If you’re one of those people who sees a movie and can’t stop talking about it, Cinema Conversations is for you. Tomorrow night Coral Gables Art Cinema kicks off this new series with the film Beginners. They will begin the screening of the flick at 6:45 p.m. with a pre-screening…
Trying to define “hipster film” is not really hipster. It goes against the independent subcultures that hipsters proclaim to inhabit. It’s like, whatever, suit. Fuck off, what do you know? However, hipsters are everywhere, including the mainstream. America’s socio-economic structure is shifting. We are evolving. Black presidents. Gay marriages. The…
Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, a magnificent finale for this beloved billion-dollar fantasy franchise. Before that confrontation can take place, though, David Yates’s epic must first chart Harry’s attempts alongside best friends Ron…
Does Basketball Wives portray minority women as materialistic gold diggers? It’s often the first dis about the show from critics. And the blogsphere seems more than a little disgusted that Evelyn Lozada would turn a hurtful insult into a bestselling T-shirt just to make a buck. Then there’s the multiple…
Horrible Bosses, directed by Seth Gordon, is an ensemble comedy about how our tough economic times have destroyed white-collar, white-male masculinity. Three high school friends–weakling dental hygienist Dale (Charlie Day), chemical company accountant Kurt (Jason Sudeikis), and unspecified corporate drone Nick (Jason Bateman)–are, at 40-ish, each facing intractable career obstacles…
First God. Then Michael Jackson. from Stretch Ledford on Vimeo. When veteran photographer, grad student, and university professor Stretch Ledford moved into the Palm Plaza Motel on 14st and NW 1st Avenue, he’d already been producing short video docs in Overtown since 2009. It was when he moved in, though,…
Opening this Saturday at the GableStage at the Biltmore, and running through August 7, the provocative and explosive stage play Masked is a candid depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a village on the West Bank, three Palestinian brothers are torn between their obligations to family, ideology, and survival as…
Page One: Inside the New York Times, which opens Thursday at O Cinema, will mean different things to different people.The people whom it would most benefit will not see it. The people who are offended by the notion that a newspaper should charge online readers, the people who think The…
Horrible Bosses: White man’s lament
Page One: Inside the New York Times: Please don’t stop the presses
The Double Hour: Promising material softened to mush
Sociopathic brat Casey Anthony was found not guilty yesterday. And because it tastes like chloroform, it’s a hard verdict to swallow. Anthony’s multitude of lies and visible ambivalence towards the still cryptic death of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, fueled most rational (with the exception of Nancy Grace) human beings (again,…
While Transformers 3: Dumbass Subtitle rocketed its way to the number one box office spot this holiday weekend, we were less than enthused with the film. The solution seems clear as day to us: quit it with the lame robots. And since we clearly have the ear of Mister Michael…
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) comes back to Miami to celebrate the contributions that the African-American community has made to the film industry. And this year the ABFF has yet again compiled a dizzying schedule comprised of four days of film screenings, cocktail receptions, workshops, and “master classes” taught…
Florida Supercon’s Geek Film Festival starts today. Buried among the documentaries and low-budget horror films is Radio Free Albemuth. The indie film is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same title. Set in an alternate-reality 1985, protagonist Nick Brady begins to have visions from the VALIS…
Meet Rosario Dawson. Yes, you know her, but maybe you didn’t know that she grew up in a squat in the lower east side, and she was discovered on her front porch by Kids director Larry Clark. Now she is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Cinderella, anyone?…
The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas is, obviously, a parody of the beloved How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Narrated by the late Jonathan Harris [Lost in Space, A Bugs Life], the animated film follows The Bolt as he tries to ruin Christmas, and his subsequent change of heart thanks to Cindy…
Hollywood über director/producer Michael Bay loves Miami. He’s filmed flicks here (Bad Boy I, II, and soon III), has a deal in the works with local outfit Rakontur to bring a Cocaine Cowboys-series to HBO, and even showed up at the U2 concert last night (where he hung out with…
A nameless homeless man arrives at his new home by train. He enters what the chief of police calls “Fucktown” to which he welcomes the tramp before holding him down so that a couple of douchebags might carve the word “scum” into his chest.The film Hobo with a Shotgun was…
Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in this gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor that brought us The Kids Are All Right. In fact, Beginners, a semi-autobiographical movie by SoCal skater-boy-turned-graphic-designer-and-filmmaker Mike Mills, has no shortage…
Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in Beginners, a gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor that brought us The Kids Are All Right. In fact, this semi-autobiographical movie by SoCal skater-boy-turned-graphic-designer-and-filmmaker Mike Mills has no shortage…
For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry Crowne. Directed, co-written by, and starring Tom Hanks in the title role, the film seems to want to be some kind of postrecessional pick-me-up, an “It Gets Better” video for…
