Film, TV & Streaming

Lebanon: The best movie of the year

Machete: Robert Rodriguez’s latest is LOL-funny

The Tillman Story sets the record straight

Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. 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…

We’ve got a lot of questions. Like … Are we the only ones willing to listen to how fucking dumb Kristen is because of all the crazy-funny shit she says? Is Dirty D an actual ex-heroin addict or is she just faking it to be a Debbie Downer? Or when…

You might not know it. But there are approximately two billion and a half film aficionados who’d argue that creator-actor-writer-director-producer Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is a cinematic masterpiece full of raw human emotion that explodes across the screen in supernovas of beauty, soul, and specialness. Hahaha … I lied. If…

Last night, Jimmy Fallon hosted the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, and he got about as many laughs as Hurricane Katrina, which hit five years ago yesterday. Relying on a guitar, “funny” songs, and tweets from random Emmy viewers, Fallon once again proved to be the Keanu Reeves of comedy…

This weekend, James Cameron re-released his multi-million dollar epic film Avatar in 3-D theaters. This is great news for James Cameron, because people are determined to fork over their cash for nine additional minutes of tail sex and a chance to relive a grandiose robbery of time. In 3-D!But let’s…

While we had MIFF’s new director, Jaie Laplante, on the horn last week, verifying his role in Frisk, we also asked him how he characterizes Miami’s film tastes and which films he ranks among his personal favorites.A native of Alberta, Canada who holds a BFA in film production from Toronto’s…

A traditional animator is someone who spends hours meticulously moving objects frame by frame. Meanwhile, computer animation makes poor souls hunch over their screens for hours at a time, staring at a graphic. Last night, Spencer Morin and his crew used both methods at the second Animiami Kick-Off Party. Over…

When we heard about the new director for the Miami International Film Festival, we treated him like an ex-boyfriend and googled him. That’s how we found out that a Jaie Laplante played the former lover of a gay serial killer in Frisk. The 1996 film was based on a Dennis…

A tip for aspiring weed spokesmen: Don’t smoke a sweet fatty before recording your national YouTube address. Stay straight! Respectable folks already think you’re a degenerate stoner who lives with his parents and laughs at his hands all day. You might be a smart, motivated young man. But the only…

We don’t know about you, but pretty much anything on Bravo completely takes over our DVRs. Bravo is the best friend a reality junkie could have. I mean, yes, they’ve betrayed us before with poor choices in programming (NYC Prep, Work of Art, Miami Social…we could go on and on)…

Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. 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…

If you dig satanists, blind albinos, and Mick Jagger, then you’ll absolutely love Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother. Made in the very dark year of 1969, it’s an awesomely evil 11-minute masterpiece that stars Anger, Anton LaVey (AKA the High Priest of the Church of Satan), Charlie Manson…

Flipped: Rob Reiner’s coming-of-age love story

The Last Exorcism: Trembling before God and the handheld camera

Who’s ready for the scenester version of Where’s Waldo? These Joaquin Phoenix posters have been popping up in select cities with the pacing of a movie release. First they hit New York and Los Angeles, then Chicago and Boston, and as of this weekend, they’ve appeared in our very own…

We start off this episode with the great news that Kristen isn’t going home. When she does her walk of shame into the house, she looks pretty wrecked, obviously hung over as balls, and we have to love her for it. Here’s a shocker: Erica’s pissed to see her back…

Bad Girls Club Miami is the gift that keeps on giving. With so many fights, drunken moments, and girls with daddy issues, it forces us to tune in week after week. And just when you think it can’t get any better/worse: It’s about to.Listen up, Bad Girl fans: The house…

In its ever rotating cast of administrators, the Miami International Film Festival has named a new director, Jaie Laplante. The last director Tiziana Finzi’s contract was not renewed with little explanation as to why, just a phoned-in “caio.” Her 2010 programming included big hits like The Secret in Their Eyes,…

Coconut Grove resident and former Miami Seaquarium trainer Ric O’Barry recently starred in the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, which captured the fight to stop dolphin slaughter in Japan. It was brutal to watch, from the sonic-bullying bangs of Japanese fisherman, to hearing O’Barry describe how Flipper committed suicide in his…