From afar, David Best’s temples resemble a Western take on Jain or Japanese places of worship: thirty-five feet of cut pinewood arranged in mosaic patterns of swirls and flowers, reaching into a crisp peak pointing toward the heavens. Up close, names of loved ones can be seen written on the delicate layers of wood; photos and memorabilia from a time lost are sandwiched behind the structure.
Opening with an establishing shot of Art Basel Miami Beach, Dan Gilroy’s new Netflix movie, Velvet Buzzsaw, which recently premiered at Sundance Film Festival, sets up its premise by cheapening Miami’s art scene in the predictable manner you’d expect from a California-based filmmaker. Miami is there to provide a colorful, superficial backdrop…
A decade ago, you couldn’t swing a Medieval-inspired battle axe at a renaissance fair without hitting someone dressed as Xena, according to Florida Renaissance Festival show director Richard Weber. Now? The warrior princess’ moment in the sun has passed and been replaced by a much bigger cultural phenomenon: Game of…
The first Away Spa location for the W Hotel brand to offer a full beauty menu opened earlier this month in Fort Lauderdale.
Pamela Weiner, president of Dachshund Rescue South Florida, makes it clear that her last name is merely a coincidence. “It’s Weiner,” she says unbothered, like she’s had to clarify this a hundred times already and she’s ready to do it a hundred more times. “It’s kind of funny cause it…
Gliding from destination to destination, the seafaring art show carries attendees along on water taxis—or private yachts, your choice—stopping at vacated luxury homes packed with the work of over 100 artists and galleries.
Comedian Ryan Hamilton doesn’t mind his clean comic reputation. He thinks it probably has helped his comedy career. And besides, he knows there are worse things he could be called.
It may not be in the same world-class league as Art Basel — at least, not yet — but the unspoken promise of what this celebration of cultural contribution could represent to a neighborhood brimming with diverse, undiscovered talent is equally important to the people of Broward County.
Baldwin’s central story, dialogue and time-jumping narrative structure are all in place, but so, too, is a sumptuous visual style that serves to deepen the novelist’s themes of racial injustice and the powerful countering force of love
Start the new year off right – and follow through on those resolutions – by booking a special treatment at these South Florida spas.
Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband … argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
The January, February and March months of 2019 are already boasting a strong slate, with U.S. distribution of international festival favorites along with welcome returns of first-rate genre filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and Jordan Peele
The movie experiences I treasure most from this year found me sharing moments and laughs and tears with strangers who, just before and after the house lights dimmed, I might have been arguing with on Twitter
It was a terrible year in so many ways, but onscreen, with shows including Sharp Objects, My Brilliant Friend, Better Call Saul, The Americans and Atlanta, it sparkled
The art houses and Drafthouses again pull more than their fair share of the burden of quality, but my No. 2 (and many people’s No. 1) is a straight-up Netflix production, already available to watch on your phone
Hollywood now begrudgingly must honor a company committed to upending the business model of theatrical distribution, but it’s hard to gainsay Netflix’s strategy in this instance
Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either
At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination
With the quickest blink or nervy glance, Roberts communicates to us both what her character, an ordinary woman named Holly Burns, has convinced everyone around her to think she’s feeling but also all of her secret doubts, fury and anguish
True to the spirit of the chipper, somewhat aimless live-action Disney day killers that inspired it, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns gets better the further it wanders from its actual story.
Not incidental to Aquaman’s pleasures is its vision of a mixed-race hero, played by a mixed-race actor, fighting to protect and understand clashing aspects of his heritage
The actresses share only one scene in the film, but Mary Queen of Scots sets them up in counterpoint, two divergent approaches to the question of how women who wield power can actually govern the men around them
