MOVIES

As a child, J. R. R. Tolkien becomes friends with a group of fellow artists and writers at his school, with whom he finds inspiration and courage. Their bond of fellowship grows with the years, as they experience life together, as does his love for Edith Bratt whom he marries after World War I.

A preview of the Best of … the 2019 Miami Film Festival.

When basketball coach Dax loses everything in order to have his team compete in the Rucker’s annual basketball tournament in Harlem, legendary basketball player Uncle Drew rounds up his old team of old men to play the game.

Carrie Pilby and Chronically Metropolitan touched on blatant flaws in others, compromise in perceptions, awareness of own limitations, and willingness to accept life, as it is, and go on with inner strength. Both films had well-known stars, were wonderfully acted, and had engaging characters.

Three college students, Elliot and John who were childhood friends, and Elliot’s girlfriend Sasha, rent a creepy old house off campus. Yes, a murder had been committed in this house many years before. In the drawer of a night table stored in the basement, they discover a paper with writing that repeats the words (around the entire page) “Don’t Say it; Don’t Think It”. Hidden beneath the paper is a scratched-out drawing of “IT” – The Bye Bye Man. With the power of this evil now released, the three friends must combat extreme paranoia and vivid hallucinations (or realities?)

Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is in March (2017), however we attended the pre-Festival unveiling of the 34th edition official poster by Argentinian designer, photographer and graphic artist Juan Gatti, founder of Gatti Studios in Madrid. This event, which also featured Gatti’s most iconic credit sequence designs, “Juan Gatti Work Throughout the Years” was the kickoff for Miami Film Festival’s GEMS.

At the MiFo (Miami-Fort Lauderdale) LGBT Film Festival, we saw some powerful films, we…

Everyone loves a feel-good movie and Eddie the Eagle certainly qualifies. The story is…

  The story is simple. Michael Stone, husband, father and respected author of “How…