One of the biggest selling points of 21 Jump Street, the 2012 TV-remake comedy, turned out to be its seemingly unscripted lunacy, the way it put Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in police-shorts outfits and let them riff on their characters’ mutual ineptitude. Sometimes you need a little flapdoodle, and…
“Screw Twilight”? Yeah, it’s a bold title. But as much as you might shamelessly love watching them with copious amounts of alcohol, the Twilight films aren’t exactly masterful in any way. They get the job done for some audiences, but when it comes to vampire works, there’s plenty better. In…
Although David Beckham’s plan to build a soccer stadium in the heart of downtown Miami has dominated the local news cycle recently, it’s not the only new development facing criticism. A panel assembled Tuesday afternoon at the Biltmore Hotel to discuss the future Miami Entertainment Complex (MEC), which promises to…
With his debut documentary feature, Documented, director Jose Antonio Vargas craftily reveals the plight of the undocumented immigrant as ubiquitous by placing himself at the center of the story. It’s not a filmmaking strategy that always bears fruits of sympathy. Sometimes it comes across as eye-rollingly egotistical. Vargas, whose mother…
Walking into a room with the stars and writer of The Fault in Our Stars is a lot like meeting a family for the first time. Picture Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, and John Green all hanging around a table, laughing and joking around just seconds after scratching another…
Do you ever feel as if this silly thing called the “legal system” is getting you down and holding you back? You totally understand why some laws exist, but sometimes you just need to blow off some steam without fear of heavy repercussions. Too bad things like that only happen…
The Western genre isn’t entirely comprised of spaghetti or John Wayne talking out the side of his mouth: From its earliest days, filmmakers were putting a comic spin on stories set on the dusty trail, with the genre hitting its apex between the mid ’70s and mid ’80s. We’ve gathered…
We’re still adjusting to Seth MacFarlane as a big-screen star. Not just because his breakneck absurdist humor often demands viewers pause and rewind, but because the man himself looks like a hand-inked cartoon, with his black, pupil-less eyes and an alabaster baby face that, lacking cheekbones that could carve in…
Boil Maleficent down to one newt’s nose-size piece of advice and you’d get this: Don’t dump Angelina Jolie. It’s not a problem most mortals will face, but as seen through director Robert Stromberg’s lens, the antlered arch-villain of Sleeping Beauty is a sympathetic scorned woman, equal parts Gloria Gaynor, Princess…
Today it’s hard for us to fathom why preachers used to rail so vehemently against jitterbugging. Even with cultural context — black music infiltrating white America; the revolution of rhythm over melody — the athletic whirligig swing-time boogie craze of the ’30s and ’40s now looks as wholesome as the…
In the midst of a summer packed with huge blockbuster features (Godzilla, Edge of Tomorrow, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and even Guardians of the Galaxy), it’s often nice to take a seat and watch something that’s a little less huge in scale. But the summer movie machine often has the…
Harrison Ford has been a good soldier in the Star Wars. He did whatever was asked of him by his commanding officer, George Lucas, even when his commanding officer was wrong. Now that Ford is back in Star Wars, and J.J. Abrams is running the show, Abrams’s first order of…
#492425863 / gettyimages.com Marion Cotillard, the star of the Dardenne Brothers’ competition film Two Days, One Night, showed up for the photo call on Tuesday in a mini-dress encrusted with a riot of buttons, a whimsical and rather adorable choice for an actress who, on-screen just a few minutes earlier,…
After years waiting for approval to serve his devoted cinephiles beer or wine to accompany an art film, Dana Keith, Miami Beach Cinematheque’s director, received some troubling news. He learned the multi-plex down the street can now serve alcohol, but his small boutique theater still cannot. On Wednesday, Miami Beach…
A romance ripped from the pages of Deuteronomy, Frank Coraci’s Blended posits that the best reason for a woman with sons and a man with daughters to get married is that they can take care of each other’s kids. Quel pragmatisme! In the world of this sitcom love story, men…
I haven’t looked forward to a new Godard movie since…never. The first Godard movie I saw upon its release in a movie theater was First Name: Carmen, in 1983, which overwhelmed me: I didn’t yet understand that it’s OK not to completely comprehend everything a filmmaker puts in front of…
EVer since Episode VI back in 1983, fans have been waiting anxiously for the next installment, and now we know that we’re just a little over a year away from Episode VII. With the most recent announcement of the newest cast members and now as filming has begun, the engines…
In a world where booze is legal at the movies, one theater could change audiences’ film-watching experience forever. That’s right, film buffs. Soon, South Beach moviegoers might not need a flask to get drunk at the theater. Miami Beach commissioners approved a measure Wednesday to allow some movie theaters to…
It’s been a few days since I saw David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, screening here in competition, and I’m still not completely sure what I think of this sometimes-smart, sometimes-arch ultra-black comedy about shallow Hollywood types. But one thing’s for sure: Julianne Moore is a knockout in it. Moore…
America’s sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence truly can do anything. In the course of three months, she’s graciously lost an Oscar (her third nomination in four years), swanned above the mansplaining condescension of a male pundit who tsk-tsked her for getting drunk in public, and burst into the summer blockbuster X-Men: Days…
When he moved to Miami from Austin in May last year, Josh Frank wanted to simply re-create the Blue Starlite, the urban drive-in theater he launched in Texas. Four months later, the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In opened its gate in a small Wynwood lot next to O Cinema. The…
It was Jason Tugman’s first day of work. Almost a decade later, he still remembers the screams. A former circus fire-eater, he’d taken a job as a lighting technician for The Oprah Winfrey Show after burning off a chunk of his tongue. The pay was $32 an hour and he…
