If nothing else, “Nine Nation Animation,” which opens at Coral Gables Art Cinema this weekend, proves that there’s a lot more to the animator’s art than either the cutting-edge ultra-realism of Pixar or the flat functionality of sitcoms like The Simpsons. The nonet of brief films on display in the…
La Pageant Diva, whether you think it was warranted or not, received the loudest cheer at the Borscht Film Festival. The hilarious satire of glamor, beauty pageantry, and celebrity obsession parodied such movies as Black Swan and The Birdcage. It stood out when juxtaposed against some of the more artsy, complicated work of…
We’re still basking in the awesome afterglow of Borscht 7. Perhaps one of the smartest moves the Borscht crew made that night was starting the show with Piratas, Julian Rodriguez’s film about his beloved boat nearly being stolen by canal pirates.The film, which includes Julian running down the streets in…
Movies stay with you. Horror flicks scare, rom-coms mold our ideas of love, and dramas tear at our hearts. Filmmakers are aware of the impact that they have on the human psyche and that’s what they feed off of.But it’s that select group of films that forever stays with us…
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock takes on the ad industry in The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Finding (fake?) love in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy
In a Better World, where displaced tykes and bullies abound
Something’s not a meme until it’s sold on Etsy, right? At least that’s how we judge it (see our Human Centipede and Charlie Sheen handmade roundups). So consider us proud parents as the ladies of Real Housewives of Miami are now immortalized on the indie goods site. David Gilmore, the…
Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy opens at Miami Beach Cinematheque and Cosford this weekend. The Iranian modernist’s first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema. It’s a romantic, sun-dappled Voyage to Italy with a Before Sunset structure and Marienbad backbeat, not to…
Hollywood is bloated and slow. It takes those bozos months, if not years, to shoot a movie. They’re still using dial up, when the Borscht Film Festival has gone over to fiber optic. It took many of the Borscht boys less than a month to put together finished films which…
Being on a reality show gives you the right to do a lot of things. First off, make a lot of money. Second, you get the perfect platform to run your mouth on whomever and whatever you want. Well, not if you’re Royce Reed. You know Reed as the tiny…
Tonight, the seventh floor of the 1111 Lincoln Road garage will be transformed into a post-modern drive-in for the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The Made in Miami event includes world premieres of Max Emerson’s short films Earwig and DipSpit. The two mark Emerson’s writing and directing debut. A…
Five months after showing how bad he could do all by himself in adapting Ntozake Shange, Tyler Perry returns to transferring his own stage work to the screen, donning once again the Lane Bryant floral prints that have made his millions. Like its predecessors, Madea’s Big Happy Family features a…
Billy Corben doesn’t get high, but he does believe in weed, man. Last week, after a 4/20 screening of Rakontur’s new documentary Square Grouper, about the mega-ton pot smuggling scene in Everglades City, the director offered his opinion on the decriminalization of marijuana. “I don’t think the federal government should…
To pick our favorite reality TV star is like asking a mother to pick her favorite child. But really, we have spoken to a lot of these ladies, and while on TV they might rip each other’s hair out, they are generally nice people. Basketball Wives’ Royce Reed? Not crazy…
The Borscht Film Festival is a love letter to Miami, one covered with lipstick kisses and a few other suspect stains. Last night’s seventh edition at the Arsht Center’s packed Knight Concert Hall was a three-hour showcase of 305 talent. Of the 23 shorts, 97 percent were shot in, edited…
In Argentina, the only thing more dangerous than the rampant auto accidents and understaffed hospitals is the ambulance-chasing attorneys who prey upon the injured and grieving. Carancho, Pablo Trapero’s social exposé-cum-thriller, concentrates on one such “carancho” (translation: vulture), Sosa (Ricardo Darín), and his budding relationship with junkie doctor Luján (Martina…
Water for Elephants falls in the grand line of star vehicles designed to pull back the curtain on the Hollywood sausage-making process just enough to remind audiences that stars–particularly the fresh, young, fuckable variety–are totally awesome. This story of “pretty much the most famous circus disaster in history” features Robert…
In 1994, our daily media diet included Arsenio Hall and Saved by the Bell. It was not a fantastic time to be stuck at home with cable and no driver’s license. Then Comedy Central delivered us from ennui with episodes of BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous. And although our 13-year-old pea brains…
Norm Macdonald is admittedly a seemingly bizarre choice to host Sports Show. Nearing age 50, he hasn’t been nationally relevant since he hosted Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live in the mid-’90s — a gig that ended when then-NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer fired him. What followed was Dirty Work, a…
Kayla de la Cerda, like most of us, remembers eating Lunchables as a kid. Unlike the rest of us, this 18-year-old Miamian was able to incorporate her memory of mystery meat and crackers into a screenplay for With Me. Filmed with Fro Rojas, it screens this Saturday at the Borscht…
The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, (MGLFF) now in its 13th year, is back. The festival open tonight and runs until May 1, with 50 films over 10 days. This year’s selections include all kinds of features, from Tomboy, an animated short about a queer kid, to the documentary…
