For years, Miami has been a movie wasteland. Despite stellar recent shorts by local filmmakers like Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer, and the rest of the Borscht family, good full-length films are as rare as snowflakes in the Magic City. (Renting Snow Dogs, Miami Vice, or Marley & Me is the…
21 Jump Street now a buddy comedy
Chico and Rita: Cartoon Cuban love at Coral Gables Art Cinema through March 16 to 22
Casa de Mi Padre: Will Ferrell goes espanol
Delicacy: Audrey Tautou’s enormous eyeballs dare us not to find her adorable
Mark Wahlberg. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Bethenny Frankel. One of these things is not like the others.And yet, US Weekly reports, the three could soon have something in common: a role in Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain, the film based on this New Times crime feature. Two unnamed sources told…
Oh, how quickly the tables turn in the world of Basketball Wives. Only a month into season four, it seemed that Kenya Bell was a shoo-in for the title of Most Hated Wife, much like Meeka Claxton in season three. But we were wrong.After last night’s episode, it’s looking like…
After nearly two full weeks of movie screenings, directors’ lectures, and more, the Miami International Film Festival’s 2012 edition wrapped up Saturday with the announcement of this year’s winners at the Gusman. While you were drinking your way from premiere gala to premiere gala and celebrity-spotting at red carpet events,…
Three more days, 45 more screenings of films from around the globe. It’s time to kick our Miami movie madness into high gear. Five MIFF-tastic theaters, distributed across several Miami neighborhoods for your viewing convenience, are offering British-born, star-studded thrillers, Cuban zombie flicks, culture clashing comedies, and reels of down-home…
Human existence is striding a lot easier these days.A mere hundred years ago, a trip from the Far East to the Americas could take longer than the 16- or 17-hour flight it takes now. Nowadays, though, you can be in Moscow, New York, and Honolulu all in the same 24-hour…
Today ist ein fantastischer day für some films von all over the world. We’ve got a German-Chinese film that makes UFO sightings into a source of societal commentary, an Italian-American laugh-laced drama about the complex life of a soon-to-be college student, and some made-in-Miami animated film noir. The Miami International…
The Miami International Film Festival delivers Chinese hip-hop and Argentine culture clashes
Friends With Kids: An unconventional parenting setup in a highly standard rom-com
In Darkness, grueling but familiar, dramatizes another Holocaust horror
John Carter: A lively, visually crafty pleasure
Silent House: Reality-horror gets a questionable upgrade
Los Amigos Invisibles didn’t have the time — or the money — to make a movie about the Venezuelan funk band’s 20 year-history. Luckily, bassist José Rafael “Catire” Torres ran into old friend Juan Miguel Marín at the Miami International Airport last year. Marín’s band opened for the Venezuelan funksters…
Today’s MIFF picks are all about grit and glam. We’ve got a movie about two junkie degenerate brothers in Ecuador, a documentary about the lives of supermodels past their prime, and an exquisite British screen adaptation of a classic 1950s play. Twelve other films from Italy, Denmark, Russia, Canada, Colombia,…
Miami International Film Fest is well underway and there’s one film in particular that’s setting our radar abuzz. The HBO documentary film, About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now is the brainchild of Miami native, celebrated photographer, and documentary maker, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.It may be hard to believe that models have any…
It’s day five of the MIFF and us raging film fiends are so strung out on 35-millimeter spools of the chronic that ushers have to carry our delirious asses up the aisles of every theater. But with five more glorious days left to go, quitting is not an option.Here are…
Ladies, let us remind you of something we have learned after watching four seasons of Basketball Wives: don’t date an athlete. We can only imagine how great it is to whip at your man’s American Express black card at Neiman Marcus and have him pay for your Loubs. Yet, from what…
View photos from the Magic City premiere here.Back in October, we sat down with writer, creator and director Mitch Glazer to chat about the highly anticipated new show coming to Miami called Magic City. We got to check out the set, met the cast, watched a few scenes be filmed,…
