Five months after showing how bad he could do all by himself in adapting Ntozake Shange, Tyler Perry returns to transferring his own stage work to the screen, donning once again the Lane Bryant floral prints that have made his millions. Like its predecessors, Madea’s Big Happy Family features a…
Billy Corben doesn’t get high, but he does believe in weed, man. Last week, after a 4/20 screening of Rakontur’s new documentary Square Grouper, about the mega-ton pot smuggling scene in Everglades City, the director offered his opinion on the decriminalization of marijuana. “I don’t think the federal government should…
To pick our favorite reality TV star is like asking a mother to pick her favorite child. But really, we have spoken to a lot of these ladies, and while on TV they might rip each other’s hair out, they are generally nice people. Basketball Wives’ Royce Reed? Not crazy…
The Borscht Film Festival is a love letter to Miami, one covered with lipstick kisses and a few other suspect stains. Last night’s seventh edition at the Arsht Center’s packed Knight Concert Hall was a three-hour showcase of 305 talent. Of the 23 shorts, 97 percent were shot in, edited…
In Argentina, the only thing more dangerous than the rampant auto accidents and understaffed hospitals is the ambulance-chasing attorneys who prey upon the injured and grieving. Carancho, Pablo Trapero’s social exposé-cum-thriller, concentrates on one such “carancho” (translation: vulture), Sosa (Ricardo Darín), and his budding relationship with junkie doctor Luján (Martina…
Water for Elephants falls in the grand line of star vehicles designed to pull back the curtain on the Hollywood sausage-making process just enough to remind audiences that stars–particularly the fresh, young, fuckable variety–are totally awesome. This story of “pretty much the most famous circus disaster in history” features Robert…
In 1994, our daily media diet included Arsenio Hall and Saved by the Bell. It was not a fantastic time to be stuck at home with cable and no driver’s license. Then Comedy Central delivered us from ennui with episodes of BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous. And although our 13-year-old pea brains…
Norm Macdonald is admittedly a seemingly bizarre choice to host Sports Show. Nearing age 50, he hasn’t been nationally relevant since he hosted Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live in the mid-’90s — a gig that ended when then-NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer fired him. What followed was Dirty Work, a…
Kayla de la Cerda, like most of us, remembers eating Lunchables as a kid. Unlike the rest of us, this 18-year-old Miamian was able to incorporate her memory of mystery meat and crackers into a screenplay for With Me. Filmed with Fro Rojas, it screens this Saturday at the Borscht…
The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, (MGLFF) now in its 13th year, is back. The festival open tonight and runs until May 1, with 50 films over 10 days. This year’s selections include all kinds of features, from Tomboy, an animated short about a queer kid, to the documentary…
Every day, 82-year-old Bill Cunningham stands on a bustling NYC street corner and takes pictures of strangers. The man’s no creep; he’s the photographer behind New York Times’ “On the Street” column in the Sunday Styles section. And to appear in one of his round-ups is validation that you’re sporting…
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2011 movie picks
Barry Jenkins calmly navigates his navy blue Nissan Maxima through the empty afternoon streets of Overtown. He crosses rusty train tracks and passes skeletal figures curled up in shuttered doorways before turning onto narrow NW Miami Court.
African Cats: Kings of the jungle get March of the Penguins treatment
Today is April 20. In case you missed it or are too high to remember (if you did check out this, and this, and this), it’s National Pot Smoking Day, or Weed Day, or Bill of Rights for Stoners Day. The point is there’s a lot of emphasis on the…
Stocks are a risky business, as is street racing. In the blink of an eye, everything can take a Dale Earnhardt-turn-for-the-worst and come crashing down like a Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme. However, street racing on the small screen (sprinkled with telenovella plot twists and staring a former Southern Methodist University…
In Super, which opens this weekend, when a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson)–under the influence of a bizarre Christian kids’ TV show and a sci-fi-style encounter with something like God–starts to make himself over into a real-life superhero. On…
The pan-genre über-hack of the new Korean zeitgeist, Kim Jee-woon has been deft in some arenas: 2003’s A Tale of Two Sisters suggests a nightmare endured inside a suffocating velvet pillowcase, while 2008’s breathless The Good, the Bad, the Weird pioneered the fourth-gear lo-mein Western with such brio, you could…
Cold Weather: Aaron Katz’s riff on the mystery of stories
Borscht Film Festival 2011 picks
Our mama has given us some great advice, like eat your vegetables and use a condom. But one thing she always tried to reiterate was the fact that it takes one to know one. We always thought we understood the concept, but last Saturday, we really got it. The moment…
When we saw the stills from Jorge Rubiera’s new film, we were stunned. They transported us to another time and place. Rubiera, winner of the New Times MasterMind award for narrative, is someone who knows how to hold a camera and when to take a shot.The current working title of…
