Sorry, horses. It’s over.The long and storied battle you have waged with humans is done. We, the humans, have won. We have made you our transportation, carrying knights in armor and cowboys and postal mail across all kinds of difficult terrain. We have made you our sport, betting on your…
We’ve always been averse to cruise vacations. Climbing aboard a ship where you’ll live in close quarters with thousands of strangers for a week or more? No thanks. But lately, cruising has gotten downright scary.There was January’s Costa Concordia disaster, in which the ship ran aground and sank, killing more…
Those crazy Frenchmen. So angsty. So amorous. So delicate, and yet so egotistical. Don’t believe the stereotypes? Go see The Conquest, director Xavier Durringer’s ripped-from-the-headlines tale of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rise to power. The film addresses everything you’ve heard about the politician: the womanizing, the political trickery, the confrontations…
Sure, there’ll be lights, and you can probably even expect a camera or two. But at the Miami International Film Festival, it’s all about the action. Hot, steamy film action — sometimes sweet, sometimes dirty, and always rare and exotic. More than 100 films will screen Friday through March 11,…
In this economy, everyone loves a comeback story. Y’know what else people love in tough times? Free stuff. So we expect SoundScape Park to be packed full Wednesday night for the screening of The Natural, part of the weekly SoundScape Cinema Series. The Natural tells the story of Roy Hobbs,…
Miami can be a pricey place to get your art on. There’s Art Basel, where the world’s 1 percent gather in South Beach to spend gazillions on the visuals. There’s the city’s myriad cultural benefits and fundraisers, with tickets often costing $100-plus. Hell, in this economy, it’s hard enough just…
Troy and Abed in Mi-aaaaaaa-mi! Well, minus Abed. Donald Glover, better known to fans of the TV show Community as Troy Barnes, steps out of the ensemble cast for a comedy feature Saturday at the Fillmore. And if you know Glover only for the ditsy character he plays on television,…
The Miami International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday, is celebrating its 29th year. It’s no longer just a highbrow affair at the Gusman Center downtown, but a ten-day festival showing films selected exclusively for Miami’s diverse, culture-hungry audience. The 11 venues hosting the 2012 edition — including the Olympia…
We at Cultist do not endorse the folks behind Cholafied, the Tumblr account that posts Photoshopped images of celebrities with exaggerated, painted-on eyebrows and heavily lined lips. It’s crass. It’s superficial. It’s insensitive. And frankly, it’s downright racist.Also, we’re pissed we didn’t think of it first.Dozens of stars, from Steve…
The good news first: You won’t have to watch Tim Tebow shake his bon-bon on TV this year. (Not until football season starts, anyway.)The bad news: You will, however, be subjected to mediocre shimmying and shaking by a whole roster of D-list celebrities on Dancing With the Stars’ new season,…
The 2012 Academy Awards are old news, but they have left us with at least one lasting legacy: @angiesrightleg.The Twitter account written from the point of view of Angelina Jolie’s leg, which her dress scandalously exposed during the red carpet and ceremony, boasts over 26,500 followers this morning — 10,000…
Remember when watching the Oscars was just that — watching the ceremony without any distractions, except for playing drinking games and tracking your Oscars pool? Man, did that ever suck.Thank god Twitter came along and changed things forever. These days, the real show is online, where everybody hates everything and…
You’ve gotta laugh at the Oscars red carpet sometimes. All the stars are out to make a big splash, but unlike the Grammys, none of them want to be too wacky. The Academy takes itself seriously (just ask Sasha Baron Cohen), and on the red carpet, its attendees do the…
Admit it: You have a weakness for The Biggest Loser. It’s only natural. The show’s a perfect blend of schadenfreude and fitness inspiration. But when the show ends and you’re still comfortably wedged into your couch with a bag of Cheetos next to you, that inspiration disappears into thin air.Why…
When it comes to movies, right now all eyes are on this weekend’s Oscars ceremony. But when the little golden men have been handed out in Hollywood and the West Coast calls it a season and goes home, South Florida’s film fanatics are just getting started.One week from today, the…
Poor Chris Brown. He’s had a rough couple weeks.Ever since he jumped back into the national spotlight with his Grammy performance, everybody’s out to get him. Critics panned his show. Feminists and other sane individuals were horrified at some girls’ tweets about it. Birds attacked his face. Then the whole…
It’s a question that’s never been definitively answered. But on April 7, we’ll know for sure.That’s when the film Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope takes over the Fillmore Miami Beach, creating an approximation of geek mega-conference Comic Con inside the otherwise hip theater. If all goes as planned,…
If you read all three Hunger Games books in as many days, follow the Capitol Couture blog, and have a “Hunger Games” alert set up in Google News (not that we do any of those things), prepare to be very excited.If, on the other hand, you’re not a fan of…
At last night’s Brit Awards, Adele won the award for Album of the Year. And she seemed pretty psyched about it — until she was cut off in the middle of her acceptance speech. In response, she flipped the bird……which, of course, made us flash back to M.I.A.’s Super Bowl…
Good news, perverts: Rule 34 — “If it exists, there is porn of it” — is still in full effect.Two readers of the blog Unicorn Booty were apparently inspired by Rick Santorum’s increasingly anti-sex and anti-gay statements on the campaign trail to compose his portrait. The catch? It’s made entirely…
Will Ferrell’s new movie, Casa de Mi Padre, doesn’t open wide until March 16. But you have the chance to see it before anyone else, thanks to the South Beach Comedy Festival, which will present the first public screening of the film Feb. 29 at the Colony Theatre. The film…
You remember Skrawberry. She’s one of the strippers who crashed Morning Joe’s set last month (along with her friend an colleague Tip Drill who, Skrawberry reports, is expected to make an impressive recovery). Miss Skraw was also kind enough to provide us with her reactions to the Republican presidential candidates…
