45 Years tests a couple’s long marriage with a ghost from...
No one can ever really know another person, not even a husband and wife going on 45 years of marriage. After all, a couple is composed...
Eden depicts disillusion of DJ scene with profound naturalistic ease —...
Anyone who recalls the early nineties dance club era featuring chill rooms, breakbeats and jungle music, before EDM started to drive today’s bass-dropping, dub-stepping electronica and PLUR culture,...
Filmmakers Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson on meanings of Anomalisa and awards...
On an uncharacteristically wet and chilly Tuesday morning in Downtown Miami, filmmakers Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson sit at a round table easily large...
Reflecting on 2015, Part 4 – Best Films according to Hans
Mid-year, I teased my working lists of The best films of 2015 … so far. It's finalized. Four films had their premieres at either Miami Dade College's Miami...
Hitchcock/Truffaut transmits the desire of filmmaking for all to fall in...
It can be a tricky proposition: making a film about films. Even trickier is the idea of making a film based on a book...
The Revenant embodies primal hostilities that motivate men to extremes —...
In the cold winter of early America, a group of trappers and hunters are ambushed by a band of Arikara Indians. The few who survive the...
Reflecting on 2015, Part 2: The best music documentaries
I took in a decent amount of music documentaries in 2015. Most were great. Only one was terrible. And the one that caps this list will probably win...
Reflecting on 2015, Part 1: The worst films
I tend to avoid the rubbish Hollywood produces to sell the popcorn and its over-priced 3D premium upgrades, so you won't find well-known crap like...
The Hateful Eight is just a tiresome exercise in drawing out...
Note: This is a review of the longer, “Roadshow” version of The Hateful Eight.
Quentin Tarantino has finally done it. He’s made a movie that’s...
Mad Max: Fury Road named best film by Florida Film Critics...
The Florida Film Critics Circle, a critics group we have representation in, has announced the winners of this year's contest for the best of...