If you’re anything like us, you look at your DVR and think to yourself, “What the hell is my deal?” It mainly consists of an occasional Oprah episode, everything airing on Bravo and anything that somehow involves a wife of some kind. And our personal favorite is Basketball Wives. Why?…
In Magic City Memoirs, Mikey, Manny, and Angel Jr. are three private school buddies. Three months before graduation, they are living the fast life of sex, drugs, and hip-hop in Miami. The story is narrated by Mikey, who is a top baseball prospect torn between living clean and joining his…
With an elegant and soulful soundtrack by The Roots’ Questlove enveloping its frames, Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 is a powerful documentary that does proper justice to the black power movement and its place in American history.Taken mostly from unseen 16 mm film shot by Swedish journalists, the often blunt and…
Things just got serious. And way cool. Wynwood was the scene of some late night filmmaking magic last week as the Borscht Film Festival production Play Dead brought zombies, explosions, and post-apocalyptic poodles to the neighborhood. Filming went on until late-night and early morning Friday (can you say a 5…
In 1772, we find the young German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe flunking out of law school and getting drunk with his friends. He’s a free spirit trapped in a stringent world where class is everything. All Goethe wants to do is write poems and get them published. But his stern…
Young Goethe in Love: A great romantic romp
Magic City Memoirs: MIFF goes local
MIFF goes local
The Interrupters: Gang-bangers interrupted
Incendies: Part detective story, part family drama
We have seen ladies come and go on one of our favorite shows, Basketball Wives. Gloria Govan and her boo Matt Barnes pretty much checked out other than a couple of small appearances this season. And from what were hearing, Royce Reed is gone and Chris Bosh’s baby mama is…
The 1961 state football championship game between rivals Miami High and Miami Edison is chronicled in pioneering director James Lipscomb’s engrossing documentary. Much like when he documented John F. Kennedy’s run for the White House in his critically acclaimed and candid film Primary, Lipscomb was given a rare, all-access look…
Miami is all about having a front. Things are rarely what they seem, especially in The Real Housewives of Miami. So we’re going to translate last night’s episode the best we can. Think of it as Real Housewives of Miami for Dummies, because we feel dumber for watching this show…
It was only a matter of time before the world’s fastest-growing sport, mixed martial arts, got the Hollywood movie treatment. And Hamill certainly falls under formulaic sports flicks. But what makes it different is that our hero’s story is true and his achievement truly impressive, because UFC fighter Matt “the…
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock, famous for his 30-day McDonald’s binge flick Super-Size Me, and the effects junkfood has on our lives, is now taking aim at how corporations get their brands into films, commercials, and even, literally, our brains. In The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which had its east coast debut last night…
This engrossing documentary by Liz Garbus examines Bobby Fischer’s tumultuous career as the world’s greatest chess grand master and the tortured genius that might have turned him into a paranoid reclusive. Bobby Fischer Against the World’s finest moments come during an analysis and chronicling of Fischer’s renowned, and at times…
This has been a serious season of Basketball Wives–maybe the best one yet. And in true Wives style, the ladies ended this season with a bang. And we mean a bang to the face. But before we get to that, let’s discuss the last night’s episode as a whole. Suzie…
In his latest documentary, Project Nim, Academy Award-winning director James Marsh traces the extraordinary journey of a chimpanzee raised as a human. The project was the brainchild of Columbia University professor Herbert Terrance, who named the chimp Nim Chimpsky (a playful take on linguist and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky) in…
Peter Stormare turns in a subdued but outstanding performance as a small-town police chief with a shady past in director Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Gothic character sketch Small Town Murder Songs. You might remember Stormare as the nihilist with a ferret in The Big Lebowski (“We belief in no-zing, Lebowski!”) or as…
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…
