Favorite Family Movie Poll Results!

Favorite Family Movie Poll Results! 

Thanksgiving is finally here! One more day and families will come together to give thanks for all their blessings while enjoying a scrumptious meal. After all, who can resist gobbling down some roast turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy on this special occasion? Now, once you have enough to leave you stuffed, you can sit back, relax, and watch a great family movie together. According to you, these are the top three family movies:

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And…Cut! PFF Gets Big Turnouts For November Workshops

We are three events into the Panther Film Festival’s Mixers & Workshops and the turnouts, so far, have been incredible! We thank you for showing such an interest in our growing film community and hope to continue to provide you with valuable networking, workshopping, and learning opportunities in the months to come.

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The Square: Strange, But “It’s Art”

A ‘performance art piece’ in which a man acts like an ape at a fancy dinner party

If a self-proclaimed lover of the arts doesn’t acknowledge how pretentious the world of art can be, they just might be a total hack. As the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, the event’s highest honor, Ruben Ӧstlund’s The Square is a dissection of the human conscience, served with a dose of mockery directed at the pompous attitudes of the artistic world.

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Miami Jewish Film Festival’s November “Simply Streisand” Retrospective Continues

The Miami Jewish Film Festival, in cooperation with the Miami Beach Cinematheque, will continue its retrospective of Barbra Streisand’s most iconic films throughout the month of November. “Simply Streisand” celebrates four of Streisand’s Academy Award- Nominated films with screenings hosted by special guests. Event Location: Miami Beach Cinematheque, 1130 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach

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Advanced Screening: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Hey Panthers!
You’re cordially invited to attend an early screening of Martin McDonagh’s (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) newest film: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI. The film is a uniquely entertaining tale of revenge and redemption starring Academy Award winner Frances McDormand, Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson and acclaimed actors Sam Rockwell and Peter Dinklage.
#ThreeBillboards hits theaters November 22 , but you can download a pair of passes to tonight’s advanced screening at the Regal South Beach here: www.foxsearchlightscreenings.com/3BBFG

Black Dynamite: Explosively Ridiculous

The titular Black Dynamite, bringing a Kung Fu beat down on a local gang

As contradictory as it sounds, it’s difficult to make a film bad on purpose for the sake of parody. On top of needing to be cheesy and ironically bad, such a film needs to be genuinely well-made and well-written to boot. Films such as Airplane! (1981), This is Spinal Tap (1984), and Hot Fuzz (2007) are prime examples of a movie that’s made hokey and awkward on purpose. Similar to these films, Scott Sanders’ Black Dynamite (2009) is a parody of both action movies and the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, which is not only completely self-aware in its ridiculousness, but has the quality to back it up.

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