Sunset cinematic mansplaining that reveals woman’s early 20th century woman’s experience
With Sunset, the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul (Son of Saul, a grim out-of-body experience at Auschwitz — a film review) returns with...
‘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...
Posthumous director Lulu Wang on the inspiration of Berlin and balancing...
With her feature film debut, Posthumous, which had its North American premiere at Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival, indie writer/director Lulu Wang says she set out...
River of Grass on blu-ray and Jesse Eisenberg on Kelly Reichardt’s...
Not long ago, director Kelly Reichardt's debut feature film, River of Grass (1995), underwent a restoration. We covered its run at the Miami Beach Cinematheque...
Billy Croben on the inspiration of child actors in Screwball and...
In my recent Miami New Times review of the new documentary Screwball, I praised the filmmakers’ decision to incorporate children in their reenactments of...
The Little Stranger tangles with ghosts of the past and future
Ghosts don’t actually exist, but the ghosts that haunt The Little Stranger are as real as can ever be depicted in a work of...
Miss Sloane features a great actress in a terrible movie —...
I've finally seen Jessica Chastain in a terrible movie. The always great actress plays a steely but tightly wound fast-talking, pill-popping con of a...
The Assassin tells moving story of humanity beyond martial arts —...
Eight years after his first film outside of either Taiwan or China (the Paris-set The Flight of the Red Balloon), Hou Hsiao-hsien could not have...
Cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first son Brontis interviewed in “Miami...
Yesterday, I supplied the “Miami New Times” art and culture blog “Cultist” with a short story on Brontis Jodorowsky, the son of cult filmmaker...
One Week and a Day reveals a strong new voice in...
Last year, Manchester by the Sea showed that despite great tragedy, life goes on ... and sometimes it can be funny (Manchester by the Sea ruminates...