Film, TV & Streaming

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Cold War redux

Seducing Charlie Barker at O Cinema December 9-15

“I received notification by phone from California the day before Thanksgiving,” Jillian Mayer tells us. “I heard that Sundance makes a tradition out of calling people around Thanksgiving to make the holidays a bit more joyous.”What a joyous Thanksgiving for Mayer it must have been, as her collaboration with Lucas…

There is a very good chance that when you watched the Real Housewives of Miami, you thought there was no chance in hell they were getting a another season. Much like their sister show, Miami Social, we thought they were goners for sure — mainly because, much like Social, the…

Miami’s TMI tía and South Florida’s favorite Puerto Rican uncle are heading to television’s McKinley High. Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin will appear on an episode of Fox’s Glee next year, according to Adam Anders, the show’s executive music report. “We just announced Ricky Martin and Gloria Estefan for a…

When we first saw the words “Jersey Shore Shark Attack,” we immediately imagined that the Jersey Shore cast had returned to Miami for another season of embarrassing, drunken antics — and were tragically eaten alive in the waters of South Beach. (On-camera, one hoped.) It turns out that didn’t happen…

Remember when New Jersey was just the armpit of New York? Well, those days are over. Maybe not everyone agrees, but it definitely has the attention of the country. A lot of that has to do with the Real Housewives of New Jersey. And one lady who was there when…

Art Basel Miami 2011 may be over, but reliving it through photos, videos, text messages, status updates, tweets, and old school real life conversations has only just begun. Here’s some of what we saw, including Ron English, Mr. Brainwash, SCOPE art fair, Design Miami, the Neckface movie, Salem at the…

So, last week’s hot seat took not one, but two different Sunday nights to get through. Maybe because there was not one, not two, but three different ladies that did the worst last week. And Miss Christine took the cake as the hottest mess of them all. She not only…

He’s not the ultimate cliche, but he’s not totally novel either. That tawny-skinned, unwaveringly confident, effortlessly good-looking guy of unclear ethnicity, we mean. He tumbles around the planet appearing penniless, but his mysterious refusal to talk about his past gives the distinct impression that he’s no simple, carefree cosmopolitan vagabond.This…

Steve McQueen’s first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as they must have been to make. But where Shame might be nearly as excruciating as 2008’s Hunger, it’s a lot less exalted. In Hunger, Fassbender’s imprisoned Irish revolutionary Bobby…

The movies are full of bed-hopping men — think of Humphrey Bogart’s serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946) and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen’s Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot — it is the plot…

An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That would be the abyss of the title, though if you’re looking for more of that kind of shameless lyrical swagger, you…

Once a year around the holidays, Victoria’s Secret gets their angels to strut their stuff during a leggy fashion show that’s guaranteed to make your grandmother blush. While the underpants empire is one of the most lucrative brands out there, their annual fashion show has become more about theatrics and…

id anyone catch the preview for Baseball Wives before Tough Love Miami began? Goodness, that show looks great.Now imagine: you’re sitting at home in your reality show mansion and all of a sudden, Knock, Knock. You think, “There must be someone at the door.” Oh yes, there sure is: it’s…

Blackthorn: Sam Shepard’s Butch Cassidy is alive in Bolivia

Hugo: Scorsese milks the 3-D trend for his timeless cause

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1: Bella and Edward lock it down

​Remember the days when being a housewife was considered a bad thing? Well, listen up ladies: those days are no more! Thanks to Bravo, if you have a ring on your finger and lots of money (or are willing to pretend like you do,) then they want to hire you…

Most people know Zooey Deschanel for her Smiths-loving, heartbreaking role in 500 Days of Summer, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or for her musical project She & Him with singer-songwriter, M. Ward.  Either way, she has emerged as one of the most beloved (and envied) female indie idols of the past decade…

Last week, we got the call to cover Ocean Drive’s red carpet event for the Miami debut of blk. water, which we thought sounded interesting. Then we remembered that Real Housewives of New Jersey boys, Albie and Chris Manzo, represented the product. We knew if we were lucky, the guys…

​And thus we reach the end of our nine-week journey with night one of the Dancing With the Stars finale. Who do we want to win? Um….. In a way Ricki Lake has already won with the recent news that she will start a new daytime show. Rob Kardashian unquestionably…