Film, TV & Streaming

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

Ajami: An Israeli Arab and Israeli Jew come together to make cross-cultural crime drama

The DeLorean is a Jacuzzi and the ’80s are back in Hot Tub Time Machine

A Prophet: The “French Scorsese” Jacques Audiard arrives with his ’70s-style gangster epic

The Miami International Film Festival, which ended Sunday, has announced its competition winners. The Best Miami Mini Film was awarded to Where It Stops by local filmmaker Kyle Shea. As you’ll see in the above clip, it’s an intense and uncomfortable short film about aging. Yet with all the gambling…

After producing several documentary films (and a few shorts) over the last six years, Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer has finally made the leap to feature-length fiction work with Children of God. And he has no intention of looking back. “Documentaries were really, really important to me. I will probably return…

Catherine Keener has played the smart, neurotic gal in so many indie flicks, we assumed she was born in the land of Woody Allen — New York City. But the actress was actually born and raised right here in Miami. She’s a graduate of Hialeah’s Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High…

Matt Damon and his WMD of a movie Green Zone confirm the big lie, Hollywood-style

The Rizzos are an average family — two parents, two kids — who make their home on City Island, an old fishing town in the Bronx. The patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia), is a New York State corrections officer with dreams of being an actor. His wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), is…

On Saturday night, we saw the American debut of Swedish film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo at the Miami International Film Festival. Gusman was packed. Not only was the 1,600-seat house sold out, a hundred or so people waiting outside for tickets had to be turned away. (Psst, we…

On the surface, this debut feature by writer-director Florence Jaugey is about a girl boxer, Yuma (Alma Blanco), struggling to escape the barrios of Managua. She lives in a concrete-floor shack with her often-absent mother, unemployed pedophilic stepdad, teen junkie brother, and two younger siblings. She loves and protects the…

Last night, the closing night film of the Miami International Film Festival The Secret in Their Eyes won the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the Academy Awards. According to the festival’s artistic director Tiziana Finzi, director Juan José Campanella will not only attend this year’s closing night, he’s bringing that…

Michel Gondry must have been on to us. He knew we’d expect something as imaginative as his last film, The Science of Sleep, or his popular Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. So in The Thorn in the Heart (L’Épine Dans le Coeur), he presents an evenhanded documentary about his…

In 1994, Juan Angel Ruiz was involved in a devastating car wreck. In the first terrifying moments after regaining consciousness in his hospital bed, Juan Angel tried to look around the room. “I opened my eyes. The light over my bed blinded me. It was too bright,” he says in…

There are certain bands that embody the spirit of Miami, gathering the energy that shimmers on the street like heat haze. With its smart blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms with Latin jazz, hip-hop, electro, loads of funk, Spam Allstars are chief among these. The band has come a long way since…

Born into the itinerant life of a con artist, Kay (Aida Folch) is a sexy but street-tough young woman who has helped her father, Sebas (Manuel Morón), run scams since she learned to walk. For years, they’ve lived off small scores, skipping from one city to the next across Spain…