Film Awards

Bet Five on Dirty Sanchez

So You Wanna Be a Filmmaker?

Scattered Dour

The Weather Man is a comedy, but not that kind

Golden Boys

See who gets ´em at Miami’s official shindig

Our Mickey Rourke Is an Oscar Nominee

The Oscar nominations came out this morning. There were some surprises, but as virtually everyone expected, Mickey Rourke got a nod for best lead actor for his role in The Wrestler. What started as a local hook for covering awards-show nonsense has turned into quite a saga detailing Rourke's strange ... More >>

Rourke Inks Iron Man 2 Deal

via Wikimedia CommonsThe Crimson DynamoIt was inevitable, but now it is official. Mickey Rourke is no longer our quirky washed up actor turned suprising Oscar Nominee for a small indie. He's officially a blockbuster idol once again. After some rumors to the contrary, he's signed on for a big role in ... More >>

You Can Be Good as Gold

But you’ll never be Oscar.

The Uninvited

Now playing.

Vote Mamet

If you thought Sarah Palin was funny, check out November.

On with the Show

Pass the popcorn; it’s Oscar night, America!

In Living Color

Fantastic films for Black History Month at the Cosford.

Heart of Glass

A musical innovator visits UM.

So You Wanna Be a Filmmaker

Study the craft with award-winning industry peeps

Happier Together

A flick that defies tradition

Keep Swimming

A flick that defies tradition

Songs of Strength

A flick that defies tradition

Movies for Girls Who Love Girls

A flick that defies tradition

Both Sides of the Lens

Joel Grey is accomplished either way

In the Heart of the Earth

Joel Grey is accomplished either way

Dolly Parton

"Travelin Thru" (Nettwerk)

BEST ACTOR

David Kwiat

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

David Kwiat

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

Into the Red

East-West

Big People's Cartoon

Spike and Mike's 1999 Classic Festival of Animation

Dutch Treat or Dutch Bleat?

Spike and Mike's 1999 Classic Festival of Animation

Oscars by Any Other Name Are Still Wieners

Spike and Mike's 1999 Classic Festival of Animation

The Reel Deal

With films from fourteen countries, the Miami Film Festival features a volatile mix of love, lust, and crime

Best of Miami 2009 Preview: Best Boy Made Good

(New Times Best of Miami issue hits the streets this week. With this post, Riptide 2.0 provides an appetizer. The main course/entire issue will appear on the website Tuesday afternoon.)Best Boy Made GoodMickey RourkeMickey Rourke's redemption has been the stuff Hollywood makes movies about. ... More >>

Top 10 Thursday: The Real Top 10 American Entertainers

Michael Jackson dies and all of a sudden he's the greatest entertainer of all time. Not so fast. MJ made three great albums, invented the moonwalk and, well.... Let us take another look at the performers who have truly proved most thrilling over the years.1. Elvis Presley Michael Jackson may have du ... More >>

We Like to Watch

Michael Jackson dies and all of a sudden he's the greatest entertainer of all time. Not so fast. MJ made three great albums, invented the moonwalk and, well.... Let us take another look at the performers who have truly proved most thrilling over the years.1. Elvis Presley Michael Jackson may have du ... More >>

Oscar-nominated The Milk of Sorrow plays at MIFF

Michael Jackson dies and all of a sudden he's the greatest entertainer of all time. Not so fast. MJ made three great albums, invented the moonwalk and, well.... Let us take another look at the performers who have truly proved most thrilling over the years.1. Elvis Presley Michael Jackson may have du ... More >>

Miami International Film Festival: Review of Ken Loach's Looking for Eric

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Maniac on the Floor

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Cuckoo for Coco

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

It Takes Two

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Cue the Klezmer

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Follow That Woman

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Time to Say Goodbye, Again

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Hollywood Hootenanny

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Oscar nominees: old-fashioned films no match for indie darlings

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Incendies: Part detective story, part family drama

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Philip Glass at New World Center March 17

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

The Brass Ring

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Billboards and Bling

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

One Day is kitsch, not Hollywood melodrama

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Oh, the Humanity

​Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He's now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He's so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session. It trigg ... More >>

Philippe Ruiz Has Left the Biltmore and Palme d'Or

Ruiz leaves. One of Miami's top chefs is leaving one of the town's best restaurants.The higher-ups at the Biltmore had no choice but to bid farewell to chef de cuisine Philippe Ruiz -- a Chevalier de l'Ordre Du Mérite Agricole, two-time James Beard nominee for Best Chef in the South, and arguably o ... More >>