Surf flick double feature

Tonight, the South Florida chapter of the Surfrider Foundation serves-up a double feature of surf movies - Echo Beach and Spectacular Adventures - and a smorgasbord of gourmet dishes, Kona Brewing Co. beer and Barefoot Wine.

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Support your local filmmaker

The Sunshine State and its filmmakers fill-up the spotlight tonight with six short films and an after-party headlined by local bands Radioboxer and Huma Rojo.

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Burn Notice star stumps for state film incentives

Burn Notice wants to continue shooting in South Florida. Burn Notice is politicking to continue shooting in South Florida. But if the show's producers can save serious dough by moving Burn Notice out of Florida - which incredibly doesn't even rank in the top ten for number of productions shot in state - they'll leave and take the tens of millions of dollars they spend here with them. That would suck.

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Movies this month: November

From the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival to the Miami Beach Cinematheque to the local cineplex, here's what's headed our way.

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Coppola conjured via Internet at MBC

Saturday at 2 p.m., the Miami Beach Cinematheque screens director Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed 1974 film The Conversation. After the film, as if by magic, the director, Coppola himself, will appear live via webcast for a Q&A.

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The Shinning is scariest movie ever

A week or so ago I mentioned that I would not attend a local screening of The Shinning for fear that I might soil myself and the lovely furniture at the Icon Brickell spa. I was thereafter summarily mocked by my friends. However, it seems I'm not the only one that the movie scares the bejeebees out of: totalscifionline.com has rated The Shinning number one on its list of the 100 greatest horror movies of all time. Hit the title link to see the other 99.

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Hype over Jacko = wacko

I love parachute pants, the moonwalk and grabbing my crotch as much as anyone, but clearly Michael Jackson's untimely death has skewed most reviewers ability to be objective about this film as a, you know, film.

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Deus ex machina

A release on this event came through my email box a while back and I really wasn't sure what to make of it. Fortunately, the Herald's Jaweed Kaleem knocked out a story detailing where the John Paul II International Film Festival comes from and the 30 interfaith films to be screened. While I'm typically skeptical of super-topical film fests, in a world unhinged by religious intolerance, this one - which begins Thursday and runs through November 7 - seems like an inspired idea.

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Stewed, screwed and tattooed

Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry - a critically acclaimed documentary profiling the granddaddy of American tattooing Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins - screens tomorrow night at Miami Art Space.

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Registration open for Screenwriting Lab

The Miami International Film Festival has teamed-up with BTG Productions to offer what they are calling an "Intensive Screenwriting Lab." Pregnant women and those with heart conditions should not ride this ride.