No matter how you end up feeling about it, there sure is a lot of movie in Mommy, Xavier Dolan’s exuberant melodrama about an emotional firecracker of a teenager who, after being kicked out of a specialized school for setting the cafeteria on fire, goes home to live with his…
Here at last is peak Kendrick: In intimate long takes and in comic montage, she belts, hurts, swoons, and rages, always remaining appealingly human. You can tell, when Anna Kendrick scraps for her big notes, that she’s not a natural, that she’s working hard, that she’s living a dream. All…
Even if you’ve never seen or heard of a movie called She Killed in Ecstasy, isn’t it lovely to know that such a thing exists in the world? That 1971 eroto-thriller was a creation of prolific Spanish-born writer-director Jess Franco, who had a lasting career making florid B movies with…
Even fans of Fifty Shades of Grey admit the book is a literary atrocity. Novelist E.L. James’ erotic reveries read like the rantings of a drunken yokel — less “His firm hands cupped my breasts” and more “Holy crap! He’s touching my boobs!” The story is simple: 21-year-old virgin Anastasia…
The Coconut Grove Arts Festival (CGAF) recently announced that Miami New Times will be programming the three days of live entertainment during this year’s 52nd annual event, February 14-16. Today it releases the full concert lineup, promising to bring both regional headliners and exciting local acts to the main stage…
Fifty Shades of Grey is opening nationwide, and in New York, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl connects via the magic of the internet with LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson to discuss the hotly anticipated movie starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, adapted from the E. L. James novel…
The steps leading to the altar of Terrence Malick are practically a safety hazard, cluttered as they are with assorted offerings of frankincense and myrrh, bouquets draped with sashes that shout “Good job!” and perhaps a virgin sacrifice or two. Critics and certain moviegoers love him that much, which explains…
A high-intensity drama about spirited Spaniards seems like such a good fit for Miami City Ballet, you’d think company artistic director Lourdes Lopez ran out looking for Carmen. But in a way it was Carmen that came to her. As the centerpiece of MCB’s third program of the season, this…
Dazzle painting sounds like something little girls armed with glitter and rhinestones would do, but the concept actually refers to a fascinating system of design utilized by the Allies during World War I. Artists painted high-contrast patterns and stripes on warships in an effort to make the targets less visible…
Miami’s beloved H-Town has landed itself on yet another ‘worst of the worst’ list: this time, on WalletHub’s Best and Worst Cities for Valentine’s Day 2015. Ladies, can we honestly say we’re surprised? Considering the Hialeah stereotype is a man that lives with his momma and spends half his income…
We came, we saw, we conquered: Model Beach Volleyball, arguably the largest promotional event to hit the sands of Miami Beach, hosted its sixth annual event this weekend at Lummus Park. Who doesn’t love being surrounded by beautiful, sun-kissed people, the sound of techno-pop wafting through the air and a…
We’re a country of snap judgments. In the court of public opinion, we render verdicts with the same knee-jerk immediacy that we employ to consume news. It’s all headlines and tweets. We lack the time, inclination, and attention span to go beneath the surface. Twelve Angry Men delves deeper. Reginald…
Local shoe designer Del Toro may soon have some stiff competition coming their way. Wynwood’s latest addition to the men’s shoe industry, Kabaccha Shoes, is right on their ostrich-skinned heels. “My strategy is to break through the men’s market, because I believe that men’s fashion is really lacking in color,”…
Fillmmaker and video artist Juan Carlos Zaldivar has dedicated his artistic efforts to exploring the duality of how we feel and how we seem, but he keeps his pieces as subjective as possible, because that’s half the fun of life. “From the filmmaking point of view, I’m really interested in…
BERLIN — Riding from the Berlin-Tegel airport to my hotel on a crisp, sunny day last week, my cab passed the magnificent golden angel statue known as the Victory Column, a monument erected by the city in 1874 to commemorate assorted Prussian military victories of the day. But people all…
There’s no better cure for boredom than a group of people breaking out into song and dance. In ordinary life, that would be strange and random — especially since flash mobs are no longer a thing — but in the theater, it’s a sheer marvel. We enjoy the songs that…
Would you call your Instagram feed art? Are the 140 characters you spin on Twitter poetry? According to Paddy Johnson, founder of Art F City and a featured speaker in the Miami Rail’s Visiting Writers Program, these forms of blogging are analogous to art. Last week during her Knight Foundation…
Orlando was overtaken by witches and wizards during “A Celebration of Harry Potter” at Universal Studios. For the second consecutive year, the theme park put together an expo space dedicated to all things Potter and invited talent from the movies to share the excitement with fans. For the layperson who…
The countdown is on: T-minus five days of prep time until Valentine’s Day, the make-it-or-break-it holiday for relationships. Let’s hope you already have a game plan in the works; otherwise, this might be a stress-inducing week. Either way, you’ll need all of your cash to impress bae come Saturday, so…
When you were a kid, were your walls covered in memorabilia, posters, old pictures, and postcards? Did you one day decide to throw that stuff away or hide it in some drawer or box with the rest of your relics? It may seem like junk without context, but these old…
This Sunday night, The Walking Dead returns for the second half of season five. It got me thinking: What if The Walking Dead were set in Miami? Yes, this is a thing I have spent time thinking about, mainly because so many details in the original are so ridiculously Georgia-specific…
A painter, installation artist, and performance artist, Peter Hammar is a man of many talents. From winning the Art Takes Miami contest in 2013 to exhibiting at the Moore Building, ArtCenter South Florida, and even Scope Art Fair at Art Basel; Hammar’s eclectic work has made its way into the…
