MIFF Director Jaie Laplante on Palme d’Or Contenders at Cannes

Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director Jaie Laplante as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. As another Cannes Film Festival winds down, all the chic cineastes here on the Croisette are pretending not to care about the Grand Jury prizes, awarded in a glitzy ceremony…

Macho Man Randy Savage Dead After Tampa Accident

That’s it; we’re convinced the world’s going to end tomorrow. Macho Man Randy Savage has died, and truthfully, Cultist doesn’t want to live in a time where the greatest professional wrestler isn’t pushing Slim Jim. We’re taking the tragic news as confirmation that the Rapture is in fact looming. TMZ…

Eleven Best Things to Do This Weekend

The notion that all our good, non-sinning friends will vaporize and ascend to heaven tomorrow is a little bit dark and a whole lot of ridiculous. That’s why our Rapture soundtrack includes this Darth Vader guy to the right, who plays the foreboding “Imperial March” before seamlessly segueing into Daddy…

Isabel, All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Fashion Breakdown: All jewelry from the Miami International Merchandise Mart, clutch found online five years ago from L.A., dress from Nicole Miller, platform shoes from Steve Madden, make-up mostly MAC, lashes Dior, and eyebrows threaded…

Miami Finally Gets an Indie Craft Market with Brickell Bazaar

Nightingales in large cities have learned to belt out 95-decibel songs (i.e., as loud as a chain saw) in order to make themselves heard over everyday clamor. And it’ll take a similar effort for this Saturday’s Brickell Bazaar to get noticed in blingy, bass-thumping Miami. Presented by DJ Oski, Queen…

The Haircut‘s Ken Clement on Borscht, Sideburns, and Acting

The Haircut, for many in attendance, was a delightful treat at last month’s Borscht Film Festival. Clocking in at a little over five minutes, the short was filled with wonderful twists and turns. If you recall, a man saunters into a barbershop at night feeling insecure about his haircut. He’s…

Five People Whose Lives Were Ruined by Porn

Once upon a time, there was a society that looked down on people like the spoiled daughter of OJ Simpson’s defense attorney pocketing $5 million in a “settlement” with Vivid Entertainment after a golden shower sex tape starring herself was self-released. But not modern society! Now we reward such desperate…

Nine Ways to Get Your Ass Kicked at Cuba Nostalgia Expo

Listen, you don’t establish the credibility and following that Cultist has in the community by badmouthing your largest reader demographic. Trust us. We know where our tostadas Cubanas are buttered. And don’t get us wrong, some of our best friends are Cuban. Actually, many of our writers are Cuban. We…

Maher’s Secret

Bill Maher is acerbic and offensive. He’s dry and crass and even the people who agree with him most sometimes want to slap the smug grin off his Hollywood-elite face. Before he got his first television show in 1993, by the way, he appeared occassionally on Murder She Wrote and…