Meet the Fan Who Befriended Shelley Duvall Over Peach Cobbler in Johnson City
Sarah Lukowski runs the internet’s Shelley Duvall Archive and visits the reclusive star at her Hill Country home.
Sarah Lukowski runs the internet’s Shelley Duvall Archive and visits the reclusive star at her Hill Country home.
Kareem El-Ghayesh and Sloan Rinaldi represent different takes on Texas barbecue as they cook their way to winning $50,000.
Dancer Texas Pop. 81, Tim McCanlies’ s1998 comedy, belongs to a lineage of films about coming of age in a state that exerts both a push and a pull on young people.
A new Netflix series shines the TV spotlight—once again—on the women vying for a spot on the NFL’s most celebrated cheer squad.
The Austin filmmaker isn’t afraid of a little blood—but don’t compare him to Scorsese.
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An Austin actor keeps tearing through Hollywood, a fortysomething El Pasoan keeps writing your teen’s favorite songs, and a columnist at a Houston newspaper keeps spinning yarns.
The Dallas-raised actor and director talks about saddling up and riding bulls to film a drama set in the “cowboy capital of the world.”
The host, whose death was announced Thursday, and his show provided millions with a sense of belonging—and introduced Selena to the world.
Jamie Diaz’s work depicts her experience as a Christian trans woman behind bars in a men’s prison.
It's gonna be a while—nearly 20 years—before we can actually see the dang movie. But thanks to the Broadway revival, fans can at least get a preview.
‘Marley & Me’ just wasn't hitting the spot.
An uncynical show about tech founders might seem like a relic. Its creators disagree.
Costume designer and born and bred Austinite Juliana Hoffpauir turned to vintage stores and local brands to outfit the many, many sides of the film’s lead.
“Down here, you’re on your own,” the late M. Emmet Walsh’s character proclaims in the first moments of the film that turns forty this year.
Executive editor Skip Hollandsworth revisits his 2001 feature about a Houston investigator who posed as a killer for hire.
Willie reflects on borders, Emma Stone stars with Jesse Plemons, Jeff Nichols heads out on the highway, and Eva Longoria holes up in Spain.
The ’9 to 5‘ star was a struggling law student at the University of Texas when he met Zachary Scott and became “smitten with becoming an actor.”
The Austin filmmaker knows you’ll probably wait for his twenty-third feature to show up on Netflix a couple weeks after it hits the big screen. Still, he can dream.
The blue puppet on a wholesome kids’ show seems quite at home in a red state. Welcome to the anti-Hollywood.
The actor-artist-skateboarder always wears a cowboy-coded scent, for one.
The director-screenwriter’s love letter to Flannery O’Connor attempts to invigorate the biopic, to mixed results.
Another dark comedy from Richard Linklater, a report on the ideological battles plaguing public schools, and an exhibition of modern collages by Black artists.
Inside the Netflix star and competitive cheerleading coach’s fight against the fallout of instant stardom.
How the San Antonio native and ’Somebody Somewhere’ star became a middle-aged ingenue.
The Dallas-born star of the shows ‘Supernatural’ and ‘The Boys’ has a rabid online fandom. Why? “He’s a very positive person,” my mom says. “He looks at life with the cup half full. Kind of like your dad.”
Here they are: the showdowns you demanded.
It includes Simone Biles, Kelly Clarkson, Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew McConaughey, Nolan Ryan, George Strait, and an underdog run from Kinky Friedman.
We’ve got Willie, Beyoncé, McConaughey, Biles, and Duncan—plus Cinderella runs by Carol Burnett and Kinky Friedman.
Tim Duncan’s still got it, Kacey takes on her pal Willie, and we say an early farewell to Elon.
What makes someone a Texan?
We’ve been learning from the man from Uvalde’s shirtlessly Zen approach to life for decades.
Which of these 64 celebs is the most beloved in the Lone Star State? This March Madness, we’re asking you to tell us.
Born in Austin, the star didn’t spend a ton of time in the Lone Star State. But we’re claiming her anyway.
In the Spy Kids trilogy, the robots have thumbs for heads, the chewing gum is high-tech, and the kids are respected. Which scenario feels least realistic to you?
With “Tap Into Your (Fort) Worth,” Netflix’s fictional girl group has paid more (and better) attention to Cowtown than, well, some of you.
Beyoncé is in the saddle, Khruangbin makes hay, Texas goes to war, and an author from Lubbock revisits a childhood tragedy.
With a wide-ranging television showcase at SXSW, Mark Duplass shared how he plans to bring the offbeat creative freedom of independent film to the small screen.
Alex Garland’s film, which premiered in Austin during SXSW, accomplishes something few movies have.
The film on the Houston piano prodigy and so-called “fifth Beatle” honors Preston’s career but strays when it depicts his personal life.
Turns out the most powerfully restrained actor of his generation is an open book. He and his wife, Kirsten (Dunst—you may have heard of her), welcomed us into their L.A. home and then had us down to Mart, Texas (population 1,748), to meet his folks, who thought he had promise,
Martin Scorsese, Kirsten Dunst, and other collaborators on what makes the Texas-born actor so in demand.
The Eagle Pass–set documentary is a thoughtful meditation on nostalgia, grief, and what life really looks like on the border.
‘Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience’ pays homage to the longtime KUT radio host and the city that embraced him.
‘Ren Faire,’ a three-part “docu-fantasia,” is ‘Succession’ meets Dungeons and Dragons.
Amazon’s remake, which premiered at SXSW, swaps Patrick Swayze’s soulfulness for a more coherent script—but is that a good thing?
El Pasoan Iliana Sosa, who directed a border-themed episode of the HBO documentary trilogy, speaks with Texas Monthly about the unique challenges of capturing “in-betweenness.”
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.
For ‘Willie and Me,’ Eva Hassmann enlisted an Elvis impersonator, Peter Bogdanovich, and Willie himself to tell a story of how Willie’s music crosses cultures.
The Von Erichs' story is about tragedy—but also about a survivor. Writer John Spong reflects on why ‘The Iron Claw’ family still resonates with audiences.