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Film

Recovering Suzanne Césaire’s Legacy

A Fort Worth modern art exhibition and a new experimental film are part of a renaissance of work about an influential Caribbean writer.

by Nicky Yeager

Keep Reading

The Love and Loss of the Quintanillas

by Francesca D’Annunzio

These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451

by Josephine Lee

The Texas Border Is the New Frontier of Film

by Ryan Cantú

Apr 28, 2020

‘The Quarry’ Tells a Dark Morality Tale in a Modern Small Texas Town

A new film from Scott Teems, king of the Southern drama, follows a violent drifter who assumes the identity of a small-town preacher.

by Nicky Yeager

Yellow Rose enters the pop culture zeitgeist as illegal immigration continues to be one of the most common and polarizing subjects nationwide. Nov 14, 2019

In ‘Yellow Rose,’ the American Coming-of-Age Story Finally Includes Undocumented Youth

Set in Austin, the film tracks a Filipina teen dreaming of a country music career—and fighting to keep her family together.

by Glorie Martinez

As tensions rose between white and Vietnamese fishermen on the Texas Gulf Coast, the Ku Klux Klan waged an intimidation campaign, hosting paramilitary camps and burning boats. In this 1981 photo, an effigy hangs from a rope behind the ship's cabin. Aug 05, 2019

‘Seadrift’ Dredges Up a Little-Known—and Deeply Disturbing—Texas Story

An electrifying new documentary captures a forgotten conflict in the sleepy coastal community of Seadrift.

by Rose Cahalan

Apr 16, 2019

‘Hurdle’ Is a Gritty Tale of Hope and Survival

The new documentary intimately captures the pressure, pain and aspirations of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.

by David Leffler

Mar 15, 2019

‘The River and The Wall’ is a Visually Stunning Borderland Adventure

The film strives to step beyond the sensationalist rhetoric and show America what its southern boundary actually looks, sounds and feels like.

by David Leffler

Dec 17, 2018

‘Man on Fire’ Searches in Vain for the Truth About Racism in East Texas

The new documentary asks why a minister self-immolated in the town of Grand Saline, but doesn’t uncover any new answers.

by Robyn Ross

Nov 02, 2018

A New Pray-the-Gay-Away Drama Suggests Conversion is Possible (Just Not the Kind You Think)

Poignant awards-season fare, Boy Erased makes the case against the Christian “cure” for homosexuality.

by Michael Agresta

Jul 24, 2018

‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Plays into Dangerous Borderland Tropes

Texan Taylor Sheridan created the 21st-century Western, but his attempts at political nuance are overshadowed by the failures of “Soldado.”

by Loren Lynch

Mar 15, 2018

Drag Queens and Churchgoers Find Common Ground in ‘The Gospel of Eureka’

by Robyn Ross

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