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…
Have you missed the brooding gaze of Ike Evans? When you sleep, do you dream of Jessica Marais in a bikini? Are you considering starting a Kickstarter campaign to turn the Miramar Playa set into a real, modern-day hotel? Good news: Magic City’s second season begins in two short months,…
42 Almost Makes a Flesh-and-Blood Man of Its Hero
Room 237 Argues The Shining Contains Everything
Beyond the Hills: A Romanian Exorcism Movie of Sorts
Blancanieves Is Witty, Riveting, and Gorgeous
Theory: The Shining is about the genocide of Native Americans. Evidence: The Overlook Hotel’s Navajo décor; Calumet baking powder cans (logo: an Indian chief) appear at moments when characters are “making treaties”; Nicholson’s Jack Torrance asks a phantom bartender to commiserate about “the white man’s burden”; the Overlook is built…
In The Company You Keep, Robert Redford and Co. Face the ’60s in their 70s
In Trance, the Crime (and Confusion) Is in the Mind
Leviathan Is a Watery Knockout
Carbon Nation: A Green Economy Is a Labor Economy
A common sentiment recurs through the abundance of eulogies and obituaries penned by film critics in the wake of his death late last week: Roger Ebert was an inspiration. It’s easy enough to be encouraged by another’s success—to regard an esteemed elder colleague with a combination of admiration and envy—but…
The Place Beyond the Pines Is the Year’s First Stab at a Masterpiece
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a film that inspires strong reactions, and people have been trying to pin down what it’s really about almost since the day it was released. With Room 237, first-time feature director Rodney Ascher has gone deeper down the rabbit hole than anyone before him, bringing…
Thanks to her otherworldly cuteness, wide-eyed “perma-kitten” Lil Bub is the Internet’s favorite celebri-kitty. Her bright green eyes sparkle with perpetual wonder, and her little pink tongue sticks out beneath an upper lip that’s always smiling. She’s also polydactyl — meaning she has thumbs. When her human, Mike Bridavsky, needs…
The last time James Franco was in Miami on a cultural mission, it was to show his own art at OHWOW’s Art Basel satellite fair. That might be where Franco hooked up with fellow OHWOW exhibitor Harmony Korine, who later directed a cornrowed, gold-toothed Franco in this year’s Spring Breakers…
Did you spend your Saturday night watching The Rachel Zoe Project marathon? Have you gotten into verbal altercations over Beverly Hills versus Orange Country? Is your boyfriend hiding his love for Nene Leakes like a meth habit? These are all signs of a full-blown Bravo addiction. You aren’t the only…
O Cinema’s mini-Kubrick Film Festival, “Stanley Kubrick: The Man & His Movies,” has made a last-minute addition to its participants. Matthew Modine, the lead actor in the iconic director’s 1987 Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket, and more recently seen in The Dark Knight Rises, will appear via Skype for a…
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert died of cancer yesterday at age 70. For almost half a century, Ebert’s sharp assessments and lovable humor guided America’s film audiences, through his post as film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, his TV shows with Gene Siskel (and later, Richard Roeper), and his film…
How Evil Dead Director Fede Alvarez Reimagined the Classic Splatterfest
