It has been eight years since Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s last movie, The Flight of the Red Balloon. Though that film was told through the perspective of a Chinese student living in Paris, his return to filmmaking couldn’t be more heavily rooted in Chinese culture with an intimate wuxia story…
The best time of the week is finally here: the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. On the music front, you can catch Above & Beyond at Story, Joey Bada$$ at Revolution, Rob Thomas at Hard Rock Live, and Ricky Martin at American Airlines Arena. Locust Projects…
Despite the massive success of superhero films from both Marvel and DC, there’s something to be said for the formats in which those characters first appeared. Comic books may not be as fashionable as they once were, but for those who still collect, the support is strong. Animation, a longtime…
Acting as a preview to the yearly Miami International Film Festival put on by Miami Dade College being held in March 2016, GEMS boasts a small collection of films screening at the Tower Theater daily starting today through Sunday. Compared to last year’s MIFFecito mini-fest, things look promising. The lineup,…
Miami City Ballet opens its season Friday night at the Arsht Center with a program that is representative of what artistic director Lourdes Lopez calls a major milestone for a ballet company of its size — 30 years as Miami’s resident ballet company. It will be a season that tips…
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…
In his 2014 book Difficult Men, journalist Brett Martin identifies bad-boy antiheroes as the defining feature of our current “Golden Age” of television. Tony Soprano, Don Draper and The Wire’s Omar Little dazzle with their multifaceted complexity: How deep the furrow in Tony’s troubled brow! How pensive the trail of…
Critics lampoon him as a fast/furious lug nut, a hunk of well-oiled meat who doesn’t so much act as ka-thunk his face and body through its limited gears. To hell with them. Vin Diesel may not run smoothly, but he runs with purpose and conviction, and any line of dialogue…
When he was a young boy, Stephen Bogart remembers fondly a trip he took with his father, Humphrey Bogart, on a boat around the Catalina Islands in California. Stephen had a small plush skunk toy he used to play with by putting inside a crab trap cage. One night, he…
On Tuesday night, the Miami Jewish Film Festival presented a sold-out screening of Rhonda Mitrani’s Cuba Mia at Temple Moses. The film, which documents the story of a group of Cuban-born U.S. Jews who return to the Cuba of their childhood to find it both familiar and changed, also included a…
If you listen to NPR or are a fan of stories told out loud, then you’ve probably heard of The Moth. Created by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, the storytelling program has been around for more than a decade. “I started The Moth in New York in 1997 and…
Thursday, October 22 Chelsea Clinton has come a long way since her time at the White House (those teen years aren’t pretty for anyone — just imagine a whole nation watching your every prepubescent move). These days, however, the youngest Clinton is a wife, mom, and changemaker. Specifically, she’s vice…
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Director Helen Toomer described Art Basel Miami Beach as a summer camp for the art world; an incubator week were community heavyweights are nestled together on a thin barrier island, traversing various parties, events, and exhibits. The whole experience has the capability of creating strange bedfellows,…
The Knight Arts Challenge South Florida 2015 People’s Choice Awards nominees are live. The community can vote now through November 17 via text message for one of four selected Knight Arts Challenge finalists to receive $20,000 to fund their projects. It’s a text-to-vote campaign: pick your favorite group, and text…
Down the street from the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and just a few blocks from the designer boutiques in the Design District is a tiny white building on the corner of 43 Street and NE Second Avenue. Within that building, a collection of trinkets and fashion thrives. Earthy Chic…
The Toxic Avenger is one of the greatest bad movies of all time. It’s a film best appreciated after hours, in a dorm room, and under the influence of something. It’s also the signature title in the durable canon of B-movie distributor Troma — a studio that, among other sundry…
Something magical happens mid-October. The itch to get a little wild and weird gets harder to ignore, and Miami being the sassy lady she is accommodates us accordingly. Whether you’re young and free or saddled with responsibility, this is the time of year to be as out-of-character as you want. …
Acting as a preview to the yearly film festival being held in March 2016, GEMS boasts a small collection of films screening at the Tower Theater daily starting Thursday through Sunday. “GEMS is the name we came up with to best represent the personality of our new fall festival event,”…
Quick! Name the movie in which Bill Murray plays a proudly shabby dude who acts like a prick for an hour and then, for reasons of narrative convention rather than character-based truth, shambles toward either heroism or some vague be-nicer enlightenment. Maybe a tougher challenge would be to name the…
A super naturalistic study in class, bureaucracy, and censorial stupidity, Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature, Court plants viewers in the plastic chairs of an Indian court of law as 69-year-old protest singer Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar) is tried for a crime he didn’t commit by lawyers and a judge speaking a…
There are very few artists that can quell the collective cynicism among niche aficionados. Picasso is one of the very few twentieth century masters that can unite all echelons of the art world, bringing connoisseurs, students, and novices together to collectively fawn over his work. La Tauromaquia o Arte de…
If you think you can’t get down with short stories, then you haven’t read Mia Alvar. Her debut short story collection, In the Country, was published in June featuring Filipino characters living under martial law in their own country in the 1970’s and working and saving up in the Middle…
