The part with the dragon is really cool. Might as well cut to the chase, right? It´s not as though you need anybody to tell you the basic premise of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; if you somehow missed the last three, this won´t likely be the one…
t seems like so much nitpicking, but why is the Johnny Cash biopic called Walk the Line when a far better name would have been Ring of Fire? Surely James Mangold, co-writer and director, would insist he chose the former because of its lyrics dealing with the temptations that crop…
You´d think the narrow genre of sports-on-stage would include loads of basketball entries, especially since b-ball squads consist of playwright-friendly five-player rosters. It seems, though, that Jason Miller´s creepy 1972 That Championship Season is about all you get. On the surface, That Championship Season promises the sweet unspooling of youthful…
Every once in a while, I like to stop by galleries I´ve previously written about to see how they´re faring. Given the precarious nature of the gallery scene, I find — alarmingly often — that they´re no longer in business. Happily, that was not the case when I decided to…
Bang Rajan (Hart Sharp) Big Fish: Special Edition (Columbia/Tristar) Blue Collar TV: Season 1, Volume 1 (Warner Bros.) Burn (Columbia/Tristar) Christmas With the Kranks (Sony) Cronicas (UMVD) Edward Scissorhands: Anniversary Edition (Fox) 50 Cent: Refuse to Die (New Line) Jumanji: Deluxe Edition (Columbia/Tristar) La Dolce Vita: Deluxe Collector¹s Edition (Koch…
Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume One (Paramount) This three-disc, 40-episode volume chronicling Beavis and Butt-head’s early years will come as a relief to anyone who was stuck in a teenage wasteland when the MTV series first hit the air; turns out, we weren’t just stoned — this…
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Platform: PS2 and XBox
Price: $49.99
ESRB Rating: M (for Mature)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
Christian rappers aren’t all that different from secular rappers — they want to make rhymes, they want to make beats, and they want to take a crowd backstage after the show. For real. Proverb Newsome, the 36-year-old president of Souljourn Ministries, DJ for 88.1 WAY-FM, and member of hip-hop group…
THU 10 It takes a true artist to see past the beachside litter and unearth the natural beauty that can be found at the ocean’s edge. While most artists express this through representation, the team of Marilza Lopes and William Larzelere are more interested in re-creation. Co-owners of Larlo Design,…
In hell, temperatures hover around 8 billion degrees, George W. remains president for eternity, and the soundtrack consists of a loop of Gilbert Gottfried’s voice. Or so we thought until we actually spoke to the comic, whose telephone persona is surprisingly soft and pleasant. Hmmm — then, without an audience…
Everything’s better with garlic FRI 11/11 Hurricane Wilma may have had some potent breath, but she’s got nothin’ on this weekend’s Seventh Annual Delray Beach Garlic Festival at the grounds of Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach). You name it and there’s a recipe for it that…
A FLIFF premiere FRI 11/11 Though it got under way smack-dab in the middle of a crippling hurricane, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival never pulled down the shutters on its 200-some movies. In fact, there’s still another week and a half left before the final credits run. And if…
New England: champs to chumps SUN 11/13 It was an unusually brisk Monday evening the last time the New England Patriots ventured into Dolphins Stadium. Along with the cold weather, the Pats also brought a horde of fans who were incapable of pronouncing the letter R and gratuitously used the…
Bill Maher breaks all the rules SAT 11/12 Conservatives control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and a good portion of the media. Possibly the only thing the right has not conquered is America’s funny bone. Searching for weapons of mass destruction is a…
About halfway through Get Rich or Die Tryin’, the new movie starring rapper 50 Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson) and loosely based on his life, 50’s character, Marcus, is in prison, being visited by his girlfriend, Charlene (Joy Bryant). Surprised by his inability to communicate with her, she asks the gangsta…
When watching Where the Truth Lies, a film noir about a young celebrity journalist’s obsession with a comedy duo from the 1950s, a single question arises again and again: Why? Why have the immense talents of Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth, both of whom are excellent in this movie, been…
These reviews are part of our continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Berkeley — There is a lot of sweetness in this uneven film, an autobiographical tribute to the U.C. Berkeley of 1968 that hits as many false notes as true ones. For one thing, protagonist Ben…
Pay attention, Disney: This is how you do a family film right. Neither pandering nor dull, Zathura plays exactly like a no-limits replica of the kind of space adventure that imaginative kids left to their own devices might enact. Assuming there’s no Xbox to distract them, naturally. Loosely based on…
Moviegoers with a taste for nasty villains will get all they can handle from the heavy in Swedish director Mikael Håfstrom’s Derailed. Philippe LaRoche — played with obvious relish by a craggy-faced Vincent Cassel — is not the kind of effete Frenchman you find reading poetry in the corner bistro…
Keira Knightley, who is all of 20 but has the grace and gravitas of someone a good decade older, probably considers herself the luckiest lass in all the world at present. Just as Pride & Prejudice begins filling the cineplex with dewy, hopeless romantics who can’t get enough of Jane…
Richard Gere? That’s the first thought that came to mind upon learning that Mr. Salt-and-Pepper-Sexy-Buddhist-Wasp had been cast as Saul Naumann in Bee Season, the film version of Myla Goldberg’s best-selling novel. In the book, Saul is an oppressive and learned Jewish patriarch, a cantor and student of mysticism whose…
Bill Maher has publicly compared mentally handicapped children to dogs and called the death penalty a way of “thinning out the herd.” The iconic bachelor is a clever, charismatic, and quick-witted man to watch onscreen, but speaking with him on the telephone, away from the spotlight, borders on irritating. His…
