Film, TV & Streaming

Trey Edward Shults, the director of “Krisha” and “It Comes at Night,” discusses his latest movie, “Waves,” which is set in South Florida.

“It’s a blast; I’m superproud of it. If I wasn’t, I’d let history bury it,” Mark Patton says of the flick that was supposed to make him a star, 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Patton wound up having a complicated relationship with the Freddy Krueger sequel that was lambasted by critics but cleaned up at the box office.

“Moonlight” producer and Borscht Corp. cofounder Andrew Hevia’s documentary “Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window” examines Art Basel’s nascent Hong Kong fair and how it relates to that city’s artists.

The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival will present Surf Film Fest at Savor Cinema this week. The series consists of six “adventurous and inspiring” surfing movies including And Two if By Sea and Heavy Water.

Writer/director Lulu Wang is having a 100% Fresh moment on Rotten Tomatoes. The Farewell marks only the second film by the New World School of the Arts alum, who grew up in Miami after emigrating from Beijing with her family when she was 6. She now lives in Los Angeles but recently returned to her former hometown to work the hype for the followup to her 2015 debut feature, Posthumous.

There are a handful of Stranger Things-related events and activities taking place in Miami this weekend if you need a break from binge-watching season three of the nostalgic Netflix sci-fi series.

On the heels of its announcement last week, Popcorn Frights Film Festival has returned with more films for their fifth edition in their second wave announcement. The festival, taking place August 8-16 at Savor Cinema, announced such features as Paradise Hills, Knives and Skin, and Haunt last week. The second…

Just in time for the conclusion of Pride month, MTV is making history with its show Are You the One? The reality dating competition is the first in US history to feature a sexually fluid cast. What does that mean exactly? Miami Beach resident and contestant on this season’s show, 22-year-old Aasha Wells, explains. “Nobody [on the cast] preferred…

Will it be Daenerys Targaryen or Jon Snow who sits atop the Iron Throne? Will Tyrion Lannister survive this mess? And can Bran Stark stop being so weird for once? Find out with other fans at one of South Florida’s Game of Thrones watch parties.

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…

Last night’s Green Book’s Best Picture win spoiled the 2019 Academy Awards for many viewers. But before that film, which has been widely criticized for its “white savior” story line, took home the night’s biggest prize, the Oscars seemed to be making improvements in acknowledging both diverse nominees and fan favorites.

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…

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…

Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade has been one of South Florida’s most beloved sports figures for over a decade. He’s also in the middle of his final season in the NBA, with plans to retire later this year. But don’t be too sad when he’s gone, Wade County. You’ll see…

Opening with an establishing shot of Art Basel Miami Beach, Dan Gilroy’s new Netflix movie, Velvet Buzzsaw, which recently premiered at Sundance Film Festival, sets up its premise by cheapening Miami’s art scene in the predictable manner you’d expect from a California-based filmmaker. Miami is there to provide a colorful, superficial backdrop…

Baldwin’s central story, dialogue and time-jumping narrative structure are all in place, but so, too, is a sumptuous visual style that serves to deepen the novelist’s themes of racial injustice and the powerful countering force of love

Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband … argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals

The January, February and March months of 2019 are already boasting a strong slate, with U.S. distribution of international festival favorites along with welcome returns of first-rate genre filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and Jordan Peele

The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter

It was a terrible year in so many ways, but onscreen, with shows including Sharp Objects, My Brilliant Friend, Better Call Saul, The Americans and Atlanta, it sparkled

The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone

Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance