Rodeos in Texas represent an economic necessity of the state’s past and an important cultural aspect of its present. And with such high stakes, the rodeo riding community is a close-knit one. It’s the ...

Rodeo, family, crime, redemption, legacy and honor. The movie Ride, with Jake Allyn and Forrie J. Smith, brings all these factors together in an authentic and thrilling western lifestyle movie. A ...

Wanted: Pre-1962 automobiles and trucks for use in transforming downtown Bloomington into a movie set depicting the city as it was 60 years ago. Nearly four decades after the preview of his Academy ...

NORTH TEXAS – If you're looking for something to do Friday night or this weekend, a movie about the legacy of bull riding opens in theaters Friday. It's directed, written, and acted in by a Dallas ...

Ride (now streaming on Paramount+) has enough Texas toughskins and Big Mustache Energy to fill a dozen dusty rodeo rings. The film is a passion project for co-writer, co-star and first-time director ...

As kids, Jake Allyn and his brother Conor ran around their Preston Hollow neighborhood in Dallas, shooting movies with their father’s camcorder. Conor, who is older by four years, usually directed his ...

For as many superfans as there are of the Disney movie “Tangled,” it has never been a part of an attraction at Disneyland or Walt Disney World — that is, until now. The 2010 hit animated film is ...

Writer, director, and actor Jake Allyn grew up in Dallas, a city whose professional football team (as well as my nearby high school) proudly flies the banner of the cowboy, one of the most enduring, ...