To age brutishly is Liam Neeson’s apparent career goal — with Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, and now Unknown, the actor continues to follow the Nicolas Cage path from respected thespian to big-budget ass-kicker. In this tepid thriller from Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan), Neeson is Dr. Martin Harris, who,…
Bhutto111 minutes. Not rated. 7 p.m. Friday, February 18 through February 20, at Bill Cosford Cinema, 1111 Memorial Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-4861; cosfordcinema.com. Tickets cost $9 general admission, $7 for seniors, students, and UM alumni and employees, and are free for UM students.Duane Baughman’s nonfiction film pays reverential tribute to…
Long before Pam Anderson bounced down the beach in Baywatch, the original purveyors of jiggle TV were filming beautiful women running in Charlie’s Angels. And as bouncing bossoms never really go out of style, the lady crime fighter series is currently being remade by ABC. This time, however, the drama’s…
IBM’s Jeopardy! playing super computer Watson has had us glued to the TV screen the past few evenings. We are drawn out of curiosity: we wanted to see if human contestants can beat a computer and if this is what finally pushes Jeopardy past the Wheel of Fortune in the…
Attention nerds: The Wizard World Miami Comic Con is going down February 26 and 27 at the Miami Airport Convention Center. For fans of comic books, sci-fi, professional wrestling, and all sorts of other guilty pleasures, it’s an opportunity to step out of the proverbial nerd closet and openly embrace…
According to the Bruce Weber-penned obit in this morning’s New York Times, the “Trash Film King,” producer David F. Friedman, died yesterday on Valentine’s Day. Horror fans are wringing their ketchup-soaked hands as Friedman and director Herschell Gordon Lewis created the first ever splatter film, Blood Feast, filmed and set…
If you are lucky enough to have the sensational and spicy LOGO TV channel on your television set, the show to watch on Monday nights is Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Now in its third season, the show combines creativity, artistic expression, personality, and comedy. It puts all other competition reality…
Oh Basketball Wives, how we have missed you. The show came back last night after its hiatus bigger and better than ever. Royce Reed continues to confuse us. In the first five minutes of her trip, she explains that her throat feels like “golf balls with razor blades.” First, great…
We really had hoped to dislike America’s Next Top Model. Pretty girls with waifish proportions prancing down runways and being scored on their looks? In theory, we’re offended. In practice, we can’t look away. Here’s the thing: Top Model showed us that awkward girls with angular, almost grotesque features often…
Originally written by legendary French filmmaker Jacques Tati, The Illusionist, which opens in Miami this Friday, is a touchingly simple and beautifully drawn film by renowned animator Sylvian Chomet. When Tati died in 1982, he left behind the screenplay for The Illusionist, which he had intended to be shot in…
Originally written by legendary French filmmaker Jacques Tati, The Illusionist (not to be confused with the live-action Edward Norton film of the same name) is a touchingly simple and beautifully drawn film by renowned animator Sylvian Chomet. When Tati died in 1982, he left behind the screenplay for The Illusionist,…
In past years, the theatrical release of Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts has provided a fun peek into intriguing bite-sized cinema from across the globe. But for the 2011 edition, the series is at last making room for five nominated documentary shorts as well. Unfortunately, this year’s nonfiction crop largely…
Less than a month after announcing the world premiere of Miami-based Rakontur’s Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja would be shown at South By Southwest Film Festival, Wagner/ Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures announced that it had bought the film rights in a statement Tuesday. Terms of the deal include a…
We’re big fans of local filmmaker Andrew Hevia and his affiliated projects, whether it’s his raunchy web series The Adventures of a Sexual Miscreant or his work as one of the impresarios behind the increasingly influential Borscht Film Festival. So when the South By Southwest Film Festival announced it’s slate…
For years, we have been hearing rumors that Miami would finally get a Housewives franchise of our very own. Everyone from singer Gloria Estefan to PR Guru/Queen of the night Tara Solomon was rumored to be in the cast. Then, a couple of months back, Bravo officially confirmed that there…
Making a new marriage work is hard enough. Add a reality show to mix, and chances are you probably won’t even reach 8 years – the average length of first marriages. But we’re sure that won’t stop throngs of engaged couples from flocking to the Country Club of Coral Gables…
The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir about his recalcitrant German shepherd, My Dog Tulip, is one of the finest, most insightful chronicles of inter-species devotion. A complex love story, his book plumbs the inner lives of hounds: “I realized clearly…..
Inside Job, Charles Ferguson’s followup to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight, is a documentary that inspires sickening ire — 20 minutes into this lucid yet stupefying account of the 2008 global economic meltdown, my vision was clouded by the steam wafting from my ears. Inside Job makes…
Mark your calendars. The Borscht Film Festival announced the date and location for their next cinema fest: April 23rd at the Arsht Center. At last year’s, we saw working cuts of a flaneur’s stroll through Liberty City in “Day N Night Out,” which later screened at Cannes, and “Xemoland,” an…
There’s more than the one way to tell a story. The finalists in our next category of MasterMind awards spin yarns through dance, happenings, performance, theater, and cinema. And next week, on February 10, we’ll choose one the following three artists for a $1,500 genius grant during our annual Artopia…
Never trust somebody who doesn’t like dogs. Never. As well as being man’s best friend, they’re forgiving, generous and generally better people than people. So when you have a chance, make them feel special. That means showing up at Coral Gables Art Cinema this Friday at 6 p.m. as the…
In Mike Cahill’s Another Earth–a multiple prize-winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and one of two titles co-written by and starring the festival’s biggest break-out, Brit Marling–both hope and anxiety follow the discovery of Earth 2, a planet on which each resident of our globe has a doppelgänger living…
