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The Salt of Life at the Cosford Cinema and Tower Theater

To the Arctic 3D: Good Lesson for Kids, Done in Bad Taste

Overnight: This Rom-Com Doesn’t Veer off the Familiar Flight Plan

Mark Wahlberg’s not the only hunky star roaming the streets of Miami this week.The three strapping lads from Game of Thrones, HBO’s mega-awesome adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, visited Miami yesterday to reflect on their roles and announce the show has been renewed…

We’ve said it once, and we’ll say it again: Cruise travel is a horror-show.And it looks like Carnival Cruise Lines was listening.Saw at Sea, a special cruise itinerary with the theme of the popular torture porn film series Saw, is a real trip that will set sail from New York…

But are they Calvin Kleins? (God, we are old.)Earlier this month, we brought you news of Mark Wahlberg’s “impressively buff” body, which has made appearances in our fair city from the Pain and Gain Sun Gym location in MiMo to the beach where the actor frolicked with his family last…

Manhattan is a long way from Miami, but this week, plenty of Florida filmmakers are bridging the gap.The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off its 12-day run today, gathering celebrities, movie buffs, and other culture-seekers to Lower Manhattan for screenings and lectures. There’s plenty of representation from New York City and…

If you’re an only child, I’m gonna clue you in on something: You don’t know what real fighting is until you have a brother or sister to battle. Sure, we all love our siblings. But something about that similar DNA will inevitably annoy you to the point of violence. Now,…

Good news for Burn Notice fans: USA Network announced this morning that the show’s sixth season will kick off June 14. And while not much is known about the plot twists and turns in store this summer, we do know one thing: We’re gonna get to see a lot of…

Oh, what an evening of Basketball Wives. Boys, booze, and bitch-fights. What else could you ask for? Last night, we met Royce Reed’s boyfriend, Dezmon Briscoe, who plays football for Tampa Bay. Well, hello Dezmon. Aren’t you one tasty piece of chocolate? Um, anyway. Royce hasn’t been that exciting this season,…

Beret-wearing foreign and indie-flick loving hipsters and cinephiles are going to have to find something new to complain about over their cigarettes and black coffee: Miami no longer has a shortage of cool venues in which to watch the obscure screen gems they love. In fact, we’ve got five –…

This Friday the 13th, Miami’s in for one seriously scary event — and not just because of the date. O Cinema is hosting the East Coast premiere of The Burning Moon, Olaf Ittenbach’s classic of gore-fest horror films, all complemented by a spook-tastic lineup of performances and events.This free event…

The Cabin in the Woods can’t see the forest for the trees

L!fe Happens director Kat Coiro grew up at South Beach’s Tap Tap

Monsieur Lazhar: Oscar nominee charts grief as it breaks across a school community

Not to overreact or anything, but if you missed last week’s episode of Basketball Wives, you should be deeply ashamed of yourself. Evelyn Lozada chucked a bottle of wine at Kenya Bell because she called her “loose,” and it all went down at a very nice restaurant. What, pray tell,…

If you like hotels, boy are you gonna love watching TV this summer!And if you don’t, well, such is the curse of summertime programming.Reality TV producers, having already brought viewers into the scintillating worlds of taxidermy, antiquing, and transporting large items, are ready to put yet another industry in the…

WICKED HAWT PECS, MARKY MARK. The famous actor who now insists on being called Mark Wahlberg is in Miami, starring in a Michael Bay adaptation of a circa-2000 New Times investigation, Pain & Gain. He went to the beach yesterday with his wife and kids, and we are proud to…

And now, some news so exciting you’ll want to jump in the air like a naked dude getting sprung from the trunk of a car: Ken Jeong has joined the cast of Pain and Gain. Jeong is, of course, the actor who played manic gangster Leslie Chow in The Hangover…

If you haven’t checked out Magic City by now, you only have yourself to blame. The world premiere of the Starz series premiere took place here in Miami in March. And the first three episodes have been streaming online for almost a week now. Still, for old-fashioned, out-of-town Luddites who’ve…

Y’know what the first Rock of Ages trailer was missing? Tom Cruise singing.Most of the newest trailer for the film, which hit the web this week, is exactly the same as the one we brought to you in December. But there is one big difference: the dulcet tones of Cruise’s…

Below the giant wave of Hunger Games mania that washed over the U.S. last month, an unhappy undercurrent of haters sat behind their computers grumbling that the story of the film directly mimics Battle Royale, another film based on a book that opened in Japan to wide acclaim in 2000…