The studied British theatricality and sharp wit of Mrs. Henderson Presents are likely to make it a favorite among nostalgiaphiles, theater buffs, and the tea-and-crumpets set. Sailing along on the strength of another showy performance by Judi Dench, Stephen Frears’ period frolic is this year’s Being Julia, adorned with the…
A Good Woman, Mike Barker’s adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere’s Fan, has been gathering dust for some time. It played the Toronto Film Festival in the fall of 2004 before opening in 2005 in every country in the world except this one. Such dawdling doesn’t bode well…
Anthony Hopkins lends style points to any movie in which he appears. The thing may be a dog, but the actor who brought the gruesome psychopath Hannibal Lecter to life and got deep inside a repressed English butler always gives us something fascinating to behold. The depth and gravity of…
Yes, the title’s a problem. Three of Hearts was a 1993 romantic comedy starring Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn, and William Baldwin, a distasteful clunker that traded on male titillation with lesbians and bisexual women. Worse, the poster for the new Three of Hearts is achingly similar to that of its…
Now, if never before, with intelligent design worming its way through academia, we could really use a good evolution play, one that looks at the natural history of man in the way that Copenhagen looked at nuclear physics and Proof looked at mathematics. But, even with its promising title, Melanie…
On a recent sunny Saturday, the Coral Springs Center for the Arts and environs bustled with activity. The center’s auditorium was hosting a graduation ceremony for a local school, and the surrounding athletic fields were all in use. The sprawling parking lot, usually mostly empty, was so full that several…
Confetti, an 1893 lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, advertised the advent of the practical paper version of confetti. The previously plaster substance had caused injuries among partiers, and the new, less dangerous kind was promoted with Lautrec’s poster of a smiling, carefree woman having handfuls of confetti tossed at her…
Dune: Extended Edition (Universal) On paper it sounds insane: A mammoth sci-fi epic directed by David Lynch, based on an intensely weird Frank Herbert novel about ecology and giant worms. What resulted was a flop that has yet to be remedied by multiple edits through the years. This disc includes…
Publisher: Tecmo
Platform: Xbox 360
Price: $59.99
ESRB Rating: M (for Mature)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
Benny Hill: Complete and Unadulterated — The Hill’s Angels Years, Set Four (A&E) Billy Graham Presents: Gift Set (Fox) Bubble (Magnolia) Captains Courageous (1937) (Warner Bros.) Drake & Josh Go Hollywood (Paramount) Extreme Comedy Collection (Team America: World Police, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, and Jackass: The Movie) (Paramount) Four…
The Poplife DJs might have moved their party out of I/O (30 NE 14th St., Miami), but that doesn’t mean that crowd has abandoned 14th Street altogether. Right next door is PS14 (28 NE 14 St., Miami), where the throbbing throngs get their groove on for Vibrator Wednesdays. While house…
It’s probably fair to assume that, for most people, the thought of a tango performance doesn’t evoke images of Moscow or Hong Kong any more than seeing Threepenny Opera transports them to, say, Cleveland. The expectation of a certain ambiance is part of the reason you’re there. That being said,…
Back in 1999, artist Todd Forstyhe took as series of photos of a Barbie doll, naked. In one picture, the buxom blonde splashed happily in a martini glass; in others, she was stuffed in a blender. It is not entirely clear what Forsythe was trying to communicate with the series,…
It’s early Monday morning at the New Times Broward-Palm Beach office when the phone rings. Without introduction, the gruff voice at the other end gets right to the point: “I’m not wearing any pants.” “Um…” we reply, sort of. “Nah, I’m just kidding,” the voice reassures, “It’s Bobby Slayton!” Okay,…
In the rough-and-tumble world of the American Basketball League, the Florida Pit Bulls are busy tearing the throats out of the competition. They shredded the Indiana Alley Cats’ undefeated streak without a scratch and took the fire out of the San Jose Sky Rockets recently. Now on game 27, the…
During the communist witch hunts of the late ´40s and early ´50s, New York folkies the Weavers had more to worry about than getting their names on a record contract. First, the group had to make sure its name stayed off a blacklist. So it wasn’t surprising when, amid pressures…
There’s a special moment during so many beer-fueled evenings at the bar, the party, or just the living room, when someone puts on a Sublime album and a round of sloppy singalongs ensues. The same love and adulation that brings about these touching moments of drunken camaraderie is the reason…
Only a desperate and depraved man would fake a heart attack to get out of his mother’s funeral. Jaeckie Zucker is a bit of both. As the harried protagonist in the hilarious German film Go for Zucker!, the professional gambler/pool shark is facing a mountain of debt and heavy consequences…
Artists working in mixed-media often fall into the trap of burying their subjects in a sea of collage-driven overkill. But not Maurizio “Mamo” Martinoli, the man behind the exhibit “Principium.” The Italian-born Miami artist may be into photo manipulation and other multimedia tricks, but Martinoli aims to reveal his human…
Fort Lauderdale painter Alfred Phillips has brought home his fair share of art awards. Ten of those awards Phillips won in 2004 alone. It was a pivotal year for the artist, whose acrylic-based landscapes, wildlife portraits, and studies of carnival masks earned him points with the local arts cognoscenti. But…
First it went to Qatar. Then it went to Australia. Now it’s coming to… Delray Beach? Yes, the unassuming little city is a hot spot on the professional tennis circuit and the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships is the biggest sporting event in Palm Beach County. It’ll draw some 50,000…
Part art and part tool, there’s just something about a map that opens up the imagination. Where does that road lead? How did that bridge get built? Who put the Pembroke in “Pembroke Pines”? Where is Bora Bora anyway? Of all the souvenirs you could buy in New York City,…
