Is Any Part of Bill Cosby’s Legacy Worth Salvaging?

Bill Cosby’s present is secure. Despite the 17 women (so far) who have publicly come forward with notably similar allegations of drug-enabled sexual assault, the comedian received standing ovations for his stand-up performances in the Bahamas and in Florida recently. His comeback tour will likely continue over the next few…

Borscht 2014: Meet AholSniffsGlue’s Miami Bus Characters (Trailer)

While AholSniffsGlue’s signature sleepy eyes are popping up all over town for Miami Art Week, the Borscht Film Festival is showcasing one of his more personal artistic stories for their December film line-up. Biscayne World, AholSniffsGlue’s film collaboration with Borscht, recounts when the artist was the victim of a hit-and-run…

Garfield Creator Jim Davis Explains Why Cats Rule the Internet

Garfield creator Jim Davis is well aware of the internet’s cat obsession. In fact, he’s got an upcoming strip about it. “But if I told you the joke, I’d have to kill you,” he deadpans, before cracking his paternal composure with a chuckle. (He did tell me, and I’ve chosen…

Horrible Bosses 2 Is the Comedy the First Should Have Been

The third-greatest scourge of the Earth, right after online comments sections and bedbugs, is the unfunny comedy sequel, which might be why you think you should skip Horrible Bosses 2. The miraculous surprise is that Horrible Bosses 2 isn’t terrible at all. It’s looser, breezier, and more confident than its…

The Scarifying Babadook Is a Rare Horror Triumph

If we’re honest, most of us who relish a good horror film don’t actually hope to feel something like horror. The appeal is, instead, that of shock and surprise, all candied up, the crowd-pleasing bits staged with the kind of extended setup/payoff patience that the makers of comedies have long…

Godard Has a Ball Poking Another Stick in Your Eye — in 3D!

The experience of being eluded by Jean-Luc Godard has its consolations, foremost among them the 83-year-old director’s prerogative to elude. If a Godard film appears held together by random imagery, whispered non sequiturs, and a roll of duct tape, that’s exactly the point. To muddle through confusion, boredom, vaguely formed…

Is Any Part of Bill Cosby’s Legacy Worth Salvaging?

Bill Cosby’s present is secure. Despite the 17 women (so far) who have publicly come forward with notably similar allegations of drug-enabled sexual assault, the comedian received standing ovations for his stand-up performances in the Bahamas and in Florida recently. His comeback tour will likely continue over the next few…

Bernardo Britto: Animating Miami’s Weirdness

In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Animation… is the quickest way to get my thoughts out to other people,” says filmmaker Bernardo Britto…

Jaie Laplante: Film Fanatic

In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. If Miami is the bridge from Latin America to the Unites States, the Miami International Film Festival…

Aimee Carrero: Storyteller Onstage

In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. What was once an old, empty classroom has been transformed into an intimate, dark black-box theater. Fresh…

Borscht Film Festival Announces 2014 Lineup

Borscht has been quite the tease this season. The film fest dedicated to South Florida talent announced its 2014 dates back in October, and we’ve been hanging on for updates since. Film fiends got their wish today with the long-awaited lineup announcement, detailing the short films screening at this year’s…

Reminisce Late ’70s Miami With ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A.?: The Remix

Do you live in Miami? If you answered yes to that question, it’s quite possible you’re Cuban-American, and if you answered yes to that proposition, your top five favorite shows is likely to include late-’70s classic ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A? The first bilingual and Cuban-American sitcom is near and dear to…

Mockingjay Is Sharp on Propaganda but Soft on Celebrity

Over the first two Hunger Games films, we’ve watched coal miner’s daughter Katniss Everdeen become the pawn, then the pest, of the Capitol, whose President Snow (Donald Sutherland) has enslaved the adults of the 12 poorer Districts and annually commanded that they together sacrifice 24 of their children to likely…

Art and Craft‘s Trickster Forger Is an American Original

Knocking out the first-rate forgeries that fooled 60 American museums? That was a curiously mundane miracle, something for Mark Landis to do while watching television. A frail and ascetic Mississippian who resembles Michael Stipe playing Truman Capote, Landis sketched and painted minor Currans, Averys, and Cassatts with one eye on…

Jarvis Cocker and Pulp Go Home in an Engaging Doc

When I was a kid in upstate New York, I’d hear Petula Clark’s “Downtown” on the radio — a song about the promise of glittering lights, “movie shows,” and all the excitement and dazzle adult life had to offer — and revel in the anywhere-but-hereness of it all. That’s not…

Citizenfour Captures Urgent, Nerve-Racking History in Progress

Director Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe you’re watching. Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such intimate momentousness that the movie is a must-see piece of work even if, in its totality, it’s underwhelming as…

Constipation Crime Drama The Mule Offers Relief Only at the End

Perhaps it’s fitting that a crime drama about constipation should take so long to get going. Directors Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson’s tense true-life Australian drug-trafficking ick-out The Mule opens with a sweaty Ray Jenkins (Sampson) dropping trou and spreading for airport security, his face straining for a blithe cluelessness…

Stephen Hawking’s Marriage Makes for Wise but Glossy Drama

If the universe is infinitely finite, an entity whose mystery is knowable only through an evolving progression of theories and equations, it’s nothing compared to a marriage. Every marriage or long-term partnership is knowable only to the people inside it — and sometimes not even then. The Theory of Everything…