Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

National Week of the Ocean Inc. culminates its 34th "Festival Season" by honoring community leaders and marine educators on Mother Ocean Day, May 18 at noon. The following individuals and organizations benefit our South Florida marine environment and are...

The move to bring an art-house movie theater to downtown Hollywood begins in a public way on Thursday with the Cinema Paradiso Hollywood Kick-off Party at 5:30 p.m. at Face restaurant (2022 Hollywood Blvd.). The event is part of the Fort Lauderdale...

Al Jolson can still pack them in the theater, 86 years after ushering in "the talkies" and 63 years after his death. At least that's the idea with the tribute by The Broward County Film Society (also called FLiFF) to the man billed as "The World’s...

Should unexpected pleasures be so unexpected around here anymore? A visit to South Florida by Steve Martin, banjoist? Mike Tyson at the Arsht Center? A family-style scavenger hunt in Wilton Manors? New Kids on the Block … anywhere? Nothing should...

South Florida snuck its way into the glamorous Hollywood spotlight of Thursday’s Academy Award nominations, but not in a way you might expect. “Kings Point,” a poignant look at life, love and loneliness among six residents of the...

Like many local 13-year-olds, Bailee Madison will unwind for the holidays at the pool or the beach, or by playing on the swings or with her sidewalk chalk. But Bailee’s Christmas will be a little different than most teens. Dec. 25 is opening day of...

When Andrew Bird, the celebrated indie-folk musician, asked Xan Aranda to direct a documentary about the final dates of his 2009 concert tour, she wasted no time in answering him. “I said no,” Aranda recalls from her home in Chicago. The...

Last year’s Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opened with a gamble: a little-known French film with no box-office stars that was not only shot in black-and-white, but came with another layer of anachronistic provocation. It was a silent...

When he takes the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Monday, Oct. 8, Andrew Bird no doubt will present himself as the man his audience has come to see: a classically trained musician whose go-to instrument is the violin; an adventurous songwriter with a...

“Broke”:  A story of bankruptcy among retired professional athletes, will air Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. on ESPN, for the network’s second round of its “30 for 30” series. Billy Corben’s next documentary, “Dawg Fight”...

The five-year anniversary of 9-11 might have seemed like the perfect time for Hollywood to address the terrorist attacks – and indeed, last year brought both United 93 and World Trade Center. But the ways the world has changed since that fateful...