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Alexander Payne gets back behind the camera

Alexander Payne is the only filmmaker who has a perfect batting average with me: All of his movies that I've reviewed earned a four-star rating. Granted, there have been only been three - Election, About Schmidt and Sideways (I didn't review Citizen ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  15 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Alexander Payne,  Matt King,  George Clooney

2010 Miami Film Festival award winners

Here is the list of award winners from this year's Miami International Film Festival, announced earlier tonight at the Gusman. The festival gives out too many a lot of awards, so I'm just posting the entire press release below. Congrats to Lola and ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  13 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Miami Dade College,  James L. Knight,  American Airlines,  European Union,  Eastman Kodak

Review: ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' (El secreto de sus ojos)

The money shot in The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) arrives exactly at the middle of the film: From the sky above Buenos Aires, the camera vertiginously swoops down on a bustling soccer stadium during a match, settling on two ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Alfred Hitchcock,  Brian De Palma,  Martin Scorsese

Sometimes, evil is boring

Full disclosure: I’m an ardent fan of the films of Austrian director Michael Haneke (“Funny Games,” “Cache,” “The Hour of the Wolf,” “The Piano Teacher”), which sometimes get rapped for being a little too obsessed with the human capacity for cruelty ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, TheNewsTribune.com,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Michael Haneke

The Miami Film Festival toasts a native who made good big time

Here's a little-known fact: The awesomely talented actress Catherine Keener was born and raised in Hialeah. Just knowing that immediately makes The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Being John Malkovich seem even cooler.  Keener will be at the Gusman Theater at ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Catherine Keener,  Nicole Holofcener,  Julio Robaina

Made-in-Miami documentary ''Monica and David'' makes the Tribeca cut

"I'm very excited," said Codina, 32. "When you get into a festival, you want to engage audiences and get the word out on your film, but that requires a lot of work. I'm sure I'll be nervous just before the screening, but I can't think that far ahead ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  10 Mar 2010

Review: ''She's Out of My League''

Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is a five at best - a skinny, geeky airport security officer with no career prospects and little ambition and still obsessing over ex-girlfriend Marnie Lindsay Sloane), even though they broke up two years ago. By comparison - by ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Jay Baruchel,  Alice Eve,  Judd Apatow

Review: ''Remember Me''

Aside from raking in billions in cash, the Twilight franchise has brought its three leads thriving acting careers. Taylor Lautner has become the highest-paid young actor in Hollywood seemingly overnight. Kristen Stewart will star as Joan Jett in a film ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Robert Pattinson,  Pierce Brosnan,  Taylor Lautner,  Kristen Stewart,  James Dean

R.I.P. Corey Haim

Although Haim, like his co-star Corey Feldman, will never be remembered as a great actor, he appeared in enough movies in the 1980s (The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream) to make his passing particularly melancholy for anyone who grew ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Corey Feldman,  Michael Jackson,  Farrah Fawcett

Variety sacks its chief film critic

I started reading weekly Variety around the age of 12, when I craved to read more film criticism and movie reporting than The Miami Herald and the late Bill Cosford could provide. The news stand brought some great discoveries: Pauline Kael, Film ...

From RENE RODRIGUEZ, Miami Herald,  9 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Variety,  Pauline Kael,  Film Comment,  Todd McCarthy,  Howard Hawks

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