Bill Cosby’s present is secure. Despite the 17 women (so far) who have publicly come forward with notably similar allegations of drug-enabled sexual assault, the comedian received standing ovations for his stand-up performances in the Bahamas and in Florida recently. His comeback tour will likely continue over the next few…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Animation… is the quickest way to get my thoughts out to other people,” says filmmaker Bernardo Britto…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. If Miami is the bridge from Latin America to the Unites States, the Miami International Film Festival…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. What was once an old, empty classroom has been transformed into an intimate, dark black-box theater. Fresh…
Borscht has been quite the tease this season. The film fest dedicated to South Florida talent announced its 2014 dates back in October, and we’ve been hanging on for updates since. Film fiends got their wish today with the long-awaited lineup announcement, detailing the short films screening at this year’s…
Do you live in Miami? If you answered yes to that question, it’s quite possible you’re Cuban-American, and if you answered yes to that proposition, your top five favorite shows is likely to include late-’70s classic ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A? The first bilingual and Cuban-American sitcom is near and dear to…
Last night at a special reception at the Tower Theater, the Miami International Film Festival revealed quite a bundle of exciting news about its upcoming year. Specifically, it was a night dedicated to revealing the latest poster for the festivals 32nd edition. The poster, which you can see just above,…
Photo: Murray CloseJennifer Lawrence in MockingjayCan The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 keep up with the first two films? Why was the final book split into two movies? Does Katniss even want to be part of this revolution? On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we discuss all things Hunger…
Long-distance relationships aren’t exactly an easy thing to depict. This isn’t to say certain filmmakers haven’t tried, but the results — like Going the Distance and Like Crazy — have been of middling quality, at best. But 10.000KM understands exactly how distance plays a factor in the way some relationships…
Over the first two Hunger Games films, we’ve watched coal miner’s daughter Katniss Everdeen become the pawn, then the pest, of the Capitol, whose President Snow (Donald Sutherland) has enslaved the adults of the 12 poorer Districts and annually commanded that they together sacrifice 24 of their children to likely…
Knocking out the first-rate forgeries that fooled 60 American museums? That was a curiously mundane miracle, something for Mark Landis to do while watching television. A frail and ascetic Mississippian who resembles Michael Stipe playing Truman Capote, Landis sketched and painted minor Currans, Averys, and Cassatts with one eye on…
When I was a kid in upstate New York, I’d hear Petula Clark’s “Downtown” on the radio — a song about the promise of glittering lights, “movie shows,” and all the excitement and dazzle adult life had to offer — and revel in the anywhere-but-hereness of it all. That’s not…
Director Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe you’re watching. Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such intimate momentousness that the movie is a must-see piece of work even if, in its totality, it’s underwhelming as…
Perhaps it’s fitting that a crime drama about constipation should take so long to get going. Directors Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson’s tense true-life Australian drug-trafficking ick-out The Mule opens with a sweaty Ray Jenkins (Sampson) dropping trou and spreading for airport security, his face straining for a blithe cluelessness…
If the universe is infinitely finite, an entity whose mystery is knowable only through an evolving progression of theories and equations, it’s nothing compared to a marriage. Every marriage or long-term partnership is knowable only to the people inside it — and sometimes not even then. The Theory of Everything…
With the first two documentaries in her post–9-11 trilogy — My Country, My Country, a portrait of Iraq under American occupation, and The Oath, which focused on two Guantánamo Bay prisoners — Laura Poitras seemed to be making a bid for the title of film’s most vigilant observer of American…
From the Blue Starlite Drive-in to Shirley’s at Gramps, Nayib Estefan’s Secret Celluloid Society has been rapidly spreading its gospel of cult films to Miami audiences. Its latest endeavor is the After Hours series at Coral Gables Art Cinema, which features late night screenings of special flick events, from the…
Fourteen years ago, Love & Basketball hit theaters, and even though so much time has passed the film still feels fresh. Maybe it’s the great performances from everyone in the cast, especially Sanaa Lathan, or the fact that writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood has a special talent for depicting characters that are…
In the mid 1990s, self-appointed cultural gatekeepers used to wield Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s Dumb and Dumber as proof of the deterioration of film artistry. Those people hadn’t, of course, actually bothered to see the movie, and thus had no sense of its peculiar, sweet-spirited, un-toilet-trained brilliance. Times have changed,…
Tales of fame and its trappings — and the way they’re never enough to build a life — are as old as show business itself. Maybe for that reason, almost any story about discovering the hollowness of fame is often written off as a cliché. But what’s the difference, really,…
The magnificent dance film Flamenco Flamenco begins, as it must, with a lady in red. Scarlet red, the dress clings to the impossibly lithe body of Sara Baras, Spain’s preeminent female dancer, who stretches her long arms to the sky and then, with a slight hitch of that dress and…
It’s an unwritten rule that we’re supposed to feel most in step with people our own age, as if sharing the same cultural and historical references somehow enables our ability to look into each other’s hearts. So why do we sometimes tumble into deeper friendships with people who are 10…
