Film, TV & Streaming

Whitney Houston, Actress: Surveying the Great Diva’s Checkered Film Career

William Friedkin on Killer Joe and What’s Wrong With Hollywood

“My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It’s not contagious — I mean, it’s contagious, but don’t worry: Grown-ups don’t catch it. It’s called mouth-foot-and-butt disease or something.” Julie Delpy materializes on the patio of Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont on a wave of nervous energy. Hair pinned up away…

ParaNorman: John Carpenter Meets John Hughes

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry at Miami Beach Cinematheque and O Cinema

Brazilian Film Festival Returns to Miami

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present: A New Doc Examines Her the Way She Did Us

360 Movie Review: Spread Out and Empty

2 Days in New York: Julie Delpy Brings the Paris Gang to NYC

Total Recall 1990: The Old, Good One

Compliance‘s Craig Zobel on Documenting Sexual Degradation — With Humanity

The Expendables 2: Ingenious New Ways to Disassemble the Human Form

You’ve heard it every time you travel. Standing in line, waiting to be screened by the TSA, between chugging the last of your water and clumsily removing your shoes, someone around you always says it, the one infuriating thing everyone else is thinking:”What is the point of this, anyway?”The common…

HBO sure got its money’s worth from the Miami Dolphins this past weekend. On Friday night, shortly before kick-off of the first preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team announced that quarterback David Garrard, a free agent pick-up brought in to compete for the starting job, would be…

Here at Cultist, we love a “local artist makes it big” story. And those stories are all the more impressive when said artist had to overcome some difficult situations to reach his success. That’s what Miami-born filmmaker Jesse Quinones is doing with his upcoming family drama, Calloused Hands. The filmmaker,…

Kickstarter campaigns have been used to fund everything from albums to video games. It is only natural that Miami natives and long time X-Men fans Miguel Ferrer and John-Paul Bermudez took to the platform to help fund their fan film, RISE. RISE is comprised of three scenes as a way…

Before the HBO series Girls debuted in April, critics anticipated a Brooklyn version of Sex and the City. Then the show actually aired, and it became clear that this story about women in New York was very different — for better and for worse — than the story of Carrie…

With all the incessant talk of America’s favorite d-bag Ryan Lochte starring in the next season of The Bachelor, we can’t help but reminisce about the days when reality TV didn’t exist and TV shows used to actually have meaning. Think back to the ’90s when TV was mostly consisted…

One of Miami’s most eligible bachelors will be reppin’ our fine city this winter on a new reality TV series. Ready for Love is NBC’s latest spin on the art of arranged on-screen romance, in which three seasoned matchmakers will try to help three lonely bachelors find a soulmate, all…

Francisco “Pipín” Ferreras of Matanzas, Cuba, is one of the world’s most famous freedivers and spearfishers. He’s known as much for the hundreds of feet below the surface he’s traveled on a single breath of air, as for losing his wife Audrey Mestre to the sport when she was attempting…

See our interview with Amy Poliakoff of Gallery Girls.If you have caught even one minute of Bravo’s TV programming in the last month, you’ve probably seen ads for Gallery Girls. They’re running about 100,000 times a day. Even your DVR can’t ignore it — miniature versions of the ladies occasionally…

The Campaign: High Jinks and F-Bombs on the Campaign Trail