Miami Film Festival Day 2: Voice Over reveals gargantuan obstacles of...
It's not easy to communicate when you're family, and Chilean director Cristián Jiménez finds a compelling way to illustrate that in Voice Over (La Voz en Off)....
Mini-Miami Film Festival ‘Gems’ to bring Florida premiere of The Assassin...
Before we get to the titles, let's get some confusion out of the way: Last year, Miami-Dade College's Miami International Film Festival, gave South...
Phoenix offers a potent mystery hidden in plain sight by playing...
A mystery movie doesn’t always need to have its mysteries hidden away, obliging itself to constantly stringing along the audience with questions and twists....
Final weekend at MIFF: Trueba tribute, awards and aquatic-themed films
The last weekend of the Miami International Film Festival ended on a much stronger note than it began. I caught up with a strange,...
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...
My Friend Dahmer vividly explores the anti-social life of a would-be...
Though My Friend Dahmer is about infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, its focus is not on the murders, rapes, necrophilia and cannibalism he committed...
Neruda blends fact and fiction for refreshing test of the biopic...
Last year, Chilean director Pablo Larraín made his English language debut with an unorthodox biopic on Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie uses strong performance, meticulous staging...
Screenings I plan to see at 30th Miami Film Festival
The coverage for the 30th Annual Miami International Film Festival has begun in earnest. I hope to document all the coverage I contribute on this blog...
The 33rd Miami International Film Festival – so far
Sometimes cinema submits us into consent with images that tell us how to be, act or feel. The power of the Seventh Art can be...
The 33rd Miami International Film Festival wraps up with some more...
The 33rd edition of Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival featured some strong movies, including at least a couple of films that this writer...