Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in this gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor that brought us The Kids Are All Right. In fact, Beginners, a semi-autobiographical movie by SoCal skater-boy-turned-graphic-designer-and-filmmaker Mike Mills, has no shortage…
Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in Beginners, a gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor that brought us The Kids Are All Right. In fact, this semi-autobiographical movie by SoCal skater-boy-turned-graphic-designer-and-filmmaker Mike Mills has no shortage…
For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry Crowne. Directed, co-written by, and starring Tom Hanks in the title role, the film seems to want to be some kind of postrecessional pick-me-up, an “It Gets Better” video for…
Pick a reason to balk at this spot-on, garishly threadbare paean to ’80s no-budget sleaze: It apes a genre that was already creaky when its director/co-writer, Jason Eisener, was still in nappies; it’s nauseatingly violent; it began life (and arguably should’ve finished it) as a mock trailer for faux-grindhouse gazillionaires…
Who’s ready for another I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry? Kevin James (who played Larry) has written a comedic script about Miami guys in their 40s who work as valet, and he’s trying to get Adam Sandler to sign on for the project. As Chuck & Larry managed to…
Florida Supercon is this weekend, and this year, there’s a new addition: the Geek Film Festival. It’s off to a big start with over 50 movies screening. There are documentaries, sci-fi, and horror flicks as well as parodies and shorts. There are profiles of cartoonists and even a few cartoons…
Cary Elwes. Hubba hubba. No one’s saying the man isn’t a great actor, but he’s also obviously a dreamboat. The British screen star stole a generation of ladies’ hearts as Westley, the farm boy in The Princess Bride, and then he made us laugh in Mel Brooks’ spoof Robin Hood: Men…
Has a reality TV show ever inspired more lawsuits than Basketball Wives? Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh famously filed a lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend Allison Mathis to prevent her from appearing on Season 3 of Basketball Wives. Royce Reed, former Miami Heat dancer and current cast member of Basketball Wives, was…
The 154 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where we watched it speechless. They cheered the robot slugfests, and the destruction of Chicago received a good number of OH SHITs. But when Megatron walked…
Is it just us or is it weird to see so much of Suzie Ketcham on this season of Basketball Wives? Before, she was hiding more than Osama Bin Laden and now she is out, loud, proud and doing her best to get some air time. While we don’t mind…
FlickrTechnology is frightening. Just ask the Amish. After all, computers contract and die of viruses on a regular basis. Office printers have been known to burst into flames. Televisions stifle demons with white lines and black fuzz. Then there are cell phones, with their inability to detect a signal at…
Cameron Diaz got her start as a model, and shot to super stardom with movies like The Mask and My Best Friend’s Wedding. Yes, she has done blockbusters like Shrek and Vanilla Sky, but her funny girl classics are the reason you’re still willing to pay $12 at the theater…
It’s a great week to be an ink fan. TattooLaPaLooza promises to stain every inch of exposed human flesh come this weekend and Miami tattoo icon Ami James will be back on the boob tube doing what he does best with the premiere of NY Ink on TLC tonight.It’s been…
Blank City, which opens this weekend at Miami Beach Cinematheque, is a self-defeating user-friendly primer on a group of films whose aura was enhanced by the fact that one had to brave scenester gatekeepers to find them. A loose history of underground movies from the hybridized gallery-art/loft-rock/filmmaking scene that coalesced…
We aren’t going to lie to you today and tell you we haven’t watched every episode of Basketball Wives. From the boozing at noon to the physical altercations, we just love it. While new girl Meeka Claxtion is keeping season three interesting, it’s really Tami Roman who holds this show…
Bad Teacher and the downside of equal rights in Hollywood
Blank City: A self-defeating user-friendly primer on the “no wave” science
This is the strange but true tale of how I recently spoke with Jackie Gleason, one of the most beloved South Florida entertainers in history. I must admit, it’s impossible to exactly explain the logistics, because he’s been dead since June 24th, 1987. In homage to Mr. Gleason, I have…
We knew last night’s episode of Basketball Wives was going to be good when Royce Reed told Rafer Alston’s fiancée Ashley Walker, “I’m not ghetto, but I’m hood.” So that means what exactly? While she tries to explain the Evelyn Lozada brawl from the last episode, from we understand, it…
Road to Nowhere is the first feature by Monte Hellman the Great since 1989’s Silent Night, Deadly Night 3, an ignoble last chapter, that, for an artist who at his peak (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter) superbly combined an absurdist worldview and snapshot-authentic Middle America. But rather than rehashing the old hits,…
The VH1 hit-show Mob Wives is looking to expand its programming to another city. Miami is on the short list along with Chicago and Vegas. Would the 305 be a good choice? Yes. After all, everyone knows there are six, not five boroughs of New York City: the Bronx, Queens,…
It’s 10 minutes before a human character appears on-screen in Green Lantern, a personality-free franchise-launcher that opens this weekend. Via a heavily CGI’d prologue, we learn that The Universe is patrolled by a group of multi-species warriors called The Green Lantern Corps–with each member issued an actual camping lantern, which…
