Imagine driving down the swanky streets of Miami, along Collins Avenue or passing by Fisher Island, nodding every time you pass a house or apartment where porn was once filmed. If you only knew, your head would never stop nodding. That’s the sort of inside-knowledge Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus…
It’s just another manic Monday. We still wish it was Sunday, enjoying those afternoon cocktails and toasting to badass ladies around the world. Though we’ve got to move forward into the weekly grind, there’s no reason why you can’t sneak in some fun — especially when it’s free. See also:…
It’s March. Are you feeling poetic? Load the paper into your typewriter (are you 80?) and break out your favorite inspirational beverage because O, Miami is just around the corner. The all-poetry-all-the-time celebration begins Wednesday, April 1; runs through Thursday, April 30; and is now accepting submissions for poet participants…
I nostri ragazzi isn’t the first time that Dutch novelist Herman Koch’s novel, The Dinner, has been adapted for film. Only a year or so after the Dutch adaptation of the book, we find ourselves with this Italian edition. Showing at the Miami International Film Festival under the novel’s title,…
It’s unsurprising that a film like Kenny Riches’ The Strongest Man would premiere at Sundance — the festival for this strange film — but less surprising that it would make its way back home for the Miami International Film Festival, because this is a movie that couldn’t have been made…
More often than not it seems like Miami is either a town for the very old or the very young. Either retirees or barely-twenty somethings who think of the city as a perpetual party. But for those who’ve said a permanent goodbye to their twenties, but aren’t quite ready for…
The weekend is finally here, and this weekend the Magic City offers plenty of distraction. From Elton John’s pop-piano ballads, Santana’s guitar jams, to museum exhibitions, book readings and even a Asian culture festival. There’s plenty to love this weekend. Happy weekend, Miami. See also: Miami International Film Festival 2015…
Tonight Books and Books welcomes National Book Award Winner, Phil Klay. Klay’s story collection, Redeployment, sketches the lives of the young American men deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Klay, a former Marine who served in Iraq, draws fully-formed characters, and his collection is no mere celebration of military heroics. Rather,…
This is South Florida, the capital of all things weird and wacky. So, it’s not usual for people to have tigers in the back yard or pythons in the bedroom. Unfortunately though, many people underestimate the effort that goes into caring for an exotic pet, and all too often they…
It’s not often we witness a film that has a sympathetic protagonist who happens to be a police officer, much less one that actually deserves the audiences’ attention. But the South Korean film A Girl At My Door, is exactly that. Actress Bae Doona stars as the police chief of…
“I love Miami,” says Spanish actress Paz Vega ahead of her visit for the Miami International Film Festival. “I have a lot friends living there. It is a fabulous city! And the best thing is the people. Every time that I go I have so much fun!” She will appear…
From Sundance to Toronto to South by Southwest, Miami filmmakers have made their mark on the festival circuit. The city’s most buzzed-about collective, Borscht Corp., has had work accepted at major gatherings around the world — but never at the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF). Until now. MIFF, which returns…
There are two kinds of humanist movie. One kind shows human beings struggling against the most unspeakable horrors, sorrows, or injustices and still, somehow, emerging with their essential goodness intact. The second, thornier type portrays people doing terrible things to one another — screaming, cheating, and generally making life hell…
The new Brooklyn is generally derided as a wilderness of double-wide strollers, young men with the facial hair of Canadian loggers circa 1852, and artisanal everything. But in Wild Canaries, a modestly scaled murder mystery/comedy from writer/director/star Lawrence Michael Levine, today’s Brooklyn is a place of danger and intrigue. Just…
Almost immediately after it was released, the 2011 stealth hit Best Exotic Marigold Hotel became more a punch line than a movie. Who knew “older” people were so starved for pictures featuring gorgeously shot exotic locales, not to mention people falling in love, falling out of love, or desperately hoping…
It’s an ironic truth that directors fascinated by robots tend to make inhuman movies. From Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner to last year’s Transcendence, these stories that ponder the gap between man and machine often reveal filmmakers unsure of where they fit in — they get so involved in the question…
This month the Magic City offers up a wide range of events aimed at the LGTBQ crowd. From the ever-colorful Shelly Novak awards to Winter Party, yoga, practically shirtless parties, and more highbrow culture at the Miami Film Festival. We’re rounded up the best of March’s events. Have fun. See…
Todos están muertos (They Are All Dead) is a weird movie. Humorous, sad, and as sweet as pie. It’s grounded in the lovely magical realism that often seems deeply embedded in Spanish culture. The film focuses on Lupe (Elena Anaya), who was once an eighties rock star and now lives…
The world is a terrible place. That’s the uncompromising truth with which Tina Fey and Robert Carlock begin Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), their follow-up to the under-seen but culturally monumental 30 Rock. The very first scenes of Unbreakable’s first season, which will be released in its binge-able entirety on March…
Plenty of cities with art cinemas pride themselves on their classic film programming. There’s always some kind of retrospective, screening of an old favorite on 35mm, or just an abundance of restorations or thematic programming. And Miami is finally stepping up to the classic film plate. Every month, the city…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s tumultuous marriage is the stuff of legend. In a relationship situated somewhere between codependent and abusive, the two Mexican painters married in 1929, divorced in 1939, and remarried in 1940. Though deeply fraught and troubled, the appeal of their relationship endures in large part because…
There are five reasons why Fox’s Empire has become a breakout hit, and on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we run down why the show, introduced as a mid-season replacement, has surged to nearly 14 million viewers an episode by its eighth week. Joining Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl…
