This weekend, James Cameron re-released his multi-million dollar epic film Avatar in 3-D theaters. This is great news for James Cameron, because people are determined to fork over their cash for nine additional minutes of tail sex and a chance to relive a grandiose robbery of time. In 3-D!But let’s…
While we had MIFF’s new director, Jaie Laplante, on the horn last week, verifying his role in Frisk, we also asked him how he characterizes Miami’s film tastes and which films he ranks among his personal favorites.A native of Alberta, Canada who holds a BFA in film production from Toronto’s…
A traditional animator is someone who spends hours meticulously moving objects frame by frame. Meanwhile, computer animation makes poor souls hunch over their screens for hours at a time, staring at a graphic. Last night, Spencer Morin and his crew used both methods at the second Animiami Kick-Off Party. Over…
When we heard about the new director for the Miami International Film Festival, we treated him like an ex-boyfriend and googled him. That’s how we found out that a Jaie Laplante played the former lover of a gay serial killer in Frisk. The 1996 film was based on a Dennis…
A tip for aspiring weed spokesmen: Don’t smoke a sweet fatty before recording your national YouTube address. Stay straight! Respectable folks already think you’re a degenerate stoner who lives with his parents and laughs at his hands all day. You might be a smart, motivated young man. But the only…
We don’t know about you, but pretty much anything on Bravo completely takes over our DVRs. Bravo is the best friend a reality junkie could have. I mean, yes, they’ve betrayed us before with poor choices in programming (NYC Prep, Work of Art, Miami Social…we could go on and on)…
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
If you dig satanists, blind albinos, and Mick Jagger, then you’ll absolutely love Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother. Made in the very dark year of 1969, it’s an awesomely evil 11-minute masterpiece that stars Anger, Anton LaVey (AKA the High Priest of the Church of Satan), Charlie Manson…
Flipped: Rob Reiner’s coming-of-age love story
The Last Exorcism: Trembling before God and the handheld camera
Who’s ready for the scenester version of Where’s Waldo? These Joaquin Phoenix posters have been popping up in select cities with the pacing of a movie release. First they hit New York and Los Angeles, then Chicago and Boston, and as of this weekend, they’ve appeared in our very own…
We start off this episode with the great news that Kristen isn’t going home. When she does her walk of shame into the house, she looks pretty wrecked, obviously hung over as balls, and we have to love her for it. Here’s a shocker: Erica’s pissed to see her back…
Bad Girls Club Miami is the gift that keeps on giving. With so many fights, drunken moments, and girls with daddy issues, it forces us to tune in week after week. And just when you think it can’t get any better/worse: It’s about to.Listen up, Bad Girl fans: The house…
In its ever rotating cast of administrators, the Miami International Film Festival has named a new director, Jaie Laplante. The last director Tiziana Finzi’s contract was not renewed with little explanation as to why, just a phoned-in “caio.” Her 2010 programming included big hits like The Secret in Their Eyes,…
Coconut Grove resident and former Miami Seaquarium trainer Ric O’Barry recently starred in the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, which captured the fight to stop dolphin slaughter in Japan. It was brutal to watch, from the sonic-bullying bangs of Japanese fisherman, to hearing O’Barry describe how Flipper committed suicide in his…
Like all TV junkies, we get high just watching Bravo’s infinite number of reality shows. And the side effects are virtually the same as cheap meth. It wastes our time and money and contributes to brain rot. But really, can anyone help loving Rachel Zoe’s terrible vocabulary or the complete…
The losers spend ninth grade playing video games, doing bong hits, and fitfully daydreaming about that pretty girl with the clean fingernails in social sciences. Meanwhile, the winners are playing football, doing the running man to mass applause, and fielding flagrantly inappropriate scholarship offers from major universities. Needless to say,…
Trying to escape the brutal northern winter, the gorilla juiceheads and the orange trolls with poufs and fake tits decided to pack their hair gels and Ed Hardy shirts, and take a trip down south. Last year, they spent their summer getting trashed in Joisey. “We’re in Miami bitch,” hollered…
The Switch: Jennifer Aniston seeks attractive sperm donor in attractive comedy
La Soga: Revenge thriller in the Dominican hood
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
Last night, on Episode 3 of Bad Girls Club Miami, the ladies get a serious dose of testosterone. Miss Erica and Danielle bring home some dudes. They’re pretty grimy, but every girl needs some love, ya know? Erica looks about 45 and her new lover Jeff looks about 17. Having…
