Pick up any issue of Backwoods Home magazine and you’ll find a myriad of articles on how to make paper at home and do-it-yourself fruit canning. Yet for all its helpful tips on rural living, the magazine will most likely be remembered for a small classified ad that ran in…
Rock of Ages, the musical about Hollywood dreams coming true in the context of ’80s songs that you only hear when frat bros play them on the jukebox at Lost Weekend, opens in theaters tomorrow today. Because it was filmed down here in Miami, we’ve been tracking it for about…
Rock of Ages Director Adam Shankman Predicts Miami Film Boom
Rock of Ages: Corporate Rock Still Sucks
Goodbye First Love: Making Art Out of Life
Hit So Hard Rockumentary Is Tediously Paced
Mouse Trap Films president Benjamin Oberman and his staff want to change the film industry.”Every year I saw more and more films qualify for film festivals, prove their worth, but yet fall through the cracks, mostly because they lacked A-list stars or weren’t based on best-selling novels,” Oberman said. “I…
Here we are, kids: we made it to the end. It took 17 episodes, but the finale, part two of Basketball Wives finally arrived last night. We just wish we could say it was worth the wait.This season’s reunion was, well, perfectly fine. We didn’t hate it. But we sure…
If you are reading this, there is a good chance you’re not dead yet. Probably. But don’t worry — if the plethora of recent murders, mutilations, and human-flesh binge eating isn’t enough to assure you that the rapture is quickly approaching, then the slew of contemporaryfilms about the End of…
This week, the New York Post released a list of the top 10 most hated people in America. Everyone from Bernie Madoff to Casey Anthony were on that list. At number seven, you will find Kim Kardashian. Say what you will about her, but the girl has taken a reality…
It’s fitting that Bill W., a documentary that recalls the life of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder William G. Wilson, lacks the bells and whistles of modern-day special effects and features. Wilson’s story, one of heartbreak, recovery, and heroism, is a serious one, and the never-before-seen photographs, letters, diary entries, and speeches…
Donald Trump has a lot on his plate these days: running hotels, condo buildings, and casinos around the world; throwing yearly international beauty pageants; campaigning for presidential election. And don’t forget the most daunting task of his billion-dollar empire: keeping his hair in place. Now he wants to be in pictures…
Polisse at Miami Beach Cinematheque and Cosford Cinema
On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s
Bill W. at O Cinema June 7-10
Ridley Scott’s Prometheus Boasts Impressive Horror but Lackluster Ideas
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding: Jane Fonda Deserves Better
Where Do We Go Now? at Tower Theater June 8-14
Looks like the rumors are true. When Iron Man 3 debuts in May next year, we’ll be able to see Tony Stark soaring his way through Miami. The Miami-Dade County Film & Entertainment Office has confirmed that Iron Man 3’s production team will touch down in the 305 this summer…
Though a giant UFO hovers over most of the action in Nacho Vigalondo’s new film Extraterrestrial, the Spanish director, who first made a name for himself with the twisted time travel thriller Timecrimes in 2007, admits he has little interest in flying saucers. “I’m not interested in UFOlogy,” he says…
After what feels like six years of watching Basketball Wives season four, it has finally come to an end. And what better way to say goodbye to another dramatic season than with a reunion? Nothing too fancy, of course. Just a small get-together in front of a live studio audience…
Years from now, your great-grandchildren will look up at you from their mini-hoverpods and ask, “Who was Michael Bay, you crazy old crone?” And you will be able to tell them that not only was he a successful movie director with about a bajillion dollars (which will not sound very…
