The movie turns on a series of revelations about the characters, whose hushed, intimate narration — split between Laura, Jamie, Ronsel, Hap and Florence — reveals rich inner lives
Maggie Betts’ Novitiate bears all the signs of an exceptional talent. It follows the experiences of Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), a teenager who enters a convent in the early 1960s just as the Catholic Church was starting to undergo the reforms of Vatican II. The title refers to the girls’ yearlong…
Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird is a specific, personal story: one of a young woman, Christine McPherson, who has given herself the name “Lady Bird” and is at odds with the world around her. Her identity is in flux, she has ambitions, and she feels trapped. But as small-scale as this…
“I wish I could live through something,” the title character laments to her mother in the opening scene of writer/director Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. Played with comical intensity by Saoirse Ronan, 17-year-old Lady Bird — nee Christine — is too young to realize that she is inescapably living through something,…
Though you might not be able to afford three months on a spiritual retreat to unlearn a lifetime of internalized racism and misogyny, you can attend some free events that expand your mind. You can start by supporting local artists and merchants at the Little River Creative Collective’s event at Bloommiami and the Support Local Market at the Wynwood Yard. Then buy some consciousness-expanding books at the Miami Book Fair before supporting charitable efforts to send aid to Haiti at the Angels of Haiti show at Macaya Gallery. Hey, it’s a start.
From interactive readings to mock news conferences, here are some of the best events at the fair by age group.
It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with WorldRedEye, New Times…
Right smack-dab in the middle of Scorpio season in a city that specializes in adult entertainment and decadence, it might seem difficult to find clean, innocent fun. Instead of forcing your strip club persona into saintly garb right before Thanksgiving dinner, try easing into some wholesomeness this weekend with the…
To anyone who’s been following the rumors surrounding Louis C.K., I Love You, Daddy comes off as both a sly acknowledgment of his alleged sexual behavior and a vexing evasion.
Miami, in all of its weirdness and smallness, is a great incubator for creativity. But opportunities for growth can be limited. Sometimes the only way to reach one’s full potential is to leave and learn more elsewhere. But though local creatives might leave in body, their spirits and connections remain tethered to the Magic City. One such artist is Puerto Rican-born, South Florida-raised Misael Soto.
Despite the bright cinematography, there’s something quaint and comforting about this film and its brand of old-fashioned storytelling …
De Vries clearly remembers spending their two-hour date warding off Weinstein’s advances. “I kept taking his hands off my legs,” she recalls.
Why is Mel Gibson in the holiday family comedy Daddy’s Home 2? When Gibson’s relentlessly bloody, morally incoherent 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge inexplicably became a critical darling, I watched in horror at the love and attention lavished on the director. In what world were we living where, when Gibson’s name…
South Florida art aficionados can delve into the world of printmaking this Saturday at Fort Lauderdale’s second-annual Small Press Fair (SPF). Crowd-pleasing attractions such as a giant steamroller will return, and fun diversions such a postcard-making station will debut.
Over six episodes crafted with the rich complexity of the novel, “celebrated murderess” Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), tells her own story, Scheherazade-style, to a doctor (Edward Holcroft) with the power to arrange for her pardon
A trashy, reflective one-year journey by a South Floridian results in less garbage on our streets.
There was a moment when I knew I’d have to tell my parents that a video I’d been in went viral. Not only was I in it, but also I had interviewed the star of the YouTube hit, Maria, the “Butthole Tattoo Girl.” A friend sent a text that the video had been featured as a “New Rule” on Real Time With Bill Maher, a show my mom and dad watch regularly.
In the first episode of Comedy Central’s new nightly satirical late-night series The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, the host explains why he jumped ship from The Daily Show, where he’d been a correspondent since 2015. The Jordan Klepper who cocked his eyebrow through Daily Show field segments in a perfect…
A roundup of ten cultural organizations you can support on Give Miami Day.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, BPM (Beats Per Minute), French director Robin Campillo’s stylized, moving drama of AIDS activism and love, sometimes feels like several films at once. It follows the activities of ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s, and for much…
Thursday The nude has been a subject of fine art for centuries. Its current significance might seem limited to learning tools and antiquated still lifes, but Nude Nite is breathing new life into nakedness by filling 25,000 square feet of warehouse space with contemporary takes on the unclothed human form…
Miami is in for a treat when Nude Nite hits town November 9 through 11 in Wynwood. The nation’s largest nude art show specializing in the human form will elevate the conversation about nudity in the sun-kissed city where revealing fashions, scantily clad people, and bare butts on plastic-surgery billboard ads are everyday normal.
