Florida Agenda

The 6th annual Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival runs from October 16 to 19. Not only has the festival doubled the number of films to be screened, it also expands the total run to seven days. A truly international affair, attendees will hear languages including Spanish, Farsi, German, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, French and, […]

The 6th annual Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival runs from October 10 through the 12 and then continues the following weekend, October 16 to 19. Not only has the festival doubled the number of films to be screened, it also expands the total run to seven days. A truly international affair, attendees will […]

Music and Movies in the Park – October 2, 2014 Robin Williams’ untimely, self-inflicted death was one of the most affecting celebrity tragedies to happen all year. Ironically, one of his most influential films, Dead Poet’s Society, shows how the social pressures at an elite prep school contributes to a student’s suicidal tendencies. That movie […]

As a prelude to the 6th Annual Ft. Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (FGLFF) opening on October 10, organizers have announced two hilarious films to be shown at the Classic Gateway Theatre as part of the Festival’s GLOW series.  The films, “Such Good People” and “Cupcakes” will be screened at Fort Lauderdale’s Classic Gateway […]

Erotic sci-fi mood piece “Under The Skin” (A24/Lionsgate) could sure use subtitles. That’s only when there’s dialogue, of which there is a minimum, mainly spoken in thick Scottish brogues. An alien being arrives in Scotland and assumes the visage of Scarlett Johansson. After putting on a dead woman’s clothes, she hits the mall for a […]

Richard Linklater has been what you could call a groundbreaking independent filmmaker for more than 20 years. Beginning with his 1991 feature “Slacker,” in which he not only helped to make the title of the film a part of the mainstream vernacular, Linklater left his mark. With his next films “Dazed and Confused,” “Waking Life,” […]

If you are one of the few people who missed the 2011 James Franco vehicle “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes”, the more successful of the 21st century “Planet of the Apes” franchise reboots (the other being the humiliating 2001 Tim Burton “Planet of the Apes” remake with Mark Wahlberg), the first couple […]

If you saw (and loved) writer/director John Carney’s 2006 breakthrough film “Once,” about the unlikely romance that develops between an Irish busker and a Czech immigrant, then you’ve probably been waiting for a follow-up that is its equal. “Begin Again” (Weinstein) comes close, but it doesn’t quite make the cut. Down-on-his-luck indie record label founder […]

Filmmaker and writer Pawel Pawlikowski has a talent for presenting unforgettable female characters such as young lesbian Tamsin – played by Emily Blunt (!) – in “My Summer of Love.” The same holds true for the titular character in “Ida” (Music Box Films).  About a week before orphan-turned-novitiate nun Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is set to […]

“Malignant” would have been a better title for “Maleficent” (Disney), a movie that belongs in the same Disney trash heap as 2013’s “Oz The Great and Powerful,”  2010’s “Alice In Wonderland” and 1993’s “Hocus Pocus.” From its derivative and clichéd story with far too many liberties taken, to its tired special effects (haven’t we seen […]