Another one bites the dust. Following in the footsteps of other scripted TV series set in South Florida like Dexter and Magic City, A&E announced over the weekend that it would not pick up its crime drama The Glades for a fifth season. The series hit a season high with…
If television producers have their way, 2014 could be the year Miami finally gets some real love — not just “reality” love — on the small screen. News broke this week that FX has ordered a pilot of a potential new TV series titled Hoke, starring Paul Giamatti and based…
The infamous Burn Notice fire sale auction is over. Somewhere on the globe fans are reveling in their buys, awaiting anxiously for their precious memorabilia, and ignoring their bank statements for a while. Scott Grasso, owner of the Jay Sugarman auction house and organizer of the sale, says the company…
Plenty of film critics and Asian-cinema aficionados care deeply that The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai’s pointillist biopic of martial arts master Ip Man and the director’s first picture in six years, will be released in the States only in a 108-minute version. The cut released in China earlier this year was…
Pining Gorgeously in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Because it’s called Austenland, and because it’s a romantic comedy, you probably expect it to open with “It’s a truth universally acknowledged” and to wrap with one lovesick sap madly dashing after another, right up to an airport’s departure gates, even though both presumably have cell phones and could just…
Intricate, intelligent thrillers made specifically for grownups are so rare these days that it’s tempting to award extra points to anyone who even scales an attempt. Tomas Alfredson’s 2011 John le Carré adaptation, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, may have been the last great example of an adult thriller that refused…
Your life surges ahead as it is, pretty much, but maybe tinted blue. Maybe everything around you is tilted a bit, and strips of light glow on the wall, like an SUV with its brights on is idling on a ramp facing your window blinds. Your world looks not like…
Coming at us in sections like baby-boomer stations of the cross, Ulrich Seidl’s Dantean triptych Paradise is inarguably one of the year’s big moviehouse shitstorms, and appropriately this second panel, coming after Love’s bruising tropical-tourism anti-daydream, doesn’t spare the rod. As you’d expect, Faith takes the Divine Comedy fixtures head-on…
Morgan Spurlock loves money. His documentaries are fascinated by cheap cheeseburgers, product placement, and freakonomics, and his latest commodity is Brit boy band One Direction, five lads shoved together by Simon Cowell on X-Factor. They can’t dance, and they can’t even convince us that they’re fans of their own music,…
John Berger quipped, “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at,” an observation recalled by this anachronistic picture of Fernando Trueba’s, which offers as generic a portrait of its central relationship as its title suggests. In WWII France, elderly artist Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort) has seen his well…
As another summer movie season characterized by cynicism and excess draws to a close, there are few activities less valuable or interesting than complaining about it. The blockbusters arrived, flattened cities, vomited effects, deafened with explosions, made money, didn’t make enough money, pleased populist critics, displeased elitist critics, and finally…
When Justin Bieber’s favorite actress, Selena Gomez, survives a bad B movie with more dignity than her costar, Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, the end times must be near. In Getaway, Hawke is Brent Magna, a failed racecar driver turned crook turned reformed husband who returns to his Sofia, Bulgaria apartment…
After Jimmy Savile, Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan, and that Christian puppeteer who wanted to kidnap, kill, and eat little boys, it’s hard not to imagine the children’s entertainment industry as a fount of unimaginable filth and degeneracy. But for those who’d prefer to remember their childhoods happily, Mathew Klickstein offers…
The DVD for Pain & Gain, Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s bizarre, dark buddy-crime film based on a New Times story, was released yesterday, closing the book on a story that began two decades ago. But Walhberg and Johnson will still be seeing plenty of each other, thanks…
When it comes to television, plenty of shows like to pretend that they take place on our gorgeous South Florida shores, but few of them are actually filmed on site. (We’re looking at you, Dexter.) Burn Notice on USA Network, on the other hand, is perhaps one of the most…
Breaking Bad is nearing an end, and what will happen is anyone’s guess. With Jesse snapping and Hank becoming increasingly desperate, Walt’s life is now beginning to spiral out of control. With only six episodes left in the series, Vince Gilligan will spare no air time with sub-plots. However, the…
Okay, so maybe Evelyn Vogel isn’t the Brain Surgeon, as we had predicted. Last night’s episode pretty much ruled out that theory. But we weren’t far off — just one generation off, to be precise. We’ll put the big reveal behind the jump. Spoilers ahead. See also: Ten Creepy Dexter…
If you’ve been watching Breaking Bad this season, you’ve likely picked up on a subtle and not-so-complimentary metaphor for our neighbors just across the Caribbean in Belize. Without giving too much away, Walter White has been covering up for a character he killed by telling everybody he fled to Belize…
In case you hadn’t heard, Burn Notice is going up in smoke. And the end of this seven-season, Miami-set series means they’re hosting one hell of a fire sale. Everything must go! As the show’s last few episodes air and the cast evacuates the Coconut Grove Convention Center, they’re ditching…
With an offhand precision that suggests he might prove one of his generation’s major actors, Michael Cera lays bare two specific human weaknesses in writer/director Sebastián Silva’s altered-states/group dynamics road drama Crystal Fairy — weaknesses you’ll likely recognize from life rather than from other movies. The first is the pushy,…
The laddish pleasures of The World’s End, Edgar Wright’s comedy about a group of middle-aged guys drinking beer and facing mortality, come with a bittersweet edge. In the old days, the lead character, Gary King, used to be the coolest kid in school, at least in the outlaw sense: He’d…
