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The Miami International Film Festival’s acquisition of Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s final film, for the 2013 festival is a huge accomplishment — one that’s sure to draw even more attention to the ever-expanding annual event. But it’s not exactly a shock. After all, MIFF has been introducing Miami audiences to…

River Phoenix, elder brother of Joaquin and tinseltown legend, died on a Hollywood sidewalk 20 years ago. But in March, he’ll rise again when his last on-screen appearance makes its North American debut at the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF). Dark Blood, also starring Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis, is…

By Biblical standards, Kim Kardashian’s sins are many. She rose to fame performing unholy acts on tape with Ray J. She’s pridefully overexposed her life for years on E! reality shows. And she’s carrying a baby out of wedlock, while still technically married to another man. But that’s all cool…

Be warned, blog readers: If you hate having a song stuck in your head, you should avoid watching the video after the jump. If, on the other hand, you’re a fan of Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva, the filmmaking team behind last year’s Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke,…

Look, it’s not like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s plans to spoil their child are surprising. They’re rich. They’re going to be parents. Creating entitled offspring is what rich parents do. But if you think you know the level of opulence that’s waiting for the Kimyetus on the other side…

In person, Edgar Ramirez has a soft but solemn quality. Bathed in the sunlight shining into the top floor suite of the Soho Beach House in Miami Beach one recent afternoon, his eyes are an iridescent gray. A well-manicured beard of stubble coats his baby-cheeked face, framed by a thick,…

If there’s one word that sums up this century so far, it’s interactive. These days, audiences don’t want to sit and silently watch a film screening or listen to a monotonous lecture. In our modern times of Twitter, Instagram, and digital engagement, they want in on the action. Now, in…

Marlon Wayans is perhaps the most contemplative of the Wayanses, never missing an opportunity to learn more about himself. Take for example, what he took away from a nearly four-hour improvised shoot for a scene in his film A Haunted House, in theaters Friday. “I discovered I can actually — for…

Originally slated to open in September, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made a scene of gunfire in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre “inappropriate.” Four months later, a turn in the film’s plot that relies on gunning down an adolescent risks recalling Newtown, but the proximity…

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama Rust and Bone without laughing. Loosely adapted from two works in Craig Davidson’s 2005 short story collection of the same name, Rust and Bone finds Audiard returning to the overdetermined characters and swift…

“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood’s A-list. Unexpected, because just five years ago Beall was busy working for Tinseltown’s second most famous employer, the Los Angeles Police Department, where he…

It’s not easy being famous, as the famous love to remind us. Just ask Jennifer Aniston, Kid Rock, or any of the other instantly recognizable talking heads director Kevin Mazur has assembled for his docu-evisceration of the parasitic celebrity apparatus, appropriately titled $ellebrity. Although no one would deny that the…

It’s almost impossible to dislike Chris Colfer, the young Glee star who wrote and stars in the high school comedy Struck by Lightning, which plays like a cheerful gay Revenge of the Nerds. However, never having seen Glee, I’ll make two observations about Colfer: (1) Yes, he’s very likable, but…

When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong Il, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from his father Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994 until his own passing 17 years later, was a noted…

As Downton Abbey season three mania sweeps across South Florida — and the nation — we’re all starry-eyed imagining the ins and outs of life at the turn of the century. And with the introduction of Cora’s sassy American mother, more of that attention is aimed at our own shores…