Norm Macdonald is admittedly a seemingly bizarre choice to host Sports Show. Nearing age 50, he hasn’t been nationally relevant since he hosted Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live in the mid-’90s — a gig that ended when then-NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer fired him. What followed was Dirty Work, a…
Kayla de la Cerda, like most of us, remembers eating Lunchables as a kid. Unlike the rest of us, this 18-year-old Miamian was able to incorporate her memory of mystery meat and crackers into a screenplay for With Me. Filmed with Fro Rojas, it screens this Saturday at the Borscht…
The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, (MGLFF) now in its 13th year, is back. The festival open tonight and runs until May 1, with 50 films over 10 days. This year’s selections include all kinds of features, from Tomboy, an animated short about a queer kid, to the documentary…
Every day, 82-year-old Bill Cunningham stands on a bustling NYC street corner and takes pictures of strangers. The man’s no creep; he’s the photographer behind New York Times’ “On the Street” column in the Sunday Styles section. And to appear in one of his round-ups is validation that you’re sporting…
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2011 movie picks
Barry Jenkins calmly navigates his navy blue Nissan Maxima through the empty afternoon streets of Overtown. He crosses rusty train tracks and passes skeletal figures curled up in shuttered doorways before turning onto narrow NW Miami Court.
African Cats: Kings of the jungle get March of the Penguins treatment
Today is April 20. In case you missed it or are too high to remember (if you did check out this, and this, and this), it’s National Pot Smoking Day, or Weed Day, or Bill of Rights for Stoners Day. The point is there’s a lot of emphasis on the…
Stocks are a risky business, as is street racing. In the blink of an eye, everything can take a Dale Earnhardt-turn-for-the-worst and come crashing down like a Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme. However, street racing on the small screen (sprinkled with telenovella plot twists and staring a former Southern Methodist University…
In Super, which opens this weekend, when a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson)–under the influence of a bizarre Christian kids’ TV show and a sci-fi-style encounter with something like God–starts to make himself over into a real-life superhero. On…
The pan-genre über-hack of the new Korean zeitgeist, Kim Jee-woon has been deft in some arenas: 2003’s A Tale of Two Sisters suggests a nightmare endured inside a suffocating velvet pillowcase, while 2008’s breathless The Good, the Bad, the Weird pioneered the fourth-gear lo-mein Western with such brio, you could…
Cold Weather: Aaron Katz’s riff on the mystery of stories
Borscht Film Festival 2011 picks
Our mama has given us some great advice, like eat your vegetables and use a condom. But one thing she always tried to reiterate was the fact that it takes one to know one. We always thought we understood the concept, but last Saturday, we really got it. The moment…
When we saw the stills from Jorge Rubiera’s new film, we were stunned. They transported us to another time and place. Rubiera, winner of the New Times MasterMind award for narrative, is someone who knows how to hold a camera and when to take a shot.The current working title of…
With Scream 4 slicing its way into theaters this Friday, any red blooded horror fan will tell you this film has been a long time coming. From the first film’s impact on 1990s horror, to the third movie breaking all the rules, we can’t help but wonder: What else does…
Hederr Perez has traversed quite a few roads to get where she is today. The Miami native claims to have taken “a stroll through the arts” before finding her current passion, filmmaking. Perez pursued music, choreographed modern dance routines, and took on a few university creative writing classes all prior to…
Remember the days when being a housewife was a bad thing? Now we all know now that being a housewife is all you need to get on TV and also make a ton of cash. One of our favorites, Marysol Patton, isn’t actually a housewife at all but maven of…
Andy Cohen’s got the 411. But come April 16th, he’ll also have the 305 when he acts as the Grand Marshal of the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade and Festival. And in case you’ve already written Cohen off as nothing more than an overly happy, cross-eyed referee for dueling Housewife…
Holy K-Y Jelly! Joe Eszterhas, the William Fuckner of Hollywood scriptwriting responsible for such sex and camp thrillers as Basic Instinct, Sliver, Jade, and, of course, Showgirls, is back. And his return from abstinence (at least in screenwriting) involves the Magic City as the setting for his next lurid story,…
Matt Lauer leaving The Today Show. Katie Couric saying goodbye to CBS Evening News. Oprah ditching her show later this year. What’s going on? How will we ever recover without those familiar faces spewing useless news at us during the morning, afternoon, and night. Eh, we’ll get over it. Miamians…
The New Times sure does write a lot about the Borscht Film Festival. We’ve given them cash money, triple coverage, and more words than a Scrabble factory.But think of what they’ve done for us. Their movement represents more than a single night of local independent film per year. Borscht is…
