Cocaine Cowboys Cast Reunites at O Cinema

The Rakontur 10th anniversary celebration continued last night at O Cinema, at an event bringing together some of the biggest names from Cocaine Cowboys, the company’s 2006 documentary chronicling Miami’s drug trade.Author Edna Buchanan, West Miami police chief Nelson Andreu, Sam Burstyn, Raul Diaz, and attorney Sam Rabin were all…

Are Gabrielle Anwar and Shareef Malnik Secretly Engaged?

There we were, standing on the red carpet at Lea and Roy Black’s Annual Black Gala at the Fontainebleau, interviewing reality star after reality star in the hopes of getting some juicy scoop. Things were looking dismal; so far, every celebrity we talked to had only lovely, sober things to…

Rakontur Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With Racy Frat House Footage

Rakontur kicked off its 10th anniversary retrospective at O Cinema last night with Raw Deal: A Question of Consent, the renegade Miami film-making duo’s first and, some say, most controversial documentary.Though the boys of Rakontur are most famous for Cocaine Cowboys, the lesser-known Raw Deal played to a mostly full…

Miami’s Indie Film Club Gives Movie Makers (and Lovers) a Home

It’s Wednesday night, and 60 adult booties are planted firmly against a hard gallery floor in Wynwood. No, they are not part of an experimental art installation. They’re spectators at the Indie Film Club Miami’s monthly get-together, which spotlights the work of local film types, this time in the Alejandra…

Hunger Games Stars on Training, Crazy Fans, and Peeta-philia

Unless you forcibly blinded and deafened yourself after the onslaught of Twilight paraphernalia over the past couple of years, you’ve likely heard the nationwide shrieking of tween girls that signals the approach of The Hunger Games film release date (March 23). But don’t let the Harry Potter-sized hype fool you…

Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain Prepares to Film on Biscayne… We Think

Sorry, celebrity stalkers — we’ve had no official sightings of multibillion-dollar Transformers franchise director and part-time Miami Beach resident Michael Bay, nor have we seen any member of the the A-list cast he has assembled for Paramount Pictures’ Miami-based black comedy Pain and Gain, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne “The Rock”…

Borscht Film Festival Now Accepting Submissions

Attention, Miami filmmakers: Your city’s funkiest, most 305-inspired film festival wants your work.Submissions are now open for the eighth year of the Borscht Film Festival, scheduled for the end of 2012. And if you have a film in the works — or even just an idea for a film –…