The DocMiami International Film Festival will showcase more than 90 flicks from local, national, and international filmmakers. The event includes an award ceremony with categories such as Best Feature Documentary, Best Contemporary Issue Documentary, Best Investigative Documentary, and Best Local Documentary. Screenings will include The Invocation, an exploration of God…
Over the past 17 years, Kevin Smith brought gross and disgusting conversation to film and created intimately personal stories about the rigors of being a convenience store clerk and a mythical adventure about a distant descendant of Jesus.With potty humor, foul language, and Randal Graves’s one-liners, Smith built an empire…
Everybody wants Miami to be the next Hollywood (and we don’t mean that city in Broward). Wouldn’t it be grand to have major productions like Rock of Ages consistently pick the Magic City to film, and not just once every half decade. Instead of having a couple of shows based…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. The San Sebastian Film Festival — at 59 years old, Spain’s #1 film festival event — has a seashell for a logo, and seems pretty much to be…
Did you know that Dancing With the Stars is on its 13th season? Or that it’s on for three to four hours a week? You did? Well then you are clearly smarter than we are! Had we known that DWTS was such a time suck, we would have asked to…
Success can be misleading. Take Taylor Lautner, for example. His meteoric rise to superstardom as Jacob Black in the Twilight franchise almost makes it look easy. If you call adding 30 pounds of muscle for a flick easy. But easy really isn’t Lautner’s M.O. anyway.When Jacob 2.0 appeared in the…
Those scamps at Netflix are at it again! First they announce that they are doubling their subscription fee for people who want both the delivery service and streaming. Then they announced that they would be losing streaming rights for many of the major distributors, and they’re making each account unable…
The unhip jab wasn’t meant to be an insult. Not totally. It’s just that the locally filmed All Men Are Beasts, premiering next week at Paragon Theaters in Cocowalk, is not exactly the type of hipster Miami filmmaking that’s been garnering attention lately. But we’re thinking that’s a good thing…
We love HBO. Having said that, we’re thrilled their summer series are finally over. Aside from (spoiler alert) Tara being shot in True Blood, Michael J. Fox’s guest appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Entourage altogether ending, we felt that Sundays’ season finales were uncharacteristically weak. In fact, True Blood’s…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. Among the more amazing aspects of the 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival is the attention to spectacle. But while the world is waking up this morning to…
Drive: Ryan Gosling at the wheel in this glossy, retro heist-gone-bad bloodbath
In the fantasy I Don’t Know How She Does It, working moms can have it all
David Bowie as ET in 1976’s The Man Who Fell to Earth
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is no stranger to crafting portraits. His are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Whitney Museum.Vanity Fair also avails itself of Greenfield-Sanders’ talents as a photographer and there are several books celebrating his work including Art World, XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival continued all weekend long with three more popcorn-packed days. After weeks of steadily building anticipation, director Cameron Crowe world premiered Pearl…
Football is back, damn it. So prepare to spend your entire weekend busy doing nothing but sinking lower and lower into your lazyboy — so deep that your skin fuses to the leather and you need a spatula (grab the one you’ve been using to scoop nachos into your mouth)…
Although California artist Brian Bess won Optic Nerve XIII this year and had his short purchased by MOCA, it was local artist Karlo Andrei Ibarra who took home the Audience Winner Favorite. In his video work Crossover, he filmed Puerto Ricans singing America’s national anthem. Spoiler alert: They get it wrong…
If you feel the need to be seen in South Florida, there is a very good chance you went out last night for Fashion’s Night Out. The basis of the evening was to help the economy by shopping for overpriced goods, but all we saw was a lot of drinking…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. The 36th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Queen Bee film festival of the Americas, kicked off yesterday with 300+ films vying for attention from press, industry and…
Just a couple of days out from the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 and you’ve already started to see what we can only expect will be full out patriotic pomp and circumstance the likes of which we might never have seen before. And deservedly so. The day changed all of…
Paul Isaac, of local New Wave-inflected foursome People From Venus, is best known around town as a rock frontman. But close followers of the band might have noticed that his and the other members’ artistic aspirations have always seemed to extend beyond just music. Everything People From Venus does is…
Contagion: Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head
