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David KrutaStacie Passon’s Concussion is a happy surprise.Sometimes, one film in a festival lineup can help to reveal another in sharper relief. To wit, one of the loveliest entries in Sundance 2013’s U.S. Dramatic Competition, James Ponsoldt’s deeply felt coming-of-age drama The Spectacular Now, looked even better after the premiere…

Rachel MorrisonMichael B. Jordan (The Wire), who’s fully up to the challenge, in Fruitvale.You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in…

All that television and rap music? Your mother worries you’re not seeing enough movies. Fortunately, the 2013 Miami Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Saturday, January 26, and the schedule is more packed with goodness than your stomach after a weekend at home. Cultist spoke with festival director Ellen Wedner…

The new TV spot for Pain & Gain was released yesterday, and it features several new and interesting angles from which to view Mark Wahlberg’s crotch. “My name is Daniel Lugo, and I believe in the American Dream,” the trailer begins, the words said matter-of-factly by Mark Wahlberg, as he…

Well, Kourtney Kardashian, you can’t say we didn’t warn you. We knew that Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy would bring out the worst of the world’s mean preggers comments. And in the two-night premiere of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, which ended last night, sisters Kim and Khloe got a head start…

Octomom’s headed back to South Florida to settle a score. And yes, it involves overexposure. Nadya Suleman, the mother of 14 who got famous when she gave birth to octuplets in 2009, has reportedly settled her ongoing lawsuit with T’s Lounge in West Palm Beach by agreeing to return to…

In May in the Summer, Dahlia (Arrested Development’s hilarious Alia Shawkat) is a lesbian tentatively trying to step out of the closet.In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute’s ongoing filmmaker development labs as “our core,” noting…

When I heard Kim Kardashian was pregnant, I cringed. Not because I thought Kim would be a bad mother, or because I thought it was a publicity stunt, or because I was one of the aluminum foil-wearing Twitterers who believed it was all an Illuminati conspiracy. I don’t know that…

Selena Gomez is making all kinds of news lately. First, she announced her recovery from Bieber Fever by splitting with America’s favorite Canadian. Then she celebrated her singlehood by slipping on a damned fine-looking golden dress and maybe getting kind of drunk at a Golden Globes after-party. Then again, maybe…

Any TV show filming in Miami has little to no chance chance of slipping under our TV-obsessed radar (or our DVR).Miami is once again the scene for an hour-long pilot by Numbers creators Niolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton. The show, which is currently in pre-production and under the working title…

For the next 10 days, all Hollywood eyes–and those of many a filmgoer–will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah, reportedly experiencing its chilliest winter in a decade. Their collective hope: to discover at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 through 26) the next Beasts of the…

A Royal Affair Movie Review: Stately but Predictable

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