Steve McQueen’s first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as they must have been to make. But where Shame might be nearly as excruciating as 2008’s Hunger, it’s a lot less exalted. In Hunger, Fassbender’s imprisoned Irish revolutionary Bobby…
The movies are full of bed-hopping men — think of Humphrey Bogart’s serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946) and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen’s Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot — it is the plot…
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That would be the abyss of the title, though if you’re looking for more of that kind of shameless lyrical swagger, you…
Once a year around the holidays, Victoria’s Secret gets their angels to strut their stuff during a leggy fashion show that’s guaranteed to make your grandmother blush. While the underpants empire is one of the most lucrative brands out there, their annual fashion show has become more about theatrics and…
id anyone catch the preview for Baseball Wives before Tough Love Miami began? Goodness, that show looks great.Now imagine: you’re sitting at home in your reality show mansion and all of a sudden, Knock, Knock. You think, “There must be someone at the door.” Oh yes, there sure is: it’s…
Blackthorn: Sam Shepard’s Butch Cassidy is alive in Bolivia
Hugo: Scorsese milks the 3-D trend for his timeless cause
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1: Bella and Edward lock it down
Remember the days when being a housewife was considered a bad thing? Well, listen up ladies: those days are no more! Thanks to Bravo, if you have a ring on your finger and lots of money (or are willing to pretend like you do,) then they want to hire you…
Most people know Zooey Deschanel for her Smiths-loving, heartbreaking role in 500 Days of Summer, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or for her musical project She & Him with singer-songwriter, M. Ward. Either way, she has emerged as one of the most beloved (and envied) female indie idols of the past decade…
Last week, we got the call to cover Ocean Drive’s red carpet event for the Miami debut of blk. water, which we thought sounded interesting. Then we remembered that Real Housewives of New Jersey boys, Albie and Chris Manzo, represented the product. We knew if we were lucky, the guys…
And thus we reach the end of our nine-week journey with night one of the Dancing With the Stars finale. Who do we want to win? Um….. In a way Ricki Lake has already won with the recent news that she will start a new daytime show. Rob Kardashian unquestionably…
Well, we made it. Is it just us or was a week without Tough Love Miami a little hard? Last Sunday, we watched a terrific show called The Wards Get Real and if you happen to catch it, you know they do just that week after week even when the…
Interviewing celebrities is a weird thing. You always wonder if they will be nice, what they will be like, etc. And when we were invited to cover the red carpet for the fifth annual BeLive Celebration Gala, which benefited four Colombian charities, we became terrified. Mainly because we don’t speak…
Melancholia: Lars von Trier imagines the end days
Amigo: John Sayles brings the Philippine-American War into the 21st Century
Immortals: Mickey Rourke returns in one of the most extravagantly violent movies
Walking down Lincoln Road recently, we saw a quote tattooed on a girls body that said, “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies – Aristotle.” And we thought to ourselves, “Calling it now, that bitch is single.”We think this way not because we grew up with older…
It’s Semi-Finals week here on Dancing With the Stars and we have to admit that we are sort of relieved. Because boy was this week a snoozer! There are four couples left and unfortunately they are all the least interesting couples on the show. We don’t even have Nancy Grace anymore, who…
If you are one of the millions of primetime TV viewers every night, chances are you’ve heard of NBC’s new fantasy/cop-drama, Grimm. Airing Friday nights at 9/8 Central on NBC, and premiering just days before Halloween, Grimm has already shown promise as a fan favorite for the Fall season. So…
The past two months, we’ve been watching and recapping Tough Love Miami for you. And after seven weeks, we might be officially hooked. We see ourselves wondering where the ladies and their relationships will go and no, we aren’t proud of it. But this week, we saw Miami girl Claudia…
The Miami International Film Festival is breathing new life into the Floridia film scene through its Florida Focus program. Though Florida Focus is a longstanding project, new direction at the Miami International Film Festival is making it a priority. Last year, the Florida Focus section of the Festival premiered two…
