The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, 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. Friday Sci-Fi…
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…
The Bronx is burning in the introductory episodes of The Get Down, Netflix’s new series that presents as urban-cinematic fable the genesis of rap. The cluttered, over-caffeinated 90-minute pilot, directed by creator and executive producer Baz Luhrmann, takes place in the summer of 1977, when a serial killer terrorized New…
Informed that the CDC has recommended that pregnant women avoid the Wynwood neighborhood where her new movie, Evolution, is to have its Florida premiere, writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic can’t help but burst into laughter. “Is this on purpose?” she asks during an interview from France. She wonders if the twisted minds…
Ellen Page’s complicated onscreen relationship with children continues in Tallulah, which reverses the Juno dynamic — this time her title character wants a kid who isn’t hers. Orange Is the New Black scribe Sian Heder makes her directorial debut with the sympathetic indie, a maternal character study that loses its…
Allison Janney is deflecting questions about herself to proclaim the talent and intelligence of her Tallulah co-star Ellen Page, whom she already step-mothered onscreen in 2007’s Juno, when she suddenly interrupts herself. “Oh my god,” she says. “I’ve been talking since six this morning. I’m bleary-eyed from all the conversations…
Searching for a new pad in Miami is equal-parts exciting, and terrifying. The prospect of starting fresh in some brand new digs sounds amazing, but scouring the Internet or hitting up the streets for an apartment in Miami-Dade that not only fits your budget, but fits you, is like finding…
Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis’ earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Josef (Jamie Dornan) and Jan (Cillian Murphy) skulk…
Amnesty International, the renowned Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights and social justice network, will host Art for Amnesty for the first time in Miami this Friday, August 12. The event, which will be held in Wynwood, is free to the public and consists of an art showcase, panel discussion, and…
Anyone with a four-legged friend knows the bond between dog and owner is one of life’s strongest. From morning cuddles and afternoon walks to road trips and movie nights, days spent next to your pup are better than anything else. Unfortunately, many places aren’t as dog-friendly as we wish them…
Thursday Any film detailing the life of Kurt Cobain, the troubled frontman for punk provocateurs Nirvana, won’t exactly be an upbeat experience. Nevertheless, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck offers fascinating insight into one of rock’s most enigmatic and iconic musicians, an artist whose promise was cut short by suicide when…
On both an emotional and narrative level, a Hirokazu Kore-eda film pulls you in slowly, almost unexpectedly. The acclaimed Japanese director, whose works include After Life (1998), Still Walking (2008) and Like Father, Like Son (2013), makes movies about things like loss, abandonment and death, but his distinct touch —…
Frizzy hair, fried skin, and sweat stains galore. Summer in Miami is a double-edged sword. While tourists travel from around the world to vacation on our luscious beaches, we residents stick to the pavement — going about our everyday lives while enduring Sahara-like temperatures. One man’s vacation is another man’s…
Horror junkies, rejoice: One of the most anticipated festivals for genre fans in South Florida kicks off this Friday. Popcorn Frights, the weeklong film festival taking place at O Cinema Wynwood, packs 17 features and an abundance of short films into just one week like so many dismembered limbs into…
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art has always been steeped in language. From the beginning of a spectacular career that began with graffiti and continued with partnerships that included Andy Warhol and Blondie, he blended art with words. Enigmatic phrases such as “Make soup, build a fort, set that on fire” and “A…
Catherine Corsini’s lovely, sultry Summertime, a 1971-set tale about two women of different ages and class backgrounds who fall in love, celebrates erotic abandon but never loses its mind. Unlike Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), France’s most notorious treatment of a sapphic sentimental education, Corsini’s movie, which…
With unflagging honesty and compassion, Clay Tweel’s documentary Gleason charts the journey of former New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason as he copes with the ruinous nerve disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. That description, however, can’t quite do justice to Tweel’s film, which is partly built around video journals…
Brady Corbet has emerged as the face of millennial malaise on the strength of roles in films like Simon Killer, Clouds of Sils Maria and Melancholia, but what he really wants to do is direct — and direct he does in The Childhood of a Leader, his ambitious behind-the-camera debut…
Pete’s Dragon is as cuddly as the mountains of plush toys Disney hopes to sell from it. A disarmingly homespun blockbuster, this loose remake of the studio’s 1977 live-action/animation hybrid is perhaps best defined by all the things it’s not: It’s not a soaring action flick, nor an indulgence in…
Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)…
In his latest family portrait, Our Little Sister, Hirokazu Kore-eda chronicles roughly a year in the life of the Koda clan — or what’s left of it. When, years ago, her father left for another woman and their mother subsequently abandoned the family to live her own life, Sachi (Haruka…
Spring cleaning might be a distant memory, but chances are you’ve still got a lot of crap cluttering up your space. Of course, one Miamian’s crap is another’s charming treasure. So to help you lighten your load, MDC Museum of Art + Design is accepting donations for a charitable, Paris-inspired…
