Fiends for mojitos Katie Walsh and Blake Howard begin their drink-along podcast through every loveable morsel of Michael Mann's misunderstood masterpiece MIAMI VICE (2006).
On their addictive podcast dedicated to Miami Vice, called Miami Nice, critics Katie Walsh and Blake Howard regularly invite guests on to talk about the film. (I’ve been on, as you might imagine.) But unlike most other podcasts devoted to single titles, the guests on Miami Nice are rarely there to talk about some specific element of the picture. Rather, the podcast serves almost as a confessional. Guest after guest talks about how they became obsessed with this strange, once-detested marvel of a movie and the circumstances that led them to it. Then they (and by they, I of course mean we) try to make sense of the film and ascertain why it’s so … habit-forming. Usually, there comes a point when it seems that everybody has simply run out of words.
Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic, journalist, podcast host, and moderator. She reviews weekly film releases for the Tribune News Service, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a frequent guest host of the Maximum Fun podcast Switchblade Sisters. Her writing has been published inVanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Playboy,The Playlist, Nerdist,Slate, The Hairpin, indieWIRE, Women and Hollywood, Town & Country, Movieline, CAP the Magazine, and Nonfics, and she frequently contributes film reviews to KCRW’s Press Play with Madeline Brand. She has covered many international film festivals as a critic and reporter, and has moderated dozens of Q&As with filmmakers and actors around LA. She is a part-time lecturer at Chapman University, teaching the Film Studies class “Practices of Writing About Film.”
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Series includes:
MIAMI NICE: "Digital Vibes" with Brendan Hodges
This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard joins film critic, and friend of all the shows on One Heat Minute Productions - Brendan Hodges to talk about unapologetic love stories, characters literally checking out of the plot and ISO turned ALL THE WAY UP in MIAMI VICE.
MIAMI NICE: "Overtly Sexy Scenes" with Beatrice Loayza
This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join writer and film critic Beatrice Loayza to talk about "hips gyrating" and "torsos jiggling" in the salsa dancing in MIAMI VICE.
MIAMI NICE: "Cutting the MIAMI VICE Trailer was my film school" with Bill Ross
This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the incredibly talented filmmaker behind "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets," "45365," "Contemporary Color," and more Bill Ross. Bill takes us back to - what he refers to as his film school - cutting the MIAMI VICE trailer.
MIAMI NICE: Ladies and Lovescenes
MIAMI NICE is back and Katie’s introduction articulates the challenge of talking about salsa dancing, sexy with cops in 2020. In the episode proper (recorded in May 2020), hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard talk about ladies and love scenes.
MIAMI NICE: Handlebar Haiku
Undercover operatives Katie Walsh and Blake Howard discuss the fascinating and influential fashion in Miami Vice (2006). We follow the lineage of the original 80s show and Don Johnson, theories about Sam Elliott from "Roadhouse," discussions of "Point Break," "shit chops" in Australian Rugby League and handlebar moustache haiku.
MIAMI NICE: Accents
Big disco fans Katie Walsh and Blake Howard begin to unpack the incredible accent work on show in Miami Vice (2006). Beginning with Eddie Marsan’s king of Cajuns - Nicholas; moving to the utility talent more committed than a crazy pig, John Ortiz as Jose Yero. Finally, we unpack the enigma of Ciarán Hinds’ FBI Agent Fujima whose vaguely British in most other films is replaced by vaguely American.
MIAMI NICE: Introduction
Fiends for mojitos Katie Walsh and Blake Howard begin their drink-along video podcast through every loveable morsel of Michael Mann's misunderstood masterpiece MIAMI VICE (2006).