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Farewell My Queen at Tower Theater

Total Recall: Len Wiseman’s Remake Is Boring and Stupid

Fashion plate, grill enthusiast, America’s sexiest douchebag, and Olympic champion Ryan Lochte has been offered several reality TV shows, according to The Hollywood Reporter.”I cannot tell you the exact shows, but two different reality show concepts have been offered and one additional is being discussed,” Lochte’s agent confirmed to THR.That’s…

Sometimes we go to the movies to put our realities on hold for a while and get lost in another world. But what happens when the credits start rolling, the lights turn back on, and you still don’t know how to find yourself?n The Projectionist, Sid Newman has abandoned the…

In the world of extreme sports, there aren’t many athletes who can rival the brass cojones of the Nitro Circus crew. The gang of thrill-seeking superjocks has been inspiring wannabe daredevils with their often ridiculous, always risky routines since their TV debut in 2006. Their insane adventures often beg the…

Do you ignore your significant other when Real Housewives is on? Is your fridge stocked with Skinnygirl products? Do you root for the Atlanta Falcons because of Kroy Biermann? You may have an addiction to Bravo TV programming.And with the network’s new reality series Gallery Girls, starring two Miami natives,…

See Will Dexter Swap Sibling Sex for Serial Killing?; Dexter May Survive Beyond its Eighth Season.Showtime, we get it, okay? Dexter, one of your most popular recent tv series, is winding to a close (maybe), and you want to milk it for every last drop of ritualistically murdered, painstakingly archived…

From ’50s sci-fi horror to exploitation flicks of the ’70s to Mystery Science Theater 3000-worthy films of the present day, cult and b-movies have crawled out of the gutter and into the darkest part of our hearts. But here in Miami, subculture cinephines haven’t had a place to come together…

LaTrice Royale just missed the top three in the last season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but managed to pick up the Miss Congeniality crown and, of course, the highly coveted Miami New Times “Best Of award for Best Reality Contestant”.She may not have snatched the crown, but her casting on…

Tomas Loewy is really into Burning Man. So much so that the Miami-based photographer has attended the infamous desert-fest for eight years and counting. He’s also published a book devoted exclusively to its images. And next, he hopes, he’ll bang out a full length, non-verbal feature film tribute — with…

See City Commissioners Plan to Evict Burn Notice from Coconut Grove; and Burn Notice Eviction Not Up for Public Debate.Things have been pretty tense lately between Coconut Grove locals who support keeping the TV show Burn Notice filming in their neighborhood, and city commissioners who want to evict the production…

See Nicole Kidman Pees on Zac Efron, Divides Cannes Audiences.Hey, remember that movie The Paperboy?No? What if we told you it was directed by Precious’ director Lee Daniels, and debuted at Cannes in May?Still nothing? What if we reminded you it’s the story of a Miami Times (not to be…

Red Lights: Rodrigo Cortes’s Thriller Doesn’t Inspire Faith

Anna Paquin in Margaret, at Miami Beach Cinematheque

Farewell, My Queen at Tower Theater

The Queen of Versailles at O Cinema August 2-7

Whores’ Glory at Cosford Cinema August 3-8

The Watch Review: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade

This week, as the rest of the world watches feats of human awesomeness in the London Olympics, TV reporters have been watching feats of human idiocy at the Television Critics Association press tour in L.A.Sure, there have been some highlights. (Dexter could be renewed indefinitely? Tell us more.) But most…

See Dexter’s Getting Sliced After Season Eight.The last time we heard from anybody at Showtime about the end of Dexter, the premium cable’s noir-ish drama about a serial killer set in Miami, it was executive producer Sara Colleton asserting that the show would kill itself off at the end of…

See MTV’s House of Style is Coming Back.MTV’s programming execs sure are feeling nostalgic these days. First, they announce they’re bringing House of Style back to TV, giving us all access to its extensive, 12-season archives in the process. (Way to exercise restraint by reading this blog post instead of…

See our interview with the stars of Step Up Revolution, and Film-Lover’s Response to the Aurora Shooting.Before last week, if you’d told us that controversy lurked within Step Up Revolution — the fourth installment in the formulaic Step Up franchise in which teenage dancers discover themselves and find love through…