John Berger quipped, “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at,” an observation recalled by this anachronistic picture of Fernando Trueba’s, which offers as generic a portrait of its central relationship as its title suggests. In WWII France, elderly artist Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort) has seen his well…
As another summer movie season characterized by cynicism and excess draws to a close, there are few activities less valuable or interesting than complaining about it. The blockbusters arrived, flattened cities, vomited effects, deafened with explosions, made money, didn’t make enough money, pleased populist critics, displeased elitist critics, and finally…
When Justin Bieber’s favorite actress, Selena Gomez, survives a bad B movie with more dignity than her costar, Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, the end times must be near. In Getaway, Hawke is Brent Magna, a failed racecar driver turned crook turned reformed husband who returns to his Sofia, Bulgaria apartment…
After Jimmy Savile, Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan, and that Christian puppeteer who wanted to kidnap, kill, and eat little boys, it’s hard not to imagine the children’s entertainment industry as a fount of unimaginable filth and degeneracy. But for those who’d prefer to remember their childhoods happily, Mathew Klickstein offers…
The DVD for Pain & Gain, Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s bizarre, dark buddy-crime film based on a New Times story, was released yesterday, closing the book on a story that began two decades ago. But Walhberg and Johnson will still be seeing plenty of each other, thanks…
When it comes to television, plenty of shows like to pretend that they take place on our gorgeous South Florida shores, but few of them are actually filmed on site. (We’re looking at you, Dexter.) Burn Notice on USA Network, on the other hand, is perhaps one of the most…
Breaking Bad is nearing an end, and what will happen is anyone’s guess. With Jesse snapping and Hank becoming increasingly desperate, Walt’s life is now beginning to spiral out of control. With only six episodes left in the series, Vince Gilligan will spare no air time with sub-plots. However, the…
Okay, so maybe Evelyn Vogel isn’t the Brain Surgeon, as we had predicted. Last night’s episode pretty much ruled out that theory. But we weren’t far off — just one generation off, to be precise. We’ll put the big reveal behind the jump. Spoilers ahead. See also: Ten Creepy Dexter…
If you’ve been watching Breaking Bad this season, you’ve likely picked up on a subtle and not-so-complimentary metaphor for our neighbors just across the Caribbean in Belize. Without giving too much away, Walter White has been covering up for a character he killed by telling everybody he fled to Belize…
In case you hadn’t heard, Burn Notice is going up in smoke. And the end of this seven-season, Miami-set series means they’re hosting one hell of a fire sale. Everything must go! As the show’s last few episodes air and the cast evacuates the Coconut Grove Convention Center, they’re ditching…
With an offhand precision that suggests he might prove one of his generation’s major actors, Michael Cera lays bare two specific human weaknesses in writer/director Sebastián Silva’s altered-states/group dynamics road drama Crystal Fairy — weaknesses you’ll likely recognize from life rather than from other movies. The first is the pushy,…
The laddish pleasures of The World’s End, Edgar Wright’s comedy about a group of middle-aged guys drinking beer and facing mortality, come with a bittersweet edge. In the old days, the lead character, Gary King, used to be the coolest kid in school, at least in the outlaw sense: He’d…
Here’s a humble wig-out, a curio that could endure beyond its creators’ more demonstrably successful works — and for decades will certainly confound audiences who think they’re streaming/torrenting/eye-jacking some broad Paul Rudd comedy they had forgotten about. Prince Avalanche director David Gordon Green gives star Rudd more chances to charm…
If you are a passing fan of Edgar Wright’s movies Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, you’d be forgiven for not knowing that the movies share a common thread beyond the director and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The two movies, plus this weekend’s opening film The World’s…
This year’s finalists in the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami’s Optic Nerve video festival include a documentary that seeks to answer why Super Mario eats mushrooms, salt and pepper shakers wandering through a kitchen in search of an egg to be sprinkled upon, a lyric video for a really…
Hulk Hogan told TMZ earlier this month that he’s developing a movie about his life. But it’s the ever-flaky Hulk Hogan, and it’s TMZ, so we didn’t think much of it other than please let it be so. Turns out, The Hulk is sticking to his story. In an interview…
This week’s episode eight was appropriately titled “Are We There Yet?” With only four episodes left in the series, we can’t be the only viewers anxious to know how the series will end. And it could also be a wink and nod from the producers who know who the real…
Latrice Jackson, the 14-year-old lead actress in the film The Magic City, was hospitalized earlier today at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Broward County. The movie, which screened at the 17th Annual American Black Film Festival in July, was shot in Miami last year. The story of a Liberty City…
Usually, when film or TV projects come to town, the directors are extra-secretive about their sets. (Looking at you, Iron Man 3.) Jon Favreau is not one of those directors. While he was in Miami filming his upcoming movie Chef, Favreau took plenty of time out to update his fans…
Going to Brazil to see movies is inconvenient. First of all, it’s plenty far away. Second, it’s really hard to keep the theater seats hygienic in the tropics when everyone wears only a thong. Fortunately, a whole slew of Brazilian films are tanned, hairless, and on their way to you…
The Act of Killing is one of the most breathtaking horror films you’ll ever see. The documentary by Danish-American filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer dives into the psyches of several paramilitary men and gangsters who helped massacre over a million so-called “communists” in Indonesia following a military coup in 1965. Melding dramatized…
At the movies, straightforward storytelling, the kind in which a director and his cast push a story forward in waves of action and feeling, has become so out of fashion it’s almost avant-garde. Moviegoers, it seems, need to be cool: not too moved, not too surprised, not too impressed. We…
