Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised by funnymen Steven Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing versions of themselves under the direction of Michael Winterbottom. When his American girlfriend cancels, Coogan — who has supposedly been hired by…
Vivaciously confirming the timelessness of A.A. Milne’s talking teddy bear, Disney’s frickin’ adorable return to the Hundred Acre Wood is a wonderfully faithful throwback to the ’60s animated features (and the original Ernest H. Shepard book illustrations that inspired the studio’s watercolored, 2-D look) with a modest veneer of postmodern…
Back in 1929, there was no Hoarders. There was no Hoarding: Buried Alive, its sensationally titled cousin on TLC. But over several decades beginning in the 1920s, Homer and Langley Collyer would become the first tabloid celebrity hoarders. The affluent couple buried themselves under some 130 tons of accumulated junk…
To people who remember their first heartbreak or pine to reconstruct a fading face lingering in the corridors of a forlorn passion, go to the new exhibit opening Sunday at the Miami Art Museum (101 W. Flagler St., Miami). Rivane Neuenschwander will re-create the mug of your youthful source of…
The initial visceral impact of “Ryan Humphrey: Fast Forward” is considerable: You walk into the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, and the main gallery has seemingly been transformed into a small-scale skate park for in-line skaters, skateboarders, and BMX bikers. At either end of the space, BMX bicycles have…
Nobody cries “Stop the presses!” in Andrew Rossi’s Page One: Inside the New York Times; no one would dare. There’s a palpable fear that it could actually happen. Rossi’s documentary, which might have been called Inside Baseball: Inside the New York Times, opens with a montage of the press in…
There’s a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word pussy. Her character is trying to intimidate his, while the filmmakers attempt to shock the audience with the spectacle of this lady rom-com…
It’s complete,” grizzled, wistful Frank (Rutger Hauer) says in the opening scene of Bride Flight, right before he croaks among the well-groomed rows of his New Zealand vineyard. “I’m a happy farmer.” With that, the reunion of three women whose lives (and more) he touched is set into motion, along…
Thongs are boring. What really gets us excited are burqinis — that is, burqua-style bikinis. We don’t know if it’s that their full-body spandex and built-in hood remind us of superheros or whether it’s that all that covered skin leaves so much to our filthy imaginations. So on Wednesday, the…
The astounding documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times provides an unprecedented all-access look into the inner sanctums of America’s newspaper of record. It focuses particularly on the reporters who covered the media business over the past year, from the WikiLeaks leak to the Comcast/NBC merger to the apocalyptic…
Guy Bavli can stop his heart from beating. He predicted Israeli elections correctly on television two weeks before the results were in. He bends spoons and sign posts with his mind. But can he part rush hour traffic on I-95? Stop the ticker of that bearded madman 90 miles south…
Art shows always sound like good ideas, but more often than not, they end up with you standing awkwardly in front of an incomprehensible work of “art” in a painfully pretentious gallery sipping free wine from a plastic cup. Art is not created in a vacuum and shouldn’t be viewed…
Enter Sportszone 84 (2440 W. State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale) around noon on Sunday and ponder — over a brewski — what happened to the Florida Marlins after they faced the Houston Astros on April 8. They arrived in Texas with a record of 3-3. They left three days later…
You don’t have to be a big Kahuna, beachcomber, or surfer chick to get leid during this weekend’s balmy “Second Saturday Art Walk” beginning at 6 p.m. Just follow the torches and the ukulele music wafting from the Harold Golen Gallery (2294 NW Second Ave., Miami), where the art dealer…
Why are Fetish Factory parties so damned popular? Because South Florida is full of kinky people just looking to swing with your husband and get sweaty with your girl. The places are also few where you get to dress in all your horny paraphernalia and be accepted by your peers…
If you’ve been to one church fair, you’ve been to them all. There’s the bake sale area: cookies, cakes, and no complaints. There’s the craft area: because you can never have enough plastic doll heads with macrame bodies. And there’s the game area: You totally rule at tossing the bean…
Talking about being at the right place at the right time: If you’re at Green Room at 9 p.m. — right up until 11 p.m. — Saturday, you will be drinking a sizzling elixir — champagne — right next to a giant, metal vagina. That’s for free. You must only…
Freakishly fit men and women will be flexing their engorged, glistening musculature in Speedos and bikinis at the 31st Annual NPC Southern States Championships, the largest of its kind east of the Mississippi. The contestants, from teenagers to the middle-aged and over-70 seniors, have been subjecting themselves to punishing workouts…
Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in Beginners, a gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor that brought us The Kids Are All Right. In fact, this semiautobiographical movie by SoCal skater-boy-turned-graphic-designer-and-filmmaker Mike Mills has no shortage…
Based on the true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan who took his government’s “education for all” promise literally, The First Grader turns literacy into historical melodrama. Character is history in Justin Chadwick’s dramatization of the story that made international headlines in 2003, a choice that gives the film a rough…
One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams documents a secret wonder of the world, the Chauvet cave — a subterranean gallery of 300 animal images discovered in 1994 in the south of France. Twice as old as the paintings at Lascaux yet…
For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry Crowne. As the film opens, Larry seems content with his lot in life — before being fired for lacking a college education from his job at U-Mart, a big-box store…
