From our time in Miami, we’ve learned that if your place of business lasts more than six months, you’re doing pretty well. And really, it’s the same way in reality TV. If you last one season, well, you’re doing better than most shows that come out of the 305. (Miami…
As if we weren’t already choking on pseudo-reality television, executive producer Jennifer Lopez has decided to throw another reality series into an already inundated TV line up. South Beach Tow, which premiered last night, chronicles the profession of the Ashenoff family: Robert Sr., his daughter Christie, and son Robert Jr.,…
The Miami City Ballet is enjoying its biggest success in 25 years — or so artistic director Edward Villella told the Miami Herald this past week. He was responding to fantastic reviews of MCB’s three-week season in a historic Parisian theater, where –according to international dailies Le Monde and Financial…
Miami is more than a sum of its parts. It seems that the guys from Mupalia Pictures, Alexander Jaramillo and Joaquin Escobar, intend to reveal that truth to the world.Sick of Hollywood’s trite depictions of our sweltering city, Jaramillo and Escobar want to give voice to all the unique stories…
Captain America ignores its roots for easy money
The Big Uneasy: New Orleans’s enemy wasn’t Katrina
Passione: John Turturro’s Neapolitan musical adventure
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an explicit work of patriotic, political propaganda: The cover of the first edition, available months before Pearl Harbor, famously featured the titular costume hero punching out Adolf…
Rejoice, America! Our long national nightmare of Charlie Sheen not being grossly overpaid to star in a mediocre sitcom is almost over. Sheen has inked a deal with Lionsgate to star in a sitcom adaptation of the film Anger Management. The deal gives Sheen a stake of ownership in the show,…
When Bryan Lorenzo graduated from the University of Miami film program, he already had his next project in mind. As a transplant from Maryland, Lorenzo, though half-Dominican, had initially felt like a gringo fish out of water in Miami’s multi-culti seas. That was a feeling only amplified when he stared…
Ciao, bella! On last night’s episode, the ladies of Basketball Wives have finally arrived in Rome, Italy. Remember their last trip to Madrid, Spain, which included fashion week festivities, Royce Reed almost dying of a phantom illness, and a midday brawl between Tami Roman and Evelyn Lozada? So we can only imagine…
Many regard Hurricane Katrina as “the big one” thanks to media coverage emphasizing the strength of the storm and the extent of the damage. Comedian, writer, and actor Harry Shearer wrote and directed The Big Uneasy to correct the public’s perception of what happened on August 29, 2005. It wasn’t…
Don’t you just love it when something so distinctly Miami puts the Magic City in the national spotlight, and that something doesn’t involve a collective hatred from the rest of the country for our beloved Miami Heat. Yeah, us too. Luckily, as of late it’s been different all stars who’ve…
“Juan of the Dead. We kill your beloved ones. How can I help you?” That’s a line from the star of what’s being called Cuba’s first horror flick, Juan of the Dead, and yeah, it’s freaking awesome. From the shots of Havana being overrun by zombies (mistaken for Americans, an…
Just when you thought reality TV couldn’t sink any lower…wait a second. We’ve already used that line, several times. The truth is there are no depths to which reality shows will not sink. Have you heard bout the new Casey Anthony show? We haven’t either, but trust us, a pitch…
Are you a toothy blond with straight up love for red, one-piece bathing suits? Or perhaps you’re a sexy ninja-like brunette with dreams of launching your own clothing line at K-Mart. Or maybe, just maybe, despite the fact that you take life-threatening orders from some voice over the phone you’re…
Harry Potter fights his last battle
The Trip at Miami Beach Cinematheque and Cosford Cinema
God damn it’s hot. So hot that the big guy upstairs doesn’t mind us using blasphemy to describe the weather lately — he’s even been going around Miami saying “how bout that heat” lately. And it’s that Miami hot. That utterly uncomfortable sticky kinda heat that can only be compared…
Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised by funnymen Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing versions of themselves, under the direction of Michael Winterbottom. The film opens at Miami Beach Cinematheque this weekend.The riff seems to have…
Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari make us nervous. We can’t keep our mouths shut before they enter the room at the Fontainebleau, but once they’re in there, we get shy. The two actors are visiting Miami to promote their upcoming movie, 30 Minutes or Less, which is due out this August…
We admit it. We’re nerds. We camped out for the New York premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last night. It was hot. We were cranky. But it was awesome. There were a good 200 people, sleeping in shifts to watch everyone’s things. We met fans…
