Film, TV & Streaming

Rakontur ten-year restrospective at O Cinema March 26-30

Musical Chairs at Regal Cinemas South Beach

In The Deep Blue Sea, lovers try to stay above water

The Hunger Games rages against our stupid culture and becomes part of the problem

Read “Hunger Games Stars on Training, Crazy Fans, and Peeta-philia.”

Unless you forcibly blinded and deafened yourself after the onslaught of Twilight paraphernalia over the past couple of years, you’ve likely heard the nationwide shrieking of tween girls that signals the approach of The Hunger Games film release date (March 23). But don’t let the Harry Potter-sized hype fool you…

Nice guys always finish last. Assholes always get the girl. It’s a dating cliche, but to a certain extent, it’s true. If I had to pick a joke to use on a girl I’m chatting up at a bar, I wouldn’t go with “Why don’t aliens eat clowns? Because they…

Finally, the Basketball Wives are back in Miami and head straight to dinner to do what they do best: talk smack. And because the blogosphere is still talking about the little throw down between Tami Roman and Kesha Nichols, we are glad to see the ladies haven’t forgotten it, either.But…

​The dark days of Winter have come to pass. Daylight Savings Time is back in effect. Drunken revelers have invaded our city. Yes, Spring is here, which means that ABC has once again made room in its schedule, which is otherwise full of shows with the word “bitch” in the…

Sorry, celebrity stalkers — we’ve had no official sightings of multibillion-dollar Transformers franchise director and part-time Miami Beach resident Michael Bay, nor have we seen any member of the the A-list cast he has assembled for Paramount Pictures’ Miami-based black comedy Pain and Gain, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne “The Rock”…

Attention, Miami filmmakers: Your city’s funkiest, most 305-inspired film festival wants your work.Submissions are now open for the eighth year of the Borscht Film Festival, scheduled for the end of 2012. And if you have a film in the works — or even just an idea for a film –…

As a proud Miami resident, It’s hard to watch Bravo without feeling a little bitter. Why do Beverly Hills and Atlanta housewives get all the fame and glory, while our own tv series chronicling the lives of the Magic City’s wealthy, catfight-y ladies was nearly canceled due to low ratings?Well,…

We guess CBS just isn’t [dramatic putting-on of sunglasses] feeling the heat.The network announced its lineup of next season’s returning shows last night, 18 in total, in a bold move that experts say reflects the network’s current Champion of Ratings status. But amid titles like Survivor, NCIS, and The Good…

For years, Miami has been a movie wasteland. Despite stellar recent shorts by local filmmakers like Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer, and the rest of the Borscht family, good full-length films are as rare as snowflakes in the Magic City. (Renting Snow Dogs, Miami Vice, or Marley & Me is the…

21 Jump Street now a buddy comedy

Chico and Rita: Cartoon Cuban love at Coral Gables Art Cinema through March 16 to 22

Casa de Mi Padre: Will Ferrell goes espanol

Delicacy: Audrey Tautou’s enormous eyeballs dare us not to find her adorable

Mark Wahlberg. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Bethenny Frankel. One of these things is not like the others.And yet, US Weekly reports, the three could soon have something in common: a role in Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain, the film based on this New Times crime feature. Two unnamed sources told…

Oh, how quickly the tables turn in the world of Basketball Wives. Only a month into season four, it seemed that Kenya Bell was a shoo-in for the title of Most Hated Wife, much like Meeka Claxton in season three. But we were wrong.After last night’s episode, it’s looking like…

After nearly two full weeks of movie screenings, directors’ lectures, and more, the Miami International Film Festival’s 2012 edition wrapped up Saturday with the announcement of this year’s winners at the Gusman. While you were drinking your way from premiere gala to premiere gala and celebrity-spotting at red carpet events,…

Three more days, 45 more screenings of films from around the globe. It’s time to kick our Miami movie madness into high gear. Five MIFF-tastic theaters, distributed across several Miami neighborhoods for your viewing convenience, are offering British-born, star-studded thrillers, Cuban zombie flicks, culture clashing comedies, and reels of down-home…

​Human existence is striding a lot easier these days.A mere hundred years ago, a trip from the Far East to the Americas could take longer than the 16- or 17-hour flight it takes now. Nowadays, though, you can be in Moscow, New York, and Honolulu all in the same 24-hour…