What to See and What to Skip at Miami Film Festival Gems 2018

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…

South Florida Festivals Reflect the Region’s Growing Film Scene

Jaie Laplante is excited. For the past decade, he’s been watching South Florida’s film scene blossom, and next year will be no exception. “It’s so exciting to see how the seeds the film community members have been planting over the last ten years are growing strong,” Laplante says. He’s the…

Twenty Years Later, Run Lola Run Is Still Vital Viewing

You’d think a 20-year-old indie film from Germany would have lost its mojo by now. But experiencing the quirky Run Lola Run all these years later remains satisfying if not truly thrilling. A mix of sci-fi, slapstick, and romance, the movie was director Tom Tykwer’s third and a breakout hit in 1998.

Terence Nance, Who Voiced a Trippy Chris Bosh, Will Direct LeBron James’ Space Jam 2

If you’re not from Miami, you probably know Terence Nance as the showrunner of the experimental HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. Perhaps you saw the lengthy profile of him in the New York Times this summer, or if you’re into indie film, you know his works An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Swimming in Your Skin Again, which earned raves at festivals such as Sundance.