For the past few years, South Florida has been in the news, and often not for good reasons, such as the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. However, as anyone who lives in or visits the Broward County region, which includes Fort Lauderdale and Wilton Manors, can tell you, there’s more to it than the occasional Florida Man story that crosses the wires.
There are movies that entertain, and then there are movies that feel simply feel like they comfort you. "Zootopia 2" is absolutely a mix of both, but mostly the latter. It’s a bright, heartfelt reminder that even in the most chaotic seasons, stories can help us smile again.
Gay filmmaker Ira Sachs never ceases to surprise us. With movies such as the period infidelity drama “Married Life” to his New York real estate trilogy – “Keep The Lights On,” “Love Is Strange,” and “Little Men” – to his bisexuality exploration “Passages,” Sachs has kept viewers engaged since the late 1990s.
It’s hard to imagine a more suitable person than trans lesbian Tommy Dorfman to direct and write the movie adaptation of “I Wish You All The Best” (Lionsgate), based on the Y/A novel by non-binary writer Mason Deaver. Dorfman brings all the necessary sensitivity and perception to the project.
Sometimes the arrival of a movie into our lives is so perfect, it feels like a wish coming true.
“Sort of” based on a chance Sally Kirkland encounter, “Sallywood” (FanForce/Buffalo 8), the feature-length debut by Xaque Gruber, feels like a vintage indie movie. Low budget, quirky, naïve, and unintentionally annoying.
When we last left Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) in “Wicked,” the former defied gravity and took to the western sky, leaving her BFF/nemesis behind in Oz.
For most of her fans, Lady Gaga’s Grammy-nominated song “Born This Way” felt like a love letter to her queer followers. An acknowledgement that she saw and heard them and shared their feelings of affection. What many didn’t realize was that Gaga’s song, co-written with gay singer/songwriter Jeppe Laursen, had roots that reached back more than 30 years.
You know that friend or relative, who having experienced a traumatic life event, has gone off the deep end, and is convinced that the conspiracy theory they’ve concocted as their safety net is 100% true? That’s essentially the premise of “Bugonia” (Focus), the latest from prolific filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.
Based on a short story by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King), the 2021 horror flick “The Black Phone” relied more on suspense and jump scares than it did on gore and OTT special FX. The movie’s supernatural element was that the dead adolescent male victims of The Grabber (a masked Ethan Hawke) communicated with Finney (Mason Thames), the serial killer’s latest captive, via a non-functioning black telephone.
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