One of the best things about writing for the New Times and Cultist in particular is they let you write curse words, like a motherfucker. But we try not to abuse the privilege. We respect. Fucking-a we do. But still, it’s pretty great to know that unlike the rest of…
Miami’s foremost documentarian, Rakontur’s Billy Corben, has had a busy couple of weeks. Since news of Nevin Shapiro’s alleged improprieties with University of Miami football players broke last week, Corben has become the de facto spokesperson for everything related to UM scandal – and really, who better than the guy…
Ever heard the phrase, “If you want the truth, go to the source?” Well, it’s something we try to live by here at Cultist. So as we watched the Basketball Wives reunion Monday night on VH1, many questions came to our mind that host John Salley just couldn’t seem to…
Cheech and Chong, The Dude, Smokey, Jay, Kumar. These are some of the great heroes of weed movie history. You can add Yugo and Super Dave to that list. They are Miami’s own killer bud-smoking, Yugoslav rap bro, and Kentucky redneck answer to the stoner film genre. They’re raising money…
Our Idiot Brother: Paul Rudd’s long-haired dreamer imparts life lessons
The Interrupters, opening Friday at the Cosford and MBC, gets between the bodies and the guns
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Here are a few names we want to throw at you: Travis Barker & Moakler, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, Hulk and Linda Hogan. Yes, they are all famous, but they all have fallen victim to the putting-your-life-on-reality-TV curse. Meet two people that have made it work flawlessly: Bill and…
Is there such a thing as sincerely calculated naiveté? Or put another way, does Miranda July have any idea how annoying she is? Judging by The Future, writer/filmmaker/performance artist July’s second feature, I’d guess she must. A fabricator of her own screen image, July — the high priestess of quirk –…
What do you call a film that features three-dimensional beheadings, countless veiled “money shots,” kitschy romantic montages, in-your-face flying mule dicks, and eyeball-busting bouncing boobs? We’d call it the film equivalent of a cheap mixed bag of fun-size Hershey’s chocolate bars — lots of short-lived thrills and variety that make…
If you slapped bikinis on Real Housewives NeNe Leakes, Jill Zarin, and Melissa Gorga, shoved them into an inflatable kiddie pool full of jello, and told them to wrestle, who do you think would end up with the most weave still attached to their head? We’re sure Anderson Cooper would…
Oh, Basketball Wives. How we love you so. And our hearts grew fonder with the final installment of the two-part reunion special last night. Last week, we once again met host John Salley and everyone discussed the Eric Williams drink throwing in full. We also learned that Meeka Claxton thinks…
Fans of reality shows about fraternal twins and sextuplets (and titles that rhyme) were dealt a stunning blow this month as TLC finally canceled Kate Plus 8. In the wake of this tragedy, one wonders what Kate Gosselin will do next to stay relevant. Luckily, we’ve formed a list of…
You’d be lying if you said you never enjoyed eating a can of something like SpaghettiO’sin front of the TV watching a movie, maybe like Maid in Manhattan. Just leaned back on the couch, wearing nothing but undies and a Churchill’s tank top, and thought: now this, this is the…
Juan de los Muertos or Juan of the Dead. Even the title elicits a smile. The concept does even more – a full-fledged zombie (communists?) flick produced on the island of Cuba, by Cubans, with Cuban zombies in full make up and a protagonist that does the unthinkable — decides…
Jason Momoa brings brains and brawn to Conan the Barbarian 3D
Read our review “Conan the Barbarian reboot is bloody good.”
One Day is kitsch, not Hollywood melodrama
Conan the Barbarian reboot is bloody good
Turning a New York Times best seller into a movie is a daunting task. No director or star of a film wants to hear, “The book was better.” And Octavia Spencer, one of the stars of the new novel turned screenplay The Help, has absolutely nothing to worry about.Getting her…
August is half over, and while usually this means we get a little melancholic about the end of summer, it’s always comforting to know that the fall TV season is just around the corner. No show is getting more buzz than NBC’s The Playboy Club, a ’60s look back at…
When somebody mentions Brazil, it probably reminds you that you need to schedule either a waxing appointment or a vacation. Though the country’s film scene might not be the first thing that pops into your mind, Brazilian film has been thriving for years and continues to do so. And when…
No matter if you’re a Real Housewives or even a Real World fan, if you watch reality TV, your favorite part of the season is probably the reunion. Why? Because all the drama is brought out onto the table. And no one does it better than Basketball Wives on VH1.Last night…
