Nick Chinlund

A summary of the movies playing Oct. 11 to Nov. 15, 2007 at the 22nd Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Most tickets are $10 general admission; $5 for members and free for holders of FLIFF Fast Pass. Parties and special events are priced...

There are times when your inner 10-year-old outshouts your grown-up reserve and forces you to submit to mindless delight. One of those times, for me, came seven years ago with the release of "The Mask of Zorro." The movie was a rare, welcome exemplar of...

In creating "Ultraviolet," the screenwriter and director Kurt Wimmer hits a lot of the same notes he did in the 2002 Christian Bale actioner "Equilibrium" -- which was built along the same trusty rebel-bucks-the-totalitarian-system and featured a great...

"Amy's Orgasm" is a sophisticated romantic comedy much like "Kissing Jessica Stein." Like Jessica, Julie Davis' Amy Mandell is beautiful, intelligent, Jewish--and unattached. Jessica's inability to find Mr. Right leads her to experiment with her own sex,...

At first glance, director David Twohy's "Below" has the makings of a B-movie horror classic. Somewhere in the Atlantic during the Second World War, the crew of the U.S. ship Tiger Shark happens across three survivors from a downed British ship. Among...

Friday June 6, 1997      "Con Air" is a big, loud, noisy movie made with almost scientific precision for people who like big, loud, noisy movies. Numbing but not boring, it's finally more dispiriting than exhilarating, like a wild night of debauchery...

Friday July 18, 1997      Tracing the concentric circles of modern urban hell, "A Brother's Kiss" offers pain without redemption and despair without a lot of root causes. So, like a lot of the life it portrays, its reason for being comes down to...