A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a gospel choir in Pacashau, Georgia, is Jesus for Gleeks. Less Bible-thumping than, say, a Tyler Perry project, writer/director Todd Graff’s movie is still on an ecumenical outreach mission, its flatlining gags overshadowed by its focus on…
In Carnage posh pair Alan and Nancy (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) come to the home of wholesaler Michael (John C. Reilly) and crunchy author Penelope (Jodie Foster) to discuss how to deal with the fact that the former couple’s son hit the latter couple’s son in the face with…
For what it’s worth, Infinite Abyss’ production of Snow White Trash delivers exactly what you would expect from its title. Problem is, it’s not worth much. The Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale is recast in a South Florida trailer park, complete with humorous references to Davie and Tamarac. Fleeing the murderous…
Will there someday be a movie where the “one last job” goes off without a hitch? Not Contraband, anyway, which begins with that time-tested premise, then subjects its protagonist to a feature-length demonstration of Murphy’s Law. Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is the retiree runner reluctantly reactivated, a legend who once…
What does the name Whoopi Goldberg mean to you? Does it might remind you of The View and involve horrible flashbacks of sitting with Grandma and listening to five women bitch about menopause? Not completely, right? Because Whoopi, our dear Whoopi, she’s so much more than that. She’s our favorite…
Getting drunk is fine. Getting drunk in a risk-free environment while raising money for a good cause is far, far better. Enter the Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop: Pay a fee of $20 and catch a bus to nine of Fort Lauderdale’s most beloved boozeries: McSorley’s, Shooters, the Blue Martinis, the…
During the Second Saturday Art Walk this weekend, you can catch a whiff of the angst-ridden orchestrations of the GOP’s top presidential aspirants at a pair of Wynwood exhibits mining themes of mass manipulation or Cold War-era annihilation. 2012 seems like it’s going to be a bad year for Republicans…
Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel will be stopping in at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) at 6 p.m. Saturday to stump for their new, collaborative novel, Lunatics. Mired in the middle of a political free-for-all, we are well aware that stump speeches…
Dear fetishists, lube up your latex, get excited: Fetish Factory doesn’t have just one but two incredible things to tell you. And one happens to be something new, the other old — always there to please. Let’s start with the new, because new is exciting: Fetish Factory’s first Alter Ego…
The Miami Heat came roaring out of the gates this season, blowing out the defending-champion Mavericks in Dallas, dismantling the Celtics at home, and generally wreaking havoc on everyone in the league. LeBron, D-Wade, and Bosh look to be headed to a superb season, and, if that weren’t enough, rookie…
Local vixen Lea Vendetta leaves a lasting impression on most people who cross her path. For some, her intense gaze, sexy voice, and bold style will become emblazoned in memory. For others, the mark she leaves may be visible for the world to see. If you give her permission, she…
The Promethean Theatre (3301 College Ave., Davie) is known primarily for its idiosyncratic programming. One moment, Promethean’s doing a quiet, meditative new play about family tragedy in the North Florida wilds; the next, its stage is covered in severed limbs, broomsticks, and possessed elk’s heads for a musical version of…
You don’t learn farm life growing up in South Florida. You just don’t. Where the hell are our livestock exhibits?! Agriculture just isn’t a popular culture here. Thank the soil, we have the South Florida Fair. Rabbit check-in is at noon Thursday. Poultry check-in is at noon Thursday. It kicks…
Cocktail hour is an inconspicuous time of day that quivers underneath various layers of cultural hegemony. It’s an hour frequented by both the filthy rich and unwashed members of society. Most important, cocktail hour is full of booze-fueled, pixie-dusted glory. And that’s what the Norton Museum of Art’s latest exhibit…
It might not seem like it at first, but the face is probably the most intimate part of the human body. Sure, it’s also the most public, but no other area of your physical being is a better representation of who you are. Your face expresses every emotion. If you’re…
I dare you not to be impressed by Jenny Saville. If nothing else, the scale of her monumental paintings demands that you pay attention. At 103 inches tall by 192 inches wide, her Fulcrum (1997-99), for instance, is certainly one of the largest single-painting canvases you’re likely to encounter, and…
There’s something borderline psychedelic about Freddy Jouwayed’s current body of work at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. It’s almost as if the artist has taken of hit of a hallucinogen that translates what he sees into waves of pure color and energy. I kept thinking of a line…
A brief artist statement at the beginning of the Art Institute’s Byron Keith Byrd retrospective includes this declaration: “I am inspired by numerology, rhythmic, primitive markings and archaic symbols, and I selected each painting to indicate the passage of time.” I get the first part — Byrd’s canvases are dotted…
A Dangerous Method is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as it is, this historically scrupulous science-fiction romance concerning the discovery of the unconscious mind might have been titled War of the Worlds or The Beast From 5000 Fathoms. The film is at once a lucid movie of ideas, a…
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is predicated on a pair of enigmatic personalities: a colorless bureaucratic master spook, George Smiley; and a double agent the Soviets have planted near the top of British intelligence whom Smiley must unmask. Although not without violence, the story is essentially a procedural in which, playing…
Dennis Miller is the second-most-entertaining, freedom-loving, semi-intellectual, autodidactic, libertarian funnyperson in the country. (The first is Penn Jillette.) You know the résumé, more or less — Saturday Night Live, the HBO shows, the radio programs, the rants, the guest appearances on Fox News, in which he plays gleefully to the…
Roads and streets are for driving on, but avenues and boulevards were meant to be strolled leisurely. But this is America, and we simply cannot do one thing at a time. We are multitaskers. So if we are going to be strolling in the beautiful Florida winter weather, we better…
