I was sitting at the bar of the Yarrow Hotel at Sundance, escaping, like many do, the inside of theaters and warming up with some sustenance of the alcoholic variety. The most low-key and unassuming spots always turn out to be where you meet the film industry power players, and…
Having trouble getting off the couch? Have your limbs become so large that you are now deeply ensconced into your furniture and cannot move unless it is to switch the TV on to another fast food commercial? Are you poor, or overworked, or lazy, or some combination thereof? Are you…..
The Five-Year Engagement Is Like Stale Doughnuts
We Have a Pope: A Toothless Satire of the Catholic Church
Damsels in Distress: Whit Stillman Returns With a Toe-Tapping College-Girl Fantasy
Safe: Jason Statham Returns for Enjoyable Skull Cracking
The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Aardman Animations Sails the High Seas
The Three Stooges: The Movie: The Farrelly Brothers’ Labor of Love
If you love zombies just as much as you love the Spanish language, 2012 has been a pretty awesome year for you. You already got a first look at Juan of the Dead during this year’s Miami International Film Festival. And starting May 4, you’ll have the chance to see…
Here we are back at Gulfstream Park. When you think of an average day at the track, you might think of gambling, cocktails, dwarfs on horses, etc. Well, not when the Basketball Wives are involved. When they arrive, things start to fly. Literally. We are seriously considering starting a charity…
Plenty of documentary filmmakers have dreams of setting a man free through the power of their words.But this is probably not what Billy Corben had in mind.Angelo Williams, a Florida City man, claims his armed robbery conviction should be thrown out because Corben, serving as the jury foreman, sent messages…
In its 14th year (God, where did the time go?), the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) has become one of the top LGBT film festivals in the country.And it’s no wonder why. This year’s festival will run for 10 days and feature 65 films from 15 different countries…
Week after week, I recap and report on shows like Dance Moms: Miami and Basketball Wives. But after last weekend, well, it might be a little hard for me to judge them so harshly. After appearing on NBC’s Escape Routes, now I know all the struggles of fame…..Or not. Saying…
In Havana, accused and desperate, Raul is forced to run. Ninety miles of treacherous ocean stand between him and his dream.Three kids. One night. No return.That’s the synopsis of the film Una Noche, New York director Lucy Mulloy’s story of Cuban teens who plot to escape their country that screened…
Here’s one more film to watch during your blissed-out smokefest tonight: Square Grouper, Miami media studio Rakontur’s documentary offering an inside look into ’70s pot smuggling in our fair city.The Billy Corben-directed movie makes its TV debut tonight on Showtime at 8 p.m., giving you another chance to revisit the…
This is it, guys. Your last chance to be kind of, sort of, not really at all famous by scoring a role as an extra in Pain and Gain, the Michael Bay-directed film currently shooting around Miami. The benefits are obvious. You’ll have the bragging rights inherent in having appeared…
On Monday night in Little Haiti, the Moksha Gallery hosted an intimate, invite-only screening of Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend. No, not the over-hyped, Hollywood documentary Marley. Legend depicts filmmaker and star of the film Esther Anderson as a key figure behind the scenes in the rise of…
The Lucky One: No Chemistry in the Notebook-Lite
Marley Film Review: A Fascinating Look at the Reggae Legend at O Cinema
Think Like a Man: Talented Actors Make Due With the Worst
Disney’s Chimpanzee: Impressive Despite the Narration
The Salt of Life at the Cosford Cinema and Tower Theater
