Film, TV & Streaming

Wall Street: Oliver Stone’s sequel lets the bad guys off easy

Legend of the Guardians: 3-D CGI that would make Pixar blush

​On last night’s Bad Girls Club, Miss Kayleigh gets back to Miami safe and sound after fleeing Jamaica. When the other roomies arrive home and see she’s still in the house, they’re not exactly pleased. They start raiding the house ensues and chanting how dirty she is. We understand because…

Cage passing a kidney stone – we mean acting.​​​Over the years, Miami has served as the backdrop for hundreds of Hollywood movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyard. During pre-production on 8MM, director Joel Shumacher (the man who ruined the Batman movie…

CBS Broadcasting IncBrenda Lowe, Miami gal on Survivor​When you think of Survivor you think of extreme weather, heat, beaches, and pure drama. Kind of sounds like a normal day here in Miami. Which is why we know our hometown girl, Brenda Lowe, is going to absolutely kill it this season…

“Scenic Jogging”​CBS News reports that a video by our hometown heroes — Borscht filmmakers and performance artist Jillian Mayer — has been shortlisted for the Guggenheim’s YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. That means that out of 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, their short film was among the 125…

via abc.comYep, this was the scene that finally got us weeping.​The Event, which premiers tonight, has been marketed as the next Lost. So what is The Event about? If you’re asking yourself that question, the powers that be already have you by the balls. Let us save you six years…

Flickr Alan Light​There are a few names that if mentioned anywhere in the world, people will know who you are talking about: Jesus, Madonna (both the mother of Jesus and the music artist,) George Bush, Michael Jackson. And let’s not forget the Queen of  Daytime TV: Oprah Winfrey. As her…

The Muvico theater in Hialeah, a 14-screen place that’s been around for 14 years, will close for a multimillion renovation. The dowdy building on West 49th Street has long been a draw for Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens residents. The new design, according to CEO Neil Bretan, will include “more than…

In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyard. Oh, those Farrelly brothers! They do love to shoot in our fair city, don’t they? Five years after filming There’s Something About Mary, Bobby and Peter came back and brought Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon with…

Flickr CC CloudzillaA kitty with a vanity problem.​Sure, the rest of country spent a summer of bad TV frolicking outside in their low-humidity backyards. Meanwhile, here in Miami, sweat pooled in the most unmentionable of places so we spent most of days indoors, channel surfing awful reruns. The only passable…

The Town: Ben Affleck and his bank robber role

Easy A: Scarlet Letter-inspired teen comedy

Kristen gets sloppy in Jamaica.​Yay! Bad Girls Club Miami is back! How we went a week without this show, we have no idea. The ladies headed out of town in last night’s episode. Why did no one send any of the Bad Girls to Hedonism II before? Sluts + encouraged…

​Here’s something to chew on: Know why the murder rate took a sudden dip in the 90s? No, it wasn’t stricter gun control laws or more police presence. The lower murder rate was a direct result of legalizing abortion in 1973. According to the authors of bestseller Freakonomics, criminals are…

Who the F@#k is Eric Cloutier? Where the F@#K is Wynwood?​Eric Cloutier first showed up on the New Times radar back during the Wynwood Art Walk of June 2008. He was running Chrome Art Gallery and appeared in a video interview for the blog. Since then we’ve seen him pushing…

This is Miami. There’s a level of gratuitous sex that’s part of everyday life. Whether its bumping and grinding (and let’s face it, dry humping) in a club or coming dangerously close to being groped by a frisky group of tranny street-walkers on the Metrorail, there’s no escaping the lewd…

courtesy of IFC FilmsHuman Centipede’s evildoer.​Forget Silence of the Lambs. Now there’s a movie that’s trumps all existing worst case scenarios if you find yourself kidnapped. The Human Centipede is a recent Dutch horror film where captive tourists are sewn together, mouth to anus. We refuse to write those two…

Life During Wartime: A Miami backdrop to Todd Solondz’s latest

Mademoiselle Chambon: French love triangle

Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the ’20s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…

First, Leonardo DiCaprio started driving a Prius, then M. Night Shyamalan wrote a movie about trees killing people, and now the green movement has finally invaded Miami moviemaking. The cinephiles that founded the Borscht Film Festival are pledging to go green when they start filming their shorts this winter, which…