It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with WorldRedEye, New Times…
Vives relies heavily on cliché cues, showing us the extent of Nina’s damage with scenes of her smoking cigarettes in the shower, puking backstage or making provocative sentiments about her abusive relationship: “keeps me from falling asleep during sex.”
The reality, though, is there’s much more to art deco than the buildings on South Beach that adorn so many postcards. The architectural side is just one facet of the deco school of design. There’s a long, beautiful history to the style that you’ll soon be able to explore in an exhibition coming to the heart of South Beach.
It’s a real American Horror Story when there aren’t any good events in town. But Miami has plenty this October for you to explore, especially if you’re into cinema. Spend every night that isn’t Halloween (and, well, maybe Halloween too) in a movie theater this season and spread the fear…
Childless people often see Halloween as an excuse to dress in skimpy costumes and binge on sugar. But parents know Halloween is really all about the kids. Who can resist this spooky time of year when kiddos yearn to scare and be scared? In the Magic City, little ones can…
The teacher in question, played by an excellent Maggie Gyllenhaal, takes an insistent interest in the life and (apparent) art of 5-year-old student Jimmy (Parker Sevak), who occasionally goes into a shuffling trance and mumble-recites evocative verses of his own invention
The cameras aren’t even there when the kids officially present their projects, but the filmmakers still wring the big day for all the drama they can, putting off as long as possible the revelation of whether any of their subjects win
Thursday You don’t have to wait until March to see some of the competition flicks hitting the 36th Miami Film Festival. Gems boasts an intimate selection of movies, all of which you will absolutely be talking about next year. At MDC’s Tower Theater, see titles such as Diamantino, directed by…
Neon-feathered polar bears striking a pose. Goldfish ready to take flight from their bowls. Large taxidermic creatures emerging from a pool of coffee beans. Welcome to the world of Paola Pivi, opening her solo show “Art With a View” at the Bass this Saturday, October 13.
As her marriage opens up, and Colette begins to take lovers of her own, Knightley summons up a moving sense of both relief and recklessness
The #MeToo Movement has shed light on the misconduct of numerous men in power: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and now… Count Dracula? When South Florida playwright Michael McKeever set out to bring the story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the stage, he wanted it to stand out from the countless…
Each beat of this plays out with exquisite delicacy, as does the exchange where the crook lays out, with exacting detail, how he’d rob this diner if it were a bank — and then takes it all back, letting her think he was joking
Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is back with its annual Gems event of weekend movie premieres at the Tower Theater in Little Havana. This year’s edition will screen several movies likely to become Best Foreign Language Film contenders at next year’s Academy Awards. Here, New Times film critics Juan…
Created by New York-based artist Derrick Adams, the billboard, “Vote,” carries a simple but profound message of only five words: “Ride, walk, drive, march, vote.”
Crafting his pseudo-realistic account of the crimes and trial of anti-Islamic murderer Anders Behring Breivik (Anders Danielsen Lie), writer-director Greengrass … examines the attacks through the pinhole lens of post-disaster trauma
Bad Times is a much better time in its mysterious middle, which tingles with darkly comic possibility, than in its final 40 minutes, when Goddard’s cards are on the table
As a child, Kelly Link would excitedly await South Florida’s hurricane season. The sense of trepidation an oncoming storm would bring is what the 2018 MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow used for later writing inspiration. “That sense you have when you’re a kid, living in Florida — that feeling during the hurricane season, something big might be on the horizon.” Now an author, she says, “It’s great preparation for imaging worst-case scenarios and then imaging the extraordinary coming into a landscape and changing everything.”
A tense, terse drama that plunges us headlong and handheld into the high-risk world of the space race in the 1960s, the film spares few moments for reflection or reverie
The Listening Den, a primer on the 2018 constitutional amendments, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, October 8 through 14.
It has become abundantly obvious that the forces of truth, justice, and the American way have gone out of fashion. Superman is dead, and the barbarians have taken over the republic. Every day, fools and hypocrites like Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins stand at their pulpits and shamelessly voice their…
This alien being, which helpfully calls itself Venom, is a fairly terrifying creation: a many-fanged, slobbery, snake-tongued monster that loves to eat people’s heads
Even before Pérez Art Museum Miami’s big opening night for the exhibition of historical and archival materials from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands, it was clear this would be a different kind of show. As Christo himself said during a private tour a few days before the official opening: “This is not a normal exhibition. It’s a documentary exhibition — it goes beyond a work of art. It’s more like a museum of natural history.”
