Texas Film Awards Still On: Set to Honor Shelley Duvall, Erykah Badu, Others

South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a hand to the movies that had been set to premiere at SXSW, on Tuesday (March 24) went ahead with the festival’s film awards.

South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a hand to the movies that had been set to premiere at SXSW, on Tuesday went ahead with the festival’s film awards.

NEW YORK -- South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a hand to the movies that had been set to premiere at SXSW, on Tuesday went ahead with the festival's film awards.

Though this year’s SXSW was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the film festival held annually in Austin, Texas announced 2020 award winners.

Elderly Americans would be happy to sacrifice their own lives for the sake of the economy, according to Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. The republican lawmaker, 69, shared his controversial view during a March 23 interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, arguing that Americans should go back to work despite the COVID-19 pandemic, even if it endangers “grandparents” like himself — a class of people most in danger of contracting the coronavirus.

Baby Birdie! Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson have been showing off their youngest daughter since her March 2019 arrival.

“Charm City Kings” won over many critics in its Sundance premiere earlier this year, and likely would have been doing the same in Texas this week if it were showing, as planned, at the canceled South by Southwest Film Festival.

Dim echoes of David Lynch and early Roman Polanski abound throughout “The Carnivores,” a fitfully fascinating mix of teasing narrative opacity and stylized psycho-thriller atmospherics.

On Thursday (March 12), the organizers of Los Angeles Pride announced what would have come as a shock just three weeks earlier: all of the planned celebrations around L.A. Pride's 50th anniversary are postponed. But as anyone who's been paying attention to the flood of event cancelations and postponements amid the global coronavirus pandemic knows, moves like this are beginning to feel common, if not inevitable.

Erykah Badu is making social distancing a fashion statement.

Erykah Badu is keeping herself protected in style for safety!

The Fab Five are about to find out if everything really is bigger in Texas. That's right, Queer Eye is coming back for season six on Netflix and heading to the Lone Star state.

Sing it if you know it: The stars at night are big and bright... especially when those stars get the Queer Eye treatment!

Last summer, even before the public had gotten a chance to see it, humans-hunting-humans thriller “The Hunt” became a target for pundits on both sides of the gun control debate, when a pair of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, prompted critics to consider the media’s role in glorifying violence. In response, Universal ripped director Craig Zobel’s movie from its original Sept.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested in Texas on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated, authorities said Tuesday.

In today’s film news roundup, a pair of long-running film festivals in San Francisco and Cleveland are moving ahead and Warner Bros.’ Fred Hampton biopic gets additional backing and Dule Hill gets cast.

Friday Night Lights may have ended in 2011, but fans’ love for Coach Eric and Tami Taylor will never fade away.