The latest Hollywood promotion to roll through South Florida is also one of its creepiest. And considering that it involves noted weirdo Johnny Depp, that’s not surprising. Depp’s next movie is Disney’s The Lone Ranger, due in theaters July 3. And in a bizarre scavenger hunt/wax museum twist, statues of…
It’s hard to find a more reviled profession than the meter maid. Dentists, tax men, and telemarketers can’t hold a candle to the folks who make their living assaulting innocent dashboards with those evil little slips. But is the hatred unwarranted? Turns out, meter maids are (gasp!) people too. And…
If you grew up in Miami, you know it can get kind of tiresome to listen to El Exilio bitch and moan about Fidel Castro. However, the experience only serves to make Cubamerican, José Enrique Pardo’s documentary about the first generation of post-Castro Cuban-Americans, all the more refreshing. As a…
Miami’s movie geeks have plenty of reasons to be proud. This town has a thriving art house theater scene, some of the best film festivals in the country, and increasing numbers of films by locals earning national and worldwide respect. Some pictures even screen here before they debut in New…
Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is a movie event with an actual movie inside, crying to get out. Despite its preposterous self-seriousness, its overblown, CGI’ed-to-death climax, and its desperate efforts to depict the destruction of, well, everything on Earth, there’s greatness in this retelling of the origin of Superman; moments…
Superman is an idea. OK, fine. Technically he’s an intellectual property—a set of data points slammed together by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1930s, sold for $130 to National Allied Publications (later DC Comics/TimeWarner), and subsequently transformed into a nugget of multivariously exploitable content that has netted entertainment…
From the peak of Anchorman to the nadir of Burt Wonderstone, the formula for studio comedies of the past 20 years has been simple: Dude acts like a dick for an hour, turns blandly sweet toward the end, and then everyone on the DVD commentary can claim to have made…
In Evocateur, Morton Downey Jr. Roars Again
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Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: “It’s now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studio movie starring a woman.” Unfortunately, that number will only increase—to 84 days—until Sandra Bullock and…
Judy Blume’s first novel, The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969, yet it’s only now, 44 years later, that the first big-screen adaptation of her work—Tiger Eyes, based on 1981’s novel of the same name—finally opens in theaters. This is a disgrace. One can…
Sometimes, there’s just too damn much to say about a movie than can fit into any one review. (Even Stephanie Zacharek’s exhaustive, excellent one.) So, here’s more: Stephanie Zacharek, our lead film critic, and Film Editor Alan Scherstuhl hashing over all the portentous craziness in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel…
In This Is the End, Seth Rogen, James Franco, and a handful of other famous funny people find themselves in the middle of the End Times. After the good people of the world ascend into Heaven via a Star Trek-esque blue beam, everyone else — including pretty much every Hollywood…
It ain’t easy being a hooker. The world’s oldest profession is wet, rough, and taxing as hell — particularly for females. Get your mind out of the gutter. We’re talking about fishing. The ancient sport is the subject of Animal Planet’s newest reality TV competition, Top Hooker. The show pits…
Dating in Miami is hard enough, even if you aren’t a venomous mythical jungle monster who has escaped from a laboratory. But in Spyderwoman, a new movie shot and set in Miami, this is exactly the raw deal faced by Taharai, a half-woman, half-spider (err…spyder?) hybrid from the Amazon. So…
Terence Nance isn’t exactly a household name. But Miami film buffs should recognize his voice from the Miami movie of the year. No, not Pain & Gain — Borscht Film Festival’s Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse. Nance voiced Bosh, AKA Star Prince Akilobataar, in the short. And soon,…
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