Is Brad leaving Angelina for Jen? Did Dylan really cheat with Kelly while Brenda was away? Is that coworker really sleeping with her neighbor’s husband? Week after week, we sit with our girlfriends gossiping about affairs. Celebrity or not — and as long as they’re not about our husbands or…
Lake Worth Playhouse is 59 years old! Fifty-nine years of brilliant community theater and indie films. Six decades of making sure South Florida isn’t a cultural backwater. Congratulations, Lake Worth Playhouse! If you’d like to show your appreciation, roll up to Paradiso Ristorante (625 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth) at 6:30…
There are occasions for which news releases ought speak for themselves, and this is one of them: “All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy. Yet whenever we are unhappy, we always feel that we are the most important. This self-centered mind, not…
A horror comedy with a structural twist intended to emit an air of being something more, Cabin in the Woods has an off-putting vibe of cocky self-confidence, a “Don’t you get it?” conviction that it’s something special. As with people, it’s not a charming quality in a movie. The basic…
Bully is something of an outlier among awareness docs: It has a clear and calm approach to storytelling and some interest in the quality of its handheld images. Weaving together five far-flung year-in-the-life accounts, Bully affectingly lays out its worst-case scenarios. Subjects include a middle schooler from Sioux City, Iowa,…
Tucked away in the basement of a Tokyo office building, in a drab corridor attached to a subway station, the restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro seats only a handful, boasts three Michelin stars, and is presided over by renowned 85-year-old sushi chef Jiro Ono. For hundreds of dollars apiece, you can get…
The 56th president of the U.S.A.’s do-gooder daughter, Emilie (Maggie Grace), is on a fact-finding trip to a prototype orbital big house where inmates are kept pacified in deep-freeze when she’s taken hostage in a riotous insurgency led by freshly thawed Scots psychopaths (Vincent Regan and Joseph Gilgun). The only…
The Holy Trinity of knockabout numbskull comedy—fritz-haloed Larry, yipping lummox Curly, and bowl-cut fascist Moe—are introduced as they’re ditched on the steps of an orphanage. Twenty-five years later, they’ve grown up to resemble, respectively, television comics Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, and Chris Diamantopoulos, unleashed on the unsuspecting world when the…
A general air of “it’s good for you and you’ll like it” hangs over “Surfing Florida,” which is just a step or two away from a dental-hygiene documentary from your childhood or a nonoptional serving of your least favorite vegetable. I wanted to like the exhibit, having grown up with…
There is a big, naked, empty space in the courtyard abutting the Museum of Art (1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). There’s never very much out there. Might as well use it for some pedi-gogical refreshment. Except: This evening, from 8 to 10, the group known as All Together…
Close your eyes and imagine yourself sipping flavorful red wine as you discuss with a stranger the feelings evoked by the painting on the wall in front of you. By the end of the night, the stranger calls you a new friend. The room around you buzzes with other minglers,…
Religion tends to be divisive as well as unifying, while soul music is typically only the latter. That is, of course, unless it involves Clarence Reid, AKA Blowfly, the most foulmouthed, motherfuckin’, panty-sniffin’, sex-crazed old man you will ever care to come across. To those with a certain foul mentality…
Over time, the moviegoing experience has certainly changed. In the ’50s, it was all about taking your sweetheart to the drive-in theater. Nowadays, we burn our retinas while watching IMAX movies. Every now and then, it’s nice to break away from the typical movie-theater experience — especially when the tickets…
Poppy Champlin’s restless, roving comedic mind was forged in the pressure cooker of Second City (the famed improv troupe) and may gracefully alight on any subject on any night. But on the Queer Queens of Qomedy Tour, it probably sticks close to the night’s binding theme: lesbianism and the terrors…
In some states, Easter-egg hunts have been called off due to interfering helicopter parents shoving children down and rushing to find eggs for their own precious progeny. But — for once! — Florida is not competing for most absurd state in the union, and there’s plenty going on this weekend…
For anyone looking to avoid giant rabbits and greedy kids hunting up chicken ova, Lips (1421 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Oakland Park; 954-567-0987) offers a Sunday Gospel Brunch. Be entertained by the some of the finest drag queens to be found in South Florida while enjoying a three-course meal, mimosas,…
At 7:30 p.m. in the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center (201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale), assembled songwriters will each perform a single song, acoustic and solo. Anyone could do it. Even you. It’s an open mic. At 9 p.m., the professionals take over and perform their…
On Wednesday, Hollywood’s Arts Park (Hollywood Boulevard and Federal Highway) will be transformed into a haven for foodies and oenophiles. Back for another year is the Hollywood Expo Alfresco, an evening of food tasting, wine sampling, and being as gluttonous as you want. With more than 40 local eateries being…
Indonesian martial-arts film The Raid: Redemption lives up to its viral hype and the buzz. It’s lean, fast-moving, and filled with game-changing fight sequences that are brutally beautiful — or, maybe better put, beautifully brutal. Rama (Iko Uwais) is a rookie member of an elite special-forces team that has been…
This latest episode in the ongoing American Pie saga, handled by the Harold & Kumar writer-director team of Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, reunites the full original cast at their 13-year high school reunion, as the anticlimactic disappointments of the 30s have begun to sink in. Onetime band-camp nymphomaniac Michelle…
In The Kid With a Bike, Cyril (Thomas Doret), a scrappy 11-year-old living in an urban orphanage, flees school in an attempt to track down both his deadbeat dad (Jérémie Renier) and the bike he left at his dad’s house. On the lam, Cyril carelessly crashes into Samantha (Cécile de…
A historical romance with a then-unheard-of price tag, James Cameron’s 1997 Titanic was the nearest thing to a Gone With the Wind-style cinematic event that the millennials could call their own. Now Titanic has bobbed to the surface yet again in a 3-D re-release, making a play for an audience…
