Writer/director Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is achingly normal, in a good way. Robinson has proven herself capable of melding her sincere and often endearingly campy sensibilities to any cinematic style — spy spoofs (D.E.B.S.), Disney family flicks (Herbie: Fully Loaded), comic-dramas (The L Word), sexy vampire…
It’s time to get in your last pool party of the season, ’cause fall is officially here. That doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be pool weather, but swimming will probably go out of style until all the Art Basel celebrities get here, so squeeze in South Beach Brewing’s Pop Up…
Often populated with voluptuaries, the films of Bertrand Bonello unerringly distill mood and milieu. In his heady, sinuous biopic Saint Laurent (2014), for example, Bonello ditched the traditional, usually tedious birth-to-death arc that most films in that genre follow to focus instead on the years 1967 to 1977, the great…
New Frost Science exhibition highlights the shapeshifting power of the human brain.
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…
Do you feel it? The air growing ever so slightly cooler? Yeah, not really. But that doesn’t mean this weekend can’t be a snapshot of what fall has in store. You’ve got beer at the Sam Adams Octoberfest in Wynwood, and you’ve got costumes at Animate South Florida and the Miami Broward Carnival…
If you were hoping Donald Trump’s visit to Puerto Rico would elicit an outpouring of compassion and urgency from the tweeter-in-chief, you were probably disappointed by Tuesday’s reports. From bragging about how much money the United States has spent on Puerto Rico to insinuating the tragedy unfolding there isn’t a “real catastrophe,” the president seemed oddly content to witness the widespread damage.
Christie Prades plays Gloria Estefan in the US touring production of On Your Feet!
Spielberg premieres Oct. 7 on HBO. While the studios accuse critics and Rotten Tomatoes of killing the movie business, Steven Spielberg is happy to look right into the camera and say that Pauline Kael had his number. “She was right,” says the world’s most profitable director deep into Spielberg, Susan…
Thursday It’s rare to see a semblance of everyday Miami life in books or movies. Popular depictions cast the Magic City as a sea of drug cartels and corrupt businessmen. On Your Feet! hits closer to home as a tale of Cuban immigrants integrating into U.S. culture and as a…
The Chonga Girls are back, and they know you’ve been waiting. Since they became famous 10 years ago, Mimi and Laura have gotten non-stop questions about where they went. After Laura got caught up in a Midwestern cult with her ex John Marco, the two moved to L.A. to follow…
Key West Island Books, independently owned and operated as a seller of new, used, and rare books since 1975, has become a Conch institution for its vibrant author event series and glass-of-wine-when-you-walk-in familiarity. After Hurricane Irma, the bookstore is one of many small businesses attempting to rebuild after the intense…
The recipe for a perfect Christmas horror film — think the 1974 classic Black Christmas or 2010’s more arty, Finnish offering Rare Exports — calls for dark humor, at least one scene of bright red blood on snow, some kind of creepy Christmas toy or ornament, and a healthy dollop…
With its cast of Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, its original non-franchise source material, its adult concerns and utter lack of superheroics, Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us stands as the kind of movie that grown-ups I know often say they wish the studios would make — and then tend…
The OUTshine Film Festival returns this year for its second edition, filling Fort Lauderdale theaters with dozens of queer features and shorts that demand to be seen. But if you’re having trouble choosing what to check out in queer cinema, fear not: New Times has these suggestions to guide you…
The story goes that the stretch of snowy landscape at the end of the original cut of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner was actually B-roll from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, slapped on by Scott at the last minute to help deliver the more upbeat ending his studio requested. Those final moments…
While Donald Trump makes asinine remarks about islands being surrounded by water, organizations in Miami and beyond have been working to send relief to Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands damaged by this year’s disastrous hurricane season. Whether or not your family was affected, the chaos hits close to home both literally and figuratively.
Please accept what follows as a considered statement, arrived at through observation and experience, and not as film-review hype or boilerplate: Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock is the rare drug movie that, as you watch it, if you surrender to it, stirs the sensations of having taken drugs. I’m…
It’s October, which means it’s time to retire from outdoor life and fully settle into the fall premiere schedule. And because it’s 2017, that means there are about a bazillion new and returning shows, so I sorted through the deluge to bring you the most intriguing ones. I swear, writing…
Since the Swiss art fair Art Basel launched a sister show in South Florida, the event has been held at the Miami Beach Convention Center. That won’t change anytime soon. Art Basel and the City of Miami Beach announced today they have agreed to a new, five-year lease, which will keep Art Basel Miami Beach coming back to the convention center through 2023.
iIf there’s one thing the Japanese genre filmmakers whose work turns up at U.S. festivals tend to nail, it’s masterfully creating a sense of inescapable existentialist dread. At this year’s Fantastic Fest, two films bummed me out beautifully — a nice distraction from the ugly bum-out of the all the…
Out of the eighty-two feature films at Fantastic Fest this year, eleven were directed by women, and four of those were co-directed by a man. For the slow in math, that means women directed only about 13 percent, which is pretty dismal, though on par with Cannes and 8 percent…
