Miami Film Festival GEMS presents movies to watch out for come...
I just finished a long weekend watching premieres of movies that will slowly roll out as possible Oscar contenders come next year. In total,...
34th Miami Film Festival premiered quality films seeking distribution
It’s a bit of a challenge to cover a film festival when you come down with bronchitis while also moving from one location in...
Hou Hsiao-hsien on his intuitive filmmaking and The Assassin; more in...
Anyone familiar with the films of acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien may be surprised that his new film is a martial arts movie. However, the...
Film Review: 'Blackfish' presents brutal picture of orcas in captivity
Blackfish trains its lens on killer whales in captivity and the cover-up of tragedies involving one orca in particular who seemed to turn psychotic:...
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...
Presenting Princess Shaw star and director talk connecting via Internet and...
She hugs strangers and loves to declare "Cool sauce!" punctuating the quirky saying with operatic singing of “rock sauuuce!” Samantha Montgomery, known to her YouTube...
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures filmmakers talk about interview subjects and...
When documentary filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato began exploring who the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was for their in-depth documentary, Mapplethorpe: Look at...
Mountains May Depart presents beautiful meditation on hope misplaced — a...
After the rather rich but violent A Touch of Sin, China’s Jia Zhangke returns with something more intimate though no less critical of his country’s...
The Clan confronts Argentina’s past with unflinching black humor — a...
The Clan may just be one of the most demented movies Argentina has ever produced. It’s a wide-eyed stare into the abyss of the...
Something’s Shocking: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures – A Miami Film...
Miami Dade College's 33rd Miami International Film Festival opens tomorrow and with it comes a series of exciting movies, some of which we...