MOCA Announces Finalists for Optic Nerve Festival XIII

We’re not shy about our love of MOCA’s annual showcase of video art, the Optic Nerve Festival. Heck we even voted it our Best Film Festival in Miami this year. From Coral Morphologic’s glowing sea creatures to Christy Gast tap dancing on the rim of Lake Okeechobee, our city is…

The Change-Up: Bromatic Jokes and Homoerotic Endgames

A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars JasonBateman as anal-retentive lawyer/family man Dave, and Ryan Reynolds as Dave’s classically anal-expulsive stoner/playboy childhood friend Mitch. One drunken night, Dave admits that he’s secretly jealous of Mitch’s life of reckless indulgence. Thanks to some hazy mechanics involving…

Shark Week: The Drinking Game

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, everybody’s favorite midsummer TV party, began its yearly run last night, and we couldn’t be more excited. For one week, the majestic and vicious kings of the ocean give us a much-needed break from the reruns that usually dominate the August airwaves. What could be better?…

Superman Returns and Other Comic Book Film Adaptations That Sucked

Just when Harry Potter thought he was going to reign, when nothing could outdo his finest spells and ghastly encounters, Captain America crashed into his moment of grandeur, sending his epic, final film spiraling downward in a battle at the box office. That’s right: the puny, outdated action hero who…

Beatriz Monteavaro Hosts “Participatory Grease Worship” at the End

How frequently do we describe our mood as “ecstatic”? Between the monotonous doom of the debt-limit crisis, the ticking time bomb of hurricane season, trying to stay alive in traffic, trying to pay the rent, and the unrelenting, absolutely suffocating humidity, we’re lucky if we ever just feel not-lousy. This weekend,…

Talking Vaginas and Other Low Points in the History of Douche

​Anybody happen to get a load of the new Summer’s Eve ‘Hail to the V’ advertisements for their brand of feminine hygiene products (video below)? Complete with talking vaginas with racially stereotypical voiceovers? Yikes. Way to make the ladies hail to the V, Summer’s Eve.Offending the African American and Hispanic…

Basketball Wives Episode 8: Tami Pops Meeka in the Face

Watching part two of the Basketball Wives vacationing is immediately interesting to watch. We are about to two months into this show and think about it: just a few weeks back, Tami Roman was ready to throw down with Evelyn Lozada. But in last night’s episode, she is so worried…