Five Quintessentially Hipster Films Deconstructed

Trying to define “hipster film” is not really hipster. It goes against the independent subcultures that hipsters proclaim to inhabit. It’s like, whatever, suit. Fuck off, what do you know? However, hipsters are everywhere, including the mainstream. America’s socio-economic structure is shifting. We are evolving. Black presidents. Gay marriages. The…

Harry Potter Fights Its Last Battle

Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, a magnificent finale for this beloved billion-dollar fantasy franchise. Before that confrontation can take place, though, David Yates’s epic must first chart Harry’s attempts alongside best friends Ron…

Employed, Middle Class, White-Collar Men Have It Tough in Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses, directed by Seth Gordon, is an ensemble comedy about how our tough economic times have destroyed white-collar, white-male masculinity. Three high school friends–weakling dental hygienist Dale (Charlie Day), chemical company accountant Kurt (Jason Sudeikis), and unspecified corporate drone Nick (Jason Bateman)–are, at 40-ish, each facing intractable career obstacles…

Stretch Ledford Talks Video Kiosks He Installed in Miami’s Overtown

First God. Then Michael Jackson. from Stretch Ledford on Vimeo. When veteran photographer, grad student, and university professor Stretch Ledford moved into the Palm Plaza Motel on 14st and NW 1st Avenue, he’d already been producing short video docs in Overtown since 2009. It was when he moved in, though,…

Top Ten Films About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Opening this Saturday at the GableStage at the Biltmore, and running through August 7, the provocative and explosive stage play Masked is a candid depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a village on the West Bank, three Palestinian brothers are torn between their obligations to family, ideology, and survival as…

Page One: A Look Inside the New York Times Is Saved by David Carr

​Page One: Inside the New York Times, which opens Thursday at O Cinema, will mean different things to different people.The people whom it would most benefit will not see it. The people who are offended by the notion that a newspaper should charge online readers, the people who think The…

Who Should Play Casey Anthony in the Inevitable Lifetime Original Movie?

Sociopathic brat Casey Anthony was found not guilty yesterday. And because it tastes like chloroform, it’s a hard verdict to swallow. Anthony’s multitude of lies and visible ambivalence towards the still cryptic death of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, fueled most rational (with the exception of Nancy Grace) human beings (again,…

American Black Film Festival Kicks Off Four Days of Awesomeness

The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) comes back to Miami to celebrate the contributions that the African-American community has made to the film industry. And this year the ABFF has yet again compiled a dizzying schedule comprised of four days of film screenings, cocktail receptions, workshops, and “master classes” taught…

Film Review: Hobo with a Shotgun Has Heart, Boobs, and Blood

​A nameless homeless man arrives at his new home by train. He enters what the chief of police calls “Fucktown” to which he welcomes the tramp before holding him down so that a couple of douchebags might carve the word “scum” into his chest.The film Hobo with a Shotgun was…