The Miami Jewish Film Festival is back in town everybody and with it comes a solid selection and variety of movies to explore. But with so many films and so many places to see ‘em, it’s tough to choose exactly which ones to hit up. And that’s why we’ve made…

The conversation about female filmmakers rarely being highlighted in the festival scene isn’t ending anytime soon. Slowly but surely, organizers are trying to widen the lens and include more women. The Miami International Film Festival is joining the conversation and announced today their new partnership with Google on a seminar…

If you’ve seen a solid amount of independent films in the last two decades, chances are you’ve seen at least one of the films produced by Killer Films. The company, which has brought us everything from Larry Clark’s Kids to Todd Haynes’ latest Carol, was co-founded by producer Christine Vachon,…

Welcome to 2016, everybody! And with the beginning of any New Year comes two things: a bunch of awards movies flooding theaters, and just as many awful early-year releases polluting the multiplexes. Instead, why not go the safe (and likely, a whole lot more entertaining) route? You know it: classic…

With the year coming to an end and the bulk of “Best of” lists featuring a mountain of the same kind of film we witness every year, it’s time to offer up something a little different. So instead of bombarding you with another list of movies about straight guys and…

Real talk: Women making movies are awesome. It would be easy to just post that as a complete article, because it’s true and we all know it, but end-of-year lists so rarely highlight films made by women due to the film industry being so focused on the overwhelming amount of…

To say that the films of David Lynch should be playing on a loop for the rest of eternity isn’t all that much of a stretch, considering the filmmaker is one of the most fascinating surreal figures of his time. And with a showing of Eraserhead just months ago, Miami…

With the Miami International Film Festival only months away, it’s time for some of the festival’s selection to hit the press. Although the festival’s 33rd edition will kick off on March 4, the opening night film has been selected: Álex de la Iglesia’s latest film, My Big Night (Mi Gran…

Nearly a year has gone since the last Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF), but now, the beloved festival is set to return in January for its 19th year with plenty of films to get excited about. The festival, which is the largest Jewish cultural event in Florida and the third…

It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays here in Miami, inside and out. Although it is still not particularly cold weather-wise, hopefully the theaters will crank the air to 30 and whip up a snowstorm during a film. December is here and so are a bundle of classic…

Films festivals are often a dime a dozen, with some cities pretty much boasting a fest for every subgenre and topic imaginable. But some aspire to a higher purpose, namely education, and Mountainfilm is one of those. Mountainfilm in Telluride is a 37 year old documentary film festival in Colorado,…

After what can only be described as a totally jam-packed month of classic cinema in October, culminating in a night of way too many movies for anyone’s good, November slows it all down. Here are the goods, which this month will be conveniently split up by location due to the…

To say that Catherine Hardwicke has made a career out of balancing edge with emotion isn’t much of a stretch. Her films often mix authenticity with a sense of heightened reality and Miss You Already is no exception. In the first ten minutes of her latest feature, she and writer…

In celebration of Halloween, the Secret Celluloid Society planned an evening full of movies picked with the plan to keep you up all night. Starting at 11:30 p.m. at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, The Thing was up first, followed by Night of the Demons, Eraserhead, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre —…

Acting as a preview to the yearly Miami International Film Festival put on by Miami Dade College being held in March 2016, GEMS boasts a small collection of films screening at the Tower Theater daily starting today through Sunday. Compared to last year’s MIFFecito mini-fest, things look promising. The lineup,…

On Tuesday night, the Miami Jewish Film Festival presented a sold-out screening of Rhonda Mitrani’s Cuba Mia at Temple Moses. The film, which documents the story of a group of Cuban-born U.S. Jews who return to the Cuba of their childhood to find it both familiar and changed, also included a…

Acting as a preview to the yearly film festival being held in March 2016, GEMS boasts a small collection of films screening at the Tower Theater daily starting Thursday through Sunday. “GEMS is the name we came up with to best represent the personality of our new fall festival event,”…

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as a great movie, be it the horror that thrills you, the drama that moves you, or the romantic comedy that pretty much shapes the way you dream of falling in love. And it’s even more satisfying to occasionally get away from the big ol’…

After two successful years presenting retrospectives of Jewish filmmakers together, The Miami Jewish Film Festival and Miami Beach Cinematheque announce their 3rd annual Masters of Jewish Cinema series, featuring a retrospective celebrating Billy Wilder’s most iconic films. The series, charmingly titled Some Like It Wilder!, runs from October 14 through…