When the film Only God Forgives was released 2013, it divided critics. Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn was riding high on the breakthrough popularity of 2011’s Drive, starring Ryan Gosling. Only God Forgives was meant to be his follow-up film with Gosling, but it was anything but a sequel. Defined…
Making and/or having a child seems like such a struggle, or at least film has injected that mentality to someone like myself: someone who will eventually resort to adoption or in vitro fertilization (IVF) because of my queerness. With that said, a film like Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby doesn’t make…
On Monday morning, we can only assume your water cooler talk turned from hating your boss to Bruce Jenner. And with 16.9 million viewers and 972,000 Tweets sent about the ABC program, there is no doubt of why. One person who can talk about it in a special way is…
Women with disabilities aren’t exactly in the cinematic spotlight, which is an absolute shame because they’re just as deserving of representation as everyone else. And Laila, the main character of Margarita With a Straw, is no different than any other young woman her age, except for the fact that she…
Because you know it’s not just the dudes that deserve to be called out. When it comes to dating in Miami, we really have to ask: Are we meeting terrible men on Tinder because there are terrible men trolling the women of Miami, or are we just putting all the…
MDC Live Arts closes out their season on Saturday with the RUBBERBANDance Group, a Montreal-based dance company that seamlessly fuses hip hop and ballet aesthetics to create a unique movement experience. Speaking from his hotel room during a Philadelphia tour stop, company founder Victor Quijada speaks more like a scientist…
David Foster Wallace explained the postmodern angst with familiarity by recounting his first kiss: “Unlike my parents’ generation, by the time I was a teenager, I had probably seen thousands of images of kisses hopelessly coloring my experience.” And in a world dominated by image-heavy social media like Instagram and…
A post-Wikipedia biographical documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck finds Brett Morgen constructing a feature-length collage of notebook entries, demo tapes, rehearsal footage, home movies, archival photos, and drawings and artwork by the late Nirvana frontman. It’s an impressive, comprehensive assemblage, designed to impart not a point-by-point historical account but,…
Avengers: Age of Ultron is a complicated, ticking machine — a cuckoo clock under attack. Returning helmer Joss Whedon is earnestly trying to make a movie out of a bag of bolts: six stars, nine cameos, three enemies, and at least ten films to go before the climactic Avengers: Infinity War — Part II opens in May 2019.
It’s tempting to suggest that if you have any interest in Iranian film in general, or in particular Asghar Farhadi — the director and writer of that shred-your-heart masterpiece A Separation — you should simply get yourself to Farhadi’s About Elly without knowing a thing about it besides its title.
A normal movie ends with the American Humane Association’s assurance that “No animals were harmed.” But Tippi Hedren’s doomed 1981 obsession Roar isn’t normal.
As Olympic gold medalist and reality television star, Bruce Jenner confirmed the rumors that he is a transgender woman, local trans teen Jazz Jennings praised him for his bravery. (A note on pronouns: per GLAAD’s guidelines, New Times is referring to Jenner by the masculine pronoun and his birth name…
Just yesterday, I was driving down NE Second Avenue, and I saw I was trailing a truck with images of raw meat products on the rear door. The tagline for the company read: “We meat all your expectations.” I know in my head that this truck probably drives all around…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we marvel at teen horror film Unfriended, and while it is “85 minutes of watching someone else use a computer,” the filmmaker’s adept at turning a screen into a natural storytelling platform: “Director Levan Gabriadze summons up exquisite unease just by the way…
Another week, another crop of weirdos making Florida look bad. All drunk, bikini-clad grandmas and snakebite boys aside, we’ve had a pretty rich run this month with city-wide poetry fest O, Miami, not to mention this week’s Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. For those who can’t shell out dough…
The teen poets of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties are returning to O, Miami this year in SOul FLO, an event showcasing the immense talent that makes up Miami’s newest generation of poets and performers. This is the second year O, Miami has partnered with the City of Sunrise in Broward…
In a society currently fully immersed in their cell phones or assorted mobile devices, it’s actually an act of radicalness for an artist to invite folks out to play. And that’s what artist Stella Ray does at her show. “My hope is that people attending will find creative ways to…
There are only a handful of films about cruising that actually work: last year’s Stranger by the Lake is an example of a deliciously rare work of art that maintained its initial seduction throughout the entire film. The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival presents us with Amor Eterno (Everlasting Love),…
Borscht Corp, Miami’s film collective, is taking the leap into feature films, and they want talented locals on board. This weekend the organization is hosting two open casting calls. They’re looking for new talent (no acting experience required) to star in a coming of age flick set in Liberty City…
The weekend is finally here, and this weekend the Magic City offers plenty of entertainment: From the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, to Wynwood Life, Tyler, the Creator and more. So get out and enjoy the city before the summer comes and makes it almost painful to go outside…
Art spaces are popping up everywhere these days — downtown, the Upper Eastside, MiMo and, of course, Wynwood. But Lemon City’s Flowerbox Projects has a unique vision that sets it apart from the crowd. The brainchild of artists David Marsh and Kristen Soller, the space supports emerging artists who have a…
It’s hard to be a queer film lover sometimes; struggling to find movies that offer reasonable representation or narratives more interesting than “hunky gay man falls in love”. And, while those movies are going to get made and folks are going to watch them on Netflix, a lot of queer…
