In Living Color’s Tommy Davidson is hard at work on Deconstructing Sammy, a biopic about Sammy Davis Jr. The film would follow other castmate turns like Jamie Foxx in Ray and Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon. That’s great and all, but how much longer must…
Maybe you should mix a few Ritalin tablets in with your Junior Mints before seeing Tiffany Shlain’s documentary Connected. It’s a hyperkinetic collage of found footage and animation that explores how the human brain has adapted as the ways we connect as a species has changed. Though it’s a documentary,…
All that television and rap music? Your mother worries you’re not seeing enough movies. Fortunately, the 2013 Miami Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Saturday, January 26, and the schedule is more packed with goodness than your stomach after a weekend at home. Cultist spoke with festival director Ellen Wedner…
Marlon Wayans is perhaps the most contemplative of the Wayanses, never missing an opportunity to learn more about himself. Take for example, what he took away from a nearly four-hour improvised shoot for a scene in his film A Haunted House, in theaters Friday. “I discovered I can actually — for…
Cynics will think they know everything about Texas Chainsaw 3D solely from its title. To that, we say, “Maybe, but do you know which three dimensions it’s in?” (Okay, fine. Unless you’re Buckaroo Banzai, it’s probably the three you were suspecting.) Which isn’t to say there aren’t surprises in the…
Even with all the guts, chainsaws, and shapely rumps thrust in the audience’s face during Texas Chainsaw 3D, the film could have very nearly taken on a wholly different tone. The effects were so realistic, according to star Alexandra Daddario, because “they were the same special effects [used by] people…
Even as America continues to cede its manufacturing power to Asia, we remain the world’s number one producer of Wayanses. Of them, Marlon Wayans has distinguished himself as the leading purveyor of topical comedy dans la mode Wayans in his standup and Scary Movie series. But when New Times spoke…
On Christmas Day, we eat Chinese food. On the day after Christmas, we eat Chinese brains. At least that could be a new tradition starting this year, when Keep It Classic brings A Cadaver Christmas to O Cinema (90 NW 29th St., Miami). Christmas is a time for togetherness, and…
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Legendary music photographer Bob Gruen has worked with most of rock music’s biggest talents. (He shot the iconic image of John Lennon in his New York City tank top.) But that doesn’t mean he isn’t willing to play favorites. “Mainly the group I like, and it’s hard to call them…
Janette Beckman had already immortalized the Clash and the Sex Pistols on film when she first met the members of N.W.A. She was putting together a book of photographs of the hip-hop community. “I try not to have any preconceived notions when I go into a situation,” she told Crossfade…
Aside from the scissors for hands, everyone loved Edward Scissorhands because of his otherworldly élan. It’s the kind of spirit we normally attribute to Europeans, but in truth, it comes purely from a lifetime of using a bidet. The Miami Beach SoundScape Cinema Series continues with Edward Scissorhands, the best…
Marko Mäetamm’s warped children’s book, Our Daddy is a Hunter, and paintings of houses with blood spewing made him one of the breakouts of this year’s NADA art fair. The Estonian multimedia artist has twice represented his country at the Venice Biennale, so he’s not exactly coming out of nowhere…
When Julian Lennon began photographing U2, he was granted unusually intimate access and took quite a few images. “Then I went to look at them,” Lennon told Cultist at the Morrison Hotel gallery’s Art Basel popup at the Dream Hotel. “And I went, ‘Shit. They look like fucking holiday photos.’…
As Miami lies panting in a puddle of its own steaming art juices, we must take the time to single out the heroes that made Art Basel Miami 2012 safe for all to enjoy: the Art Cops. Officers Matt Vis and Tony Campbell of the International Art Police (and also…
Alejandro Cartagena shot his “Car Poolers” series by waiting for pickup trucks to drive under a highway overpass in Mexico. The resultant photographs, which we saw last week at Kopeikin Gallery’s booth at Miami Project, show fleeting but surprisingly intimate glimpses of laborers in the beds of the trucks, heading…
Art has the power to give voice to the voiceless, and few among us have struggled to find a place in society more than Shitman has. Fortunately, Italian artist Laurina Paperina explores the existential plight of her own sociopathic anthropomorphic cartoon feces in her video piece, “Shitman and the End…
Formerly Miami-based photographer Lee Materazzi is back home for Basel, or at least some of her art is. Images from her new series “Finding Myself at Home,” at Quint Contemporary Art’s Miami Project booth, show Materazzi embracing peeled sheets of wallpaper; buried, her legs and head stick out of the…
“JUST SHUT THE F*CK UP!” …Or so insists one of Mel Bochner’s large, mixed media text-based pieces. It’s currently in the home of one of a collector, where its “beautiful muted pinks and yellows look great on a grey slate wall in his living room,” according to Sarah Trujillo-Porter. Her…
Just as every mighty oak began as an itty bitty acorn, so too did Entourage star and patron saint to bros Adrian Grenier start as just a little boy with dusky stubble and a dream. But it wasn’t only childhood fantasies of inspecting Jeremy Piven’s wig collection that gave Adrian…
In some ways, it ended up being a good thing that when we turned 10 years old, our mom didn’t let us change our name to He Man. But when LegalArt held a party on Friday night to celebrate its name change to Cannonball in advance of its tenth anniversary,…
Next month will mark one year since the death of journalist, polemicist and bon vivant Christopher Hitchens. Though the loss of the Hitch has been hard for his legion fans who fed lustily on his dispatches from around the world, few could have felt it more deeply than his best…
