Film, TV & Streaming

Upstream Color Is Mysterious and Beautifully Shot

Starbuck Makes You Want to Take a Shower

In Mud, McConaughey Is Great Again

In Arthur Newman, Colin Firth’s Fake Death Isn’t That Intriguing

No Place on Earth: Not Your Ordinary Cave Dwellers

Though he’s long been among the most recognizable celebrities in the world, Tom Cruise has always seemed vaguely irritating, like the popular kid at school everybody secretly dislikes. His is an odd sort of fame: globally recognized but rarely acclaimed, he remains more reliably bankable than nearly any other actor…

In The Client List, Lifetime’s pseudo-steamy take on the world of sensual massage, Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a struggling housewife who takes a rub-down side job in order to support her kids after her husband disappears. The show, which jumps from scenes of Hewitt pleasuring executives to her dancing with…

Michael Bay reclines on a white lounge chair on a 14th-floor balcony at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Brickell Key. To the east, a sheet of piercing rain swallows Key Biscayne, thunder cracks overhead, and a lightning bolt shoots above the choppy waves. The sudden monsoon provides the perfect backdrop…

It’s happening again. The Miami Heat is back in the NBA playoffs. LeBron is leading in scoring. Ray Allen is putting in a decent show. Even Rihanna showed up to support the defenders. But if you attended the Borscht Film Festival last year, you know the real hero of this…

Hollywood celebrities, flashy cars, sexy models, pro athletes, and rappers poppin’ bottles in the club. Does that sound like South Beach to you? It does to John Legend. According to Deadline Hollywood, the singer-songwriter is helping to develop a series for HBO called Down Lo, set in Miami and featuring…

For many of us, our dogs are like our kids. We love them, we care for them, and they can torture us with the same kind of behavior issues: barking, chewing, aggression. It’s like the canine version of crying, drawing on the walls and temper tantrums. Luckily, you can teach…

Home Run, in theaters April 19, is about a famous baseball player named Cory Brand (Scott Elrod), who has a serious drinking problem. He is an alcoholic. He causes a terrible D.U.I. accident, severely injuring the passenger of his car. This is his second D.U.I., and police footage from the…

As we continue to process how a life can end in an instant as it did during the Boston Marathon bombings, HBO offers an unusual and powerful documentary premiere tonight. Which Way is the Front Line From Here? recounts the life and death of war photographer Tim Hetherington and was…

After working a packed auditorium into a frenzy at last September’s premiere of Lords of Salem at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rob Zombie anxiously took his seat and watched his audience watch his film, his first independently financed feature. It’s also the first film he’s made following a messy…

Tom Cruise’s Oblivion Is Grand Until It’s Not

Antiviral Is Hide-Your-Eyes Yucky

The Rabbi’s Cat Is an Absorbing, Nuanced, and Vividly Animated Tale

The Lords of Salem Is Never Suspenseful or Scary

Scary Movie V Will Murder Your Capacity to Feel Joy

Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django Unchained is still kicking up shit, this time via cross-media trickle-down. TV’s LL Cool J, not long before declaring Confederate flag apparel A-OK with him, dared to express in “Accidental Racist” one hard-edged complaint about the life of a black…

At any prior point in TV history, Rectify, a six-part drama on the Sundance channel, would be a shake-up-the-medium astonishment: A sober, even stately investigation into a curious kind of afterlife, that of a death-row inmate given freedom twenty years after his conviction. For all the finely crafted mysteries of…

For a private investigator, Ed Du Bois has had quite a career. His work helped take down Miami’s infamous Sun Gym Gang in the ’90s. He was immortalized in Pete Collins’ three-part chronicle of the gang’s activities. Now, he’s being portrayed by Academy Award nominee and deathstare master Ed Harris…