So very much went down on last night’s Basketball Wives episode, we’re not sure where to start. First, it is kind of insane that Shaunie O’neal and Gloria Govan hate each other so much. Well, Gloria hates everyone, but the mother of the pack, Shaunie, seems to be cool with…
Half the country will watch the Super Bowl on February 6 to see if the Pittsburgh Steelers kick the cheese out of the Green Bay Packers. The other half? They watch to see the commercials. And to see whether the $24 million Anheiser-Busch is spending for its 8 30-second commercials…
Chris Riley, AKA the Miami Heat President’s wife, said being a basketball wife is harder than being an actual player. Well, if that’s true, we wonder what its like to be a basketball girlfriend. Maybe it’s like the saying, “all guts, no glory.” You get the money and fame but…
Juan Carlos Valdivia’s Southern District (Zona Sur), which won Sundance awards for directing and screenwriting, opens at the Coral Gables Art Cinema tonight. It’s is a subtle film that comments on Bolivia’s dissolving upper class seen through the seemingly scattered lives of an affluent La Paz family. Matriarch Carola is…
Another Year, the tenth feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), the happiest post-middle-aged married couple in the whole of the London suburbs. Heading into their fifth decade together, Tom and Gerri are healthy…
The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession as a major plot-point. This doesn’t mean the subject is wrung out — its continuing resonance with audiences hasn’t been effaced by secular pop psychology or modernization within…
The late Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in the manner of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, with a mad helping of Joseph Heller. So it comes as a big letdown that director Richard J. Lewis (who made Whale Music…
There’s not a Sunday night that goes by that as we watch VH1’s show Basketball Wives we don’t wonder: Why is it called that? None, literally not one of the women on the show is actually a basketball wife. So we wondered, what is it like to be the mate…
Okay, so maybe we’re a little tardy for the party on this one but Cultist did a double take when we saw longtime Miami bad boy Thomas Kramer cavorting with no other than Kim Zolciak from the Real Housewives of Atlanta earlier this week (we only caught the repeat, the…
The 83rd Annual Academy Award nominations were announced today. The King’s Speech (which was quite exceptional) leads the pack with 12 nominations. But the real story of the day is the Academy’s snubbing of Christopher Nolan as Best Director for Inception. And while The Social Network and True Grit were…
The Sundance Film Festival, which began January 20 and ends January 30, self-identifies as a “discovery festival,” meaning that it embraces its own legend of being a place where, over the course of a single screening, an unknown can transform into an industry-redefining star–even as that fantasy seems increasingly out…
Miami’s reputation continues to be smeared. We were recently voted fourth rudest city in America and third stupidest. (There’s more, but we refuse to list them all — too depressing). So be grateful for the PR boost by a couple of teenagers from Miami Beach Senior High. They won first…
To say last night’s episode of Basketball Wives was a cluster f*** of crazyness is an understatement. So very much went on. Where do we being? First, we want to start with the fact that VH1 is trying to push crappy Orlando off as Miami. And to be honest–we’re a…
Last August, we were interviewing one of our 100 Creatives, Spencer Morin, on the phone as he was working as a production assistant on a super secret show out in the Everglades. He wouldn’t tell us what is was, but we could have sworn we heard someone yell tripod or…
Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate, The Company Men is transparent in its ambition to capture The Way We Live Now from a sensitive, equitable — rather than a withering and satiric — point of view. Writer/director…
Dissolute action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), first seen doing laps in his black Ferrari, has no destination in Somewhere, Sofia Coppola’s mood ring of celebrity lassitude. Coppola’s fourth feature, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice this year, is, at times, similarly aimless and empty. But those who groan…
Fully devoid of the fantasy contrivance that often sets an Ivan Reitman film (Ghostbusters, Dave) in motion, NoStrings Attached is extremely narrow in focus: It’s “just” about two people in lust struggling to put away their respective baggage in order to have a real relationship with each other. Adam (Ashton…
It’s that time of year again. Miami International Film Festival time? Oh yeah (Film Lovers powers: activate!). The official lineup of the 28th Annual Miami International Film Festival (which runs from March 4-13, and which you can call MIFF, at the risk of sounding like a total pretentious film nerd…
We freaking abhor Glee! Phew. Finally, got that off our chests. That makes us feel a little better, but still nowhere near good enough considering Glee was on last night. And it’s only been a couple nights since it took home its latest trove of awards from the Golden Globes…
We scored a sneak peek of All Good Things, which opens at Coral Gables Art Cinema this weekend. And we haven’t seen something this uplifting since Capturing the Friedmans, the 2003 documentary about child molestation. Andrew Jarecki directed both, but Good Things is his first foray into fiction. Well, not…
Sixty Jews recently meet at a Utah resort to discuss what it means to be Jewish in 2011. The identity summit, Reboot, included some notable pop culture makers (Jenji Kohan, creator of “Weeds,” and Ben Greenman, an editor at The New Yorker). One its founders Rachel Levin told the New…
Good news. Rakontur, the Miami-based media studio founded by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben, is debuting its film Square Grouper at the South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW). The bad news: SXSW is in Austin, Texas, so unless you are planning to attend you’ll have to wait a bit longer…
