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

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

Before Candy Montgomery in 'Love & Death,' there was Wanda Holloway in 'The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom.'

Paul Newman plays a brutish, morally repugnant monster in the classic anti-western. So why do Texans admire him anyway?

Forty years ago, a crop of films led by ‘Terms of Endearment’ and ‘Tender Mercies’ reimagined the way we see Texas.

Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.

A Larry McMurtry adaptation directed by Sidney Lumet and filmed entirely in Bastrop—what could go wrong? For ‘Lovin’ Molly,’ it began with the boots.

The pistol-packing cartoon villain represents every ugly stereotype about our state, but there’s a strange power in embracing him.

Eagle Pennell’s The Whole Shootin' Match sets the standard for showing Texans who they are instead of who they're supposed to be.