Silver-screen legends from the golden age of Hollywood enjoy reverential status in the history of show business. Nowadays, movies and TV are saturated with pseudo-celebs and even nonentities. But back in the halcyon days of the studio system and the walk of fame, stars were exactly that — glamorous and…
Ballets Russes (Zeitgeist) The Batman: The Complete Second Season (Warner Bros.) Beavis and Butt-head Do America: Special Collector’s Edition (Paramount) Bottoms Up (Sony) Disney Princess Stories, Volume 1: A Gift From the Heart (Disney) The Girls (New Yorker) Goal! The Dream Begins (Disney) Grey’s Anatomy: Season 2 Uncut (Buena Vista)…
You may finally understand the afterlife desire to go into the light once you see Matthew Schreiber’s “Platonic Solids.” As you ascend the stairs to the Museum of Art’s second floor, Pipeline pulls you into its sanctuary as if with a divine tractor beam; its purply-blue columns of light form…
It’s Saturday and you’re in between paychecks. If your pockets were bulging with shiny dollars, you would probably gamble, buy new clothes, and then get schnockered and blow the remainder on pretty ladies… but they’re not. That’s okay! *J’s Bar (2780 Davie Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale) has a back-up plan for…
If Superman Returns attempted to resurrect the Man of Steel as mythic hero, the season’s other Superman movie wants to disabuse us of any such childish illusions. Glamorously adult, Hollywoodland purports to part the veil on the circumstances by which George Reeves, the actor who embodied the superhero on ’50s…
Charles Bukowski’s second novel, Factotum, is a trashy ramble in which the mythically alcoholic writer’s alter ego, Henry Chinaski, drinks, fucks, and gets canned from menial jobs in New Orleans, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and anywhere else one can drink, fuck, feed from the bottom, and growl courtly lyricism…
To the jaded South Floridian eye, they might look like just more hotel art — you know, those ubiquitous palm-tree portraits and sea-meets-skyscapes that adorn the walls of the rooms for hire to remind travelers where they are. These idyllic images were once all the rage in a more romantic…
United 93 (Universal) A suggestion to those who’ve put off watching the year’s most wrenching and essential film: Before rolling the feature, first watch the documentary in which the families of those who died on the plane give the filmmakers their blessing, without reservation. If the mother, father, and sister…
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: Xbox 360
Price: $59.99
ESRB Rating: M (for Mature)
Score: 9 (out of 10)
The Abbott and Costello Show: 100th Anniversary Collection, Season One (Passport) Ace Ventura Deluxe Double Feature (Warner Bros.) Amarcord: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Anne of Avonlea (Koch Vision) Blade Runner: Director’s Cut (Warner Bros.) Broken Trail (Sony) Clive Barker’s The Plague (Sony) Commander in Chief: 2-Disc Inaugural Edition Part 2…
Low, which is to say no, expectations can be a wonderful thing; expect nothing and maybe you’ll get that little outta-nowhere sumpin-sumpin that turns an otherwise unfulfilling occurrence into a vaguely rewarding experience. It’s not like Invincible boasts the most promising of credentials: a first-time filmmaker (Ericson Core, the cinematographer…
Granted, this may seem like a jarringly odd comparison, but like the recent dud Phat Girlz, Heading South deals with the hot-button issue of middle-aged women discovering their sexuality anew thanks to the efforts of muscular black men with exotic accents whose standards of female beauty are more flexible than…
How do you deal with the loss of a loved one? Just when do you finally let it go? And, come to think of it, when you’re finally making progress in that regard, getting on with your life and meeting new people, how do you tell if your new gay…
“World’s Largest Hell Factory,” the remains of a damaged Shell store sign attests (the s was blown away). You’d think that’d pretty much sum up “Mean Season; Florida’s Hurricanes of 2004,” which documents the statewide legacies of Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. Of course, many of the photos document…
Arrested Development: Season Three (Fox) The final collection of Arrested Development discs feels sadly incomplete: only 13 episodes this time, the result of Fox’s inability to attract viewers to one of TV’s greatest comedies and the network’s unwillingness to give it a full farewell. But none of that diminishes the…
Publisher: Vivendi Universal
Platform: PS2, Xbox, PC
Price: $29.99-$39.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 7.5 (out of 10)
Akeelah and the Bee (Lions Gate) American Gun (IFC) The Castle of Cagliostro (Manga) Desperate Housewives: Season Two (Buena Vista) Stephen King’s Desperation (Lions Gate) Friends With Money (Sony) Iron Island (Kino) Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Paramount) Lonesome Jim (IFC) Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Warner Bros.)…
If, at this remove, we can imagine Vienna in the late 1890s, we behold a great imperial capital in ferment. Gustav Mahler is not only reinventing the harmonic structure of serious music but he is getting his head seriously shrunk by Sigmund Freud. Arnold Schoenberg takes painting lessons from eroticist…
One of the weakest and most ridiculous aspects of popular culture is its narcissistic nowness. There’s often no then or later, and without past experience or the messy knowledge of life, modern entertainment media often seem poached in a neurotic teenaged brainpan, entranced with their own ignorant tunnel vision. A…
Farce is an ideal clearing ground for hostility. Like mystery, it’s a genre that typically passes through disruption en route to the restoration of order, albeit with greater likelihood of an airborne pie. It makes sense, then, that every irresolvable conflict will eventually get the version of Meet the Parents…
Veronica Mars: The Complete Second Season (Warner Bros.) Any concept along the lines of “high school hottie solves crimes” is bound to make for watchable TV, but who would have expected this? Equal parts 90210 teen soap, murder mystery, and comedy, Veronica Mars pulls you in with its sharp writing,…
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: PSP
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 7 (out of 10)
