'I'll Meet You There': Film Review | SXSW 2020

Cue “Don’t Worry Baby” by the Beach Boys! When a young Drew Barrymore graced the big screen as a Chicago Sun-Times copywriter named Josie Geller in Never Been Kissed, everything changed. While going undercover to research teenage culture at a high school, the previously nicknamed “Josie Grossie” experiences popularity for the first time — and falls for her English teacher, Michael Vartan’s Sam.

[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to screen digitally for critics.] Few SXSW attendees in 2011 would have expected that Dave Boyle's likably shambling Surrogate Valentine would ever get the sequel treatment.

[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select fest entries that elected to premiere digitally.] Shiva Babykicks off with an unpersuasive orgasm. "Yeah, Daddy," Danielle (Rachel Sennott) intones, the lack of conviction in her voice telegraphing the transactional nature of the coupling.

[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to premiere digitally.] The winner of this year's Documentary Feature award at the virtual version of SXSW, Katrine Philp's An Elephant in the Room spends time with participants in a New Jersey program called Good Grief, whose probably inadvertent invocation of Charlie Brown hints at its focus: The Morristown group is built around children who have lost parents, placing them

[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to premiere digitally.] A narrative feature debut informed by its maker's previous documentaries about the oil industry, Noah Hutton's Lapsis takes a sci-fi look at another kind of resource-extraction boom and the workers being exploited in it.

Krisha Fairchild's second lead role in a feature is no less perfect for her than the first. As in 2015's Krisha (which put the retired, little-known performer on the indie map at age 65), she inhabits the central character of Freeland with a riveting emotional power.

By Erik Pedersen

Lady Antebellum announced today that their May and June concert dates would be shifted to begin in July. The Ocean 2020 tour will now kick off on July 2 at Toyota Amphitheatre in Sacramento, Calif.

James Elkington, "Ever-Roving Eye" (Paradise of Bachelors)

By Peter White

Deeper, "Auto-Pain" (Fire Talk)

Stuart Gordon, best known as the filmmaker behind such cult classics as “Re-Animator” and “From Beyond,” has died, his family confirmed to Variety Tuesday night. He was 72.

Chicago festival Lollapalooza took to social media this morning to announce that it is holding off on revealing its 2020 lineup. The long-running festival is set to take place at Grant Park from July 30 - Aug. 2, but its fate is uncertain as organizers continue to watch the coronavirus crisis push events into the fall or later.

Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin 2020 has been canceled in response to coronavirus. The festival was scheduled to take place at Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany from May 8-9. The lineup included Lianne La Havas, Modeselektor, Tim Hecker, John Talabot, Kelly Lee Owens, rRoxymore, and Nick Hakim. There is no makeup date and all ticket buyers will be refunded. Find Pitchfork’s official statement below.

By David Robb

By David Robb

NYCB’s Firebird at the Kennedy Center Photo — Photo: Paul Kolnik

By David Robb

Tegan and Sara are hitting the road! On Wednesday (March 11), the Canadian duo announced they'll be heading out on a North American headlining tour this summer to promote their latest album, Hey, I'm Just Like You.The 40-date run will kick off May 18 at The Knitting Factory Concert House in Spokane, Wash., with the first leg wrapping June 6 at Chicago's Riviera Theatre. The tour's second leg then picks up July 30 and runs through Sept.