'Get Gone': Film Review

Heavy metal legends Megadeth and Lamb of God are joining forces for a massive North American co-headlining tour. Presented by SiriusXM, the tour will also feature special guests Trivium and In Flames.The summer tour will launch in Bristow, VA.

Landlocked by South Africa on all sides, the kingdom of Lesotho is a place of high skies, wide landscapes and narrow prospects for its two million inhabitants: a set of dimensions somehow captured in every exquisitely constructed, square-cut frame of “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection.” A haunted, unsentimental paean to land and its physical containment of community and ancestry — all endangered by nominally progressive infrastructure — this arresting third feature from Lesotho-born

A leisurely, somewhat hazy travelogue compared to the piercing political indictments of his acclaimed prior “We Come as Friends” and Oscar-nominated “Darwin’s Nightmare,” Austrian documentarian Hubert Sauper’s new “Epicentro” looks at Cuba on the brink of colossal transition, as the old Communist system is in its apparent death throes, and free-market capitalism waits in the wings. It’s a fascinating moment for cultural stock-taking.

Every summer, more than 1,000 teens swarm the Texas capitol building to attend Boys State, the annual American Legion-sponsored leadership conference where these incipient politicians divide into rival parties, the Nationalists and the Federalists, and attempt to build a mock government from the ground up.

It’s exciting, and fascinating, to see a great director of documentaries try his or her hand at a dramatic feature, since in theory the essential skill set should all be there. The best documentarians possess an acute visual sense, and they are all, of course, potent storytellers.

Sultry music swells as the camera swoons over a young couple in a tender nighttime embrace. The 1950s residential New York City street is carefully rain-slicked and lined with shiny classic cars: an obvious stage set.

There’s mannered, there’s manic, and then there’s the malfunctioning pinball-machine delirium that Ben Whishaw brings to “Surge”: a blinking, buzzing, flashing clatter of hyper-accelerated impulses, chicken-fried synapses and staggered hypnic jerks that never culminate in sleep.

Imagine a high-ratings, high-stakes game show that trivializes a convict’s life-or-death fate for public consumption. As wild as it sounds, a version of this reality TV entertainment apparently really exists in modern-day Iran, where writer-director Massoud Bakhshi’s “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness” is set, and where a wildly popular edition of it has been airing for nearly a decade.

The best political documentary at Sundance this year does not star Hillary Clinton or AOC, but a bunch of 17-year-old dudes.

“Miss Juneteenth” richly captures the slow pace of ebbing small-town Texas life, even if you might wish there were a bit more narrative momentum to pick up the slack in writer-director Channing Godfrey People’s first feature. She’s got a very relatable heroine in Nicole Beharie’s Turquoise, an erstwhile local beauty queen whose crown proved the peak rather than the kickoff to her dream of a better life — high hopes now transferred to a daughter reluctant to inherit that burden.

Incredible. That’s the word that comes to mind with Benjamin Ree’s “The Painter and the Thief,” a stranger-than-fiction friendship story in which vérité techniques produce unbelievable results.

Ambition trumps execution in Matthew Rosen's directorial debut dramatizing an admittedly fascinating and little-known historical episode concerning the Holocaust. Depicting the efforts of Filipino President Manuel L.

Shia LaBeouf earned critical praise for his screenwriting on last year’s Honey Boy. The actor is back with his second feature-length script, currently Minor Modifications, which is inspired by the life of BROCKHAMPTON’s Kevin Abstract. Although it hasn’t officially been picked up as a film yet, the final script is available on The Black List.

Shia LaBeouf earned critical praise for his screenwriting on last year’s Honey Boy. The actor is back with his second feature-length script, currently Minor Modifications, which is inspired by the life of BROCKHAMPTON’s Kevin Abstract. Although it hasn’t officially been picked up as a film yet, the final script is available on The Black List.

You’ll find this hard to believe, but Matthew McConaughey used to make movies about stuff other than drugs.

Taylor Swift is known for generally keeping her political views silent, and for good reason.

Sometimes it takes a while for the Recording Academy to wake up to a deserving act, leading to nominations in the Best New Artist category that are, well, puzzling. 

I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but Fox's new franchise expansion of the impressively successful 911 —a Texas-set incarnation fittingly called 911: Lone Star— uses a backdrop of first-responder thrills as cover for an exploration of masculine fragility and definition-defying heroism.

Everything may be bigger in Texas, but 9-1-1: Lone Star isn't trying to outsize its parent show, 9-1-1. In fact, the spin-off, which introduces a new Austin-based team of first responders, is an intentionally tighter and tamer version of the disaster procedural.