IndieEthos Insiders Tour 3: Toni Erdmann uses humor as lifeblood —...
Below the surface of its brilliantly timed screwball humor, the German Oscar contender Toni Erdmann holds a tender story of staying true to family....
Film Review: 'Post Tenebras Lux' may be the most challenging film...
Post Tenebras Lux, the fourth film by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas demands a relaxed, open mind well aware of the boundaries of cinema and...
Film Review: ‘Leviathan’ presents gritty visual poem of sea creature harvest
Though the documentary Leviathan unfolds on a fishing vessel on the tumultuous high seas, this is far from the cinematic version of “the Deadliest...
Good intentions don't always pay off in 'War Story' — a...
With recent headlines of journalists killed or under threat to be killed in war zones, the trauma of the conflict for those journalists, who are civilians,...
Another day of Miami International Film Festival: what to avoid and...
It's getting hard to keep track of the films and parties, heck, even the days at Miami Dade College's 32nd Miami International Film Festival....
‘Flight’ compromises redemption with sex and hilarity
I need to chime in on Flight, as it's bound to do well in theaters over this weekend and follows lots of hype by many...
Hotel Mumbai is difficult entertainment to stomach
It’s hard to say if I was entertained by Hotel Mumbai, a movie focused on four horrific days where a group of well-armed terrorists...
Dunkirk deserves all the technical prizes at next year’s Oscars but...
Here it is, July, and the movie to beat in next year’s Oscar race for all the technical awards will be Dunkirk. After his...
Oscar preview: Borscht, Moonlight and ‘the power of Miami’s filmmaking community’
The 10th edition of the Borscht Film Festival winds down this Sunday with great anticipation (read a report I wrote on Animal Collective’s appearance...
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...