MIFF staff excited for opening night, prepares drive-in for crowd

This year's Maine International Film Festival will be held at the Skowhegan Drive-In, which accommodates 350 cars.

J.P. Devine MIFF Review: ‘Heroic Losers’

It is a foreign film where one forgets the subtitles and begins understanding the players, J.P. Devine writes.

Waterville’s Maine Film Center donates ‘Last Tango’ proceeds

Mike Perreault and Jessica Shoudy pledged to donate the proceeds raised by the Bernardo Bertolucci film 'Last Tango in Paris' after an outcry over its depiction of sexual assault.

All things MIFF 2019

J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘On the Basis of Sex’

Where is Ruth? Where is her husband Marty? Where, in this HBO special, is the courageous young Jewish couple? J.P. Devine writes.

J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Vice’

'Vice' a calendar of carnival chaos, J.P. Devine writes.

J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Mary Queen of Scots’

You get to watch the delectable, gifted and ubiquitous Saoirse Ronan dazzle us as a feisty Mary Stuart, a monarch with terrible taste in men, J.P. Devine writes.

Actress and director Penny Marshall dies at age 75

She co-starred in 'Laverne & Shirley and was the first woman to direct movies that earned more than $100 million.

J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Guilty’

Director Gustav Moller leaves it up to our imaginations, J.P. Devine writes.

J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Boy Erased’

'Boy Erased,' not a terribly good movie, but has value in that it brings to the surface the ignorance and evil in the idea of sexual conversion, writes J.P. Devine.