Outside of the regionally focused films that always play a large part in the festival, this year’s final edition of Dallas VideoFest feels especially prescient. Our world is reeling from a variety of conflicts both personal and political, where the … Continue reading 2021 Dallas VideoFest Presents Docufest: ‘Fireboys’, ‘Socks on Fire’ and ‘Pieces of Us’

The exploration of artificial intelligence and its oncoming headlong collision with humanity has been a perennial favorite of the movies for decades now. Add Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man to the list. More sweet than profound and more concerned with … Continue reading Review: I’m Your Man

The longest running film festival in the Metroplex will take a final bow later this month. Scheduled from Thursday September 30th until Sunday October 3rd at the Dallas Angelika and Texas Theatre, Dallas VideoFest Presents DocuFest will play host to … Continue reading Festival Files: Dallas VideoFest Presents DocuFest Comes To Town This Month

As a social activist who pushed for desegregation on a public bus over a decade before Rosa Parks and participated in a restaurant sit-in years before the landmark event at a Woolworth’s in 1960, Pauli Murray is the definition of … Continue reading Review: ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’

At one point during Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen’s documentary The Alpinist, the filmmakers remark that it was terrifying filming mountain climber Marc-Andre Leclerc do his adventurous thing. I can say the feeling of watching is mutual. Full of vertical … Continue reading Review: ‘The Alpinist’

Masculinity, the idea of honorable fatherhood, and the gentle art of drinking until your body is immune to the punches taken (and given) at the neighborhood bar seem to be the overriding theme in John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair. They’re … Continue reading Review: ‘Small Engine Repair’