Love & Death, which debuted May 2023, the magazine will see

Texas Monthly

24.08.2023

No Store Does More . . . for Texas Wildlife? – Texas Monthly

H-E-B’s snazzy new nature docuseries highlights the conservationists who protect bats, bears, ocelots, and redfish.

Texas Monthly

17.08.2023

Why ‘Blue Beetle’ Had to Ditch El Paso

Batman, Superman, and the Flash live in fictional cities. The first Latino superhero needed his own.

Texas Monthly

08.08.2023

The Best Little Film Town in Texas

Texas quadrupled its annual film incentives. Hollywood’s favorite Texas small town, Smithville, shows the opportunities—and hazards—ahead.

Texas Monthly

01.08.2023

Justin Simien’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Is Cursed at the Box Office – Texas Monthly

The Houston director’s big-budget debut flopped—but it wasn’t set up to succeed.

Texas Monthly

01.08.2023

How Paul Reubens’s ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ Helped Define Texas

“There’s no basement at the Alamo!” and other lessons on the state from the late Paul Reubens.

Texas Monthly

21.07.2023

Hollywood Is On Strike. These Texas Film and TV Productions Are Still Filming.

As of July 19, SAG-AFTRA has granted waivers allowing 45 projects to keep rolling, many of them in Texas.

Texas Monthly

20.07.2023

Carolyn Pfeiffer on the Glories and Tribulations of Midcentury Moviemaking

The legendary film producer chats about tutoring Claudia Cardinale, asking Michael Jackson about his giraffes, and her memoir, 'Chasing the Panther.'

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Jeff Hiller Is Living His Best Gay Christian Life – Texas Monthly

A Q&A With Actor Jensen Ackles’s Biggest Fan: My Mom – Texas Monthly

Dakota Johnson Doesn’t Lack Media Training. She’s Just Texan.

What Makes Someone a Texan?

If Texas Has a Soul, It Lives in Matthew McConaughey – Texas Monthly

Robert Rodgrizuez's ‘Spy Kids’ Showed Us That Kids Have Something to Say

‘Girls5eva’ Has Immortalized Fort Worth in Goofily Accurate Song

The Duplass Brothers Want to Do for TV What They Did for Movies

How ‘Civil War’ Managed to Thread an Impossible Needle

How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything – Texas Monthly

Jesse Plemons’s 13 Most Unforgettable Roles – Texas Monthly

Border Pundits Need to Watch ‘The In Between’ – Texas Monthly

A Rennie’s Guide to HBO’s Docuseries ‘Ren Faire’

Is It Still ‘Road House’ If the Plot Makes Sense?

What ‘God Save Texas’ Gets Right About the Border

What ‘God Save Texas’ Gets Right About the Border

‘Reality Bites’ Is Thirty Years Old. It's More Relevant Than Ever.

How Real Cowboy Ty Mitchell Ended Up in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Seven Texan Stories at Sundance 2024

Why Are So Many ‘Love Is Blind’ Contestants Suing the Show? – Texas Monthly

Comic Vanessa Gonzalez Wants to Bring Border Humor to the Rest of the Country

Why Are So Many Reality Dating Shows Set in Texas?

Where Are All the Great Texas Christmas Movies?

‘The Iron Claw’ Captures the Tragedy of the Von Erichs, but Not the Triumphs

In ‘Lawmen,’ Bass Reeves Gets the Blood-and-Suds Treatment

The Time Has Come for a ‘Real Housewives of Austin’ – Texas Monthly

The Horror Sequel That Made All of Texas Out to Be Insane

Ken Burns’s ‘The American Buffalo’ Isn’t Really About Bison

The Endless Assassination of John F. Kennedy

How ‘North Dallas Forty’ Shattered the Cowboys Myth

Leave ‘The Exorcist’ Alone – Texas Monthly

‘Hit Man,’ Based on Texas Monthly Reporting, Acquired by Netflix in $20 Million Deal – Texas Monthly

‘Hit Man’ to Premiere Worldwide at Venice Film Festival – Texas Monthly

No Store Does More . . . for Texas Wildlife? – Texas Monthly

Why ‘Blue Beetle’ Had to Ditch El Paso

The Best Little Film Town in Texas

Justin Simien’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Is Cursed at the Box Office – Texas Monthly

How Paul Reubens’s ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ Helped Define Texas

Hollywood Is On Strike. These Texas Film and TV Productions Are Still Filming.

Carolyn Pfeiffer on the Glories and Tribulations of Midcentury Moviemaking

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