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Ballplayer: Pelotero at Bill Cosford Cinema August 24-26

Rashida Jones: The Celeste and Jesse Forever Star Steps Out on Her Own

Cosmopolis: Robert Pattinson’s Latest Film Limos Through the Mind of a Master of the Universe

Danish Film Teddy Bear Lays Bare a Bodybuilder’s Heart

Remember how action movies used to be? The good old-fashioned American (but often European-accented) ones from the ’80s and ’90s, the type paid tribute to (but not necessarily re-created) in the Expendables movies? No offense to your Iron Men and your Jason Bournes, but I miss movies like Die Hard,…

Disney’s Timothy Green Jerks Tears, Rates Jeers

David Koepp writes, and now directs, superior B-movies. This is an admirable and tough-to-master skill given how few major movie studios are willing to take chances on films with lower budgets that don’t employ a found-footage gimmick or generally look like they were made on an aglet-less shoestring budget. So…

Premium Rush Review: A Compact and Coherent Action Movie

Sparkle: Whitney Houston’s Last Film Has Sublime Moments

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker known for his avant-garde, surreal cult cinema classics like Santa Sangre and The Holy Mountain. His son, Adan, is also a filmmaker (as well as an actor and musician), and has similar taste. On the Kickstarter page for his upcoming project, he describes his…

See our recap of Gallery Girls, Episode One.When Gallery Girls debuted last week, people like us compared the reality show to HBO’s fictional series Girls. And other people got all salty about it, saying the comparison is unfair because Girls is actually great and misunderstood and blah blah blah.Our response?…

See what happens in the Magic City season one finale; Magic City’s redband trailer; and our interviews with the show’s stars.When word got out that Magic City’s casting directors had trouble finding Miami actors without breast implants a couple months ago, hundreds of this city’s au naturel women cursed at…

Captain Sig Hansen of Discovery’s The Deadliest Catch is a man. A real man.After all, he faces unrelenting storms, 900-pound swinging crab pots and arctic temperatures for a living — a rare find in this modern world where the biggest workplace danger is carpal tunnel.Deadliest Catch isn’t just a clever…

Earlier this month, we complained that Showtime was being too tease-y with their teasers about the upcoming season of Dexter, which will also be its last. Give us something to sink our teeth into, we pleaded.We asked, and now we have received.Yesterday, Showtime posted a two-minute trailer beginning where last…

Anyone who’s wandered into Hialeah and tried to order a cafecito with zero Spanish skills knows something about the constant culture clash that is life in the Magic City. Namely, that a healthy sense of humor helps us relate to our fellow man in the middle of a cultural melting pot. And…

See Palace Drag Queen LaTrice Royale Cast on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.Nobody likes to travel with a diva. But in the case of the “Drag Stars at Sea” cruise, sailing from Miami in December, approximately 1,000 passengers will be signing up to do just that.Travel site AlandChuck.travel, based in…

Today in “cartoons for grown-ups” news, Vulture reports Mad Men actor Jon Hamm has signed on to play a talking toilet in an upcoming episode of Bob’s Burgers.(Aside: Are you watching Bob’s Burgers? Not enough people are watching Bob’s Burgers. You should all be watching Bob’s Burgers.)Hamm’s known for making…

See City Commissioners Plan to Evict Burn Notice from Coconut Grove; Burn Notice Eviction Not for Public Debate, Commissioners Say.It looks like Michael Westen has overcome his latest “burn” — for the next year, at least.After months of failed talks between Burn Notice’s producers, who want to keep filming the…

If you’re a film buff, you probably have a favorite director, can smell a cheesy rom-com from the first five seconds of its trailer, and know that anything produced by James Cameron is going to blow your mind with computer-generated imagery. But who’s your favorite special effects make-up artist? Aha!…

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…