The opening night feature of any film festival is always a good gauge of how the rest of the fest will go, and MIFF could not have chosen a better film to kick things off this year. Chico & Rita marks the first time the festival opens with an animated…
Award-winning Egyptian film Microphone explores the Alexandria art scene through the story of one man, Khaled, who’s returned home after many years away. It screens in the World Competition program at this year’s Miami International Film Festival. The film received Best Arabic Language Film Award from the Cairo International Film Festival and the…
Last week you learned how to play the living dead from the experts, so tonight it’s your chance to show the world what you can zombie with the best of them. On film no less. The Meza-Valdes Brothers are filming the big zombie scene for their upcoming film Play Dead…
Hey Hialeah, We know you’re proud. We get it. And you have every right to be, but here’s an idea: If you’re going to defend yourself against a classless comment made by a cast member on The Real Housewives of Miami, maybe you should do it with class.This morning, on…
The Real Housewives franchise is no longer a show, it’s a phenomena. And no matter how much we try to deny it–they have absolutely taken over lives. CNN’s Anderson Cooper isn’t ashamed to admit ATL’s Nene Leakes is “his boo,” many of the ladies are writing books and yep, we’re…
MIFF offers chimps and “wizardly enchantments”
Animated feature Chico & Rita opens MIFF
Microphone foreshadows the events that recently rocked Egypt
Small Town Murder Songs: Peter Stormare’s outstanding performance
Project Nim: The riveting story of a chimp raised as a human
Bobby Fischer Against the World: The tortured genius behind the chess grand master
We might be getting a little ahead of ourselves, but it looks like this season of Real Housewives of Miami is actually getting good. Yes, the first episode was boring, but the second really stepped it up. Are we the only ones who feel this way?As an avid Housewives watching…
When the MPAA gave Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating, cynics suggested that the so-called “kiss of death” was better publicity for the gently experimental marriage drama than anything famously crafty distributor Harvey Weinstein could buy. Then the rating was reversed–downgraded to an R without a single cut to the film–after…
As the entire city of Miami is aware, Real Housewives of Miami premiered last Tuesday, to well, less than stellar reviews. E! News called it “just bland” and People Magazine gave it one star. We mean, isn’t that a little harsh? But they can hate all they want — we…
Last night’s Oscars was a total snooze-fest. No shockers, all the winners were predictable, and host, Anne Hathaway, stood on stage all night like a jittery but beautiful bobble-head nervously attempting to pick up the charisma-slack for her co-host, James Franco, who was about as exciting as a movie called…
How do you make a liger? Put a lion and tiger in close proximity and then light a few candles. And unicorns? They’re the offspring of a carousal horse and a My Little Pony. True story. Borscht Film Festival organizers realize that in order to breed something really special, you…
I’m Chris Joseph. Hi. Hello. How are you. I’ll be live-blogging all 8,000 hours of the Oscars tonight. It’s like I’m hosting my very own Oscar party from my mother’s basement, dressed only in my underwear! Weeeeee!! LET’S DO THIS!…
We’ve got some rough looking characters in Miami, no doubt, but this is getting ridiculous. Just days after the details of Zombie Walk 2011 and hours after Cultist brought you an interview with a Zombie comic book artist, we hear more news about flesh eaters in the Magic City. And…
Sunday night is Oscar night. A night of glitz, glamour, shitty musical numbers, and acceptance speeches cut short by impatient producers who care more about Mr. Sulu selling the masses a color television set than the Oscar winner’s gratitude for their respective spouse and children. It’s also a night where the…
When Cultist chatted with Cocaine Cowboy Director Billy Corben about an unofficial Hollywood remake of his Miami documentary, he was excited at the prospect even though his Miami studio Rakontur has nothing to do with that project. So you can imagine how psyched he was to talk about the HBO…
You probably know Ernie Hudson because he once played a man who was afraid of no ghosts. But Hudson’s not only known for his role in the classic comedy Ghostbusters, he’s been in countless films and shows, including fan favorites like Oz, The Crow, and Heroes. Hudson was cast in the Broadway…
Just a few months after from lampooning a naked and silver-spackled Kim Kardashian for our Basel cover, Bert Rodriguez is ready to join the queen of reality TV on the silver screen. The artist is the subject of Making Sh*t Up, a feature documentary film by the Miami-based contemporary art…
