Escape to New Realities in Doral’s DocMiami International Film Fest

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…

Kevin Smith Holds Two Miami Q&As for First Horror Flick, Red State

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…

Taylor Lautner Talks Segueing From Twilight to Abduction

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…

Five New Ways for Netflix to Piss Off Customers

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…

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on HBO’s The Latino List, Pitbull, and Andy Warhol

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…

MIFF Director on Juan of the Dead Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival

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…

Five Best 9/11 Conspiracy Documentaries

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…

People From Venus Frontman Makes Short Film Ball of Love

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…