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…
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…
We’re on the verge of the busiest season in Miami, the insanity of late fall and early winter when other Americans come flocking for warmth or high-class art or the craziest party. For now, we’re in that lull before the storm. You can enjoy it with comedy from John Mulaney and music from Miami Paradise, Jolt Radio, and the ’90s Love Fest, or you can be prepared by getting beefy at the Tone It Up Tour or the South Florida Craft Beer Run. Whatever your fancy, there’s enough here to keep you occupied till Monday morning.
Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder who died last night at the age of 91, will be remembered for helping drive the sexual revolution of the ’60s; objectifying women on a massive, unprecedented scale; and surrounding himself with young, attractive, rigidly policed girlfriends for the better part of his life.
In anticipation of the Institute of Contemporary Art’s (ICA) December inauguration of its new home—located around the corner from its current facilities in the Design District’s Moore Building—organizers are debuting plans for a sculpture park in collaboration with Craig Robins of Dacra, the neighborhood’s seminal figure. The project will display…
“Intercultural” is not only a timely show but also a beautiful harbinger of what this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach has in store.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, many pets joined the ranks of strays, precariously living on South Florida streets. Some owners who evacuated left their pets behind during the storm, and surviving animals — confused, hungry, and traumatized — either got trapped or wandered away from their homes.
One of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen on television comes early in The Langoliers, a 1995 ABC miniseries adapted by Tom Holland from a Stephen King novella. It’s the one about a small group of travelers waking up on a red-eye flight to discover that most of the…
Spend more than 30 seconds at an art school or modern-art museum and you’ll realize you’re way out of the realm of beauty or skill or anything remotely familiar to a novice art appreciator. The first time you hear “hegemonic cultural institutions,” your instinct might be to take cover,…
Julia Solomonoff’s third feature finds the accomplished Argentine director in a naturalistic year-in-the-life mode, examining the somewhat aimless expatriate life of a Buenos Aires soap opera hunk in Brooklyn and Manhattan. As in her 2009 film, The Last Summer of La Boyita, Solomonoff here exhibits a scrupulous control of her…
When Jason Fitzroy Jeffers shows up for a late breakfast to discuss the second-annual Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival in the wake of Hurricane Irma, he’s rocking some puffy bags under his eyes. It’s been a rough two weeks for the festival’s cofounder/director and his crew of collaborators — an…
