Bayougraphy

Filmmaker Shahd Shahroor Tells Palestinian Stories on Her Own Terms

She got a standing ovation at the 2024 Houston Cinema Arts Festival, and she's just getting started.

05/07/2025 By Meredith Nudo

The Must List

Bring Your Own Beamer Lets You Show Your Work at the Menil

The museum and Aurora Picture Show present their annual crowdsourced film party, uniting professionals and amateurs in showing and celebrating shorts.

04/24/2025 By Meredith Nudo

The Must List

ReelAbilities Houston Returns to Elevate Artists with Disabilities

The annual event, now in its 12th year, will fill the city with disability-centered art, music, film, education, and advocacy for three weeks in February.

01/31/2025 By Meredith Nudo

AT THE MOVIES

RCC Debuts World’s First Dual Screen Rooftop Theater

Rooftop Cinema Club introduces new viewing experience plus a handful of renovations.

02/20/2023 By Shelby Stewart

SPRING ARTS

Get Ready for Spring in Downtown Houston at Discovery Green

Starting March 1, the program schedule is filled with roller skating, film screenings, concerts and more.

02/09/2022 By Jessica Lodge

Up and Running

5 Things To Do In Houston This Weekend, January 7-9

Bridal extravaganzas, art markets, and movie screenings.

01/07/2022 By Shelby Stewart

Film

Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns This November

Featuring a slew of in-person and virtual premieres.

10/21/2021 By Amarie Gipson

50 Years

Here’s How Houston is Honoring the 1971 DeLuxe Art Show

The Houston Cinema Arts Society is presenting a series of films in honor of the first racially integrated art exhibition.

09/09/2021 By Amarie Gipson

Holiday It Up

3 Ways to See Miracle On 34th Street This Season

It's a season of miracles.

11/12/2019 By Holly Beretto

cat's meow

A Silent Movie You Have to Hear

Two Star Symphony strikes up an original score to the 1924 silent film Girl Shy at Discovery Green this weekend.

09/03/2019 By Holly Beretto

🎥

6 Non-Megaplex Film Screenings This August

From anime to Apollo to roller derby, there's a lot to see this month.

08/05/2019 By Olivia Flores Alvarez

I Gave Her My Heart and She Gave Me a Pen

You Can Ask John Cusack All Your Burning Questions This Weekend

We talked with the legendary actor ahead of his Sunday appearance for a 30th anniversary screening of Say Anything with the SPA.

06/10/2019 By Abby Ledoux

ahoy!

5 Things You Must Do This Weekend, April 6–8

Movies at the Menil, fancy home tours, big old boats, and more.

04/05/2018 By Morgan Kinney

Not Football

5 Things You Must Do This Weekend, Feb. 2–4

Other than, you know, that Super thing...

02/01/2018 By Morgan Kinney

whoa man

A Houston-Born Artist Created Some of the Earliest (and Trippiest) Forms of Visual Music

A Mary Ellen Bute retrospective puts the spotlight on the oft-forgotten film pioneer.

01/30/2018 By Josh Davis

Queer and Fabulous

The 21st Annual QFest is Here to Expand Your LGBTQ Film Universe

There is so much more than Brokeback Mountain.

07/26/2017 By Andrew Hopf

Not the Actor You're Looking For

See the Man Behind Obi-Wan (and Many Others) This Month at the MFAH

Sir Alec Guinness will be honored with a month-long film series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

07/06/2017 By Andrew Hopf

Jazz on Film

Catch the '50s Era Making a Murderer That Kicks off the MFAH Jazz on Film Series

I Want to Live! plays to true crime fascination with a legendary jazz score.

05/31/2017 By Andrew Hopf

Movies

What to Watch at the Houston Jewish Film Festival

Don't miss these thought-provoking screenings at MFAH next weekend.

03/01/2017 By Amber Tong

Concert + Movie

Relive the Magic of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with the Houston Symphony

Hear a live orchestra play John Williams' iconic score at this special 35th anniversary screening.

02/03/2017 By Jeanne Lyons Davis