“The great promise of social media was that it would democratize and give a voice to everybody, but we have seen it… heading towards anarchy,” Alex de Carvalho says. “It has a darker side. Social media has been vulnerable to greater threats than anyone originally imagined.”
Who knew Cate Blanchett wanted to be Tracey Ullman? That’s probably not the reaction director Julian Rosefeldt hopes will be stirred by this rigorous series of monologues, stitched together from more than 50 artistic and political manifestos and performed by Blanchett as 13 characters. But, like Ullman, Blanchett takes the…
Miami, it’s that time of the year again. Deck yourself out in a flashy red, white, and blue outfit, and make your way to a free Independence Day party and fireworks display.
Hollywood has many more outstanding actors than it does outstanding scripts. That’s the only way to explain Naomi Watts’ career, which launched stateside with a masterful twin performance in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Even with a pair of Oscar nominations, though, the actress has spent years languishing in Nondescript Mom…
In the run-up to this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Then, after people had seen it, Okja turned out to be … one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Now that it’s…
Popcorn Frights has promised to be “bigger, bolder, and bloodier” in its third year, and the second wave of program announcements reflects that commitment. The festival has already revealed its homegrown horror section and a number of other new features. Now it says more than 40 film premieres from eight countries will hit Miami this August 11 through 17.
Ever since her feature debut, The Virgin Suicides (1999), a dreamy, diaphanous tale about the mysteries of girlhood, Sofia Coppola has ranked among the finest distillers of mood (especially languor) and milieu. Those qualities abound in The Beguiled, her sixth film, an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s Civil War–set novel of…
Another day, another dollar spent, and while you’re shelling out major clams for basic stuff like rent and a decent café con leche, you’re missing all the fun stuff. Your trust-fund friends go to concerts and watch indie films. Why don’t you? Here, find freebies from Miami Beach to Wynwood to downtown and even Fort Lauderdale, so nobody who looks at your Snapchat story needs to know you’re drowning in the fiscal responsibilities of adulthood.
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is a remorselessly entertaining, impeccably assembled action-musical in which cars and people defy the laws of physics and common sense. They leap into gunfire and hop over hoods and careen down streets in perfect time to the beats of an unimpeachably cool soundtrack. It’s all absurd,…
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…
Frost Science will host an Independence Day celebration, complete with a live DJ, that will allow guests to see the fireworks from the museum’s panoramic Vista Level.
For this weekend’s events, we’ve got several points on the clothing spectrum covered – from barely anything at a pool party to PG appropriate in an air conditioned science museum and anywhere in between, depending on how exposed you want to feel at Marlins Park or in downward dog. Whether or not you go all free-the-nipple on us, have fun this weekend with all the options.
After a protest and formal application filed, Forrest Street might soon be renamed as Hollywood city leaders seem poised to vote on the matter.
“I fell in love with baseball when I set foot in that ballpark,” says Abel Sanchez. “It was magical. I could hear the cleats cracking as players came out of the tunnel. I could hear the ball going off the wood bat. There was nothing like being in the stadium…
Dustin Diamond, better known to the TV viewing public as Screech, the doofy, nerdy sidekick on the hit ’90s sitcom Saved by the Bell, attained a level of celebrity synonymous with an entire era of TV. Now he’s bringing his standup comedy to Miami.
In the opening scene of Transformers: The Last Knight, we are presented with the spectacle of King Arthur and his knights locked in an existential battle for the survival of human civilization, even though we’re not really told who they’re fighting or why. No matter, because this after all is…
The world might feel like a schizophrenic hellscape where everyday you find yourself asking “Is this real life?” At least there is some comfort in knowing we still have RuPaul’s Drag Race. The Emmy award-winning drag queen reality competition jumped from boutique LGBTQ Viacom channel Logo TV to VH1 this…
The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science’s latest event touches upon one of the most important films of the year: Wonder Woman.
In Soviet Russia, a group of artists found a way to counter government lies.
Ana Lily Amirpour’s comic post-apocalyptic action-drama offers little explanation of what exactly its “bad batch” is, or how the members of its motley, unfortunate tribe of humans wound up banished to a desert wasteland. Instead, Amirpour lets her camera linger on a sign warning that everything beyond a 10-foot-high metal…
This Saturday, Frost Science will unveil “Space: An Out-of-Gravity Experience,” an exhibition that takes a deeper look into the out-of-this-world field of space exploration and the science that makes it possible.
Thursday Miami New Times is turning dirty 30 this year, meaning we’re just as sexy but can impart something like sagely advice on you younguns. Which is why celebrating our yearly picks for the top places, people, and things in the Magic City is especially pertinent this year. At the…
