Wanna see that hot new film from Sundance or Cannes? Miami cinephiles often wait for months, even up to a full year, for buzzworthy movies to hit our indie screens. Oftentimes, U.S. theatrical premieres come and go in New York and L.A., while the wait continues in South Florida, as…
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson scared? Pffft! The Rock isn’t supposed to fear anything. He’s climbed to the mountain top of Hollywood and he’s been king of the World Wide Entertainment professional wrestling circuit. I mean, he played the Tooth Fairy, for crissakes! What the heck would make the chiseled former…
LA sucks. There’s so much smog there you can hardly shoot a movie in the sunshine. That’s why all the great films of our time shot in golden quality natural UV come to South Florida. The latest, Pain & Gain, opens in theaters tonight. But it’s just one of many…
If you see Pain & Gain, Michael Bay’s made-in-Miami dark comedy about a bodybuilder extortion scheme gone awry, before you read the original New Times story on which it was based, there’s a good chance you’ll like it. It’s colorful and exciting and genuinely funny at times; its cast does…
A New York native with a smooth tongue and a disarming smile, Daniel Lugo was fresh from serving a 15-month federal prison stint for fraud when he landed at Sun Gym in 1992. He’d earned his prison time by snookering $71,200 from people who believed he could get loans from…
Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) believes life has cheated him. Doesn’t America promise riches and luxury to people who deserve it? He’s worked hard to build his body into a hulking knot of muscles; success should follow. But Lugo ― the lead in Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, a neon-noir ode…
Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, and the Rock Talk Pain & Gain
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See also: “Pain & Gain: From New Times Story to Michael Bay Film“
Pain & Gain: Michael Bay Injects Potent Absurdity Into an Unbelievable True Story
See also: “Pain & Gain: From New Times Story to Michael Bay Film“
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Though he’s long been among the most recognizable celebrities in the world, Tom Cruise has always seemed vaguely irritating, like the popular kid at school everybody secretly dislikes. His is an odd sort of fame: globally recognized but rarely acclaimed, he remains more reliably bankable than nearly any other actor…
In The Client List, Lifetime’s pseudo-steamy take on the world of sensual massage, Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a struggling housewife who takes a rub-down side job in order to support her kids after her husband disappears. The show, which jumps from scenes of Hewitt pleasuring executives to her dancing with…
Michael Bay reclines on a white lounge chair on a 14th-floor balcony at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Brickell Key. To the east, a sheet of piercing rain swallows Key Biscayne, thunder cracks overhead, and a lightning bolt shoots above the choppy waves. The sudden monsoon provides the perfect backdrop…
It’s happening again. The Miami Heat is back in the NBA playoffs. LeBron is leading in scoring. Ray Allen is putting in a decent show. Even Rihanna showed up to support the defenders. But if you attended the Borscht Film Festival last year, you know the real hero of this…
Hollywood celebrities, flashy cars, sexy models, pro athletes, and rappers poppin’ bottles in the club. Does that sound like South Beach to you? It does to John Legend. According to Deadline Hollywood, the singer-songwriter is helping to develop a series for HBO called Down Lo, set in Miami and featuring…
For many of us, our dogs are like our kids. We love them, we care for them, and they can torture us with the same kind of behavior issues: barking, chewing, aggression. It’s like the canine version of crying, drawing on the walls and temper tantrums. Luckily, you can teach…
Home Run, in theaters April 19, is about a famous baseball player named Cory Brand (Scott Elrod), who has a serious drinking problem. He is an alcoholic. He causes a terrible D.U.I. accident, severely injuring the passenger of his car. This is his second D.U.I., and police footage from the…
