Film, TV & Streaming

The Miami International Film Festival delivers Chinese hip-hop and Argentine culture clashes

Friends With Kids: An unconventional parenting setup in a highly standard rom-com

In Darkness, grueling but familiar, dramatizes another Holocaust horror

John Carter: A lively, visually crafty pleasure

Silent House: Reality-horror gets a questionable upgrade

​Los Amigos Invisibles didn’t have the time — or the money — to make a movie about the Venezuelan funk band’s 20 year-history. Luckily, bassist José Rafael “Catire” Torres ran into old friend Juan Miguel Marín at the Miami International Airport last year. Marín’s band opened for the Venezuelan funksters…

Today’s MIFF picks are all about grit and glam. We’ve got a movie about two junkie degenerate brothers in Ecuador, a documentary about the lives of supermodels past their prime, and an exquisite British screen adaptation of a classic 1950s play. Twelve other films from Italy, Denmark, Russia, Canada, Colombia,…

Miami International Film Fest is well underway and there’s one film in particular that’s setting our radar abuzz. The HBO documentary film, About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now is the brainchild of Miami native, celebrated photographer, and documentary maker, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.It may be hard to believe that models have any…

​It’s day five of the MIFF and us raging film fiends are so strung out on 35-millimeter spools of the chronic that ushers have to carry our delirious asses up the aisles of every theater. But with five more glorious days left to go, quitting is not an option.Here are…

Ladies, let us remind you of something we have learned after watching four seasons of Basketball Wives: don’t date an athlete. We can only imagine how great it is to whip at your man’s American Express black card at Neiman Marcus and have him pay for your Loubs. Yet, from what…

View photos from the Magic City premiere here.Back in October, we sat down with writer, creator and director Mitch Glazer to chat about the highly anticipated new show coming to Miami called Magic City. We got to check out the set, met the cast, watched a few scenes be filmed,…

This weekend at the MIFF was a marathon of thought-provoking film, decadent parties, and endless question and answer sessions with directors from around the world. And it was just the beginning. The festival has a full week left to show the remainder of its 103 selected films. Maybe you were…

​God bless all things Portuguese. The sultry gene pools of Brazil and Portugal have spawned for us bronzed glamazons like Gisele Bündchen, dashing demi-gods like bad boy soccer superstar (and unabashed Emporio Armani underwear model) Cristiano Ronaldo, and sexy screen stud Rodrigo Santoro (best known as the silver-sheathed, Spartan-slaying Xerxes…

Last night, director Sebastián Cordero, an indie festival champ and a charming Ecuadorian hippie film nerd, made the Miami International Film Festival the site of the North American premiere of Pescador, a subtle and unique comedy about amateur drug trafficking in South America. Both the director and the lead actor,…

In two tag-team events that made Mexican mariachi music seem hip, had guests drinking frozen Patrón cocktails out of glowing Wet Willie’s-style vats, and drew The Real Housewives of Miami away from their, uh, house work, the Miami International Film Festival celebrated its official opening last night at the Gusman…

​The only problem with a 10-day, 100-film international flick fest like the Miami International Film Festival invading our beautiful city is knowing where to begin. (Well, that and the risk of losing your golden tan as a consequence of holing up in movie theaters for a week and a half.)…

Miami has seen its fair share of movies filmed right here in the 305: There’s Something About Mary, Bad Boys II, Marley and Me, Scarface, and let’s not forget From Justin to Kelly (Oh yes, we just went there.) But when it comes to TV, our bona fide Miami options…

Mariachi Gringo, which opens the Miami International Film Festival Friday, is the story of Edward (Shawn Ashmore, of X-Men fame), a 30-year-old guy who lives with his parents and works a lame job at a postal shop out in Greenville, Kansas. Gringo? You betcha. His skin is nearly translucent, his…

The Miami International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday, is celebrating its 29th year. It’s no longer just a highbrow affair at the Gusman Center downtown, but a ten-day festival showing films selected exclusively for Miami’s diverse, culture-hungry audience. The 11 venues hosting the 2012 edition — including the Olympia…

The Miami International Film Festival is bringing plenty of big names to South Florida this year. But you could argue that the biggest star is Miami itself. The 2012 lineup features plenty of movies associated with Miami, whether using the city as a beautiful backdrop or featuring Miami natives on…

The good news first: You won’t have to watch Tim Tebow shake his bon-bon on TV this year. (Not until football season starts, anyway.)The bad news: You will, however, be subjected to mediocre shimmying and shaking by a whole roster of D-list celebrities on Dancing With the Stars’ new season,…

Within just a few minutes of Basketball Wives episode numero dos, we knew for sure that the love that once was between Jennifer Williams and Evelyn Lozada was over. As our mother would say, it’s gone to hell in a handbasket. Or, as Evelyn would and did say, Jennifer is…