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Hollywood has turned over a new leaf. It has transcended its former status as a seasonal nest for blue-haired snowbirds to become a charming hang for young locals. The twenty-something infusion could be due to the town’s less expensive housing, easy access to Miami and Broward, or the influx of…
For all of the little kids who were ever called up to the cockpit and given a pair of silver (painted) wings, or who have pressed their faces against terminal windows and watched the planes take off and land, the Museum of Discovery and Science (401 SW Second St., Fort…
One would never confuse the work of writer/director Todd Phillips with that of the late Robert Hamer, whose filmography includes the essential Kind Hearts and Coronets. Hamer’s movies had a gentlemanly quality, no matter the cruelty that skulked beneath their prim exteriors; one always felt that the characters in his…
weet, crazy, and tinged with sadness, Michel Gondry’s new feature, The Science of Sleep, is a wondrous concoction. The tricksy romantic narrative — in which Gael García Bernal plays a hapless, Chaplinesque madman — may be reminiscent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which Gondry directed from Charlie Kaufman’s…
Watching The Guardian, you will learn that the U.S. Coast Guard’s rescue swimmers rank among the bravest and least heralded of military personnel, selflessly hurling themselves into raging currents or hurricane swells to save a single human life. But I doubt that even these knights in neoprene armor could rescue…
Nothing like kicking the bucket to make others appreciate a person — and this is doubly true for artists. In May, the death of the Dutch abstract expressionist who helped found an art movement known as CoBrA (an acronym for the initial letters of the founders’ countries of origin: Copenhagen,…
The Big Animal (Milestone) It’s a simple yet lesser known law of comedy: Camels are always funny. There are the jaws that drool and chew side to side, the front legs that move like a human’s, the humps — but mostly it’s the eyes: There’s something of Buddha in a…
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS2, Xbox, GC, PC, X360, PSP, DS, GBA
Price: $30-$60
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
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According to its publicity, bringing Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel All the King’s Men to the screen again has always been “a cherished dream” of Executive Producer James Carville — suggesting a lurking sense of payback frustration with the insubstantial legacy of the real populist Southerner Carville himself helped to…
Anyone who wants to start feeling good about war again — and hey, pilgrim, isn’t it about time? — might do well to take in Flyboys. In this elaborate, computer-generated fantasy, the plucky volunteer pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille are once more cast as “knights of the sky,” dashing young…
The Boca Raton Museum of Art has a well-established, mostly noble tradition of showcasing art from local collections, usually in the gallery at the far northern end of the first floor — not prime real estate, as museum space goes, but certainly respectable. For “Masters of Latin America: Selections from…
It’s tempting to joke that Robert Perry incorporates everything but the kitchen sink into his art. Then again, he may well be working on a piece that throws in the sink, along with who knows what else. Perry, a self-described “lighting sculptor” whose delightful work is now on view in…
(First Look) There’s an old saying about Ginger Rogers, who did everything Fred Astaire did — but backwards and in heels. This Australian western seems to be saying something similar about gritty American westerns: You think that’s hard? Try living in the Outback. The Proposition mucks about in dust, blood,…
Publisher: Sony
Platform: PSP
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 7.5 (out of 10)
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Directed by Brian De Palma from a novel by neo-noirist James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia is a true-crime policer unfolding in late-’40s Los Angeles somewhere between the neighborhoods of Chinatown and Mulholland Drive. The premise involves one of L.A.’s most notorious unsolved homicides. In early 1947, the naked corpse of…
Those 20-somethings, poor dears, can never catch a break in the movies. First this maligned generation is told, in countless gritty indies and perky studio comedies, that it’s rowing through life without oars. Now, director Tony Goldwyn’s admirably understated handling of dispiritingly slender material suggests that if you’re pushing 30,…
“The Rock” — formerly known as “Flex Kavana” and, a bit later, as “Rocky Maivia” — was a practicing actor long before he turned to movies and started taking down $12 million paychecks. The happily deluded throngs who used to watch him lay signature moves like “The People’s Elbow” or…
I Am a Sex Addict (IFC) Caveh Zahedi has made a movie of our times — a strange mix of self-absorption, shamelessness in the pursuit of fame, and sex. Most shocking of all is that it works. Part fiction and documentary, confessional and comedy, the film traces the history of…
Publisher: Sega
Platform: Game Cube, PS2, PSP
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 4 (out of 10)
