‘Miss Juneteenth’: Film Review

Gun & Powder — Photo: Cameron Whitman

DALLAS -- Texas oil and ranching heiress Anne Marion, who founded the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has died. She was 81.

Winner of both prizes awarded in the Next category of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “I Carry You With Me” tells the true story of an undocumented gay couple from Mexico who risk their lives for love, liberty and the American Dream.

Grammy winning country duo Sugarland are hitting the road for their summer There Goes the Neighborhood tour. Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles will welcome special guests Mary Chapin Carpenter and Tenille Townes as well as Danielle Bradbery on select dates.The There Goes the Neighborhood Tour kicks off on June 4 at Budweiser Stage in Toronto and will run through New York, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Maine, Wisconsin and more.The 26-date trek will close out on Aug.

The inaugural Born & Raised Music Festival will be held June 6-7 in Pryor, Oklahoma, and include notable artists from the outlaw, Texas and Red Dirt country music scene. Willie Nelson and Hank Williams Jr. are scheduled as headliners for the music and camping experience, which will be held at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds.

Willie Nelson and Hank Williams Jr. will headline the inaugural Born & Raised Music Festival, which promoter AEG Presents describes as a “new outlaw, Texas and Red Dirt country music and camping experience” taking place at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds in Pryor, Oklahoma over the weekend of June 6-7, with a pre-festival party happening on June 5.

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.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

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

The battle lines of territorial masculinity are drawn with compelling psychological complexity in Summer White, in which a 13-year-old boy impatient to become a man grows increasingly hostile to the presence of his single mother's new partner in their lives. Mexican director Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson establishes a domestic situation of almost unhealthy mutual emotional dependency and then ruptures it with the arrival of an outsider whose kindness and generosity make him even more of a threat.

If Human Flow, Ai Weiwei’s uncompromising 2017 documentary about global immigration, challenged the viewer to contemplate the seemingly limitless universe of displaced persons roaming the planet, his compassionate, socially conscious new film Vivos takes the opposite tack.

To the individual enduring it, sorrow seems a lonely, defenseless emotion, one from which others are too quick to look away. Shared and felt en masse, however, it can become something different: a galvanizing force, a wall, not diminished in pain but not diminished by it either.

Not even the presence of modern horror movie icon Lin Shaye can redeem the tired tropes on display in Michael Thomas Daniel's directorial debut. Playing the matriarch of a backwoods family that includes two murderous, facially deformed sons (played by Nicolas Cage's son and nephew, no less), Shaye gives it her all like the trouper she is.

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.

Residency producers should look to Mexico when it comes to marketing and promotion. 

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.

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.