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…
The Miami Heat beat the Los Angles Lakers Thursday night 94-88, snapping a season-high five-game losing streak.Everybody can unclench their assholes now.After what has been a nightmare week for Heat fans, and an absolute delight for Heat Haters everywhere, Miami not only beat the defending champs for the second time…
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…
Opening this week at Actors Playhouse, August: Osage County, tells the tale of the Westons, a large family that is forced to come together after their booze-hound patriarch up and disappears. Meanwhile, their the 65-year old matriarch pops pills, and confronts the family with their dark and astonishing secrets in…
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…
You love your brother. He’s your best bud. Your bond is thicker than blood. You and your brother are like two peas in a pod. And then the inevitable happens. Your brother gets a girlfriend. And not just any girlfriend — “the one.” Soon enough, she’s included in the activities…
Incendies: Part detective story, part family drama
The Interrupters: Gang-bangers interrupted
MIFF goes local
Magic City Memoirs: MIFF goes local
Young Goethe in Love: A great romantic romp
Jersey Boys at the Arsht: Goodfellas in a jukebox
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…
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…
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…
The Miami Heat had yet another late-game collapse, losing yet another game at the buzzer and going down to yet another playoff-caliber team when they lost 87-86 to the Chicago Bulls yesterday. And while the Heat are now 0-6 against the Celtics and Bulls, and 1-9 against the NBA’s top…
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…
It’s easy to dismiss Jersey Boys as another glossed-over Broadway musical dressed as one of those oldies revivals your parents or grandparents go to. But the show, which opened last night to a packed house at the Arsht Center, has been a huge success since it opened on Broadway in…
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…
If last night’s Miami Heat’s to-do list was:Lose to yet another quality team at homeGo ten straight possessions without scoring a basketHave their two best players combine for two points in the second halfAllow the opponent to go on a 40-9 runBlow a 24-point leadMiss another last second three-point shotLoseThen,…
