Film, TV & Streaming

Step Up 3D: Technically dazzling yet blissfully old-school

Just a few months ago, we were bombarded from all sides by the news that the Jersey Shore kids had invaded our city, but many of us dodged them like a scary orange plague. All our careful avoidance was for naught, though, because we are going to be forced to…

Imagine your optic nerve went rogue and started tampering with the way your vision was processed by your brain. Instead of blue skies and green trees, those millions of nerve fibers told your gray matter you were actually seeing scenes from 1960s surgical videos. And you can blame the wayward…

Our world is plagued by many problems, but there is none more serious than chronic lack of food. Without proper nutrition, people do crazy things. They babble incoherently, self-mutilate, and sometimes even try to stuff their empty stomachs with inedible stuff like tofu. In the most extreme cases, however, hungry…

Try to imagine a Nicaraguan Million Dollar Baby and you have La Yuma, a film about a woman in Managua who dreams of getting inside a boxing ring a la Hillary Swank. It’s the first Nicaraguan feature film made in two decades, and it’s exactly the kind of movie that…

Florida was America’s film capitol until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…

Season after season, the slightly deranged fans of Bad Girls Club watch in delighted horror as the Oxygen Network unveils its newest treasure trove of tragic messes. With all the crazy girl drama, booty calls, and ass pants, you’ve gotta ask yourself: Did they rip these ladies off a greasy…

Only 19 days remain till The U finally hits shelves! (Pre-order a double-disc copy via AllCanes or Amazon.) And ‘Canes nation is so amped it’s getting kinda dangerous. In an Allapattah sports bar, the Ibis is pumping out celebratory shotgun blasts. Public washrooms across the county are filled with red-faced…

Tonight at the News Lounge, ladies and gents will hunch over light boxes and scribble on note cards while a rowdy bunch behind them waits its turn. It’s Drinking and Drawing, a sort of animated jam session where the artistically inclined come together over pints and highballs to create a…

Dinner for Schmucks: Steve Carell and Paul Rudd in a comedy that pokes fun at mental disability

Predators: Adrien Brody buffs up to fight alien baddies

Paul Rudd on playing himself, Party Down, and Dinner for Schmucks

Hold the phone! No, seriously. Don’t chuck your smart phone into Biscayne Bay just yet. It may be dropping your calls, but there’s a new app in development that we think you might want to check out. Real Weather Girls, set to launch in mid-to-late September, is the first to…

Miami artist Jillian Mayer asks strangers to make creative babies with her on the micro-patronage site Kickstarter. You know, that site we keep talking about? The one that only seems to be a success in every other U.S. city beside Miami?Anyway, she’s looking for funding because she’s turning her smart…

If you want to see an independent film in Miami, you have to venture to Miami Beach for the Cinemathque, Tower Theater in Little Havana, or South Miami for Cosford Cinema on the University of Miami campus. For most of us, that means jumping on I-95, which can lower your…

Restrepo: A South Florida soldier and his comrades, vérité-style

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington go to war for Restrepo

Salt: Angelina Jolie’s contradictions buoy the otherwise rote movie

Man, it really sucks when some stiff old white dude shows up with his posse of greedy corporate goons and starts saying things like, “I’ll finish you, your friends, and your whole damn neighborhood!” Before you know it, there’s a convoy of bulldozers rolling up to the doorstep of your…

The manic countdown to the August 17 DVD release of Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman’s ‘Canes epic The U continues, rumbling and raging like Warren Sapp at the Shore Club. (The charges were dropped, OK?) And this week, Miami’s most notorious movie moguls reached deep into the Rakontur vault and…

If there’s one silver lining to this whole BP oil spill, it’s that the world’s attention has been focused on the health and well being of our oceans. But remember when Frenchie artist Christo insisted on wrapping our Biscayne Bay islands in Pepto-pink, polypropylene fabric? Titled, “Surrounded  Islands,” this 1983…

In Restrepo, the Sundance-winning documentary that debuted in South Florida this weekend, director Sebastian Junger tackled the toughest questions about the war in Afghanistan by ignoring the politics and immersing himself in the day-to-day fight for survival in the country’s toughest valley.The film is named for Spc. Juan Restrepo, a…