Beavis & Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 3 (Paramount) Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf (Panik House) Broken Saints: The Animated Comic Epic (Fox) Dallas: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner Bros.) Elvis: ’68 Comeback (BMG Heritage) A Fish Called Wanda: Deluxe Edition (MGM) Girls Next Door (Fox) The Graduate (MGM)…
Michael Mann’s Miami Vice is like a car that’s been stripped of everything but its two bucket seats and rebuilt from the ground up. The protagonists are a pair of detectives named Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx), and a cover of Phil Collins’ “In the Air…
For 35 years, Woody Allen was a long shot to stray into the Bronx or Staten Island — much less the alien reaches of London, England. The creator of Manhattan has always been joined to his chosen borough like pastrami on rye — so when he ventured abroad last year…
Do your eyes glaze over at the mention of the term “public art”? Do you stifle a yawn and think, not another heap of tortured metal? That’s a justifiable response, considering that much of what passes for public art comes across as something that has been hijacked on its journey…
Despite the current state of affairs in the Holy Land, “Treasures From the Cornell Museum: Voices of Israel” is not an explosive exhibit nor one with its voice raised in battle cries. In fact, if anything, the 30 exhibited works of Judaica — paintings, drawings, etchings, and mixed media by…
(TLA) Remember the old jokes about “What’s grosser than gross”? The makers of Feed do, as they prove in the first 10 minutes — one-upping their opening scene featuring a voluntary victim of cannibalism by bringing in a guy who gets nekkid and shoves cheeseburgers down the throat of his…
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Price: $59.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 7 (out of 10)
2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (Magnolia) Animaniacs: Volume 1 (Warner Bros.) Ask the Dust (Paramount) Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! (ThinkFilm) The Benchwarmers (Sony) Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (Shout! Factory) Bogie & Bacall: The Signature Collection (Warner Bros.) Chappelle’s Show: The Lost Episodes (Paramount) Electric Shadows (First Run)…
Unexpectedly nestled below the Collins Ave. Howard Johnson’s (8701 Collins Ave., Miami Beach ) is a cave-like, basement day spa, overflowing with rotund Russians in swimming trunks shuffling through its lobby. Just to the right of the “Tantra Room,” a middle-aged woman is painting her own walls a bright pink…
The Best of She-Ra Princess of Power (Brentwood) Carnivale: The Complete Second Season (HBO) The Cavern (Sony) Clean (Palm) Don’t Move (Wellspring) An Early Frost (Wolfe) Flash Gordon: The Complete Series (Brentwood) The Incredible Hulk: The Complete First Season (Universal) Intimate Stories (New Yorker) Jack of All Trades: The Complete…
Two weeks ago, a colleague insisted that Superman Returns isn’t the remake of the 1978 original, as I wrote, but a reinterpretation — its melancholy flip side. Where the Christopher Reeve model was pop art and a cool breeze, the Brandon Routh version is heavy and solemn, weighed down by…
It would be a mighty sweet thing to see M. Night Shyamalan as the great redemptive storyteller he clearly thinks he is — or as he portrays himself in those American Express commercials. Genuine yarn-spinning, even as a doomed ambition, is virtually extinct in American movies; what had been the…
Don’t think of it as commitmentphobia; think of it as curatorial caprice! Eaton Fine Art assures only one thing about its summer exhibit, “Summer Sculpture: A Changing Exhibition” — that visitors will see modern sculpture by a dozen respected artists, many of them innovators in their fields. Depending upon what…
Edison Force (Sony) Gritty cop stuff must write itself — just make sure everyone’s tough, corrupt, and talking like they stole Mickey Spillane’s thesaurus. Then cast Justin Timberlake. Screech! Employing the talented (at music) popster as a crusading journalist isn’t this lame flick’s worst flaw — merely the one you’ll…
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS2, Xbox, PC
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 7 (out of 10)
With Slack Lounge long defunct, and Blowtorch permanently banned, local hipsters have had a couple of years to sell their Vespas and stockpile their pent-up danceable aggression. This Thursday (and every third Thursday of the month), perpetual adolescents are invited to strap on their giant belts, polish up their dance…
Owen Wilson has moved up in the world: He’s gone from crashing weddings to crashing entire marriages. In the listless farce You, Me and Dupree, his eponymous ne’er-do-well shows up on the doorstep of childhood friend Carl (Matt Dillon), having lost his job and been evicted from his apartment after…
Perhaps no one can pinpoint the exact moment vaudeville died, but there’s a moment early in Strangers With Candy where you’d swear you had just witnessed the death of visual comedy. En route to her first day of high school, a tarty middle-aged jailbird — this is not a Disney…
When I first stumbled upon Spirit of Asia two years ago, it was called Spirit of Vietnam, and it was a relatively new presence on the 1500 block of East Las Olas Boulevard. Stepping into this combination gallery/home furnishings boutique was a transporting experience. The hint of incense in the…
George W. Bush may have famously (and incomprehensibly) once uttered that “human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully,” but “Fresh From the Sea: Tairyobata and the Culture of Fishing in Japan” isn’t doing anything to help improve the historically violent relationship between the two. In fact, if anything, the exhibit…
Grand Prix (Warner Bros.) John Frankenheimer, as underrated as he was brilliant, made a racing picture in 1966 that’s yet to be topped 40 years later. James Garner suffered through the director’s churlish demands (which Frankenheimer reveals and owns up to in archival footage on one of the documentaries here)…
Publisher:Namco Bandai Games
Platform: PlayStation 2
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
