Do you think there is a kernel of truth to the claim that the Sixth Annual Sweet Corn Fiesta is going to be “ear-resistible”? Or is that just a corny statement? Organizers say that you can “butter up the family” by taking them out to the festival. That’s true; they…
Hollywood has fallen into a formulaic rut. Movies are often predictable, following a very simple pattern: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back and a happy ending ensues — complete with cheesy romantic score. Well, prepare to enjoy some convention-defying films because the Eighth Annual Miami Gay…
Idiots! That’s what we call people who have not yet seen Napoleon Dynamite. For those who love tater tots, tetherball, and building cakes for special ladies, you are cooler than the other side of the pillow. But even if you didn’t vote for Pedro, you are still welcome to come…
When Fort Lauderdale’s resident rock star Elias Soriano called, we were excited to ask him about the the new album (To the Pain) from his band, nonpoint. Like, what are the ideal conditions for listening to it? “You put it on, reach down and grab a bunch of weights. Or,…
The annual Showtel art exhibit – nay, art happening – just gets curiouser and curiouser. In 2002, curator Kara Walker-Tomé approached the owner of Hotel Biba and asked a little favor: would it be okay if, for one night, artists came in and took over the 43 ultra-chic rooms? Amazingly,…
Amanda Timms knows her town’s landscape like the pages of a phone book – at least, that’s how it sounds when she describes it. In a monotonous tone that suggests a sense of bored hopelessness (or a Ben Stein impersonation), Timms runs down the list: “Taco Bell, KFC, Kmart, Weight…
Ejiofor plays Simon, AKA Lola, a flamboyant drag queen who gets to sing showtunes, issue snappy putdowns, and look fabulous. (He is not, he explains, a transvestite, because while drag queens look good in a dress, trannies “look like Boris Yeltsin in lipstick.”) Lola is also nursing some deep personal…
The 11th-annual Palm Beach International Film Festival is upon us, and it’s even Palm Beachier than ever, with the Donald in town to kick off the eight-day event’s opening-night gala. On the slate are 125 films, including 18 world premieres, beginning with Rain, about a gifted African-American girl who leaves…
We’ve all done it — killed an afternoon drinking in a pleasantly grungy roadhouse somewhere, boozily enjoying the illusion of having fallen off the grid, playing semi-forgotten blues songs on an outdated jukebox, and thinking aloud See, I should capture this feeling. This should be a movie. Sobered up, we…
At the opening of Lonesome Jim, a terrific new film directed by Steve Buscemi, a country song plays behind scenes of small-town desolation. “Good times’r comin’,” it promises, in the movie’s first joke. Nothing about these initial scenes — not the stark midwestern landscape, not the sole figure running with…
Wanna knock the prez? Let’s make a show… preferably on television. Paul Weitz’s new satire, American Dreamz, imagines the Bush regime as an episode in the history of American entertainment and American Idol as the quintessence of U.S. democracy. So what else is new? The vision of America as a…
In the 2000 movie Pollock, a crucially transformative scene places Jackson Pollock in the cold of a late 1940s Long Island winter, breaking through his previous conventions to slap paint on canvases. When wife Lee Krasner comes around to see what would forever after be recognized as his signature groove,…
“Everything I touch turns to $old,” boast five sweaters, knitted appropriately in cash green and Midas gold-hued fibers. With these as the sole display in the windows of its Dixie Highway storefront, Gavlak Studios might easily be mistaken for a real estate office. That notion would not be entirely dispelled…
Americano (MTI) Before he is due to take a high-powered corporate job, college graduate Chris (Joshua Jackson) heads off with two friends (Timm Sharp and Ruthanna Hopper) to Europe, where they end up in Pamplona for the running of the bulls. There, he encounters one of those saucy Latinas (Blade…
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: M (for Mature)
Score: 7 (out of 10)
A Bigger Splash (First Run) Breakfast on Pluto (Sony) Cross of Iron (Henstooth) Event Horizon: Collector’s Edition (Paramount) Games of Love and Chance (New Yorker) Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Magnolia) Hostel (Sony) I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Plexifilm) Kickboxer: Five-Disc Collector’s Set (Lions Gate) The Killing Time (Anchor Bay)…
Edge Theatre, which last year served up Men on the Verge of a Hispanic Breakdown, is now offering Family Secret, written and directed by Jim Tommaney. God smiles on roaming bands of small theater troupe experimentalists. One week, they might be playing in an art gallery, the next at a…
We can’t all make the NFL. But that doesn’t mean we can’t grow thighs the size of tree trunks and crash our 300-pound bodies into one another like a train wreck, all in pursuit of an oddly shaped pigskin ball. The B-list guys have a new home – the Hard…
In high school, there are plenty of social cliques — the jocks, the geeks, the preps, the freaks. Though many of these groups look down on each other (“Nice shirt, Poindexter!”), the loose contingent known as artists look at everyone from a different angle — as potential subjects. The artists…
A perversely protective mother-son relationship, a taxidermied dad hanging patiently in the closet, and a disgruntled pet piranha swimming in satire? I know what you’re thinking: “Is this the next installation of R. Kelly’s hip-hopera sensation ‘Trapped in the Closet’?” No! It’s even more absurd, literally. Tuesday, the Ghost Light…
The artist formerly known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince once sang, “Tonight, we’re gonna party like its 1997!” Okay, maybe that’s not the exact year he chose, but don’t tell that to New Jersey sextet Catch 22. The band is tenaciously still riding the ska-punk third wave that…
Lord George Carnarvon “mysteriously” died in 1923, a year after he and British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Was it because he aggravated a mosquito bite or was it the curse? In the 1980 British film The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb, the answer is, well……
