Football is back, damn it. So prepare to spend your entire weekend busy doing nothing but sinking lower and lower into your lazyboy — so deep that your skin fuses to the leather and you need a spatula (grab the one you’ve been using to scoop nachos into your mouth)…
Although California artist Brian Bess won Optic Nerve XIII this year and had his short purchased by MOCA, it was local artist Karlo Andrei Ibarra who took home the Audience Winner Favorite. In his video work Crossover, he filmed Puerto Ricans singing America’s national anthem. Spoiler alert: They get it wrong…
If you feel the need to be seen in South Florida, there is a very good chance you went out last night for Fashion’s Night Out. The basis of the evening was to help the economy by shopping for overpriced goods, but all we saw was a lot of drinking…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. The 36th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Queen Bee film festival of the Americas, kicked off yesterday with 300+ films vying for attention from press, industry and…
Just a couple of days out from the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 and you’ve already started to see what we can only expect will be full out patriotic pomp and circumstance the likes of which we might never have seen before. And deservedly so. The day changed all of…
Paul Isaac, of local New Wave-inflected foursome People From Venus, is best known around town as a rock frontman. But close followers of the band might have noticed that his and the other members’ artistic aspirations have always seemed to extend beyond just music. Everything People From Venus does is…
Contagion: Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head
MMA flick Warrior holds the audience in an emotional arm bar
3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy at Coral Gables Art Cinema
You know how the skin’s pores open up in the extreme humidity, like in saunas. Well that must be where all the sex is coming from in Miami. Because it’s literally pouring out of the city. Need proof? Check out our sex survey. Or, just look toward Hollywood. We produce…
Newsflash: Cultist is guilty of watching reality trash television like Jersey Shore and Real Housewives. But what y’all don’t know about us is that we’re also die-hard Jeopardy fans. Not only does is our DVR programed to record new episode of Basketball Wives, it’s also programed to record America’s favorite…
On the first Labor Day Weekend we can remember sans Jerry Lewis’s fat face simulcast across network television, the other Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy, was blowing up the Internet rumor mill. No, the 50-year actor didn’t give some street walking tranny a ride home, nor did he impregnate another Spice…
Ten episodes and two reunions later, its hard to believe that our beloved Basketball Wives has come to an end. Watching all the ladies, even Eric Williams and his teeth, had become a great start to our workweek. And while the new series, Basketball Wives LA, will do their best…
A scary movie is nothing but a pattern; a circumstantial plot that moves from one point to the next,systematically taking its viewers into a familiar world. In one version the chick might be the hero, while in another she’s the victim. There are serial killers and ghosts, and there’s always…
After summer 2010, the city of Miami Beach will never be the same. Not only did the Bad Girls Club take over our city, those Jersey Shore kids did too. If there was ever hope that we would never hear the phrase, “I’m in Miami, Bitch,” ever again, they ruined…
Poor Daryl Hannah. Not only is her first name a boy’s name, but she just got arrested at an environmental White House protest. Cut her some slack, guys. Clearly she’s confused her real life with her life as a mermaid in Ron Howard’s 1984 film Splash and was just trying…
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy: Gen X gets the sexual revolution it deserves
The Future: Miranda July grows up
Truffaut and Godard rise in Two in the Wave
The country’s fascination with Scarface runs deep. Maybe it’s Al Pacino’s over the top Cuban accent, maybe it’s the allure of the city’s drug running culture, or maybe it’s a young Michelle Pfeiffer slinking around in sequin dresses. Who knows, the point is America loves Scarface and will show its…
With kids going back to school this week, we adults have one, and only one thought: We hope you’re learning something because traffic totally sucks. And it doesn’t just suck because there are more parents out on the road, it also sucks because there’s more teen drivers out on the…
According to Deadline, singer-actress Christina Milian is in negotiations to star in a new ABC Family sitcom set in South Florida. Titled Maid in Miami, the new show is in development by Rita Rocks creators Stan Zimmerman and James Berg, and Glee executive music producer Adam Anders. Millian will play…
