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Central Track

Its TV + Film section ran from March 2012 to December 2022 and filled 87 listing pages.

Dallas · 2012– · dormant
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The story

Central Track is a Dallas culture website that says it was founded in 2012. Its staff page lists Pete Freedman as co-founder, president and publisher and C. Bruce Willis II as co-founder and chief executive. The site covered music, food and drink, nightlife, fashion and culture, and it kept a TV + Film section alongside them.

That section's archive begins in March 2012 and runs to December 2022 across 87 listing pages. A separate film reviews category started in September 2016, with reviews by Kip Mooney and Javier Fuentes, who wrote in his author biography that Central Track was his main outlet after eight years of writing about movies. The last review, of Red Rocket, ran in December 2021.

The film coverage leaned local. In February 2018 Fuentes reported Cinestate's purchase of Fangoria as a Dallas story, noting the company's offices on Swiss Avenue in Old East Dallas and placing the news alongside Texas Frightmare Weekend and the Texas Theatre's Tuesday Night Trash series. In 2022 Mooney wrote a monthly Coming Attractions column that rounded up new releases, limited runs and repertory screenings around Dallas, and Frances Tingle wrote Q&As with local filmmakers, including a Frisco teenager whose short played SXSW, and covered a Texas Theatre screening of Scream with a live Q&A.

The newest post on the homepage is dated December 31, 2022.

Known for

A film reviews section, written mostly by Kip Mooney and Javier Fuentes, ran from September 2016 to December 2021. ↗︎
In 2022 Mooney's monthly Coming Attractions column rounded up new releases, limited runs and repertory screenings around Dallas. ↗︎
It reported Cinestate's 2018 purchase of Fangoria as Dallas news, tying it to Texas Frightmare Weekend and the Texas Theatre's Tuesday Night Trash series. ↗︎

People

NameRoleYears
Pete Freedmanco-founder, president, publisher2012- ↗︎
Kip Mooneyfilm critic; Coming Attractions columnist2016-2022 ↗︎
Javier Fuentesfilm writer2016-2021 ↗︎
Frances TingleTV + Film writer2022 ↗︎
How it ended
No new posts appear after December 31, 2022 (checked 2026-10-18); the site remains online with no closing notice.
Sources
  1. About Central Track n.d.
  2. Staff Central Track n.d.
  3. TV + Film (category page 1) Central Track 2022-12-11
  4. TV + Film (category page 87) Central Track 2012-03-07
  5. Film Reviews (category page 1) Central Track 2021-12-21
  6. Film Reviews (category page 13) Central Track 2016-09-29
  7. Fangoria Rises From The Dead In Dallas. Central Track 2018-02-16
  8. Central Track (homepage) Central Track 2022-12-31

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