Classic Films in Miami This Month: Twin Peaks, 1984, and Beyoncé’s Lemonade Inspiration
From an inspiration for Beyoncé’s Lemonade to a protest against Trump’s proposed arts-funding cuts, these are the classic films showing in Miami in April 2017.
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Jimmy Carr’s Offensive Jokes Had His Miami Audience Howling — in a Good Way
Even if a joke doesn’t contain profanity, that hardly prohibits it from being cruel or offensive. Take this one-liner from British comedian Jimmy Carr: “A big girl once came up to me after a show and said, ‘I think you’re fatist.’ I said, ‘No. I think you’re fattest.’”
A “Floating Net Sculpture” Might Be Headed to Downtown Miami
Locals are interested in bringing a jellyfish-looking net sculpture to downtown Miami, where it would float in the air just above the lawn in Museum Park.
Free Events This Week in Miami: O, Miami Poetry Festival, Moonlight, and Pride Week
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Enjoy what’s new in town, from the O, Miami Poetry Festival to Pride Week.
After the Storm, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Latest Masterwork, Is Indispensable
If civilization were to end tomorrow — and who the hell knows, it just might — we could learn a lot about building the next one from the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda. Back in 1998, the Japanese director had his U.S. breakthrough with the wildly acclaimed After Life. Since then,…
Half-Assed and by-the-Numbers, Ghost in the Shell Betrays Its Source
Ghost in the Shell looks great, sounds great and has a gaping hole at its center — where its emotional core should be. This big-budget adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime classic (Masamune Shirow’s comic premiered in the late 1980s, Mamoru Oshii’s highly influential first film version in 1995)…
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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald‘s Last Full-Time Film Critic, Is Done Critiquing
Miami has a storied history in film. It’s been the setting for movies such as Goldfinger, Scarface, The Birdcage, and War Dogs. The Miami Film Festival has repeatedly made history. Award-winning actors (Matt Damon, John Travolta) and directors (Michael Bay, Brett Ratner) have called the city home.
Feud Has Delicious Details and Great Performances — So Why Isn’t It Better?
Life is in the details, and the remarkable yet frustrating eight-part miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan, of which four episodes have aired so far, is at its best when it captures the quiet textures of a given day: Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon), waking up at 5 a.m. on the first…
All the Best TV to Watch This Month, Women-Created-Shows Edition
This April, let us celebrate the glory of the flowers blossoming in vaginal fashion by only highlighting shows created by women. The list will be shorter than usual because Hollywood hates women, and we aren’t allowed to create magical stuff, and the world is worse off because of it. Anyways,…
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Miami Beach Pride Plans City-Wide Light Show Honoring Orlando Shooting Victims
Saturday, June 12, 2016, was a tragic day for the LGBTQ community worldwide. Forty-nine people were killed during Latin Night at Pulse, a gay nightclub and bar in Orlando, in the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States. As one year since the massacre approaches, the Miami LGBTQ community is doing its part to honor the victims with a poignant city-wide installation, Pride Lights the Night.
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, parties, and boozy beverages galore. From Coral Gables to Little Havana to South Beach, these are the best places to be until the sun comes up Monday morning.
The Science Museum’s Sloth Statue Will Reportedly Move to Omni Park
Because the science museum is set to open its new downtown location in early May, many of the old location’s items, including the iconic sloth statue, are in a state of limbo regarding their next home. However, the sloth will most likely be moved to Omni Park.
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Tigertail’s Fire Festival Brings Contemporary Creatives to Miami
Festivals in Miami conform to a bit of a mold: They’re typically bass-heavy, unflinchingly hedonistic, and rhyme with “shmultra.” Mary Luft of Tigertail Productions has worked tirelessly since the ’80s to break that mold. Her company concentrates on bringing to the 305 the most contemporary and avant-garde performers for events that otherwise might never see daylight in South Florida.
Miami City Ballet’s Closing Program Features Patricia Delgado’s Final Bow
Miami City Ballet will conclude its season this week with a rich selection of repertory pieces: two from George Balanchine, in very expressive but distinct modes, and one from modern-dance master Paul Taylor at his genial best. Company premieres this year have upped expectations and trumpeted growth, but the current program reconfirms the quality of the company’s long-held artistic assets.
Ballet Flamenco La Rosa Brings Drama, Passion in La Casa de la Muñeca
Ballet Flamenco La Rosa’s studio evokes the feel of a tablao in Spain. The strumming of the guitar, the rapid-fire rhythms of footwork, and the soft vocals of the singer reach across time and place. The piece being rehearsed, La Casa de la Muñeca (inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House), is likewise timeless and carries universal themes, dealing with anxieties that resonate in the most innate way.
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In His Blood: The Blackcoat’s Daughter‘s Oz Perkins on Crafting His Standout Horror Films
When writer/director Osgood “Oz” Perkins asked his musician brother Elvis to score his first film — a demonic-possession horror pic starring Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton and Emma Roberts called The Blackcoat’s Daughter — Elvis, he says, was “cavalier” about it. Elvis expected to learn the process through doing, and Oz…
Eyes on Miami: DNCE, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ja Rule, and Others
This week, World Red Eye spotted DNCE, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ja Rule, Robin Thicke, and many other famous faces living it up in Miami’s clubs.
In The Discovery, Robert Redford Finds Heaven, So Everyone Starts Killing Themselves
The premise for Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery is so simple and poetic that it’s hard to believe it hasn’t been done before: A scientist discovers definitive proof of an afterlife, and the world responds with mass suicides. McDowell, who scored a sleeper hit with The One I Love — which…
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The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Thursday Doughnuts used to be the butt of cop jokes and sad office kitchens, but no longer. Much like tacos and toast, the humble doughnut has been elevated to an art form. To celebrate this renaissance, the Donuts! Fest is bringing all the glazed and cream-filled masterpieces to one place…
Project 305 Aims to Create a “Portrait of Miami” With Locals’ Recordings
Miamians are invited to submit sights and sounds that represent Miami for the New World Symphony’s Project 305. It will then be made into an orchestral performance and film.
View-Through Project Aims to Get Poetry by Prisoners Into Google’s Algorithm
O, Miami’s View-Through project aims to change Google’s algorithm so that the phrase “Miami inmates are…” is auto-filled by six poems written by local inmates.
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Hollywood at War: Five Came Back Illuminates the Art and Fate of Great Directors in WWII
Unpromisingly, Five Came Back, a series that surveys the military service of Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler — who cut off their Hollywood careers to serve in the Second World War and were thereafter irrevocably changed both in profession and in life — opens…