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The trailer for Cloud Atlas, the gargantuan new movie of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel that took two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer to adapt, looks less like a preview than a whole slate of coming attractions, so many and varied are the times and places it touches down. The box-office…

Around the four-minute mark of my first viewing of the Cloud Atlas trailer, as the M83 track swelled to its bursting point and a hoverbike darted through future-Korea, I remember e-mailing and GChatting at least a dozen friends with a link to the preview and my take: “Holy Shit.” Naturally,…

Need an illustration of just how global the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has become? Just check out the opener for the fest’s 27th-annual edition: The Sapphires is an Australian film about indigenous women who formed a singing group in the late 1960s to travel to Vietnam to sing to…

The Sapphires Muvico Pompano, 2315 N. Federal Highway, Pompano Beach. Saturday, October 20, 7 p.m. Sunday, October 21, 3:30 p.m. 1968 was the year the planet went haywire. All around the globe, there were riots and revolution in the streets. There were hard drugs, soft drugs, free love, and psychedelic…

When Ruby (played by the stunning Emayatzy Corinealdi) tells the new man in her life she likes “indie” movies, it’s both a declaration of identity and a dare. The man, Brian (David Oyelowo), a bus driver who has politely but persistently pursued Ruby after driving her home from her overnight…

Perhaps you’ve lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it’s no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by inventive swearing, from-no-place headshots, and posteverything structural flourishes. Certainly you have no reason to expect blood-splattered poetry or throat-clearing laughter from yet another movie in which Los Angeles…

“Positive characterizations are complex characterizations,” says writer-director Ava DuVernay, tucking into a serving of roasted potatoes. “That’s all we need to know. They shouldn’t be saccharine. They shouldn’t feel like medicine. You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.” It’s a recent Sunday afternoon, and…

In Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, a prune-faced, simian-mouthed sexagenarian sits by the road in an old suit and brown-patterned tie, and cradles a white bunny in his arms. This is precisely what we’ve come to expect of a Tom Waits entrance. Waits has long been one of Hollywood’s favorite sight…

Exhibiting great specificity about gay sexual mores — the phone sex hook-ups, the fear of AIDS, a dichotomy between carefree promiscuity and desire for stable monogamy — while also rooting its story in tumultuous universal emotions, Keep the Lights On details a long-term romance fraught with turmoil. Like his prior…

Precious director Lee Daniels’ Southern gothic noir pulp presents itself with the doubtful come-hither hospitality of a gator-filled swamp. Moistly set in South Florida in the ’60s, it involves corn-fed creep John Cusack wrongfully on death row and coming to the attention of investigative journalist Matthew Mc­Conaughey, whose kid brother,…

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A Big Piece of FLIFF: Gregory von Hausch Keeps Broward’s Film Scene Alive

Yeah, all right already, we get it about suburbia — it’s a topography of middle-age despair hidden under a sunny beige façade. Also: Suburbia’s dark underbelly — it’s so dark! Now maybe Hollywood can finally move on and get to the bottom of those Winnebago-ready KOA campgrounds. Probably a lot…

“Little White Lies” Movie Review: A Bloated Spin on “The Big Chill”

For many of its 61 years, Fort Lauderdale’s Classic Gateway Theater has carved a niche for itself as a haven for alternative cinema — especially of the LGBT sort. So it’s only natural that the Gateway house the Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, a scrappy but significant fest…

Early on in Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller Looper, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sits at a diner and chats with his self from 30 years in the future (Bruce Willis). When the younger Joe asks the older one about the specifics of temporal displacement, the latter dismisses the question, telling his interlocutor…

“Death wasn’t being responded to as a public health problem,” David France says. “It was dealt with with sniggers. It was left to religious leaders to explain or respond to the epidemic. And they responded by calling it the wrath of God.” He adds: “That’s the hostility we all saw…