You know you’re on Basketball Wives when your getaway in paradise somehow becomes the most dreadful time of your life.Can we give a quick shout out to the poor families on vacation who were also staying at the Wives’ resort that week? Poor things.If you missed last week’s episode, count…
Fifteen-year-old Alma just might be the horniest person in Norway. She rings up exorbitant phone sex bills when her mom, a single parent, is out of the house. And she rides rolls of coins when she gets bored working the checkout at the local supermarket — a job she had…
The accounting department at Disney is working overtime these days, burdened with tallying the ever-growing box office reports for the blockbuster superhero film, The Avengers. Since its April 25th release, the film has earned a reported $1 billion in box office sales worldwide; it also set the record for opening…
Magic City’s having a tough first season. It debuted to low ratings, though those numbers may have been affected by the availability of its series premiere at the Miami International Film Festival, OnDemand, and online in the weeks leading up to its official debut. Critics have not been nice about…
If Nicki Minaj takes the time out of her day to tweet about you to her 11 million-plus Twitter followers, we think its it safe to say that, in the words of Evelyn Lozada, you are “a mother f***ing factor.”That makes Basketball Wives’ Kesha Nichols the X Factor. Before Monday…
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It takes a lot to shock us. As you know, living in Miami, well, you see some things. Then you go home and watch reality television for your job, and you see some more things. Let’s just say our skin is pretty damn thick.But while watching Basketball Wives Monday evening,…
Calling all starving artists and film students: If your pipe dreams of submitting features to Sundance have yet to be realized, maybe start a little smaller. With the upcoming 24-Hour Film Race, for example.After blessing Miami with poop jokes galore in last year’s Audience Favorite short film Wall of Shame,…
All the signs of the apocalypse were there. Global warming. That Mayan calendar business. The existence of this.We knew the end was coming. But we still weren’t prepared for this.NBC President Robert Greenblatt announced today that 30 Rock will end its seventh season with a series finale. Not season finale…
It’s Fight Night here at Magic City, and everyone has gambling fever! Except for maybe Stevie who almost definitely has herpes (as do most characters on this show) and also Danny, who has a raging case of being a giant wet blanket who can’t get past second base. Oh, and…
It’s the end of an era. An era of fake South Florida scenery, shlocky one-liners, and lots and lots of dead people, but an era all the same.After 10 seasons, CBS has canned CSI: Miami. The announcement came Sunday, from a spokesperson who broke the news with a long pause…
In these modern, scary times, it’s nice to know that the Miami-Dade court system is focusing on what’s important: Billy Corben’s social media practices.A Miami-Dade judge has ordered the filmmaker to appear in court May 25 to explain his reasons for sending Twitter and Facebook messages while he was serving…
For now, most have only seen 16-year-old Sami Gayle co-starring as Tom Selleck’s precocious but sensitive granddaughter in CBS’ acclaimed drama Blue Bloods. However, the Weston, Florida-raised actress is on the cusp of a major breakout in films. Next year will see her sharing the screen in a sci-fi thriller…
Kat Edorsson, the 22-year-old, polka-dot-bikini-wearing Survivor: One World contestant, really wants your love. No, seriously, she does. And she wants you to demonstrate that love by voting for her for the show’s fan favorite before Sunday’s finale. “That’s all I want to do,” Edorsson told us, referring to being named…
Tim Burton doesn’t know it, but we are frenemies.Frenemies have a relationship that is both mutually beneficial or dependent while being competitive, and fraught with risk and mistrust. That’s exactly what Burton and I have. He needs me as an audience member, and I need him as a creative force…
