The Jersey Shore is moving to Italy tonight. It reminds us that we were once stuck with them. We’re proud of Miami for kicking them out, but apparently we’re not quite rid of them as Mike “The Sitiuation” Sorrentino is being sued in the Magic City for not wearing his…
A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars JasonBateman as anal-retentive lawyer/family man Dave, and Ryan Reynolds as Dave’s classically anal-expulsive stoner/playboy childhood friend Mitch. One drunken night, Dave admits that he’s secretly jealous of Mitch’s life of reckless indulgence. Thanks to some hazy mechanics involving…
The Change-Up: Guys pee, swap bodies, and discover their true selves
Beats, Rhymes & Life is a phenomenal doc about A Tribe Called Quest
Evelyn Lozada has survived three seasons of Basketball Wives, which, by the way, is VH1’s highest-rated show. And though she might have once been engaged to an NBA-er, she is now set to marry NFL/social media king Chad Ochocinco. The woman is beloved. She has almost 500,000 Twitter followers, while…
Now that the ladies of Basketball Wives are back from their vacation in Rome, Italy, which ended with Tami Roman hitting Meeka Claxton in the face inside of a nightclub, they all seem to be back to normal. Which of course means they are going out lunch and drinking at…
The wrinkle in this retelling is that Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest is a phenomenal documentary. Making a “love letter” to his all-time favorite musicians, Rapaport devotes the film’s first half to deftly curated archival material, golden-age hip-hop perspectives from the likes of DJ…
Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, everybody’s favorite midsummer TV party, began its yearly run last night, and we couldn’t be more excited. For one week, the majestic and vicious kings of the ocean give us a much-needed break from the reruns that usually dominate the August airwaves. What could be better?…
Just when Harry Potter thought he was going to reign, when nothing could outdo his finest spells and ghastly encounters, Captain America crashed into his moment of grandeur, sending his epic, final film spiraling downward in a battle at the box office. That’s right: the puny, outdated action hero who…
How frequently do we describe our mood as “ecstatic”? Between the monotonous doom of the debt-limit crisis, the ticking time bomb of hurricane season, trying to stay alive in traffic, trying to pay the rent, and the unrelenting, absolutely suffocating humidity, we’re lucky if we ever just feel not-lousy. This weekend,…
There are movies that make news and movies that are news. World on a Wire is one of the latter. Suddenly: a virtually unknown, newly restored, two-part tele-film directed by long-gone wunderkind R.W. Fassbinder at the height of his powers.World on a Wire, which opens this week at the Miami…
With San Diego’s Comic-Con at an end, it’s probably still OK to talk nerd shit. You may be thinking, “but Mr. Winters, you seem like the coolest maternal fornicator around, what could you possibly know about dweeb nonsense?” We’ll have you know I’m an O.G. (original geek) and used to…
Crazy, Stupid, Love isn’t crazy enough
World on a Wire: ’70s sci-fi at Miami Beach Cinematheque
Sarah’s Key exposes a little-known piece of Holocaust history
Anybody happen to get a load of the new Summer’s Eve ‘Hail to the V’ advertisements for their brand of feminine hygiene products (video below)? Complete with talking vaginas with racially stereotypical voiceovers? Yikes. Way to make the ladies hail to the V, Summer’s Eve.Offending the African American and Hispanic…
If you have been keeping up with Basketball Wives via our weekly recaps, then you know that the war between Tami Roman and new girl Meeka Claxton has gone from bad to worse in just a matter of weeks. Tami hates the new cast member. Meeka struggles with keeping her…
Watching part two of the Basketball Wives vacationing is immediately interesting to watch. We are about to two months into this show and think about it: just a few weeks back, Tami Roman was ready to throw down with Evelyn Lozada. But in last night’s episode, she is so worried…
Nickelodeon is bringing back the ’90s to Nick at Nite. The shows start airing Monday on TeenNick and we can’t wait. The only issue is that the shows don’t start until midnight. At first we were a little annoyed. We didn’t want to wait around at home for them to…
From our time in Miami, we’ve learned that if your place of business lasts more than six months, you’re doing pretty well. And really, it’s the same way in reality TV. If you last one season, well, you’re doing better than most shows that come out of the 305. (Miami…
As if we weren’t already choking on pseudo-reality television, executive producer Jennifer Lopez has decided to throw another reality series into an already inundated TV line up. South Beach Tow, which premiered last night, chronicles the profession of the Ashenoff family: Robert Sr., his daughter Christie, and son Robert Jr.,…
The Miami City Ballet is enjoying its biggest success in 25 years — or so artistic director Edward Villella told the Miami Herald this past week. He was responding to fantastic reviews of MCB’s three-week season in a historic Parisian theater, where –according to international dailies Le Monde and Financial…
