If there’s one thing that most Floridians could probably live the rest of their lives without seeing one more of (besides hurricanes), it would be flamingos. While they are certainly interesting creatures that somehow symbolize old Florida, flamingos are quite possibly the tackiest and most overdone subject matter this side…
Wonder Showzen: Season One (MTV) On the surface, the way this MTV2 puppetfest explores adult concepts through a kiddie-show format seems fresh as a Nantucket limerick. But Wonder Showzen’s execution is so bold and frankly hilarious that it feels wholly new. Whether it’s exploring diversity with a forbidden homosexual love…
Publisher: Atari
Platform: PS2, Xbox
Price: $49.99
ESRB Rating: M (for Mature)
Score: 7 (out of 10)
The Andy Milonakis Show: The Complete First Season (MTV) Another Public Enemy (Tartan) A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Paramount) Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (Sony) Doctor Who: The Beginning Collection (BBC Warner) Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (Mondo Macabre) Godzilla: The Series (Sony) Hot Wheels (Warner Bros.) I Love Your…
Given Inside Man’s bullpen (director Spike Lee, stars Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster), moment in political history, and advertising, you could be forgiven for anticipating some kind of socially relevant, perhaps even politically volatile dramatic smash-up — something with teeth, ambition, a functioning cerebrum, and a lusty relationship with reality…
It can’t be easy making films about war. It’s so inherently dramatic that, as a setting for art, it’s overdetermined; it drips with meaning even before the first scenes are set. And so much has been said already: War is hell. War is noble. War is surreal. War is absurd,…
Embler Art Gallery is one of many among the chic shops and hip restaurants of Las Olas Boulevard, but the quality of its works and flawless display make it stand out. A small yet clean space, lacking the clutter of its neighbors, Embler showcases a visually pleasing assortment of paintings…
The first question many people ask about The Full Monty at the Miracle Theatre is not if the play is any good but if the male performers actually bare their tackle. The answer is yes. This Broadway musical — showing at Actors’ Playhouse through April 9 — is based on…
(First Run) Honest, compassionate, and funny, this documentary is remarkable for the bravery of its participants, who bare their breasts as they speak about them. The film delivers 22 women of all shapes, sizes, ages, races, and orientations — all of whom have interesting, surprising things to say about their…
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PlayStation 2, Game Cube
Price: $39.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 5 (out of 10)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Universal) Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) The Billy Wilder DVD Collection (Paramount) Bukowski: Born Into This (Magnolia) The Busby Berkeley Collection (Warner Bros.) Capote (Sony) Chicken Little (Buena Vista) Crackheads Gone Wild (Xtreme Films) Dear Wendy (Fox Lorber) Derailed (Weinstein Co.) Dreamer:…
If St. Patrick’s Day merely whetted your whistle for more Gaelic cheer, then the timing of Celtic Woman’s first appearance in Fort Lauderdale must be the luck o’ the Irish. The band’s itinerary for March 17 included ABC’s Live with Regis and Kelly in the morning, CNN in the afternoon,…
Nowadays, the massive Miami tennis tournament is called the NASDAQ-100 Open, but locals still refer to it as the Lipton International Players Championships, which was its name for 15 years. The 12-day extravaganza features so many of the world’s top players that it used to be nicknamed the “Winter Wimbledon.”…
The posters for V for Vendetta read: “An uncompromising vision of the future from the creators of The Matrix trilogy.” Uncompromising? It simply isn’t possible to translate Alan Moore’s multilayered comic-book masterpiece into a two-hour movie without making cuts that oversimplify, and it’s certainly not feasible to expect producer Joel…
Hollywood’s a sucker for cross-dressing. When the American Film Institute chose the 100 greatest comedies of all time, a pair of drag films — Some Like It Hot and Tootsie — earned the top two slots. From Operation Petticoat to White Chicks, slapping falsies on a dude is the fast…
John Fante’s novel Ask the Dust, published in 1939 and all but forgotten till its 1980 reissue with a Charles Bukowski foreword, is very much a work of thinly veiled autobiography; only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Its protagonist, a struggling writer named Arturo Bandini, shared…
Palm Beach Dramaworks has been nominated for 16 of this year’s Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s theater honors that will be parceled out by Florence “Mrs. Brady” Henderson in an April ceremony at the Broward Center. However, Palm Beach Dramaworks should really be up for 17 trophies, if the Carbonell plenipotentiaries…
You can’t accuse “Illegal Art” of false advertising. Most of the 40 or so works in this uneven but provocative exhibition, now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, share the dubious distinction of having inspired lawsuits or at least the threat of lawsuits. There’s no posted introduction (an…
Library patrons have a sculptural surprise awaiting them in the lobby of the Broward County Library: the colorful, mixed-media animals and figures of Felix D. Gonzalez. Past the gift shop sits the Angler Fish, Gonzalez’s most abstracted and unusual piece, comprised of found objects ranging from jagged pieces of metal,…
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PS2, PSP, Xbox
Price: $59.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
Through the Fire (Disney) He’s averaging just nine points in his second season for the Portland Trail Blazers, but considering where he came from and what he’s overcome, Sebastian Telfair is doing just fine, thank you. Jonathan Hock’s fascinating documentary takes us back to the young New York basketball legend’s…
All Dogs Go to Heaven/All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (MGM) American Psycho (Lions Gate) Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (Warner Bros.) Basic Instinct: Ultimate Edition (Lions Gate) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo — The Little Black Book Edition (Disney) A Fish Called Wanda (MGM) Get Shorty/Be Cool (MGM)…
