Film, TV & Streaming

Predators: Adrien Brody buffs up to fight alien baddies

Paul Rudd on playing himself, Party Down, and Dinner for Schmucks

Hold the phone! No, seriously. Don’t chuck your smart phone into Biscayne Bay just yet. It may be dropping your calls, but there’s a new app in development that we think you might want to check out. Real Weather Girls, set to launch in mid-to-late September, is the first to…

Miami artist Jillian Mayer asks strangers to make creative babies with her on the micro-patronage site Kickstarter. You know, that site we keep talking about? The one that only seems to be a success in every other U.S. city beside Miami?Anyway, she’s looking for funding because she’s turning her smart…

If you want to see an independent film in Miami, you have to venture to Miami Beach for the Cinemathque, Tower Theater in Little Havana, or South Miami for Cosford Cinema on the University of Miami campus. For most of us, that means jumping on I-95, which can lower your…

Restrepo: A South Florida soldier and his comrades, vérité-style

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington go to war for Restrepo

Salt: Angelina Jolie’s contradictions buoy the otherwise rote movie

Man, it really sucks when some stiff old white dude shows up with his posse of greedy corporate goons and starts saying things like, “I’ll finish you, your friends, and your whole damn neighborhood!” Before you know it, there’s a convoy of bulldozers rolling up to the doorstep of your…

The manic countdown to the August 17 DVD release of Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman’s ‘Canes epic The U continues, rumbling and raging like Warren Sapp at the Shore Club. (The charges were dropped, OK?) And this week, Miami’s most notorious movie moguls reached deep into the Rakontur vault and…

If there’s one silver lining to this whole BP oil spill, it’s that the world’s attention has been focused on the health and well being of our oceans. But remember when Frenchie artist Christo insisted on wrapping our Biscayne Bay islands in Pepto-pink, polypropylene fabric? Titled, “Surrounded  Islands,” this 1983…

In Restrepo, the Sundance-winning documentary that debuted in South Florida this weekend, director Sebastian Junger tackled the toughest questions about the war in Afghanistan by ignoring the politics and immersing himself in the day-to-day fight for survival in the country’s toughest valley.The film is named for Spc. Juan Restrepo, a…

If you weren’t totally rabid with adrenaline — T-stepping through the end zone, starting fistfights at the cineplex, throwing coke-powered countdown parties, hiring strippers like Tipdrill and Spyda for lunchtime lapdances, running naked across campus — in the run-up to ESPN’s December premiere of Rakontur’s documentary The U, then you…

Inception, a self-important picture, tries to get inside our heads

Peter Pan complexes collide in black comedy Cyrus

We really shouldn’t be telling you this, but heads up, tens of readers. Tomorrow night, you could star in your very own animation. Miami World Cinema Center’s Spencer Morin will conduct a covert, live animation at the hipster lounge Cafeina.Morin will sneakily capture images of the bar crowd, which he…

We don’t know what will surprise you more — the dancing, flickering images bouncing off the oak trees at Legion Park or the fact that there are actually people in a Miami-Dade park. This Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m., experimental film lovers and curious passersby will swarm the park…

A graduate of University of Miami’s Marine Biology program, Aki Shiroza is now a researcher who works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But he’s also an artist. So when he recently ventured to the Gulf to document the onboard activities of NOAA’s Gordon Gunter, which was in…

Last week, Larry King announced that he’ll end Larry King Live at the ripe age of 178. Nah, just kidding. He’s only 134. Anyway, we’ve only just come out of our shocked stupor and stumbled across this TV clip from the 1960s starring King, which reminds us that the suspender-wearing…

Miami can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to being associated with gun violence. The above short film is “Debrief,” voted Best Film of the Miami Film Race 2010, where two hit men have to figure out a way to hit their mark, a shut-in. The national Film…

Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission

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