Six People We Would Cast in South Florida’s Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad,  the third installment of the DC Extended Universe series, hits theaters this weekend; and we’re super-pumped (crappy reviews be damned!). So pumped, in fact, that we decided play the part of the film’s secret government agency and create our own antihero team made up entirely of South Florida people…

The Little Prince Gets Expanded Onscreen, but Not Corrupted

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, published in 1943, might stand as a children’s classic, but it’s not-so-secretly a story for grown-ups. Kids have long been drawn to the book’s dreamy sense of wonder, to the golden-haired star-child of the title, but Saint-Exupéry’s ruminations on regret, solitude and loss belong…

The Ten Best TV Shows Set in Miami

Think back on all of the best or most-talked-about shows of the past few decades: The Sopranos. Seinfeld. Mad Men. Nearly all take place in New York City. But how often do you hear about a show set in Miami? Is it not a city worth writing about? Sure, it…

On the Screen, Roth’s Indignation Only Fitfully Comes to Spiteful Life

Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…

Das Jackboot: Don’t Sleep on Netflix’s NSU: German History X

You can have your houses of cards, your Jessica Joneses, your wet hot American summers. The Netflix original with its finger firmest on the pulse of our fraught current moment? It comes from Germany, comprises three feature-length “episodes,” and commences its tale more than a quarter-century ago. NSU: Germany History…

Drawn to Misery: BoJack Horseman‘s Third Season Is Its Best Yet

Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets…

Rhonda Mitrani’s Supermarket: A Comedy About Unplanned Pregnancy

“A supermarket transforms into a universe about pregnancy when a preoccupied woman dashes in and discovers she’s pregnant with no way out.” To anyone who unfortunate enough to land in this situation, it probably sounds like a nightmare. But in her short film Supermarket, filmmaker Rhonda Mitrani intends to turn unplanned…

Viggo Mortensen Is a Flower-Power Survivalist in Captain Fantastic

Don’t let the publicity photos of the ensemble cast clad in ’70s-era tuxes and flower-child dresses, or even the cloying Mumford-mimicking soundtrack on the trailer, fool you: Captain Fantastic ain’t some twee, cutesy Wes Anderson romp or a Little Miss Sunshine knockoff. This dramedy marking the feature debut of longtime…

Eat That Question Sifts Through Frank Zappa’s Cosmik Debris

Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and…

Sci-Fi Romance Equals Is a Nothing Movie About a Nothing World

The futuristic dystopia of the arty sci-fi romance Equals will be familiar to anyone who’s seen the likes of Gattaca, The Island or THX 1138. It’s a cool, rational, lifeless world, blanketed in whites and grays and blues, and peopled with unfeeling faces — a world whose citizens will express…