What do you call a narrative whose imperfections — OK, more like distracting flaws — line up one-to-one with those of its central character? There’s probably a German word for it, some octosyllabic monster better spat than spoken, deployed only when grad students kibitz about the particular strangeness of a…
When the late malevolent right-wing carny Andrew Breitbart provides your sole positive character reference out of nearly a dozen people speaking about you — some of whom were once your best friends — you might want to rethink your existence. In director Jamie Meltzer’s mesmerizing documentary Informant, Brandon Darby —…
“I don’t get asked questions about stripping anymore — which is a relief,” beams Diablo Cody. Understandably. Cody spent one year on the pole, and a whole lot longer on her knees at a Roman Catholic school, where the priests had old-world accents and made young Diablo attend mass before…
Kimberly Peirce changes almost nothing in her rallying remake of Brian De Palma’s classic about a troubled telekinetic teenager. She doesn’t have to. Yes, now the mean girls who pelt Carrie with tampons upload a cell phone video of the attack, and the well-meaning jock who squires the school outcast…
The doctor is in. Or will be, anyway, come this Friday. For the first time in 25 years, a former Doctor Who will touch down in Miami to meet with Whovians, sign mini versions of the TARDIS, and generally regale us with geeky glee. The seventh doctor himself (Sylvester McCoy)…
What’s illegal at Disneyland? Dogs, drugs, alcohol, pamphlets, flags and large coolers. Not listed? Secretly shooting a feature-length movie. But Disneyland couldn’t have imagined director Randy Moore would have the courage to film Escape From Tomorrow on location — and that it would be so horny. In the black-and-white theme…
As art house theaters go, our little Coral Gables Art Cinema is quite the charmer. And while they’ve garnered lots of local acclaim over the years (including Best Of awards from this publication), they’ve remained relatively bereft of national attention. But no more. The artsy outpost has finally earned its…
America may not have a functional government, a decent public transportation system, or a healthy collective BMI. But one thing we do have is talent in spades. And America’s Got Talent will be looking for their latest and greatest in Miami on October 26 and 27. Unlike lots of talent-based…
You’d think that the same strategies you use against the Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl would serve you well when negotiating the abundance of foreign film festivals that come to Miami. But stitching breadstick-shaped pockets inside your coat won’t help you this week when the 2013 Miami Italian Film…
There are definitely some geeks out there who are worried about Zero Charisma. Does the movie take a lot of cheap shots, or does it for once accurately show what it’s like to be a geek? Zero Charisma is more of a nuanced character study than a broad comedy, and…
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Herman Cain rhapsodized about the fence he’d build on the U.S.-Mexico border: 20 feet tall with barbed wire, electricity, and a moat. “And I would put those alligators in that moat!” he cheered. For Machete Kills, Robert Rodriguez built that fence but left…
After Tiller Visits the Last Three Clinics Performing Late-Term Abortions
Tom Hanks has built a career out of playing aggressively noble roles, so it’s only natural to want to see him taken down a peg. But it’s no fun to watch him suffer at the hands of Somali pirates in Paul Greengrass’s true-life adventure Captain Phillips. Hanks plays the commander…
Sometimes it’s the little things in a movie that get you. Early in George Tillman Jr.’s The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, a bright but obstreperous 13-year-old inner-city kid — the Mister of the title, played by Skylan Brooks — bounces back from the trauma of getting an F…
Something’s seemed different about No. 1 American action hero Bruce Willis lately. His action movie output in recent years has mostly been stunt casting in mediocre sequels (The Expendables 2, G.I. Joe: Retaliation), or supporting roles in little-seen B-movies (Setup, Catch .44, Fire with Fire), as if he’s in a…
© 2013 – Troublemaker StudiosTrejo in Machete Kills.In this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss Captain Phillips and Machete Kills, both out on Friday, October 11…
I’m pretty sure the dumbest way to die is killing yourself upon discovering that faking your own death has tricked your forbidden lover into his or her own suicide. The second might be to get gutted in one of the jumbled, perfunctory sword fights that clang up the streets of…
A fragmented, self-important film noir veneration of a Hollywood icon; that’s Meditation, Creativity, Peace. Though the Eat, Pray, Love-esque title might imply that it’s a movie that champions positive personal gain through meditation, it instead only seems to advocate one thing: David Lynch. As part of III Points Festival this…
The parking was limited at the studio warehouse where Magic City was filmed, but that didn’t stop the cars from filling up the lot and parking along the street in order to get a piece of the live auction Saturday and Sunday. Playing on a flat screen TV (certainly not…
Mornin’, Miami! Did you party too hard at III Points this weekend? Drink your sorrows away after the Dolphins’ loss yesterday? Or do you just hate mornings? If you’re dragging this a.m., then congratulations — you have something in common with Miley Cyrus. On Saturday Night Live last weekend, Cyrus…
Perhaps the best and worst thing about young teenagers is that they’re capable of what George W. Bush fans used to call “great moral clarity.” In HBO’s sure-to-make-you-bawl documentary Valentine Road, Aliyah, a student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, breaks down the differences between gayness and…
GravityOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek both praise Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock), saying the director exhibits a “lovely human touch” with the film, which is set in space, and that it’s “so different than anything else…
