Miami can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to being associated with gun violence. The above short film is “Debrief,” voted Best Film of the Miami Film Race 2010, where two hit men have to figure out a way to hit their mark, a shut-in. The national Film…
Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: The third chapter in the saga serves fans and the brand
Despicable Me: Childish, funny 3-D delights
I Am Love: Tilda Swinton’s got to be free
Exit Through the Gift Shop: A doc about street art, sort of, brought to you by a graffiti ninja, kind of
Knight and Day: Tom Cruise, please stop talking
For the fifth time in a decade, Miami International Film Festival is in the market for a new festival director after choosing not to renew Tiziana Finzi’s contract. A festival insider from Italy with a reputation for discovering new cinema talent, she was hired in 2009. For 2010’s festival, she…
Toy Story 3: In its third installment, Pixar’s juggernaut turns morose
Please Give: Liberal guilt’s got soul
Mother and Child grapples with adoption but glosses over abortion
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: Jake Gyllenhaal goes to the gym but can’t beef up this flick
First off, forgive us for not having the budget to upgrade this summer movie preview to 3-D. Rest assured, there are plenty of eye-popping (brain-numbing?) epics in the preview list that follows, but to our pleasure and surprise, there is a surplus of attention-worthy 2-D flicks too. Happy summer, movie…
Robin Hood rails against the tax-and-spend Nottingham elite
Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn’t mean it’s good
Elm Street remake is no dream
Furry Vengeance is a movie with a message and not much else
The Losers: The aptly named film is not a winning comic-book thriller
Kick-Ass sets itself up as an unadulterated exposé of the teenaged mind. Tired of being mugged by high school thugs in a Manhattan that’s notably scummier than the real thing, our hero Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson, a hot young thing given a perm-and-glasses nerdover) wonders, in a hilariously put-on and…
The Runaways: Sex, drugs, and feminism
Date Night: Tina Fey and Steve Carell go lowbrow and chemistry-free
After.Life: Justin Long, Christina Ricci, and Liam Neeson star in a macabre gothic mystery begging to be left alone
