Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife gives actors space; Florida premiere with...
All that is great about actors who take up directing is on full display in Wildlife, the directorial debut of Paul Dano, based on...
A re-cap of a hectic half-attended, still impressive Miami International Film...
The Miami International Film Festival has just wrapped up another year of quality film premieres. Film for film, it may have featured the highest-quality...
Dheepan winds inner turmoil with tense intimacy — a film review
Shadows obscure life throughout Dheepan, in the drudgery of scraping a living together from nighttime street vending to cleaning out dank common areas in a French...
Watch the Sundance-selected, Miami-made short “The Sun Like a Big Dark...
It's been a while since I first saw the short film "El sol como un gran animal oscuro" or "The Sun Like a Big...
The Nightingale makes revenge unsettling
There hasn’t been a movie this year that has so consistently moved me as much as the violent, horrifying revenge film The Nightingale. A...
My Golden Days explores the distorting filter of time with keen...
“I am not Ulysses. No nostalgia for my country,” says the anthropologist Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) to a lover in Greece. With a title...
Lively Q and A made for interesting screening experience on Day...
Though I only made it to one film yesterday at the Miami International Film Festival, it proved a memorable screening due to the fact...
Whit Stillman and I reconsider my negative review of ‘Damsels In...
In the second part of my conversation with filmmaker Whit Stillman (this is continued from: A cup of coffee in which director Whit Stillman and I...
Critics and some centerpiece films make for interesting Day 2 at...
Day 2 of the Miami International Film Festival provided the experience I was looking forward to most about the 30th edition of this event: an intimate...
GEMS recommendations: Certain Women and Old Stone contrast in drama but...
Gems 2016, a mini-film festival of sorts by Miami-Dade College's Miami Film Festival, is now underway at the Tower Theater in Miami. It kicked...