Film, TV & Streaming

Crazy, Stupid, Love isn’t crazy enough

World on a Wire: ’70s sci-fi at Miami Beach Cinematheque

Sarah’s Key exposes a little-known piece of Holocaust history

​Anybody happen to get a load of the new Summer’s Eve ‘Hail to the V’ advertisements for their brand of feminine hygiene products (video below)? Complete with talking vaginas with racially stereotypical voiceovers? Yikes. Way to make the ladies hail to the V, Summer’s Eve.Offending the African American and Hispanic…

If you have been keeping up with Basketball Wives via our weekly recaps, then you know that the war between Tami Roman and new girl Meeka Claxton has gone from bad to worse in just a matter of weeks. Tami hates the new cast member. Meeka struggles with keeping her…

Watching part two of the Basketball Wives vacationing is immediately interesting to watch. We are about to two months into this show and think about it: just a few weeks back, Tami Roman was ready to throw down with Evelyn Lozada. But in last night’s episode, she is so worried…

Nickelodeon is bringing back the ’90s to Nick at Nite. The shows start airing Monday on TeenNick and we can’t wait. The only issue is that the shows don’t start until midnight. At first we were a little annoyed. We didn’t want to wait around at home for them to…

From our time in Miami, we’ve learned that if your place of business lasts more than six months, you’re doing pretty well. And really, it’s the same way in reality TV.  If you last one season, well, you’re doing better than most shows that come out of the 305. (Miami…

As if we weren’t already choking on pseudo-reality television, executive producer Jennifer Lopez has decided to throw another reality series into an already inundated TV line up. South Beach Tow, which premiered last night, chronicles the profession of the Ashenoff family: Robert Sr., his daughter Christie, and son Robert Jr.,…

The Miami City Ballet is enjoying its biggest success in 25 years — or so artistic director Edward Villella told the Miami Herald this past week. He was responding to fantastic reviews of MCB’s three-week season in a historic Parisian theater, where –according to international dailies Le Monde and Financial…

Miami is more than a sum of its parts. It seems that the guys from Mupalia Pictures, Alexander Jaramillo and Joaquin Escobar, intend to reveal that truth to the world.Sick of Hollywood’s trite depictions of our sweltering city, Jaramillo and Escobar want to give voice to all the unique stories…

Captain America ignores its roots for easy money

The Big Uneasy: New Orleans’s enemy wasn’t Katrina

Passione: John Turturro’s Neapolitan musical adventure

Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an explicit work of patriotic, political propaganda: The cover of the first edition, available months before Pearl Harbor, famously featured the titular costume hero punching out Adolf…

Rejoice, America! Our long national nightmare of Charlie Sheen not being grossly overpaid to star in a mediocre sitcom is almost over. Sheen has inked a deal with Lionsgate to star in a sitcom adaptation of the film Anger Management. The deal gives Sheen a stake of ownership in the show,…

When Bryan Lorenzo graduated from the University of Miami film program, he already had his next project in mind. As a transplant from Maryland, Lorenzo, though half-Dominican, had initially felt like a gringo fish out of water in Miami’s multi-culti seas. That was a feeling only amplified when he stared…

Ciao, bella! On last night’s episode, the ladies of Basketball Wives have finally arrived in Rome, Italy. Remember their last trip to Madrid, Spain, which included fashion week festivities, Royce Reed almost dying of a phantom illness, and a midday brawl between Tami Roman and Evelyn Lozada? So we can only imagine…

Many regard Hurricane Katrina as “the big one” thanks to media coverage emphasizing the strength of the storm and the extent of the damage. Comedian, writer, and actor Harry Shearer wrote and directed The Big Uneasy to correct the public’s perception of what happened on August 29, 2005. It wasn’t…

Don’t you just love it when something so distinctly Miami puts the Magic City in the national spotlight, and that something doesn’t involve a collective hatred from the rest of the country for our beloved Miami Heat. Yeah, us too. Luckily, as of late it’s been different all stars who’ve…

“Juan of the Dead. We kill your beloved ones. How can I help you?” That’s a line from the star of what’s being called Cuba’s first horror flick, Juan of the Dead, and yeah, it’s freaking awesome. From the shots of Havana being overrun by zombies (mistaken for Americans, an…

Just when you thought reality TV couldn’t sink any lower…wait a second. We’ve already used that line, several times. The truth is there are no depths to which reality shows will not sink. Have you heard bout the new Casey Anthony show? We haven’t either, but trust us, a pitch…