Parents be warned: J. A. Bayona and Patrick Ness’ kid-meets-beast coming-of-age fantasy is a reclamation of fairy stories from the reassuring fiction of happily ever after. In a lineup of holiday releases — or, soon, a streaming queue — this tale of a bullied Irish boy whose best friend is…
In May 2016, elephants with Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus took their last turn around the big top. But despite the retirement of all pachyderms from performing, animal advocates are far from finished. They argue that elephants aren’t the only animals exploited by the circus; the show goes on for lions, tigers, camels, and other critters.
Both a film noir and a candy-colored confection, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta is one of the most absorbing films he’s made in years. It’s also, perhaps, one of the saddest: Its bright hues and vivid textures offset a deep, unshakable melancholy. Based on a trio of Alice Munro short stories, Julieta…
There’s a grand concept to Seasons, the mostly terrestrial animal-observation doc from the creators of Winged Migration and Oceans, but in practice the film, a beauty, is about animals surprising you. You’ll be pleasantly engaged in observing a bird standing there after a snowfall, and then a snowbank will shudder…
Once upon a time, in the dark ages of not-that-long-ago, foreign television was a mysterious land beyond our reach. Aside from the occasional British import, the wonders of international series were limited to those equipped with multi-region DVD players. Scandinavian gloom mostly stayed in Scandinavia. Thanks to streaming, it’s now…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they all cost less than $10. Grab a few bucks and enjoy what’s new in town, from Brew House Rock at Concrete Beach Brewery to music at the Filling Station Lofts and free admission to PAMM.
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…
New Year’s Eve 2017 is a helluva time to get sloshed while looking back at what was, for many, a very terrible 365 days. But for those with kids, it might not be such a hot idea to send off the year that murdered Bowie and Ali while giving us President Trump by getting angry-drunk as the ball drops. No, it’s probably better to hit up some family-friendly spots to ring in the new year and not go all Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places on your kids. It’s safer, more fun, and won’t traumatize them for life.
The best time of the year is finally here — New Year’s Eve weekend. Welcome 2017 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.
“Best films of 2016” lists are a dime a dozen this time of year. But even though 2016 was a disaster in many ways, it gave us plenty of great films by women. So just as we did in 2015 and 2014, New Times is running down the works that reigned above the rest. These are the 16 best films by women of the past year.
How do you come up with a New Times cover concept two days before Christmas? Easy. Call two of Miami’s best street artists and give them a blank canvas to work with. This week, for our Dirty Dozen feature story — which highlights the 12 people who brought deep shame…
Thursday Firing up the caja china, setting the menorah ablaze, or maybe just getting lit with your out-of-town cousins — these are hot holiday traditions that we Americans hold dear. But like adding another glass of Manischewitz to your dreidel spinning, Americans are always open to new traditions, especially ones…
Imagine yourself in the 1920s, when the Hialeah Park Race Track was founded. The pistol snaps, and thoroughbreds race furiously around the track. The crowd claps and hoots as the horses sprint. At the afterparty, flappers dance to snappy jazz music, partiers sway while holding cocktails, and the opulent ambiance is akin to that at the lavish parties in Gatsby.
It’s possible people haven’t been this excited about the arrival of a new year since the turn of the millennium. The death of George Michael was the final, crushing blow in a year that’s been a total fail for everyone except Donald Trump. But there’s hope in the promise of a new beginning…
On December 10, rains pounded Miami so hard that a citywide flood advisory was declared. During the downpour, 305 female-identifying artists from around Miami-Dade County braved the violent squalls, forded the puddles morphing into ponds, and evaded a multicar I-95 pileup to answer the call from Pérez Art Museum Miami…
Carrie Fisher was always smarter than the words and roles written for her, smarter than what Hollywood thought it wanted out of a princess. On Christmas Eve of the all-devouring Sarlacc that is 2016, after word had spread that Fisher had suffered a heart attack, a page from her original The Empire Strikes Back script turned up on Twitter, courtesy of Will McCrabb.
In Miami, you hear a lot about art, but not so much about craft. James Herring’s work in ceramics fuses the two. Herring eschews the title of “artist” and sees the resurgence of crafts and craftsmanship as a necessity for human growth in modern times. An outspoken supporter and practitioner of the maker movement, Herring has maintained a presence locally by doing demonstrations and leading classes and workshops on the ancient craft.
As 2016 draws to a close, New Times is looking back at the year’s stories that had the most impact. Ten film and TV articles stood out from the rest, according to their high number of readers. This year, Miami readers proved to be an eclectic bunch, clicking on a weird mélange of pieces that one might not expect. So what’s on the list?
Nice girls play by the rules. They turn their shoulders inward and nibble on the ends of their slim fingers, nervous about all those difficult thoughts in their heads. And their hair is always perfect and feathery like a baby bird on a collector’s plate. If this description sounds angry,…
Few Spanish filmmakers are as well-known and widely loved as Pedro Almodóvar, the man behind Volver, Todo sobre mi madre, and Hable con ella. With his latest film, Julieta, hitting Miami theaters on January 6th, O Cinema is launching a retrospective of his work, including seven of his features. “For…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they all cost less than $10. Grab a few bucks and enjoy what’s new in town, from the Miccosukee Indian Arts & Crafts Festival to bingo with Miss Toto and jazz at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Miccosukee Indian…
After announcing its nominees last Wednesday, the Florida Film Critics Circle revealed its winners yesterday. Though the Miami-made film Moonlight earned 10 nominations from the critics this year, it ended up with just one win in its nominated categories: The Pauline Kael Breakout Award for director Barry Jenkins. Moonlight and its cast…
