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This year’s Miami International Film Festival is replete with enough films to blow your independent film loving ass clean off with 100 films from 40 countries including Oscar nominated films, international films, an animated film (for adults!), the requisite local-focus films, and rapper 50 Cent starring as a football star…

Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) have achieved somnolent routine in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yet the wives worry. Rick is a girl-watcher; Fred masturbates in the privacy of their parked Honda Odyssey (his…

Paramount, distributor of David O. Russell’s The Fighter, celebrated the helmer’s Best Director Oscar nomination by placing a “For Your Consideration” ad on the cover of Variety, touting him as “the comeback of the year.” It was an odd choice of phrasing, considering that The Fighter, Russell’s first feature to…

An adaptation of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman’s novel about Upper Manhattan entitlement and sanctimony, this minor 2009 Toronto Film Festival entry has been dusted off to capitalize on insatiable, inexplicable Natalie Portmania. Portman, who also executive-produced, stars as Emilia Greenleaf, the home-wrecker of the title who becomes…

We’ve heard for a while now that Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio would team to bring the real life story of Miami drug icons Jon Roberts and Mickey Munday to the silver screen, but that looks closer to happening with reports that director David O. Russell is considering directing the…

“Go, go, go shawty / It’s your birthday/ We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday.” Doesn’t sound like the verse of a method actor with a sympathetic heart, but it is. Thrown into fame in 2003 with ear-worm hits like “In Da Club,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson currently stars in…

The first episode of any Real Housewives series is all about meeting the ladies. And yep, that is exactly what we did during episode one of Real Housewives of Miami last night.Lea Black is a good time. We can already tell we’re going to really like her. She takes over…

Gird your loins: Real Housewives of Miami starts tonight! And while we’re really excited to see it, well, the rest of the country isn’t. People Magazine gave it one star and nicknamed it “Miami Without Spice.” Wow, harsh. Lea Black told us to expect “above the belt drama,” which translates…

In the first five minutes of last night’s Basketball Wives, things go from bad to worse when the ladies feel the need to get a therapy session in over wine. And not shockingly, Tami Roman wanted to make it a point to not talk shit about her. We get it,…

Independent filmmaker and University of Miami alum Michael Sarrow wants us to feel connected. He also wants us to decide for ourselves whether or not a Motorola ad run during the Super Bowl is just a bit too similar to his short film, “Do Not Disconnect.”Sarrow studied screenwriting at the…

For months, we heard gossip about a reality show filming here in Miami. And when Bravo finally announced Real Housewives of Miami, of course, our reality-loving hearts were psyched. But then we wondered who the hell would represent our fine city. We heard everyone’s name from Gloria Estefan to “Queen…

Did we just crankily decry Miami’s supposed art cinema boom yesterday? Looks like we spoke too soon because O Cinema will start screening films next week — albeit in a soft opening. On February 24, the theater will show their inaugural film, Mississippi Damned. O Cinema was open during Art…

Despite what we’ve seen on Mad Men, the Sixties were not all about capitalistic greed.  In fact, the decade witnessed the explosion of counterculture movements, social revolution, and most importantly the birth of the hippies. Enter Phil Ochs. The anti-Don Draper. Ochs was an important folk and protest singer who…

Can we bitch for a minute? Seeing movies at multiplexes like Aventura and Lincoln Road is about as enjoyable as air travel. They move us like cattle through roped lines and mega escalators. We half expect them to make us take off our shoes at some point and start touching…

We know that Christmas morning (or perhaps the first night of Hanukkah) comes every year. But for some reason, that special day still feels more special than the year before. For us, that is what it feels like every time we turn on a new episode of any Real Housewives…