Film Review: 'The Hunt' examines influence of the crime on judgement
As one can expect from the director who made a name for himself with the Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg’s the Hunt (Jagten) feels like a brutal roller coaster...
Filmmaker David Trueba talks Lennon and subverting biopics for the sake...
At the end of June Spanish filmmaker David Trueba was in Miami to present his new film Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed at...
Once in a Lifetime presents a poignant history lesson – a...
In France, the classroom and other public places have become political. Public policies such as immigration and forbidding religious symbols in public places have...
‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ peels away layers of story to reveal infinity
Mysteries of Lisbon offers a cinematic statement like no other film the 21st century has offered. The theatrical release is actually an abbreviated version...
Film review: With ‘To the Wonder’ Malick loses sight of cinema...
I went into To the Wonder with hopeful expectations. I felt moved by Terrence Malick's Tree of Life and its take on life and death and...
Film Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ fuels heartache with intimacy
Early this year, I noticed fervent statements on Twitter regarding the next “big” film out of Sundance: Fruitvale. Later re-titled Fruitvale Station, the film had been...
Loneliness, Anger and Loss in Max Rose — a film review
Memory is a funny thing, it ebbs and flows with one’s mood and circumstances and so does perspective. In Max Rose, we meet a...
‘Granito – How To Nail a Dictator’ explores routine complexity of...
It takes a true independent filmmaker to make a movie that dares to implicate the CIA in its role of facilitating the genocide of...
African Queen due on DVD finally
OK, so some movie news, too…
Just in time for the beginning of the end of DVD, I received an email from Amazon the other...
‘The Guilt Trip’ review for ‘Hudak on Hollywood’
As this is my first year in the Florida Film Critics Circle, it meant going out to watch a lot of big studio-produced films...