Are you a toothy blond with straight up love for red, one-piece bathing suits? Or perhaps you’re a sexy ninja-like brunette with dreams of launching your own clothing line at K-Mart. Or maybe, just maybe, despite the fact that you take life-threatening orders from some voice over the phone you’re…
Harry Potter fights his last battle
The Trip at Miami Beach Cinematheque and Cosford Cinema
God damn it’s hot. So hot that the big guy upstairs doesn’t mind us using blasphemy to describe the weather lately — he’s even been going around Miami saying “how bout that heat” lately. And it’s that Miami hot. That utterly uncomfortable sticky kinda heat that can only be compared…
Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised by funnymen Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing versions of themselves, under the direction of Michael Winterbottom. The film opens at Miami Beach Cinematheque this weekend.The riff seems to have…
Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari make us nervous. We can’t keep our mouths shut before they enter the room at the Fontainebleau, but once they’re in there, we get shy. The two actors are visiting Miami to promote their upcoming movie, 30 Minutes or Less, which is due out this August…
We admit it. We’re nerds. We camped out for the New York premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last night. It was hot. We were cranky. But it was awesome. There were a good 200 people, sleeping in shifts to watch everyone’s things. We met fans…
Jake Gyllenhaal was on Man vs. Wild last night. He offered to skin a rotten sheep carcass so that he and Bear Grylls, the host of MvW, could use the sheep’s wool for warmth. He also took off his clothes before wading through water for bigger ratings to keep his clothes…
Serial killers are fascinating. As sick, twisted, and depraved as that might sound, it intrigues us that a human being could ravage another without remorse, allowing the victim to take a final breath before the killer’s very eyes — and actually enjoy it. We see it in our favorite horror…
If we could be anything in the world, we would be a basketball wife. Based on last night’s episode of Basketball Wives, it kind of feels like all they do is walk down Lincoln Road, chill at each other’s apartments, guzzle wine, and wear earrings that we have only seen…
If you’re one of those people who sees a movie and can’t stop talking about it, Cinema Conversations is for you. Tomorrow night Coral Gables Art Cinema kicks off this new series with the film Beginners. They will begin the screening of the flick at 6:45 p.m. with a pre-screening…
Trying to define “hipster film” is not really hipster. It goes against the independent subcultures that hipsters proclaim to inhabit. It’s like, whatever, suit. Fuck off, what do you know? However, hipsters are everywhere, including the mainstream. America’s socio-economic structure is shifting. We are evolving. Black presidents. Gay marriages. The…
Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, a magnificent finale for this beloved billion-dollar fantasy franchise. Before that confrontation can take place, though, David Yates’s epic must first chart Harry’s attempts alongside best friends Ron…
Does Basketball Wives portray minority women as materialistic gold diggers? It’s often the first dis about the show from critics. And the blogsphere seems more than a little disgusted that Evelyn Lozada would turn a hurtful insult into a bestselling T-shirt just to make a buck. Then there’s the multiple…
Horrible Bosses, directed by Seth Gordon, is an ensemble comedy about how our tough economic times have destroyed white-collar, white-male masculinity. Three high school friends–weakling dental hygienist Dale (Charlie Day), chemical company accountant Kurt (Jason Sudeikis), and unspecified corporate drone Nick (Jason Bateman)–are, at 40-ish, each facing intractable career obstacles…
First God. Then Michael Jackson. from Stretch Ledford on Vimeo. When veteran photographer, grad student, and university professor Stretch Ledford moved into the Palm Plaza Motel on 14st and NW 1st Avenue, he’d already been producing short video docs in Overtown since 2009. It was when he moved in, though,…
Opening this Saturday at the GableStage at the Biltmore, and running through August 7, the provocative and explosive stage play Masked is a candid depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a village on the West Bank, three Palestinian brothers are torn between their obligations to family, ideology, and survival as…
Page One: Inside the New York Times, which opens Thursday at O Cinema, will mean different things to different people.The people whom it would most benefit will not see it. The people who are offended by the notion that a newspaper should charge online readers, the people who think The…
Horrible Bosses: White man’s lament
Page One: Inside the New York Times: Please don’t stop the presses
The Double Hour: Promising material softened to mush
Sociopathic brat Casey Anthony was found not guilty yesterday. And because it tastes like chloroform, it’s a hard verdict to swallow. Anthony’s multitude of lies and visible ambivalence towards the still cryptic death of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, fueled most rational (with the exception of Nancy Grace) human beings (again,…
