AltWeeklies Wire
Pain & Gainnew

The murderous exploits of the Sun Gym Gang were first chronicled in Miami New Times. Now they're the basis of a Michael Bay film featuring Mark Wahlberg.
Miami New Times |
Francisco Alvarado |
04-02-2013 |
Movies
Tags: Michael Bay, Pain & Gain
Soderbergh Brings 'Che' to Miami; Angry Hysteria Ensuesnew

Just before his new epic about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara cued up, Soderbergh pronounced, nodding toward the street, "Obviously not everyone is glad we're here. But I'm glad we're all here tonight."
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
12-15-2008 |
Movies
Skateboard Film Pits Overtown Against Sistrunknew

Go behind the scenes of this hood war.
Miami New Times |
Deirdra Funcheon |
09-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: G.E.D., Cess Silvera
Spanish-Language TV: Perverse and Profoundnew

La Cosa Nostra claims a half-million mostly young and middle-age viewers. It can be incomprehensible, reprehensible, raunchy, wacky, and, at times, insightful. There are sketches about old folks having sex, racial jokes, glimpses of bestiality, digs at religion, and -- let's not forget -- a stripper and a pole.
Miami New Times |
Janine Zeitlin |
06-02-2008 |
TV
Lee Anthony Cipolla's Home Moviesnew
The local lensman aims for a Hollywood career -- in Miami.
Miami New Times |
Joanne Green |
08-13-2007 |
Movies
Mega Futurenew
OK, so Jaime Bayly ain't Jay Leno -- but little Mega TV is listo for the big-time.
Miami New Times |
Emily Witt |
07-09-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
What Would Jigsaw Do?new
The passion of the cut-rate, high-grossing Saw series continues.
Miami New Times |
Rob Nelson |
11-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw III
Radical Chicknew
You can't tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing.
Miami New Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-31-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Barbara Kopple, Shut Up & Sing
Ghetto Piratesnew
After his first film was widely bootlegged and sold on the street, Kevin Clarke decided to observe these urban pirates in their natural element.
Miami New Times |
Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik |
05-02-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bootleggers, Kevin Clarke
Never Forget Younew
The Americanization of the telenovela is happening in Miami -- and in Spanish.
Miami New Times |
Emily Witt |
03-07-2006 |
TV
Tags: univision
The Fat of the Lensnew
Tired of his man-breasts, 250-pound Miles Forman set out to lose weight, and he made an hour-long documentary about his effort.
Miami New Times |
Jessica Sick |
12-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dream Worldnew
Not everything in this astounding feature looks realistic, but not everything is supposed to.
Miami New Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-01-2005 |
Reviews
A Riviera Confectionnew
Sex is on everybody's mind in this breezy, insouciant French film about about confused identities, misunderstandings, hidden truths and sexual shenanigans.
Miami New Times |
Jean Oppenheimer |
10-24-2005 |
Reviews
Countdown to Twelvenew
Set in El Salvador in the early 1980s, during that country's protracted civil unrest, this powerful movie depicts the nightmare of warfare through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy.
Miami New Times |
Jean Oppenheimer |
10-24-2005 |
Reviews
Past Primenew
This movie should have been about something more than an older woman digging on a younger man, much to the disapproval of the younger man's mom.
Miami New Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-18-2005 |
Reviews