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It takes a lot to shock us. As you know, living in Miami, well, you see some things. Then you go home and watch reality television for your job, and you see some more things. Let’s just say our skin is pretty damn thick.But while watching Basketball Wives Monday evening,…

Calling all starving artists and film students: If your pipe dreams of submitting features to Sundance have yet to be realized, maybe start a little smaller. With the upcoming 24-Hour Film Race, for example.After blessing Miami with poop jokes galore in last year’s Audience Favorite short film Wall of Shame,…

All the signs of the apocalypse were there. Global warming. That Mayan calendar business. The existence of this.We knew the end was coming. But we still weren’t prepared for this.NBC President Robert Greenblatt announced today that 30 Rock will end its seventh season with a series finale. Not season finale…

It’s Fight Night here at Magic City, and everyone has gambling fever! Except for maybe Stevie who almost definitely has herpes (as do most characters on this show) and also Danny, who has a raging case of being a giant wet blanket who can’t get past second base. Oh, and…

It’s the end of an era. An era of fake South Florida scenery, shlocky one-liners, and lots and lots of dead people, but an era all the same.After 10 seasons, CBS has canned CSI: Miami. The announcement came Sunday, from a spokesperson who broke the news with a long pause…

In these modern, scary times, it’s nice to know that the Miami-Dade court system is focusing on what’s important: Billy Corben’s social media practices.A Miami-Dade judge has ordered the filmmaker to appear in court May 25 to explain his reasons for sending Twitter and Facebook messages while he was serving…

For now, most have only seen 16-year-old Sami Gayle co-starring as Tom Selleck’s precocious but sensitive granddaughter in CBS’ acclaimed drama Blue Bloods. However, the Weston, Florida-raised actress is on the cusp of a major breakout in films. Next year will see her sharing the screen in a sci-fi thriller…

Kat Edorsson, the 22-year-old, polka-dot-bikini-wearing Survivor: One World contestant, really wants your love. No, seriously, she does. And she wants you to demonstrate that love by voting for her for the show’s fan favorite before Sunday’s finale. “That’s all I want to do,” Edorsson told us, referring to being named…

Tim Burton doesn’t know it, but we are frenemies.Frenemies have a relationship that is both mutually beneficial or dependent while being competitive, and fraught with risk and mistrust. That’s exactly what Burton and I have. He needs me as an audience member, and I need him as a creative force…

As eye candy goes, Danielle Colby Cushman is the whole package. A self-described “dysfunctional rockabilly princess,” Cushman has some serious, pin-up style sex appeal, rocking retro eyeliner and ’50s hairstyles along with the tattoos that cover her chest.But don’t write Cushman off as just a chick on the side. On…

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Jose Mas, son of the late Cuban exile leader and terrorism supporter Jorge Mas Canosa, will gain a little notoriety the old-fashioned way Friday night when MasTec, the Coral Gables-based company his father started and which he now runs, features on the season finale of Undercover Boss.”Can he live up…

Hello, sailor.The women of the Real Housewives franchise are generally known to be self-obsessed wastes of space whose vanity projects only showcase how talentless they really are. (See Dana Wilkey of the Beverly Hills edition, whose new song is an homage to a pair of sunglasses priced at $25,000. Seriously.)In…

Last week we asked you, our dedicated Cultist readers, does Royce Reed has daddy issues? Well, after last night’s episode, we think it is safe to say that yes, yes she does. We ended Basketball Wives episode 11 with Miss RR having a severe panic when her father doesn’t approve…

If you’re a woman who loves women, there’s a good chance you’ve spent the last five days partying your lesbian ass off at the Aqua Girl festivities happening all over Miami Beach. In the same sense, if you enjoy the lady kind, we might also be inclined to think that…

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a buff white man in tights and a cape flying through the sky.Like every other self-respecting film geek, I’m excited about all the superhero films that are making their way onto the big screen this summer. It kicked off today with The…

Each week, Vh1 viewers are treated to the gossip-talking, hair-pulling, wine-bottle-throwing antics of the ladies (for lack of a better word) of Basketball Wives. Is it guilty fun to watch in hour-long segments? Sure.But now the world of the Wives could be headed to the big screen.Fox Searchlight plans to…

Get ready to see yourself on the indie screen, Miami. After the Wedding, an independent film written and directed by Claudia Cifuentes — one of three sisters behind Pink Forest Films — will start production in the 305 this summer.There’s only one thing. They can’t do it without our help.After…