This year’s Miami International Film Festival is replete with enough films to blow your independent film loving ass clean off with 100 films from 40 countries including Oscar nominated films, international films, an animated film (for adults!), the requisite local-focus films, and rapper 50 Cent starring as a football star…
There are a few times a year when Miami makes us proud. One is the annual Zombie Walk, where droves of 305-ers douse themselves in blood and pretend to eat brains. Hundreds showed up to last year’s and considering the early recruitment for the 2011 walk, we only expect those…
As if extolling eroticism as a function of the gaze, Milagros Maldonado appears eager for thousands of hungry eyes to experience the same pleasure she enjoys from the works in her collection. “Beyond the Erotic: From the Collection of Milagros Maldonado,” on view at her 25,000-square-foot retrofitted Dorissa Building art…
“FALSEwork” Through March 5 at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, 2247 NW First Pl., Miami; 305-448-8976; snitzer.com. Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Loriel Beltran’s artwork focuses as much on the toil involved in producing it as it does on the finished product. The young artist is known for forcing…
Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) have achieved somnolent routine in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yet the wives worry. Rick is a girl-watcher; Fred masturbates in the privacy of their parked Honda Odyssey (his…
Paramount, distributor of David O. Russell’s The Fighter, celebrated the helmer’s Best Director Oscar nomination by placing a “For Your Consideration” ad on the cover of Variety, touting him as “the comeback of the year.” It was an odd choice of phrasing, considering that The Fighter, Russell’s first feature to…
An adaptation of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman’s novel about Upper Manhattan entitlement and sanctimony, this minor 2009 Toronto Film Festival entry has been dusted off to capitalize on insatiable, inexplicable Natalie Portmania. Portman, who also executive-produced, stars as Emilia Greenleaf, the home-wrecker of the title who becomes…
Long before Pam Anderson bounced down the beach in Baywatch, the original purveyors of jiggle TV were filming beautiful women running in Charlie’s Angels. And as bouncing bosoms never really go out of style, the lady crime fighter series is currently being remade by ABC. This time, however, the drama’s…
Who the fu(ck)nny are the Have-Nots? According to their co-founder, Jay Mays, “we are, without a doubt, the funniest comics you’ve never heard of before.” The comedy group was founded in May 2010, when Mays and fellow local comedian Dominic Perenzin met during a gig at Sweat Record’s monthly stand-up…
All families have drama. Some, like the McGrath sisters from Hazlehurst, Mississippi, might have more than others. Their mother hung herself, and her cat. One of them took aim at a husband to hide a secret, and the other, she’s got a great life and wonderful career—unfortunately it’s all in…
Locals, Mad Cat Theater Company will present “The Preservation Society”. written and directed by Paul Tei who you may have seen on as seen on Burn Notice as Barry the Money Launderer and on Zeke & Luther as Eddie Coletti. The play focuses on Polly Chekhov, a Hollywood, CA comedy…
Adam Carolla was the Pinky to Dr. Drew’s Brain on Loveline, drunkenly watched girls bounce on trampolines with Jimmy Kimmel in The Man Show, and is the voice of the The Adam Carolla Show. Thu., March 3, 8 p.m., 2011…
You’ve seen him alongside Snoop Dogg and Method Man in Soul Plane, with Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan in Death at a Funeral, and getting all kinds of rowdy after being denied a hook-up in The 40 Year Old Virgin. And obviously you want to see much more of Kevin…
You’ve certainly seen Wanda Sykes everywhere from Curb Your Enthusiasm, to Evan Almighty, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and to her most brilliant role to date Biggie Shortie in Pootie Tang. She has a distinctive sense of humor, both blunt and clever. Fri., March 4, 8 p.m., 2011…
Every year, gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer people converge in Miami Beach to celebrate their fabulousness at Winter Party Festival. This year, expect the requisite massive parties and infamous DJs but also events geared toward our more refined sensibilities such as cultural happenings, cocktail receptions, and, well, shopping. But…
Last year, during England’s under-appreciated holiday, National Pancake Day, we woke up drunk in the parking lot of Churchill’s Pub. We went inside and had an awesome flapjack breakfast even though it was afternoon. This year, we’re doing it again, but we’re going to use Guinness instead of maple syrup…
Consider this a public service announcement: Before you buy tickets for The Redemption of General Butt Naked, which screens on Monday as part of Miami International Film Festival, know what you’re getting into. Although it shares the same name as your senior prank — the one in which you streaked…
There was a time when parents allowed their children to explore the world relatively unsupervised. Kids could ride bikes to school alone or hang out at video arcades for hours on end. Then came the Adam Walsh story AKA every parent’s worst nightmare. In 1981, the six-year-old boy, whose image…
At times, it seems as if Chicago Bulls point guard sensation Derrick Rose has merely decided to use basketball as an elaborate audition for Cirque du Soleil. His drives to the basket often result in dunks and lay-ups that are simply mind-bending, with Rose twisting and contorting in the air…
More than booze, boobs, and general mayhem, Carnival, the season of festivities leading up to Lent, is defined by two things: music and culture. Imagine Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome without samba or the streets of Trinidad without soca. Here in the U.S., however, Mardi Gras has made Carnival synonymous with…
There’s soccer, and there’s volleyball. And nary the twain shall meet. Unless, of course, you live in Asia where kick-volleyball, or sepak takraw, is played. The sport is even more amazing than it is rare. Players kick a small ball, called a rattan, over a net that is about head-high…
Finally, there’s a place to wear your new Budweiser T-shirt now that the KISS Country Chili Cookoff is over. Come Saturday, the NASCAR-owned Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, Grand Prix of Miami, will zip into the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Now, if that’s not news that makes you want to jump up,…
