All the President’s Men (Warner Bros.) It’s no mystery why Warner Bros. chose to rerelease All the President¹s Men now; at last we know how much — which is to say how little — Mark “Deep Throat” Felt really looked like Hal Holbrook. A new doc on former FBI second-in-command…
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: Nintendo DS
Price: $29.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
As you enter the Florida Renaissance Festival and hear the first bad English accent yell “G’day, my lord” coming from the first wench with blacked-out teeth, your stomach goes temporarily queasy. Whenever a mass of reenactors goes critical — whether colonial American villagers, Civil War privates, or tights-wearing, 15th-century minstrels…
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (MCA) The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends (Shout Factory) Domino (New Line) Dorian Blues (TLA) First Descent (Universal) Left of the Dial (HBO) The Memory of a Killer (Sony) Midnight Cowboy: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition (MGM) Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Collector’s Edition (Sony)…
When Jon Daly’s riveting indie film The Aryan Couple debuted in November 2004, most movies theaters weren’t on the shortlist for the initial screenings. So now that the film’s finally here – showing at various theaters in Broward and Palm Beach counties – let’s hope its stay is longer than…
George Clinton may have dibs on p-funk, but Lil’ Brian Terry is all about the z-funk. That’s z as in zydeco. Hailing from the Creole-rich town of Barrett Station, Texas, Lil’ Brian and the Zydeco Travelers is equally laden with washboards and accordions as groove-heavy hip-hop beats. The band has…
Back in the 1940s and ´50s, Air Force Colonel John Paul Stapp just loooooved being a human guinea pig. One time, he flew in a airplane at 570 miles per hour, with the top down – just to see if it was safe for humans to do. Another time, he…
There’s an ongoing debate among fans of the Taste of Chaos Tour, and it has nothing to do with “boxers or briefs?” – it’s more like, “Emo or metal?” That’s to be expected, given the motley mix of bands that taste the chaos each year. On one hand are the…
The toughest task facing a local concert promoter is getting kids off their couches and into the club (well, that and getting bands to show up on time). And though it’s easy to blame audience apathy for poor attendance, why bother? Maybe the answer is to offer them more –…
Drug smugglers go to Mexico to pick up dope. Cost-cutting business owners go there to pick up cheap labor. But for Ivan Thompson, the self-proclaimed “Cowboy Cupid,” it’s all about the love, baby — not his, yours. In her documentary, Cowboy del Amor, filmmaker Michèle Ohayon follows Thompson on his…
The big news about Bubble, the new film by director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Traffic), is the way it’s being released. Rather than opening first in theaters, then later on DVD and cable, Soderbergh and his producers have decided to do it all at once. Or so they thought. Turns…
Freedomland manages a seemingly impossible feat: It’s both turgid and overwrought, eliciting the shriek that fades into a yawn without anyone ever noticing. It’s a wholly dreary piece of work, yet another dismal entry on the résumé of director Joe Roth, an only-in-Hollywood hack who’s allowed to make movies —…
Penguins, shmenguins. If you want some new insight into the codes of animal behavior, have a look at Eight Below, an inspirational adventure in which a team of sled dogs marooned in Antarctica fights to survive winter without benefit of man or Milk-Bone. In the process, the intrepid furry heroes…
In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned Americans that an insidious new force was taking hold in the country. He called it the “military-industrial complex.” Born of necessity during the Second World War, this once valuable conjunction of the military, the federal government, and the armaments industry was suddenly…
“Malcolm Morley: The Art of Painting,” now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, is the final installment in a trio of exhibitions surveying the careers of painters who are very different yet also very similar, and what a smashing conclusion it is. Think of the series as…
“Controlled chaos” is the apt term Rosenbaum Gallery curator Elena Brodskaya uses to describe Joan Miro’s works on paper and sculpture. Surrealist and Dada influence is evident in the abstracted, ambiguous forms and rainbow hues found in most of Miro’s body of work. Two of the most appealing pieces in…
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson: Uncensored! (Paramount) This sucker’s vulgar — duh — but not shocking in the least bit; Sarah Silverman swears, and Courtney Love drinks and smokes . . . who knew? That said, this roast ranks among the meanest ever televised; why Bea Arthur shows up…
Publisher: 2K Sports
Platform: PS2 and Xbox
Price: $19.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 2 (out of 10)
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. Three: Perfectly Princess (Buena Vista) Emmanuel’s Gift (First Look) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: The Complete First Three Seasons (Warner Bros.) The Frisco Kid (Warner Bros.) Gimme a Break!: Season One (MCA) Grey’s Anatomy: Season One (Buena Vista) He-Man and the Masters of the…
Since the 1970s, runners from South Florida have been forced to travel to freezing cold cities to qualify for the ever-popular Boston Marathon. Those days are over. Hometown runners can now stay in their own weather and run the A1A Marathon without freezing their asses off. It’s the perfect place…
anizers of the Florida Renaissance Festival? “Usually, something very painful.” The guys from the performance troupe Barely Balanced, however, have perfected “the art of doing what your mother told you not to” – including running with scissors. They’re just one of the many, many, many acts who will thrill and…
Sunday night isn’t the most lucrative time for pub owners. Long after the weekend drunks have closed their tabs, only the most loyal customers remain… OK, them and the crowd watching the live rock bands. Sure enough, when the customers are away, the bands play. For the past year and…
