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…
Protesters plan to hold a march April 1 to ask Miami Seaquarium to let its most famous resident — Lolita the killer whale — retire. Despite the Seaquarium’s assurances that the orca is healthy and happy, experts testified last year that her health and living conditions are less than ideal.
The Boss Baby might look, at first, like any other major studio animation release. Directed by DreamWorks vet Tom McGrath (Madagascar, Megamind), the movie hits all the expected notes: the enduring importance of family, the persistence of untrustworthy/clueless adults, and the inherent hilarity of shoehorning David Mamet dialogue into a…
No director in America is hotter today than Miami’s own Barry Jenkins, fresh off his film Moonlight’s three Oscar wins, including Best Picture. No author had a bigger 2016 than Colson Whitehead, whose The Underground Railroad won a National Book Award and a favored spot on President Obama’s reading list.
British standup comedian Jimmy Carr is, by his own admission, “rude, crude, and offensive.” His sense of humor certainly isn’t for everyone. However, for those who enjoy properly dirty jokes, Carr is a virtuoso. He combines the razor-sharp barbs of a roastmaster, the concise one-liner genius of Mitch Hedburg, and the filthy vocabulary of Louis C.K. with a wit as quick as that kid in elementary school who was always ready with a devastating “yo’ mama” joke.
Niki Caro has the rare ability to elevate what could be emotionally manipulative schlock to earnest art. To judge by the trailer, her low-budget breakthrough feature Whale Rider (2003) seemed a straightforward children’s drama about a girl overcoming the odds — tame, commercial Disney fare. But the film itself proved…
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 Market #atMDD to Late Night Library at Floyd.
Witherspoon is a marvel, hilarious and exasperating.
CHIPS is the latest kitschy-yet-beloved cop show to get remodeled on the big screen as a bromantic buddy comedy. However, unlike the way the movie versions of Starsky & Hutch and 21 Jump Street played up those shows’ alleged homoeroticism for ironic, lighthearted laughs, CHIPS lets it be known from…
Anyone born in the late ’70s could probably roller-skate before they could walk, and hum the Village People’s “YMCA” before they could spell the alphabet. So obsessed was America with roller skating and disco that when the two combined, the pop-culture phenomenon of roller disco exploded like Aquanet in the ’80s.
The marriage between HBO and Dwayne Johnson takes the next step Monday when Rock and a Hard Place, a documentary Johnson produced, airs on the channel. The documentary follows incarcerated juveniles looking to cash in on a second chance as they attempt to conquer and complete the Miami-Dade County Corrections & Rehabilitation Boot Camp…
The Four Seasons Miami is no longer the tallest building in the Sunshine State.
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.
In one duet, two dancers use their bodies as counterweights, springing forth from each other with explosive power. In another, dancers form a sharp line before torsos undulate and fall one by one to the ground, leaving a solitary figure standing among the fallen.
Just last month, the FilmGate Interactive Media Festival had a ball at the University of Miami, where the fest hosted a series of film screenings, workshops, and virtual-reality and mixed-reality experiences. Now that the latest edition of the festival is in the rear-view mirror, what have the FilmGate Miami folks…
To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters airs March 26, PBS Some of us can never have too much of the Brontës. But I understand if your response to another dose of costume drama on the moors is “Shoot me now.” Reader, be strong! If you were dead, you’d be deprived…
Miami’s A-list fashionistas won’t have to fret if their iPhones break while taking Instagram selfies at Brickell City Centre. A shiny new Apple Store is set to open Saturday, March 25, at Miami’s newest luxury retail destination, saving Mac lovers a trip to Aventura, Lincoln Road, Dadeland, or, heaven forbid, the area’s first mecca for MacHeads, the Apple Store that opened in 2001 at the Falls in the suburbs of Kendall.
Dr. Michael Salzhauer, one of the most famous and successful plastic surgeons in Miami, is also one of the camera-friendliest. He’s built his business in large part through viral videos and social media stunts. Now he’s taking the next logical step: starring in his own reality TV show. This Friday,…
Miami might be known for glitz and glam, but beneath the South Beach sheen, the Magic City has a bit of a seedy underbelly. A variety of outré experiences lurks around town for oddity hunters with a keen eye, but it takes a special kind of recklessness to trespass into, say, a spooky, decrepit missile silo deep in the Everglades.
The antagonistic atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair relished it when Life magazine called her “The Most Hated Woman in America” in the 1964 profile that only heightened her notoriety. That designation followed the 1963 Supreme Court ruling on Murray v. Curlett (and another lawsuit) that ended Bible-reading in public schools. Director…
If our future robot overlords eradicate humanity, will a robot philosophy take the place of our humanoid musings? Luciana Parisi, a scholar of technology in culture, art, and politics, is researching the consequences of techno-logic, or the organic development of reasoning in machines. Her lecture, part of the Art…
Gina Prince-Bythewood has directed two of the most devastatingly romantic films of this millennium — Love & Basketball (2000) and Beyond the Lights (2014) — so it might seem odd at first to see her at the helm of a TV show about police violence, unsolved murders, and race relations…
