Florida Supercon’s Retro Convention Revived Miami’s Geek Scene
Supercon Retro launched this weekend, attracting thousands of local geeks to the Miami Airport Convention Center.
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The Promise Sets Hollywood Technique Against the Armenian Genocide’s Horrors
Terry George’s The Promise has the rare good fortune of turning up in theaters just weeks after another film showed how necessary a movie like this is. The second star-driven war-adventure film of 2017 to set a cross-cultural love triangle against the horror of the Armenian Genocide, The Promise would…
Eyes on Miami: DJ Khaled, Rory McIlroy, Flo Rida, and Others
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 brings you a solid recap of all the recent experiences you might have missed around Miami. It’s impossible to be everywhere, but hey, we can try to keep our Eyes on Miami.
Colossal Has a Big Idea, but It Quickly Shrinks
Two seemingly incongruous categories — the small-scale romantic doodle and the rampaging-creature feature — are brought together in Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal, a film that never really fulfills the potential of its adventurous premise. This monster mash-up argues the opposite of what Humphrey Bogart declared in Casablanca: The problems of two…
Colossal Director Nacho Vigalondo on “Genius Comedian” Anne Hathaway and Male Entitlement
Filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo has depicted many extraordinary events in his work: time travel, alien invasion, bomb threats, the apocalypse. His latest, Colossal, tells a tale of giant-monster attacks. “It’s always really exciting when you bring together the rules of fiction and the rules of reality, or rather the lack of rules of reality,” Vigalondo says.
Ben Wheatley’s Shootout Drama Free Fire Finds Nothing New in Its Violence
Nasty, brutish and not short enough, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire has a simple — and ultimately simpleminded — premise: to protract what would normally be a brief shoot-out scene to the majority of the movie’s 90-minute running time. On the surface, this reductio ad absurdum has a kind of pleasing…
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Free Events This Week in Miami: Wynwood Life, Miami Zine Fair, and SoundWaves Earth Day Music Fest
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Enjoy what’s new in town, from the Wynwood Life Street Festival at the Miami Zine Fair to Puplife and AIDS Walk Miami. CAM Fest Opening Night at Victor E. Clarke Recital Hall 8 p.m…
As Civilization Crashes in The Lost City of Z, an Explorer Discovers Something More
“I’ve been trained for this.” Those words — or some variation — come up several times throughout James Gray’s The Lost City of Z, and they serve as one key to this strange, sprawling, majestic film. In adapting the 2009 nonfiction book about the search for a fabled city in…
With Wires and a MIDI Machine, Local Musicians Let Their Plants Play the Songs
On Saturday locals musicians will gather at the go studio Inhale Miami to harmonize melodies that derive from plants.
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Like a Stunned America, Selina Meyer Searches for a Path Forward
HBO’s acid-bathed Beltway satire Veep didn’t exactly predict our absurd political reality. But it did come close enough that revisiting past seasons is like watching footage of a train wreck run backwards in slow motion. The episode called “C**tgate” brought a vaginal euphemism into a presidential election. “Election Night” saw…
West Kendall Zine Fest: Read Indie Publications on a Manmade Beach
A layer of pride lies buried deep beneath the surface of Kendall residents. At times, Kendall dwellers feel isolated and have to “bust a mission” to get to some of Miami’s more happening areas and events. But there are also plenty of businesses and people looking to elevate the area and showcase the wealth of talent in Kendall’s kooky corners.
Out Con, Florida’s LGBT-Oriented Comic Convention, Returns Next Month
Out Con and all of its glorious madness will return to the Miami Airport Convention Center May 6 and 7.
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, parties, and boozy beverages galore. From Coral Gables to Little Havana to South Beach, these are the best places to be until the sun comes up Monday morning.
MST3K‘s Return Is Good Enough That You Should Really Just Relax
First things first. The new Mystery Science Theater 3000, that basic-cable and UHF puppet show that was above all else a treatise about what it was like to grow up on basic cable and UHF, is a cheery, companionable continuation, an almost business-as-usual new season Kickstarted and Netflixed that Febreezes…
MoijiLaLa Invites Miami Artists to Make Their Own Emojis
Chances are you haven’t given much thought to the source of your favorite emojis. Every once in a while, a couple of new yellow-faced options or farm animals pop up, and you’re mildly amused for a minute but unimpressed overall. Emojis rarely speak to you — unless, of course, you brought to life the wonderful Miami emojis New Times created last year. Those were dope.
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Animal Activists Question Frost Science Museum’s Crocodile and Shark Exhibits
Though many locals are excited to check out Frost Science and its scaly critters, not everyone is happy about the new aquatic menagerie. Local animal rights activists argue that hammerheads and crocodiles shouldn’t be placed in enclosures for exhibition purposes because larger predatory animals might be cognizant of their captivity.
Lies Boyz II Men Told Me Calls Out ’90s R&B for Its BS
Melissa Gomez — the woman who created the seemingly ridiculous O, Miami event Lies Boyz II Men Told Me — harbors no illusions about old-school R&B. “I want people to read a haiku about their lovers or list off things people did to wrong them in relationships and just be like, ‘Hey, Boyz II Men, everything you said is BS.”
Miami Might Soon Get Its Own Cat Café
Miami might be getting its own cat café and art space.
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The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Some of our earliest ideations of futuristic technology probably stemmed from the 1982 cult classic that the Film Junkies will celebrate at the Tron 35th-Anniversary Screening. It’s hard to argue otherwise, with videogames, a TV series, and a sequel all stemming from the computer-generated adventure flick. Whether you’re nostalgic…
Filmmaker Craig Baldwin, Miami Artists Will Teach Movie Remixing This Weekend
Obsolete Media Miami, our city’s repository for 35mm slides, archival motion picture materials, and other legacy media, has brought some of the coolest experimental art events to our city over the last few years: a side-by-side presentation of Dracula and Drácula, a 16mm film presentation brought to the massive…
FIU Students Plan SlutWalk to Protest Sexual Assault
When Barbara Toledo started college at Florida International University, her mother gave her a rape whistle and pepper spray. The junior psychology major, who’s also media coordinator for the school’s National Organization for Women chapter, never thought about rape as an imminent threat. “When I was younger, I saw rape…
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Woody Allen’s Rhapsody Manhattan Returns, Freighted With Woody Allen
In the spring of 1979, with a new film to promote, Woody Allen agreed to a lengthy profile in the New York Times Magazine. In it, Allen talks a little about Manhattan, the film in question, which follows an alter ego named Isaac through a period of professional and romantic…