Since his 1999 directorial debut, Ressources Humaines (Human Resources), a heartfelt portrayal of class divisions in contemporary France, Laurent Cantet has been making the kind of hyper-realistic, character-driven films that festivals often overlook in favor of edgier exercises in style. Well, no longer. Cantet’s newest film, Entre les Murs (The…
Welcome to Men on Film, starring me, Antoine Marryweather, where I review films from a male point of view. Tonight we have a brand-new sponsor, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Slogan: “It’s not hard until it’s hard as a rock.” First we have Hannah Montana: The Movie, the…
ESPN, that complete waste of cable bandwidth, cronyism, and corporate shill set to bad music, has few redeeming qualities. One exception is its off-hour replays of the World’s Strongest Man competition, particularly the original from 1977, when former Olympic weightlifter Bruce Wilhelm — looking awesome in a blue unitard, sideburns,…
The art world is a difficult place if you’re female — doubly so if you were painting portraits during the second half of the 20th Century, when abstract expressionism was in full swing and each decade’s aesthetic moved further and further away from the representational. So despite the fact that…
No need to wait until 2012 for the new Miami Art Museum building to be completed; MAM has a ton of diverse programming for the intellectually starved local. Besides its JAM@MAM parties and the Morning Lecture Series, the museum also hosts an art book discussion group at Books & Books…
If your dog could talk, what would it say about you? Would it dime you out for that illegal cable hook-up? Tell you to stop whining about your ex-girlfriend already? Order pizza when you asked it to? The canine brain has become more than an obsession for dog-owning writers, it’s…
They just don’t make public service announcement movies like they used to. Seriously, how hardcore is this 1976 Swine Flu PSA? Did John Carpenter make this thing or what? No wonder the 1976 outbreak was no big deal–this video would scare the living crap out of Chuck Norris. Which begs…
Reasons why Terminator: Salvation will likely be unwatchable:1. No Governor of California 2. It’s directed by McG: But despite these two enormous strikes, some of you will go anyway, and if you’re going to go, you might as well hit the promo screenings. Here they are: Monday, May 18, 7:30…
Poetry’s already a musical art form, but how does one translate it into instrumental music? Composers have tackled the challenge for years, from Doctor Faustus to Morton Feldman. The newest among their ranks is composer Pamela Marshall, who based her newest work on the lyrics of Cuban poet Carlos Pintado…
The category is “Event.” Eleven Letters. Solve the puzzle. _H_EL_OBI__. Give up? It’s the Wheelmobile, the touring promotional bus for the game show, The Wheel of Fortune, and it’s parked in Miami for two days this weekend. Here’s how it works: between noon and 4pm, the Wheelmobile will set up…
When you arrive at Galerie Adler Bertin-Toublanc this Saturday for Tigertail’s Art with Edge Party, you’ll be greeted by free valet parking and a live jug band organized by artist Clifton Childree, whom you might have seen in the March 9 issue of the New York Times. Celebrity doorpersons Merle…
Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Cordata; Class: Actinopterygii; Order: Perciformes; Family: Coryphaenidae; Genus: Coryphaena; Species: C. hippurus; a.k.a. Dolphin, a.k.a dorado, mahi-mahi, cavitos, maverikos, or lampuki, a.k.a very, very tasty when fried, grilled or blackened, a.k.a. the target of the 23rd Annual Coconuts Dolphin Fishing Tournament. A.k.a. Very much worth the short…
The Wallflower Gallery has been a cultural mainstay in downtown Miami for 12 years, from back when Miley Cyrus was still named Destiny Hope and Harry Potter had only two books about him. During that time, the folks behind the community arts space have never discriminated against any local art…
It’s difficult to imagine the risk François Truffaut took when he made his first feature film, The 400 Blows. For several years, he’d been the harshest critic at the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinema — so harsh that his nickname was “the Gravedigger.” In 1954, he published an article…
If Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman’s 2002 film Adaptation forever ruined orchids for you by superimposing their petals over a disgusting version of Nicholas Cage, now is your chance to burn some new images into those retinas. The Redland International Orchid Show is the largest of its kind in the…
As Christina Aguilera once said, “I also love to go to art and history museums.” Wise words, friends, and if Christina Aguilera were here this Saturday, she’d surely attend the Miami-Dade incarnation of International Museum Day. Admission to all participating institutions is free, and those who sign up for new…
Imagine if Christopher McCandless, instead of heading into the barren Alaskan wilderness, had traveled into the wilds of backwoods Australia. And instead of trying to become one with nature, he was trying to become the first Westerner to walk down the Prince Regent River to the King Cascade Falls, a…
Miami is a convention town, the junket heaven of the Southeast. Essentially identity-less, we’ll put on whatever mask your industry requires. Porn? No problem. Electronic music? Easy. Boating? Challenge us, please. We’ve also somehow become the art fair capital of the world, with more little tent shows congregating beneath the…
Reality shows live and die on the personalities of their hosts. While The Apprentice has been adding celebrities to try and off-set Donald Trump’s ineptitude, while Jeff Probst made himself so inseparable from the Survivor brand that even Mark Burnett spent the money to re-sign him in 2005 when he…
As wildly desperate as we were in expressing our love for the Smiths in the 80’s, we had nothing on the new crop of Latino-American Morrissey fans. Resonating with Mozzer’s recurring themes of alienation, morbidity, transcendence, and existential dread, these new devotees, who are often first- or second-generation Mexican immigrants,…
The Wallflower Gallery has been a cultural mainstay in downtown Miami for 12 years, from back when Miley Cyrus was still named Destiny Hope and Harry Potter had only two books about him. During that time, the folks behind the community arts space have never discriminated against any local art…
Don’t be confused by the title of The Jew and the Gentile, vocal assemble Serraphic fire’s newest concert. Even though it sounds like two-thirds of an antiquated joke, this performance contains some serious classical music. A combination of “the father of Jewish composition,” Salamone Rossi and his Catholic contemporary Claudio…
