Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss the upcoming Dallas Buyers Club, the late Lou Reed, 1983’s Get Crazy, 1979’s The Visitor, and 2008’s In Bruges. Matthew McConaughey extends his streak of taking on challenging roles in Dallas Buyers…
With Halloween just around the corner, we know that it’s hard to decide on just one awesome costume. But for those of you who haven’t spent weeks or months planning an epic Halloween costume, and just want something you can put together quickly, we’ve got you covered. These costume ideas…
Miami makes appearances on the big (and little) screen all the time: Real Housewives, Miami Monkey and Bad Girls Club ring a bell? Sadly, most of the above serve to perpetuate tired South Beach stereotypes. This, in turn, leads to more tourists expecting nothing but Brazilian bikinis, daiquiris and house…
The inability to have a child is often treated as a “white people problem,” the province of middle- and upper-class couples who end up resorting to expensive fertility treatments. But Andrew Dosunmu’s supple, observant drama Mother of George puts a different spin on this anguishing issue: A woman who longs…
As the human footprint widens, the movements lumped under “environmentalism” grow ever more varied, which makes a far-reaching documentary about the environmentalist movement — detailing a history from its inception to the present day — a wildly ambitious undertaking. Yet this is the task documentarian Mark Kitchell has assumed in…
“Imagine if marriage didn’t exist, and you’re a guy and you ask someone to get married,” proposes comedian Aziz Ansari in his new Netflix stand-up special, Buried Alive, which premieres November 1. “Hey, so we’ve been hanging out all the time, spending a lot of time together. I want to…
South Florida housing prices are on the rise — Miami-Dade home prices have risen 18 percent since this time last year. Depending on whether you own or are looking to buy, that’s either a really good or really bad thing. If you’re a reality TV producer for the Bravo network,…
Tonight at O Cinema Wynwood, the director and star of Cannon Fodder, Israel’s first zombie movie, will be hosting a one-off screening of their film weeks before it opens in their home country. “We’ve shown it at a few festivals in Israel and there were some people who did not…
In August, Miami was a treated to a live event featuring Mystery Science Theater 3000 alums (now under the RiffTrax brand) riffing over Starship Troopers. This month, the RiffTraxers take on the classic Night of the Living Dead in another live event simulcast to theaters nationwide, including select theaters in…
If you’re a gamer who’s a little more sophisticated than your average Candy Crush player, it’s likely you pledge allegiance to Atari, a pioneer in the world of video games. But do you really know the ins and outs of their groundbreaking beginning? Soon, you can. Two Miamians are taking…
Reports surfaced yesterday that movie director Michael Bay — the Miami-lovin’ man who directed the movie adaptation of the New Times story Pain & Gain, made Megan Fox famous, and, like a cruel yet determined supervillain, inflicts movie theaters across America with a new Transformers sequel every year or two…
Movie magic can be expensive, and even big time directors find themselves strapped for cash when filming a movie. That is the beauty of crowdfunding: ask the fans who would see the flick to help pay for it. If Veronica Mars can raise over $5 million in 30 days, maybe…
Photo by Jaap BuitendijkChiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson disagree on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave — a beautifully shot film, contrasting the all-too-visible evil of mankind…
It sounds like an intriguing premise. Sergio (Fele Martínez), an aspiring screenwriter/director, has written a script for a western, but it keeps getting rejected. He’s told it feels ham-fisted and hollow. One would-be producer tells him it lacks a believable, lived-in quality. So Sergio leaves his cowboy-decorated apartment (Playmobil toys…
Being a sensible person, you’ve probably taken a liking to Benedict Cumberbatch — the actor, Dickensian beanpole, and banana-fana name-game destroyer who has lately played everyone literate geeks adore: Sherlock, Smaug, Khan. And, as a sensible person, you probably were curious — even heartened — to hear Cumberbatch would appear…
What do you call a narrative whose imperfections — OK, more like distracting flaws — line up one-to-one with those of its central character? There’s probably a German word for it, some octosyllabic monster better spat than spoken, deployed only when grad students kibitz about the particular strangeness of a…
When the late malevolent right-wing carny Andrew Breitbart provides your sole positive character reference out of nearly a dozen people speaking about you — some of whom were once your best friends — you might want to rethink your existence. In director Jamie Meltzer’s mesmerizing documentary Informant, Brandon Darby —…
“I don’t get asked questions about stripping anymore — which is a relief,” beams Diablo Cody. Understandably. Cody spent one year on the pole, and a whole lot longer on her knees at a Roman Catholic school, where the priests had old-world accents and made young Diablo attend mass before…
Kimberly Peirce changes almost nothing in her rallying remake of Brian De Palma’s classic about a troubled telekinetic teenager. She doesn’t have to. Yes, now the mean girls who pelt Carrie with tampons upload a cell phone video of the attack, and the well-meaning jock who squires the school outcast…
The doctor is in. Or will be, anyway, come this Friday. For the first time in 25 years, a former Doctor Who will touch down in Miami to meet with Whovians, sign mini versions of the TARDIS, and generally regale us with geeky glee. The seventh doctor himself (Sylvester McCoy)…
What’s illegal at Disneyland? Dogs, drugs, alcohol, pamphlets, flags and large coolers. Not listed? Secretly shooting a feature-length movie. But Disneyland couldn’t have imagined director Randy Moore would have the courage to film Escape From Tomorrow on location — and that it would be so horny. In the black-and-white theme…
As art house theaters go, our little Coral Gables Art Cinema is quite the charmer. And while they’ve garnered lots of local acclaim over the years (including Best Of awards from this publication), they’ve remained relatively bereft of national attention. But no more. The artsy outpost has finally earned its…
