Film, TV & Streaming

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: The Apocalypse Drag

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Mega-Budget Chop-Socky/Grind House Schlock

Remember way back in 2009, when Vince Shlomi, better known as the ShamWow informercial guy, got into a violent, tongue-biting battle with a prostitute at the Setai? Well, he’s back in the saddle, hawking a new product called the Schticky. And he’s using the Miami incident to do it.  Prior…

In the very particular universe of reality TV weight-loss and workout show personalities, superstar trainer Jackie Warner is neither the most punishing nor the most manic. Her past shows for Bravo — Work Out and Thintervention — were, of course, edited for maximum drama. With her clients themselves, though, Warner…

Strip club King of Diamonds is going mainstream. Maybe.The club, subject of a recent New Times feature chronicling the lives of its owner, promoters, and dancers, could make the leap from niche hip-hop fame to full-fledged celebrity with a new reality show set right up on the main stage, according…

Elizabeth Banks is one lucky bitch. She’s made out with Alec Baldwin. She’s rubbed up on Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey. She starred in one of this year’s most successful films, The Hunger Games, and also appears on 30 Rock, one of the best shows on television.For all these reasons…

Hollywood, Hallmark, and our moms and dads have all provided us with pretty concrete ideas of what relationships and families are supposed to look like, even if those models of what to expect and aspire to often fail. It seems like the ideas of “normalcy” these sources supply are so…

Pick up any issue of Backwoods Home magazine and you’ll find a myriad of articles on how to make paper at home and do-it-yourself fruit canning. Yet for all its helpful tips on rural living, the magazine will most likely be remembered for a small classified ad that ran in…

Rock of Ages, the musical about Hollywood dreams coming true in the context of ’80s songs that you only hear when frat bros play them on the jukebox at Lost Weekend, opens in theaters tomorrow today. Because it was filmed down here in Miami, we’ve been tracking it for about…

Rock of Ages Director Adam Shankman Predicts Miami Film Boom

Rock of Ages: Corporate Rock Still Sucks

Goodbye First Love: Making Art Out of Life

Hit So Hard Rockumentary Is Tediously Paced

Mouse Trap Films president Benjamin Oberman and his staff want to change the film industry.”Every year I saw more and more films qualify for film festivals, prove their worth, but yet fall through the cracks, mostly because they lacked A-list stars or weren’t based on best-selling novels,” Oberman said. “I…

Here we are, kids: we made it to the end. It took 17 episodes, but the finale, part two of Basketball Wives finally arrived last night. We just wish we could say it was worth the wait.This season’s reunion was, well, perfectly fine. We didn’t hate it. But we sure…

If you are reading this, there is a good chance you’re not dead yet. Probably. But don’t worry — if the plethora of recent murders, mutilations, and human-flesh binge eating isn’t enough to assure you that the rapture is quickly approaching, then the slew of contemporaryfilms about the End of…

This week, the New York Post released a list of the top 10 most hated people in America. Everyone from Bernie Madoff to Casey Anthony were on that list. At number seven, you will find Kim Kardashian. Say what you will about her, but the girl has taken a reality…

It’s fitting that Bill W., a documentary that recalls the life of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder William G. Wilson, lacks the bells and whistles of modern-day special effects and features. Wilson’s story, one of heartbreak, recovery, and heroism, is a serious one, and the never-before-seen photographs, letters, diary entries, and speeches…

Donald Trump has a lot on his plate these days: running hotels, condo buildings, and casinos around the world; throwing yearly international beauty pageants; campaigning for presidential election. And don’t forget the most daunting task of his billion-dollar empire: keeping his hair in place. Now he wants to be in pictures…

Polisse at Miami Beach Cinematheque and Cosford Cinema

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

Bill W. at O Cinema June 7-10