ou know how in most romantic comedies the best friends are nearly always more interesting than the actual leads we’re supposed to care about? The Break-Up doesn’t play that game. Vince Vaughn is the focus and the primary source of entertainment, which is all the more impressive when you consider…
ost memoirs, like off-brand hot dogs, should come with labels that list their suspect ingredients. Outrage over James Frey aside, does anyone still believe that a person’s reconstructed narrative of his or her life isn’t going to mix some snouts or tails among the meat? The best one can hope…
Visitors to the Boca Raton Museum will find themselves pulled through its grand hall, past the photography exhibits, into “Graham Nickson: From Private Collections.” There’s a magnetic attraction to Nickson’s painting Tracks: Green Sky at the end of a corridor, with the lines of the cantaloupe-hued and purple-blue bruise tracks…
Even as the fine band for Beehive: The 60s Musical Sensation warmed up the crowd with an “It’s My Party” infused medley, deep in my gut the pain started. It was the same pain that accompanies all such musical reviews, and it sharpened with the play’s first chipper hit-parade memory:…
Sure, magicians are easy targets nowadays – just look at the jokes that were made about David Blaine’s recent underwater adventure. But that’s not stopping South Florida’s own Reality Thief, Brad C. Barton, from changing closed minds and turning bewildered heads. “People have a stereotypical view of what magic is…
The Old West has vanished, John Wayne is dead, and — this just in — the two most famous ranch hands in America are gay. But there would be no point in telling any of that to Harlan Fairfax Carruthers, the deceptively charming protagonist of Down in the Valley. Like…
If you can tell a society by its smut, America in the 1950s couldn’t have been just a Frigidaire of repressive hysteria. Hidden somewhere in the closets of Pleasantville and Peyton Place, after all, was a stack of fetish mags bearing the face and hourglass figure of Bettie Page and…
When kids of all ages discuss comic books and superheroes, there is inevitably one question that comes up time and again: If that one guy and that other guy had a fight, who would win? Comics companies occasionally indulge these debates with special issues pitting Thing against Hulk, or Wolverine…
Fabulation
Written by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Michael Yawney. With Crystal Murphy, Edgar Caraballo, Viviene Dawson, Andre L. Gainey, Jeanne Lynn Gray, Carolyn Johnson, and Earlington Taylor. Presented through June 4 by the Public Theatre of South Florida, 6501 W. Sunrise Blvd., Plantation. Call 954-537-3648.
How’s this for topicality? Just as the subject of immigration is sweeping the country, getting more heated and complicated by the day, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood presents “Signals/Señales,” an exhibition featuring work by contemporary Mexican artists addressing current social issues in that culture. More specifically, these artists,…
A golden Buddha reverently holds a giant phallus before him like a censer of incense. It’s the central image of Los Angeles artist Jamie Adams’ triptych (each a 12-inch encaustic oil on linen) Big Sur. With a playful juxtaposition, Adams’ work not only holds the penis in high regard but…
Boston Legal (Fox) David E. Kelley’s latest legal drama is nothing more than a TV show about TV shows; hence the casting of Captain Kirk and Murphy Brown, with guest shots by Diane Chambers, Golden Girl Rose Nylund, and Alex Keaton. It’s like a Nick at Night mash-up, with the…
Yet another Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has come and gone, and this one was the biggest yet. Exhibitors know all too well that a strong showing at E3 — an event heavily covered by both industry and mainstream press — can turn a great product into a blockbuster and a…
Africa Screams (Image) April’s Shower (Liberation) Back Door to Hell (Fox) Bloodrayne (Uwe Boll Productions) The Closer: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) Deadwood: The Complete Second Season (HBO) The Devil’s Miner (First Run) The Dirty Dozen: Two-Disc Special Edition (Warner Bros.) The 4400: The Complete Second Season (Paramount) Game…
You know it’s hard out here for a screenwriter. You’ve got a surefire hit on your hands — an adaptation of the runaway best-seller The Da Vinci Code — and yet it’s all about talking and solving cryptic riddles, which isn’t exactly suited to the visual medium. It’s also a…
Summer is the season of high expectations and profound disappointments. That suntan looks more like sunburn, your beer stays ice cold till the moment it’s opened, and fat guys are the only ones hanging by the pool in bikini briefs. So it goes with summer movies: Sequels to beloved faves…
If some religious extremists in India had gotten their way, the gorgeous fury of Deepa Mehta’s Water never would have reached the screen. As it is, these self-appointed censors shut down the production for years by staging demonstrations, torching Mehta’s sets, and threatening her life. Eventually, the filmmaker moved her…
At this late date, it’s hard to tell one digitally rendered talking animal from another. Madagascar blends into Ice Age looks like A Shark’s Tale sounds like Shrek might as well be A Bug’s Life turns into Antz feels like Chicken Little could be Over the Hedge, which is really…
“George and Martha. Sad, sad, sad.” For lovers of the Woolf, those six little words will induce Pavlovian joy. Such a cruel play. Such total destruction. Such delight. Even though Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf opened just last week at Palm Beach Dramaworks, overheard weeks ago at another…
You know those days when you just want to get away from it all? What better way to transport you to another world than a flying saucer? Or a magic carpet. Or the imagination. In “1001 Night Tales,” Turkish artist Sibel Kocabasi’s one-woman show at the Armory Art Center, the…
Winter Passing (Fox) Try this, should you be inclined to rent this downer from writer-director Adam Rapp: Skip from chapter to chapter and see whether they all don’t begin with exactly the same image, accompanied by exactly the same sound. There is always someone (usually Zooey Deschanel as a would-be…
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Nintendo DS
Price: $19.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
