Burn Notice fans aren’t messing around. Coconut Grove politicians found that out when they tried to kick the USA series out of its filming hub last year, and met instead with mobs of angry TV viewers holding handmade signs outside City Hall. Turns out, that’s just the tip of the…
Miami is a city with its fair share of badasses. Pain and Gain, hello! But bodybuilders, basketball players and bouncers are one thing — ninjas are a whole other category of awesome. There are few who make the grade. And finding these select few is the purpose of the hit…
Last night, Brickell got a head start on International Star Wars Day (which is actually on Saturday, May the Fourth) by turning Spazio nightclub into a cantina worthy of Han Solo. For Star Wars Cantina Cosplay night, the venue provided branded lightsaber surrogates, an LED screen featuring the iconic logo,…
While you were clicking ‘like’ on that photo of your cousin’s ugly baby, Billy Donnelly was busy getting fired through Facebook. Donnelly was until recently known as The Infamous Billy the Kidd, South Florida editor of Ain’t It Cool News (spoiler alert: it ain’t). He doesn’t want to insult his…
Are Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson BFFs? Possibly. Not even a week after their made-in-Miami film Pain & Gain hit theaters, HBO has announced the two will team up yet again, this time for a half-hour dramedy about retired athletes in — where else? — Miami. See also:…
When Michael Bay and the writers of Pain & Gain adapted Pete Collins New Times feature story for the screen, they stayed mostly faithful to reality. But there was one thing Bay just had to have in his foray into dark comedy. Dildos. Lots and lots of dildos. So he…
Miami Beach Cinematheque director Dana Keith finds it difficult to make time for anything else but cinema. That’s particularly true this week; his art house is in the middle of hosting screenings for the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which included an appearance by James Franco whose film, Interior…
When we last heard from porn star (or, as she put it, “mattress actress”) Lisa Ann, it was the summer of 2012. Ann was headed to Tampa, Florida, to reprise the role that made her famous: a Sarah Palin look-alike in the modern cinema classic Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?. But now,…
Obstacle courses like mud runs have become popular recently among Miami athletes who like to push their bodies to the limit. Now, the mother of them all is setting up right in downtown. And she is swole. American Ninja Warrior, G4 TV’s brawny sports competition, returns to the Magic City…
Iron Man 3 opens this week. For some viewers the film’s appeal isn’t the eponymous superhero, but the sarcastic-yet-sensitive hero behind the gravity-defying, repulsor-ray-shooting suit of armor. I refer, of course, to Shane Black. Iron Man 3’s co-writer–director recharged the buddy-cop flick in the ’80s with his screenplay for Lethal…
Writer-director Roberto Busó-Garcia’s Spanish-language movie is so tame and so completely boring that to call it a horror film is to insult the genre. Determined to restore the reputation of her father, a cancer researcher plagued by rumors of weirdness in his early research techniques, Ana (Christina Rodlo) moves the…
Filipino Thriller Graceland Is Visually Arresting
When Michael Haneke’s sobering end-of-life drama Amour premiered at Cannes last May, many critics reflected on the presence of a shared cultural legacy. Its stars, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant, evoked the iconography of the New Wave, the once-young faces of Hiroshima mon amour and My Night at Maud’s now…
Iron Man 3: Shtick and Explosions for the Great Robert Downey Jr.
To the Wonder Is Gorgeous, Ridiculous
Unless you watch Nancy Meyers’ romantic-comedy oeuvre strictly for the interior design and décor, there’s little to note about Sophie Lellouche’s shallow, witless but pretty enough French ode to Woody Allen, couched in a loose revision of 1972’s Play It Again, Sam. A model-thin blond beauty with perfect cheekbones, Alice…
1st Night: Opera or Three’s Company?
Stephanie Zacharek is the new chief film critic at the Village Voice. Alan Scherstuhl is the Voice’s film editor. Sometimes they gab about how the review-sausage gets made. To: Stephanie Zacharek From: Alan Scherstuhl Hi, Stephanie, welcome again to the Voice! Like you, I found myself worn out by Iron…
It’s been a huge week for Miami on the big screen. Last Friday, Pain & Gain opened nationwide, bringing Pete Collins’ New Times tale of bodybuilders’ extortion schemes gone wrong to audiences across the nation. Meanwhile, in theaters from Japan to Portugal, Iron Man 3 wowed Marvel fans, creating enormous…
Calling all Ewoks, all Obi-Wans, all Princess Leias and Chewbaccas. Come out, you Han Solos and Darth Vaders, you Yodas and R2-D2s. There’s a party for all you Star Wars cosplayers right here in Miami. Yes, Jabba the Hut, there’s even room for you. Brickell’s Spazio Nightclub is hosting Star…
Life is a winding road, full of unexpected twists and turns. Just ask Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. If you’d told the basketball legend in the ’80s that his career would have wound up as a series of AT&T commercials and reality-TV appearances just a few decades later, he probably would’ve said, “What?…
Congratulations, Florida. You did it. You’ve committed to being one of the most emphatically stupid states in the country. You’ve put in the time, out-crazying formidable competitors like West Virginia and Texas for years. Through hard work, dedication, and nutso batshittery, you’ve climbed the ranks of ill repute, earning first…
