Popcorn Frights Film Festival returns to Savor Cinema for its fifth year August 8 with an opening night sure to please many horror fans. Kicking off the nine-night celebration is the world premiere of Haunt, a new horror thriller by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, two of the writers of A…
John Cameron Mitchell’s “The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig” isn’t exactly a reincarnation of the show. “I’m not really playing Hedwig,” Mitchell explains to New Times. “I’m playing myself in a Hedwig costume telling the story of its origin, talking about the people involved, the philosophies involved, and just creating a real love fest with our fans.”
If there are two things Florida is well known for, it’s hurricanes and alligators. Yesterday morning, we were blessed with the trailer for a film that gives us both: Crawl. Produced by Sam Raimi (Drag Me To Hell, Spider-Man, Evil Dead) and directed by Alexandre Aja (High Tension, Piranha), Crawl might…
Wild Nights With Emily. Biopics typically choose to maintain the popular image of their subject, one that’s typically a toned down version of reality. Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights With Emily, on the other hand, upends traditional ideas of Emily Dickinson for its audiences. Where there was once misery, there is…
Us. There’s something deeply satisfying about watching Jordan Peele’s Us unfold. It’s a film that wears its influences on its sleeve — everything from Alfred Hitchcock to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with a bit of an oddball leaning a la Richard Kelly, albeit in a more palatable, less thematically ambitious fashion…
Five Feet Apart. Noses blowing and heavy sobs will be heard around the world when Five Feet Apart releases this week, another entry into the odd little subgenre that is Romance Featuring One Or More Terminally Ill Characters (whose most popular film is undoubtedly The Fault in Our Stars). At…
Greta. Neil Jordan’s “Greta” is the best kind of B-movie: a knowingly funny thriller that allows the actress at its core to go ham. Isabelle Huppert, arguably the greatest living actress, plays the titular Greta Hideg, a woman who leaves bags on the trains in New York hoping for someone…
This Changes Everything. This year, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival takes a big risk with its opening night film. Generally a place for celebratory, uplifting cinema, the first movie to screen at the festival’s centerpiece venue, the storied Olympia Theater, is a documentary that wags its finger at the…
Arctic. The feature film debut by writer-director Joe Penna is a rather grim and grueling survivalist action movie peppered by a handful of startling OMG moments. Underneath all that, however, lies powerful subtext about how purpose adds meaning to life. Arctic follows Overgård (Mads Mikkelsen), the only survivor of a…
Alita: Battle Angel. This is a film made up of three distinct, and sometimes conflicting, aesthetics. At its heart is Yukito Kishiro’s manga series Gunnm (or Battle Angel Alita), of which a number of chapters were chopped and rearranged by writers Laeta Kalogridis and James Cameron to create the two-hour…
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, and starring André Holland, Netflix’s latest release is a riveting sports drama titled “High Flying Bird.” But it’s more than just the tale of a sports agent trying to disrupt the business during an NBA lockout; it’s a tale that prioritizes characters…
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Nothing feels more like a cash grab in Hollywood than a movie sequel. Usually that means finding a way to bring back the same characters and actors and putting them in similar situations as the first movie and trying not to divert too…
The Miami Film Festival (MIFF) revealed its 2019 slate of picks and guests this morning, and there are plenty of exciting inclusions. More than 160 feature narratives, documentaries, and short films of all genres from 40-plus countries will be presented during the festival March 1 through 10.
When the words “based on a Spanish-language film” pop up in bombastic text the moment Miss Bala’s credits appear onscreen, one quickly becomes aware of how little interest the movie has in either its original version or Mexico, where the film mostly takes place.
From big-budget blockbusters to indie films, here’s your guide to the movies opening in Miami theaters this week. Serenity. After directing a tense drama featuring a single actor in the front seat of a car (Tom Hardy in 2013’s Locke), screenwriter Steven Knight returns to the director’s chair with a…
From big-budget blockbusters to indie films, here’s your guide to the movies opening in Miami theaters this week. “Cold War.” Pawel Pawlikowski, whose movie “Ida” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015, has returned with a much lighter but no less weighted film, “Cold War.” Zula (Joanna…
I think I was ten years old the first time I saw Eyes Wide Shut. I was sick in a hotel in Orlando, probably delusional from cough medication and exhaustion while my family was out having dinner. Flipping through the channels, I ended up on either HBO or Cinemax—both of…
For the past few decades, director Christian Petzold has been delivering a consistent stream of fascinating works of art. His latest, Transit, is an adaptation of Anna Seghers’ novel, described as “an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.”
The Miami Jewish Film Festival returns this month with an exciting and progressive lineup, punctuated by spotlights on women and first-time filmmakers, live music performances, and other events. It’ll be impossible to catch all 80 films during the fest’s two-week run. So New Times film critics Juan Antonio Barquin and Hans Morgenstern have narrowed their picks to these four standouts.
Miami’s annual film review has returned. The tradition of polling a collection of local film experts, including critics and programmers who work for numerous publications, festivals, and cinemas in the city, was published on the website Dim the House Lights for 2015 and 2016, and the winners of the Miami…
It’s a real American Horror Story when there aren’t any good events in town. But Miami has plenty this October for you to explore, especially if you’re into cinema. Spend every night that isn’t Halloween (and, well, maybe Halloween too) in a movie theater this season and spread the fear…
Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is back with its annual Gems event of weekend movie premieres at the Tower Theater in Little Havana. This year’s edition will screen several movies likely to become Best Foreign Language Film contenders at next year’s Academy Awards. Here, New Times film critics Juan…
