Everything about the Artist Known as Wyland — from his singular name to his bio, which touts him as “artist of the sea” and “the most influential marine life artist of our time” — shouts BIG! USA Today once called him “a Marine Michelangelo,” the U.N. named him official artist…
American Chopper: Third Season (Columbia/Tristar) Attack Pack (Commando, Predator, and Kiss of the Dragon) (Fox) Bill Maher: I’m Swiss (Image Ent.) The Brady Bunch: Four-Season Pack (Paramount) Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam (Warner Bros.) Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment (Disney) Duran Duran: Live From London (Universal Music) Fame:…
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Lucasfilm Ltd.) The final installment of the Star Wars saga actually plays better at home: You can watch it, then pop in the original trilogy and chart the evolution of Anakin, and have it all actually make sense. Though it’s still a…
Publisher: Aspyr Media
Platform: Xbox
Price: $49.99
ESRB Rating: M (for Mature)
Score: 8 (out of 10)
There isn’t much to say about Bruce Springsteen that hasn’t been said a billion times. The thing is, that for perhaps the only time in rock ‘n’ roll history, those hyperbolic, prophetic statements turned out to be true. When rock writer Jon Landau famously said, “I saw rock ‘n’ roll’s…
THU 3 When Hurricane Katrina passed through Broward County on August 25, most residents spent the night huddled around battery-powered radios eating Doritos. But for the 24-hour party people behind Crush Thursdays, not even a power outage could stop the rock. Armed with a generator and a healthy mix of…
Basketball’s outlaw league is back. For nine seasons starting in 1967, the American Basketball Association (ABA), with its huge afros and tri-colored ball, was the roughneck competitor to the NBA. Among the hoops legends that squeaked down the ABA’s court were Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Moses Malone. But in…
THU 11/3 The Miami Heat hit the hardwood for their home opener on Thursday at 8 p.m. against Ron Artest and the fan-punching Indiana Pacers. It’s a new season, and championship aspirations are high with the return of Shaq, Dwayne Wade, Alonzo Mourning, and Udonis Haslem. The team fell just…
The Weather Man, starring Nicolas Cage as a disappointment of a son and a failure of a father, was screened for critics in the spring, before its April release was pushed to October, ostensibly to allow for the off chance that Cage or Michael Caine (as Cage’s father) might be…
These reviews are part of our continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Hair High — Bill Plympton has been making animated movies — shorts and features — for more than 20 years. But Hair High, with its all-too-conventional storyline, showcases his limitations more than his abilities. The…
Chicken Little is a groundbreaking movie in more ways than one. Not only is it Disney’s first in-house all-computer-generated feature, but on select screens, it will be presented in “Disney Digital 3-D,” a brand-new system created with the help of George Lucas’ special-effects company Industrial Light & Magic. It’s revolutionary!…
It’s been 85 years since Douglas Fairbanks slashed his way into the top tax bracket as the masked hero Zorro, and Hollywood still can find no reason to shut down the franchise. Technically speaking, The Legend of Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas as the guy with the sword and Catherine Zeta-Jones…
If Jarhead, director Sam Mendes and writer William Broyles Jr.’s adaptation of Anthony Swofford’s 2003 Gulf War memoir, seems at all familiar — like, say, a DJ’s mash-up of Full Metal Jacket and Three Kings — there’s good reason for it. Swofford, 20 years old during Operation Desert Storm in…
In the small New England college town of David Wiltse’s A Marriage Minuet, which opened at Florida Stage last week, egocentric male novelists suffer from a limited number of venues to rant about Hemingway or flirt with woman fans. Yes, college lecture halls are good for expounding on art, and…
Now on Display A lifelong friendship began on a three-week exploration of Cuba in 1933. The Boca Raton Museum of Art is showing a recently compiled exhibition of 50 images by American photography master Walker Evans and 20 of the legendary Ernest Hemingway’s photographs and artifacts. Three Weeks in Cuba,…
ABBA: The Movie (Universal) AC/DC: And Then There Was Rock (Chrome Dreams) Alias: The Complete Fourth Season (Buena Vista) Audioslave: Live in Cuba (Sony) The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Wellspring) Bewitched (Columbia/Tristar) The Day of the Triffids (Pro-Active) Dominion: A Prequel to the Exorcist (Warner) Face (Image) Herbie: Fully…
THU 27 They have laws to keep crack dealers away from middle schools, so where’s the law to keep the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show away from poor people? Right, there isn’t one. So you’ll probably be tempted to step out and inhale the epoxy of the 1,600 vessels assembled…
Titanic: Special Collector’s Edition (Paramount Home Video) Loved and loathed in equal measure, Titanic nonetheless is among the few modern-day movies deserving of lavish treatment; this boxed set, three discs with three hours of new stuff, feels almost as big a production as the feature itself. Writer-director James Cameron, never…
We’ve all been kicked in the junk by Marvel superheroes before. Watching Elektra was like two hours of nut-pummeling by a relentless, sac-hating donkey. But superhero films — even bad ones — gross bazillions of dollars. So it’s no surprise that Marvel is cashing in with a slew of licensed…
Brooklyn has a graffiti museum. Manhattan has a break-dancing school. Your little sister traded in her Girl Scout merit badges for a pair of Technic 1200s, and your mom knows who shot Biggie Smalls. While hip-hop established itself as a form of underground social expression decades ago with rebellious acts…
After spreading the seeds of local music throughout various bars and nightclubs in Broward County, By the Way promoters Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colón are trading the confines of the club scene for a more open environment — Fort Lauderdale’s public parks. In early September, the pair hooked up with…
THU 10/27 As if the Bocatonization of Palm Beach County and the scourge of pink condos weren’t creepy enough, Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds (9067 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach) brings three truly haunted houses to the 561. Bypass PG entertainers like mummies and vampires in favor of…
