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A Place at the Table Movie Review: The Heartbreaking Story of Americans’ Food Insecurity

Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining From Room 237

Olympus Has Fallen Movie Review: Ridiculously Entertaining

Murph: The Protector Movie Review: Navy SEAL Michael Murphy Documentary Is a One-Note Hagiography

The Croods Movie Review: No More Evolved Than Your Average Kids’ Film

Sure, women are making strides in Hollywood. There’s Kathryn Bigelow directing fact-based thrillers such as Zero Dark Thirty and Jennifer Westfeldt with off-center comedies like Friends With Kids. Unlike their male counterparts, the majority of films made by women show a broader spectrum in genres, subjects, and styles. And yet,…

Alex Trebek’s contract expires in 2016, and rumor has it he’ll step down as host of Jeopardy! He’s been running that shop for so long it’s hard to imagine someone else treating geniuses like morons. Rumors are circulating that ABC is thinking of Matt Lauer from the Today Show, but…

To most of the world, spring break seems like a lot of fun, but Miamians understand the dark side. Damn college kids pass through for a week to drink liquor, trash the streets, and wear T-shirts announcing, “I survived spring break,” gleefully blind to the fact that they are the…

Starring on The Real Housewives of Miami didn’t make Lea Black faaahbulous, darling. It’s the other way around. The blonde powerhouse with razor-sharp quips is a huge part of what’s made the series a guilty pleasure for viewers around the world. Besides, she was a big deal here in Miami…

Things have been tough for Kim Kardashian lately. (Well, as tough as we imagine things can get for a gazillionaire musician’s gazillionaire girlfriend with lucrative TV deals, paid public appearances, and a range of products that fans are apparently buying.) Sure, she’s “glowing” with pregnancy. Sure, she keeps telling us…

Miami is not a city that lends itself to summary. This town is too vast in its varying shades of weird beauty and visceral energy, its myriad colors and countries splashed about the streets. From Doral to downtown, from Hialeah to Homestead, from Miami Gardens to Miami Beach, there is…

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Review: Vanishes the Thing Steve Carell Is Best At

John Dies at the End Movie Review: The ’90s Kill in This Thriller

Even as a 911 Dispatcher, Halle Berry Still Won’t Answer Your Calls

Elisabeth Moss’s face is far from the only reason to savor Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s smart, bracing, hugely enjoyable mystery rural noir Top of the Lake, which premieres on the Sundance Channel on Monday, March 18. But that pale-to-radiant instrument of hers — a mouth that suggests her…

The Call Movie Review: Halle Berry Goes All Clarice Starling

Unlike many fledgling web series that use broad comedic strokes to up the laughs per second, faux-vlogging gem My Bastard Son combines the naturalistic acting of shows like The Office with absurd circumstances and very specific characters. The grainy, five-minute video shows James Urbaniak (American Splendor) trying to connect with…

If there was one standout moment during the 30th installment of the Miami International Film Festival, it was Darlene Love’s performance of “Lean on Me” that followed the opening-night screening of Twenty Feet From Stardom, the documentary about back-up singers in which she is featured. (We’ve already written about how…

The Perfect Storm author Sebastian Junger was in town last week for his Miami International Film Festival screening of Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?, his documentary about his fellow war reporter and Restrepo codirector, Tim Hetherington, who died in combat in Libya almost two years ago. Though…

Drone surveillance has been a controversial topic in South Florida ever since the Miami Beach Police Department acquired its own drone in 2010. The Florida Senate is inching toward outlawing the use of drones for police surveillance. But what about for surveillance of reality stars? The producers of The Real…

Sometimes, Mother Nature creates genetic specimens so perfect that “Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?” isn’t a pick-up line; it’s just a valid question. Such is the case with Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry and heartthrob Morris Chestnut in their newest flick, The Call. The dazzling duo costars in…

No one who has regularly attended the Miami International Film Festival during its 30 years will argue against the choice of Fernando Trueba for a career tribute award. The Oscar-winning director has repeatedly debuted well-regarded films at MIFF from as far back as 1986 with El año de las luces…