Happy birthday to Miami Film Festival — it’s finally fully legal. In its 35th year, the fest will show 148 films on movie screens around Miami, as well as host parties, dinners, panel discussions, and other celebrations of cinema in South Florida. Even the most devoted moviegoer couldn’t see and do it all. But if you’re looking for a place to start, check out New Times’ best bets.
No other series even attempts to capture the tremendous variety within Asian America, much less to do so unassumingly
The Looming Tower is a show about the human relationships that keep systems functioning — and how when those relationships break down, the system does, too
It is what it says it is — 24 “frames,” images digitally extrapolated out into 4 1/2-minute unconnected, unmoving set-piece shots
In Between is a movie not so much about suffering as it is about the grinding reality of just being
The film gives only the most paltry consideration to geopolitics, to relations between the U.S. and Russia or America’s own corrupt operations
An episodic ensemble drama organized around the logic of theme rather than of traditional narrative, the film concerns above all else accumulation and dispersal, in the American vein
Before there was the South Pointe Pier most Miamians know, there was the First Street Pier. Back then, locals could cut bait, cast, and fish at their leisure from the pier. But as Miami Beach began to draw more tourists, the city began encroaching on the fishermen who had long called the pier home.
Potter isn’t what you’d call subtle, but she also knows not to overstay her welcome, and this pithy comedy is a masterclass in all that a filmmaker can squeeze from the most basic theatrical concept …
On March 3, movie fans will have the opportunity to spend the night with Scarface himself. At An Evening With Pacino, the Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino will take the Fillmore stage, where he will reminisce about his past, share his acting techniques, and answer questions taken from the audience.
In the second season of the new One Day at a Time, it seems like everyone in the Cuban-American Alvarez family faces a crisis of their own that reminds them to hold onto each other
It’s often inspired in its cutting and composition, and Garland has crafted sequences of strange splendor, including a too-short cosmic light show
The chemistry between Bateman and McAdams explodes in every scene and only grows stronger when, over the course of one very long and dangerous night, their characters get caught up in conspiracy
When he was taking his girlfriend to the movies in Kendall, screenwriter Mark Perez never thought he would one day be writing scripts for big-time Hollywood studios. The Sunset High grad says his best memories of going to high school in Kendall were movie nights at either the now-defunct AMC in what was then called Kendall Town & Country Mall (now the Palms at Town & Country) or the Falls’ United Artists, which is now owned by Regal Cinemas.
The director seems to be in pursuit of a broader tapestry: The Russia he presents is a wasteland of survival, where a woman’s only hope is pairing off with a moneyed man
Though fictional, Alea’s film mixes a variety of forms, incorporating both documentary footage shot by the director on the streets of Havana as well as archival historical images
Also just like History, Period offers a chance for comedians and the actors who love them to play dress-up and goof off in a period-piece setting
The narrative is needlessly complicated, and it all seems crafted just to build to a single joke voiced in the third act
After a red-carpet movie premiere and dinner Friday, a local group will host the Black Panther African-Themed Adult Prom Saturday. The elegant affair will take place at the classic Overtown Performing Arts Center.
Tiptoeing toward the hot tub of camp without quite diving in, Double Lover starts to fracture Chloe’s point of view, resulting in at least one fabulous Cronenbergian dream scene …
It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses, and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions.
Here’s the Marvel movie even non-Marvel fans are prepared to root for, the rare black superhero film, one boasting not only an almost-all black cast but helmed by a black director as well
