According to Forbes, Fan Bingbing made $17 million last year — more than any actress on the planet not named Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa McCarthy, Scarlett Johansson or Jennifer Aniston. The Chinese megastar is likely most familiar to American audiences for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but…
Last month, statues depicting Donald Trump in the nude started popping up in a variety of U.S. cities. Naked Trump terrorized Los Angeles and Cleveland. Naked Trump shocked Seattle and San Francisco. Naked Trump appeared in New York City’s Union Square, attracting crowds until it was removed by the city’s…
South Florida’s cultural season is getting underway. Galleries are opening exhibits, theaters are revealing their 2016-17 performances, and Miami’s major museums have already announced their Art Basel shows. But in the midst of all the buzz, the Ceramic League of Miami is keeping it old-school. “The Ceramic League of Miami…
At first glance, TV (The Book), which came out last week, may look like a survey of what two respected TV critics consider to be the greatest television shows of all time. But, really, it’s a book about friendship. The joint authors of this tome, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller…
The art world can pigeonhole a painter’s style. Once an artist hits on the market, dealers and gallery-owners grow rapacious for more work of the same ilk. Donald Sultan enjoys a successful career as a painter and print-maker of some of the most iconic abstract flower pieces in contemporary American…
To show all that he can do, to show something of what life’s actually like, Donald Glover first has to break your heart. Glover – the star, creator, and often writer of FX’s tense, downwardly mobile hangout comedy Atlanta – is best known, still, as a handsome clown on NBC’s Community, Dan…
Set aside your visions of histrionic, paranoid fireworks. Oliver Stone’s whistleblower biopic Snowden finds the director in an unusually somber and controlled mood, perhaps because of the introverted, awkward nature of Edward Snowden himself. The former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor, who in 2013 exposed the U.S. government’s…
What’s constant in Katherine Dieckmann’s films – Motherhood (2009), Diggers (2006) and A Good Baby (2000) – is an attention to characters and place. Many of us in the world of film reside in the big coastal cities, but a good number come from somewhere else, smaller towns with subtle…
Thursday From gas at the pump to plastics and paint, the scope of petroleum’s influence on modern life is easy to underestimate. If you need a reminder, head to the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th St., North Miami), where Rolando Peña has constructed shining monuments to dirty crude…
Starting with 1985’s No End, composer Zbigniew Preisner served as one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s closest collaborators — he worked on all of the director’s films until Kieslowski’s death in 1996, with several of their collaborations actually revolving around the world of music. (The duo even created a fake Dutch composer, Van den Budenmayer,…
Looking back at this dismal summer of superhero adaptations, I am reminded of something Chris Rock said during the 77th Academy Awards: “There are only four real stars, and the rest are just popular people.” This was February 2005, mind you — a few months before Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins…
If you watched Matt Damon’s 2015 film The Martian and thought, “Hey, that looks like a fun time,” then you won’t want to miss this year’s III Points festival. This October, III Points attendees will be able to explore Mars like a NASA astronaut – in virtual reality, of course. Mars 2030,…
From the Midwest to the Plains to Canada to the Northeast, people hold the fantasy of moving to Miami close to their heart — a warm and shiny talisman to get them through the misery of winter. When you tell your Northern kin that you’re actually going for it, they…
The Knight Foundation today released its list of finalists for the annual Knight Arts Challenge, which offers grants to cultural projects dreamed up by Miami community members. Now in its ninth year, the challenge has recognized 68 ideas, ranging from a Native American film festival to an audio engineering training…
The Hollars tells the familiar tale of a dysfunctional family pulled together by unfortunate circumstances. John Hollar (John Krasinski, who also directed) is a frustrated graphic novelist with a pregnant girlfriend, Rebecca (Anna Kendrick). When he gets the news that his mother, Sally (Margo Martindale), has a brain tumor, he…
“Hi! My name is Harold. I’m 31 years young, just a normal American guy.” Harold wears a striped polo shirt buttoned to the top and his hair in a long, John Oliver-esque shag. Speaking with the mild-mannered lilt of a suburban dad, he describes his hobbies: gardening, hula-hooping, eating pizza…
Bridget Jones mines the riches of embarrassment. Her gaffes, blunders, stumbles and pratfalls provide the laughs in the atypical romcoms built around her, films that rely heavily on the comedy of idiosyncrasy. Bridget is no outsider: She’s a straight, white, middle class, university-educated woman with a London apartment, a media…
“I don’t have any answers,” Krzysztof Kieslowski once said, “but [I] do know how to pose questions.” Not an uncommon stance for an artist, certainly, but perhaps surprising for one who made a massive, 10-part miniseries based on the Ten Commandments. Later, trying to explain why he and screenwriter Krzysztof…
There are a million-and-one nonprofits in the world, but few of them give 100 percent of profits to their given cause. Indego Africa is one such social enterprise, and the highly rated group just set up a regional board in Miami. The board is designed to raise local support for the…
Since III Points launched in 2013, its mission has been bringing the most innovative talent in three industries—music, technology, and art—to Wynwood. This year, the festival is expanding its definition of art with the addition of Vanguard Film Week, a four-day series of films from prestigious festivals like Sundance and…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Spanish Class at Miami Beach Regional Library: Brush up on beginner-level Spanish at the library’s free classes, thanks to Barry University’s Department of English and Foreign Languages. Call 305-535-4219. Creativity in the…
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth airs Sundays on Showtime In filmmaking, an assembly cut is when recent dailies are strung together in rough narrative order to create the first, very raw draft of the movie. Though it by no means lacks polish or editorial intent, Showtime’s…
