Film Festival Flix Brings Actor Lou Martini Jr. to Miami

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…

So You Want an Apocalypse? Hollywood’s Got You Covered

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…

The Basketball Wives Reunion: Ten Hot Mess Moments

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…

Today is Michael Bay Day: Five Ways to Celebrate

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…

Magic City Season Finale: Unhappy Endings

How about that Magic City season finale? The little premium cable show that could (the one about our fair city, anyway) wrapped up quite nicely, by which we mean everyone is miserable. Good job, very dramatic. Sure the Miramar may be saved by its new investor Meg, but can it…

Iron Man 3 To Be Filmed, and Possibly Set, in Miami

Tony Stark belongs in Miami. There’s just no argument — what better place for a stupidly rich playboy from New York? He’d be among his peers. He’d be surrounded by beautiful women. That pasty Pepper Potts might even get herself a tan.It’s only a matter of time before Stark Industries…

Miami Connection, Awful Yet Awesome ’80s Film, Headed Back to Theaters

If you like your movies with stunted dialogue, big hair, plenty of fight scenes, and a Florida setting, we have good news for you. Austin, Texas-based film distribution company Drafthouse Films has acquired the rights to Miami Connection, a so-bad-it’s-good movie first released in 1987.Directed by “black belt philosopher/author/inspirational speaker”…