Bridesmaids, which opens this weekend, is a high-profile test case. Directed by Paul Feig (Freaks and Geeks creator), it’s the first female-fronted comedy produced by Hollywood kingpin Judd Apatow, who has weathered criticism in the past for his brand’s dude-centric point of view. It’s also built around the talents of…
One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which opens at Coral Gables Art Cinema, documents a secret wonder of the world, the Chauvet cave–a subterranean gallery of 300 animal images discovered in 1994 in the South of France.Twice as old as the…
We love it when we hear that some established Hollywood bigwig was actually was born in Miami and grew up here before they moved on to find riches and success. It’s even better when that same person comes back to the city with a project in tow that has the…
We’ve been talking quite a bit about La Pageant Diva around Cultist lately. The short film was screened at the Borscht Film Festival to much audience hollering, screeching, and giggling. One of the stars and the co-writer of the production, Giovanni Profera, is the self-proclaimed Bruno of Miami. But we…
After more than a decade of high-profile Hollywood reboots, the shelves at Marvel and DC are starting to look empty. First came the obvious candidates: comic book vigilantes like Batman and Daredevil transformed seamlessly into action/crime anti-heroes. Then came teen idol Spider-Man, social-pariah supergroup the X-Men, righteous rageaholic Hulk, and…
Of Gods and Men: Monks persevere despite terror attacks
Something Borrowed: Sloppy seconds
Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Werner Herzog’s 3-D excursion
“The circus is tough and beautiful,” says a talking head in Aaron Schock’s documentary on the small, struggling, family-owned Circo Mexico. It’s an apt description of the film itself, which opens tomorrow at O Cinema. It’s a riveting patchwork of interconnected dramas that include difficult in-laws, arguments about money and…
Great news, spinsters, VH1’s Tough Love is back! Premiering at 9 p.m. on July 10th, the reality show centers around a batch of relationship-challenged women who go to a “Tough Love Boot Camp” where Steve Ward tells them all about themselves in a bad way. And for Tough Love’s third…
If nothing else, “Nine Nation Animation,” which opens at Coral Gables Art Cinema this weekend, proves that there’s a lot more to the animator’s art than either the cutting-edge ultra-realism of Pixar or the flat functionality of sitcoms like The Simpsons. The nonet of brief films on display in the…
La Pageant Diva, whether you think it was warranted or not, received the loudest cheer at the Borscht Film Festival. The hilarious satire of glamor, beauty pageantry, and celebrity obsession parodied such movies as Black Swan and The Birdcage. It stood out when juxtaposed against some of the more artsy, complicated work of…
We’re still basking in the awesome afterglow of Borscht 7. Perhaps one of the smartest moves the Borscht crew made that night was starting the show with Piratas, Julian Rodriguez’s film about his beloved boat nearly being stolen by canal pirates.The film, which includes Julian running down the streets in…
Movies stay with you. Horror flicks scare, rom-coms mold our ideas of love, and dramas tear at our hearts. Filmmakers are aware of the impact that they have on the human psyche and that’s what they feed off of.But it’s that select group of films that forever stays with us…
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock takes on the ad industry in The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Finding (fake?) love in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy
In a Better World, where displaced tykes and bullies abound
Something’s not a meme until it’s sold on Etsy, right? At least that’s how we judge it (see our Human Centipede and Charlie Sheen handmade roundups). So consider us proud parents as the ladies of Real Housewives of Miami are now immortalized on the indie goods site. David Gilmore, the…
Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy opens at Miami Beach Cinematheque and Cosford this weekend. The Iranian modernist’s first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema. It’s a romantic, sun-dappled Voyage to Italy with a Before Sunset structure and Marienbad backbeat, not to…
Hollywood is bloated and slow. It takes those bozos months, if not years, to shoot a movie. They’re still using dial up, when the Borscht Film Festival has gone over to fiber optic. It took many of the Borscht boys less than a month to put together finished films which…
Being on a reality show gives you the right to do a lot of things. First off, make a lot of money. Second, you get the perfect platform to run your mouth on whomever and whatever you want. Well, not if you’re Royce Reed. You know Reed as the tiny…
Tonight, the seventh floor of the 1111 Lincoln Road garage will be transformed into a post-modern drive-in for the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The Made in Miami event includes world premieres of Max Emerson’s short films Earwig and DipSpit. The two mark Emerson’s writing and directing debut. A…
