Romantic Comedies can be a lot like your romantic relationships. Some are great the first time out and make you certain that they’ll be the “one” forever, only for you to find out on a second date or when you see it on DVD that they weren’t all that wonderful…
In Submarine, which opens this weekend, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a rampant 15-year-old only child, has two presiding preoccupations, detailed in rapid voiceover: a broody classmate, Jordana (Yasmin Paige), and the flatlined sex life of his parents (show-stealers Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins), brought to crisis by the arrival of…
Having the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA Title probably seemed like a good idea for the rest of the country, at least for a couple of days. Heck, Dirk Nowitzki even became a household name, kind of. But the truth is, when the Miami Heat lost on Sunday, America was…
The Tree of Life: Better than a masterpiece
Miami, the city of sex and scandal, sure is a lame lay in the reality TV sack. We starfished it, (sex on your back, limbs sprawled, motionless) through sleeper series like Miami Social, Khloe and Kourtney Take Miami, the most boring season of Jersey Shore ever, Miami StInk, and 8th…
Good luck finding Miami-based belly dancer Tamalyn Dallal standing still. The performer, teacher, and choreographer also writes books, produces CDs, and now directs films. Catch her latest creation, Zanzibar Dance, Trance, and Devotion, at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on Thursday, with a Q&A session with Dallal following the documentary screening.Zanzibar…
We know. We know. The last thing you want to read about after the Heat’s loss on Sunday is basketball, but thankfully, Basketball Wives has very little to do with dunks and hoops. On last night’s third episode, we learned if there is one event we hope to attend in…
As boarding-school bodice-rippers go, this assured debut by British director and girls’-school alumna Jordan Scott fairly bursts with pent-up carnality trying to ripen under rigid autocracy laden with lesbian denial. Shot in a lushly wild corner of Ireland, Cracks looks as lovely as a colorized old postcard, all vibrant vermilions…
The gnarliest of the master’s recent works, Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme starts with the first half shot almost entirely on video, and provides a dense, visually ravishing metaphor for Western Civilization: Europe is allegorized as a Mediterranean luxury cruise ship in which the casino doubles as a chapel and philosopher…
Film Socialisme: Jean-Luc Godard’s take on Europe then and now
Super 8: J.J. Abrams’s superfun, superloud catastrophe flick
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff at O Cinema June 11 and 12
Given the recent burst of arts-driven culture in Miami, many of us are learning what it’s like to live as artists. (Translation: we are creative and poor.) In the independent film Gabi on the Roof in July, which opens tomorrow at O Cinema, idealistic 20-year-old Gabi vies for her older…
John Rodriguez and his friends, brothers Gilberto and Fernando Gomez, are the Miami-based, indie production company, Full Moon Productions. They’re currently raising funds to get their absurdist comedy film, Unemployed Wolfman, produced via the community funding site Indie GoGo. Rodriguez and Gilberto have worked as production assistants on Man v…
Thought last week of Basketball Wives was good? Episode two didn’t disappoint either. When we spoke to Jennifer Williams a few months back, we got the feeling she and Evelyn Lozada were growing apart. Last night’s episode proved that might indeed be true. Jennifer can’t really take her friend seriously…
Composer Gabriel Pulido, who conceived the multimedia performance work Deep Surface, has a degree in music synthesis. Perhaps that’s one reason why the Venezuelan-born artist’s collaborations take him to Paris and New York from his home base in Miami, bringing together influences from a variety of sources to create a…
“He gave me half my performance with the lighting,” says actress Kathleen Byron of cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who shot her in 1947’s Black Narcissus. A rebuke to style-versus-substance segregationists, these words pay tribute to the star of Craig McCall’s documentary, a soapbox for the wizened eminence to explain the innovative…
The Real World Miami was one of the Magic City’s all time most popular reality shows. And right up there with it was Miami Ink, which exposed much of the mainstream to what goes on in a tattoo shop. So the prospect of combining both those shows into one has…
Just a few days ago, Meeka Claxton entered our lives as the new cast member on Basketball Wives. And there is one pure and simple reason why we like her so god damn much: She is actually a basketball wife. No, she isn’t a former wife, an ex-fiancé, or a…
The information presented in Werner Boote’s Plastic Planet, which opens at O Cinema this weekend, is so important that the documentary is a must-see for anyone even remotely interested in the staggering health costs of plastic to humans and the planet itself, or in the backroom machinations that have squelched…
YellowBrickRoad: indie horror a la The Blair Witch Project
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen’s way-back machine
