Flickr CC CloudzillaA kitty with a vanity problem.Sure, the rest of country spent a summer of bad TV frolicking outside in their low-humidity backyards. Meanwhile, here in Miami, sweat pooled in the most unmentionable of places so we spent most of days indoors, channel surfing awful reruns. The only passable…
The Town: Ben Affleck and his bank robber role
Easy A: Scarlet Letter-inspired teen comedy
Kristen gets sloppy in Jamaica.Yay! Bad Girls Club Miami is back! How we went a week without this show, we have no idea. The ladies headed out of town in last night’s episode. Why did no one send any of the Bad Girls to Hedonism II before? Sluts + encouraged…
Here’s something to chew on: Know why the murder rate took a sudden dip in the 90s? No, it wasn’t stricter gun control laws or more police presence. The lower murder rate was a direct result of legalizing abortion in 1973. According to the authors of bestseller Freakonomics, criminals are…
Who the F@#k is Eric Cloutier? Where the F@#K is Wynwood?Eric Cloutier first showed up on the New Times radar back during the Wynwood Art Walk of June 2008. He was running Chrome Art Gallery and appeared in a video interview for the blog. Since then we’ve seen him pushing…
This is Miami. There’s a level of gratuitous sex that’s part of everyday life. Whether its bumping and grinding (and let’s face it, dry humping) in a club or coming dangerously close to being groped by a frisky group of tranny street-walkers on the Metrorail, there’s no escaping the lewd…
courtesy of IFC FilmsHuman Centipede’s evildoer.Forget Silence of the Lambs. Now there’s a movie that’s trumps all existing worst case scenarios if you find yourself kidnapped. The Human Centipede is a recent Dutch horror film where captive tourists are sewn together, mouth to anus. We refuse to write those two…
Life During Wartime: A Miami backdrop to Todd Solondz’s latest
Mademoiselle Chambon: French love triangle
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the ’20s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
First, Leonardo DiCaprio started driving a Prius, then M. Night Shyamalan wrote a movie about trees killing people, and now the green movement has finally invaded Miami moviemaking. The cinephiles that founded the Borscht Film Festival are pledging to go green when they start filming their shorts this winter, which…
Lebanon: The best movie of the year
Machete: Robert Rodriguez’s latest is LOL-funny
The Tillman Story sets the record straight
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
We’ve got a lot of questions. Like … Are we the only ones willing to listen to how fucking dumb Kristen is because of all the crazy-funny shit she says? Is Dirty D an actual ex-heroin addict or is she just faking it to be a Debbie Downer? Or when…
You might not know it. But there are approximately two billion and a half film aficionados who’d argue that creator-actor-writer-director-producer Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is a cinematic masterpiece full of raw human emotion that explodes across the screen in supernovas of beauty, soul, and specialness. Hahaha … I lied. If…
Last night, Jimmy Fallon hosted the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, and he got about as many laughs as Hurricane Katrina, which hit five years ago yesterday. Relying on a guitar, “funny” songs, and tweets from random Emmy viewers, Fallon once again proved to be the Keanu Reeves of comedy…
This weekend, James Cameron re-released his multi-million dollar epic film Avatar in 3-D theaters. This is great news for James Cameron, because people are determined to fork over their cash for nine additional minutes of tail sex and a chance to relive a grandiose robbery of time. In 3-D!But let’s…
While we had MIFF’s new director, Jaie Laplante, on the horn last week, verifying his role in Frisk, we also asked him how he characterizes Miami’s film tastes and which films he ranks among his personal favorites.A native of Alberta, Canada who holds a BFA in film production from Toronto’s…
A traditional animator is someone who spends hours meticulously moving objects frame by frame. Meanwhile, computer animation makes poor souls hunch over their screens for hours at a time, staring at a graphic. Last night, Spencer Morin and his crew used both methods at the second Animiami Kick-Off Party. Over…
