If you weren’t totally rabid with adrenaline — T-stepping through the end zone, starting fistfights at the cineplex, throwing coke-powered countdown parties, hiring strippers like Tipdrill and Spyda for lunchtime lapdances, running naked across campus — in the run-up to ESPN’s December premiere of Rakontur’s documentary The U, then you…
Inception, a self-important picture, tries to get inside our heads
Peter Pan complexes collide in black comedy Cyrus
We really shouldn’t be telling you this, but heads up, tens of readers. Tomorrow night, you could star in your very own animation. Miami World Cinema Center’s Spencer Morin will conduct a covert, live animation at the hipster lounge Cafeina.Morin will sneakily capture images of the bar crowd, which he…
We don’t know what will surprise you more — the dancing, flickering images bouncing off the oak trees at Legion Park or the fact that there are actually people in a Miami-Dade park. This Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m., experimental film lovers and curious passersby will swarm the park…
A graduate of University of Miami’s Marine Biology program, Aki Shiroza is now a researcher who works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But he’s also an artist. So when he recently ventured to the Gulf to document the onboard activities of NOAA’s Gordon Gunter, which was in…
Last week, Larry King announced that he’ll end Larry King Live at the ripe age of 178. Nah, just kidding. He’s only 134. Anyway, we’ve only just come out of our shocked stupor and stumbled across this TV clip from the 1960s starring King, which reminds us that the suspender-wearing…
Miami can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to being associated with gun violence. The above short film is “Debrief,” voted Best Film of the Miami Film Race 2010, where two hit men have to figure out a way to hit their mark, a shut-in. The national Film…
Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: The third chapter in the saga serves fans and the brand
Despicable Me: Childish, funny 3-D delights
I Am Love: Tilda Swinton’s got to be free
Exit Through the Gift Shop: A doc about street art, sort of, brought to you by a graffiti ninja, kind of
Knight and Day: Tom Cruise, please stop talking
For the fifth time in a decade, Miami International Film Festival is in the market for a new festival director after choosing not to renew Tiziana Finzi’s contract. A festival insider from Italy with a reputation for discovering new cinema talent, she was hired in 2009. For 2010’s festival, she…
Toy Story 3: In its third installment, Pixar’s juggernaut turns morose
Please Give: Liberal guilt’s got soul
Mother and Child grapples with adoption but glosses over abortion
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: Jake Gyllenhaal goes to the gym but can’t beef up this flick
First off, forgive us for not having the budget to upgrade this summer movie preview to 3-D. Rest assured, there are plenty of eye-popping (brain-numbing?) epics in the preview list that follows, but to our pleasure and surprise, there is a surplus of attention-worthy 2-D flicks too. Happy summer, movie…
Robin Hood rails against the tax-and-spend Nottingham elite
Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn’t mean it’s good
