Miami needs its own holiday anthem. We collaborated with famed DJ/performer Otto von Schirach for our own Magic City version of “The 12 Days of Christmas.” Get ready to put the video on repeat and sing along: On the 12th day of Christmas, my papi gave to me: 12 cajas…
It seems that Oscar Isaac has had a busy December. Earlier in the month, his latest short film, Ticky Tacky, was released as the short of the week on ShortoftheWeek.com. Then, he received his second Golden Globe nomination for his work as Nick Wasicsko on HBO’s miniseries, Show Me a Hero…
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…
Pamela Anderson is many things: an actress, a model, a mother, a tireless animal advocate. Now, she’s even a fashion designer who released two lines of vegan accessories earlier this year: one, a ’90s-inspired shoe line with French designer Amélie Pichard; the other, a line of cruelty-free, suede-like boots dubbed…
Children enthralled by orchestral music? An invitation to sing along with the symphony? In an age where orchestras either need to evolve or become extinct, Ted Ricketts has found a way for families to feel comfortable at a symphony concert. He’s created With Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the…
Thursday, December 24 Preparing holiday dinners can be a huge pain. Shopping for ingredients alone requires that beleaguered cooks take a day off work. Add in various family members’ dietary restrictions and you’ve got one expensive, time-consuming way to spend your Christmas vacation. For those looking to buck the cooking…
The new year is almost upon us, and while many folks will meet midnight by making out with a drunken stranger, one lucky couple will be getting hitched — in Times Square, of all places, at 12:30 a.m. on January 1, 2016. In the running for this very public tying-of-the-knot…
This year saw mass upheavals in Miami’s cultural landscape: Most of the established museums named new directors, an historic center closed its doors, a new institution broke ground on sprawling digs, and galleries flocked from Wynwood in search of cheaper rent. The death of the cofounder of the city’s biggest…
The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper’s portrait of Jazz Age painters Gerda Wegener and her spouse Einar, who butterflied into Lili Elbe via the first sex-reassignment surgery, is about gender and it isn’t. Like its subject, it’s fatally resolved to fit an ideal: the noble Oscar-bait biopic. If the script swapped…
Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin’s sweet nectarine of a jazz standard “Easy Living” figures, in a glancing yet potent way, in Todd Haynes’ Carol, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt. Even though the lyrics speak of contentment — “Living for you is easy living/It’s easy to…
Concussion isn’t much of a movie, but it’s a fascinating bellwether for where the National Football League stands on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative brain disease associated with many of its former players. It so happens that the human brain isn’t supposed to whip against the skull like a…
Fueled by impotent, blustery outrage, Adam McKay’s The Big Short, about the grotesque banking and investing practices that led to the 2008 financial collapse, is about as fun and enlightening as a cranked-up portfolio manager’s rue-filled comedown after an energy-shot bender. Based on Michael Lewis’s 2010 bestselling book of the…
Here’s to Quentin Tarantino’s cussed perversity. The Hateful Eight — his intimate, suspenseful western splatter-horror comedy — has been shot at great expense in the long-gone 70 mm format, but the movie itself is set almost entirely in cramped interiors. He’s hired Ennio Morricone to score the thing, but don’t…
What’s been missing for years in Hollywood’s adventure films? Verisimilitude. Correspondent with the rise of the computers, and the ability to show us any place that filmmakers can imagine, has been the fall of immersiveness — that sense that the actors are in a place you can’t go yourself rather…
Here’s a challenge. Gather some friends, pour some drinks and announce to everyone the premise of Daddy’s Home, the new family comedy about dads competing to be pater superior. It won’t take long: Will Ferrell is a doting schlemiel of a stepdad to suburban moppets whose biological father, played by…
In most of his eight films and especially since The Fighter (2010), choreographer of chaos and screwball scion David O. Russell has assembled boisterous, buoyant casts. His manic ensemble players, like those in Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, carom off one another, their high-pitched energy keeping the movies bustling…
Life is hard for the extravagantly wealthy lounging about in one of the world’s most beautiful hotels. Paolo Sorrentino’s latest might seem easy to mock — here, after all, are Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel, playing a composer and a film director, moping in a Swiss spa about old age…
According to Janet Galipo, everyone on the planet needs BodyTalk, but chances are few amongst us have actually heard about it. So what is it? BodyTalk is officially described as “a novel complimentary and alternative medicine that is best classified as mind-body medicine; addressing the physical, emotional, and social aspects…
Happy Holidays, Miami! Christmas is in the air, and that means your wallets are probably in a bad way. While we can’t alleviate the tension of the upcoming awkward family gatherings, we can do our best to give you some stellar entertainment when you escape — all free, fun, and…
Lurid, muscular and unafraid to look at turn-of-the-century Manhattan’s rotting guts, The Knick has distinguished itself in the crowded antihero-drama landscape through its mosaic portrait of a city on the verge of implosion and epidemic – detailed with an extraordinary visual expressiveness (courtesy of Steven Soderbergh, who directs every episode)…
Real talk: Women making movies are awesome. It would be easy to just post that as a complete article, because it’s true and we all know it, but end-of-year lists so rarely highlight films made by women due to the film industry being so focused on the overwhelming amount of…
The big breakthrough in Legend, the latest well-crafted studio throwback from writer-director Brian Helgeland (Payback, A Knight’s Tale, 42)? At long last, here’s one movie with two often incomprehensible Tom Hardy characters, sometimes muttering their Cockney swears at each other inside the same scene. Hardy plays twins, real-life gangsters who…
