SUN 10/30 When some kid says “Trick or treat!,” the usual assumption is that, if you don’t give him a handful of candy, you’ll wake up to a Christo-like display of toilet paper strewn through your front yard. But at the Underground Surf Co. (1330 S. Federal Hwy., Deerfield Beach),…
SAT 10/29 Five-year-old Bridger Giles stands about three apples tall — the size of a Smurf. Which makes it easy for him to maneuver around obstacles on skis and avoid a Sonny Bono-esque introduction to a pine tree. The precocious racer is fascinating to watch — if you can distinguish…
FRI 10/28 God created the heavens and the Earth over the course of six days, they say, and on the seventh day, he rested. Somewhere around the 20 millionth day, he created screamo music. And in the year 2005, he created the Grab Your Guns Tour, headlined by the apostles…
To the knowledgeable comic book fan, all one need say about MirrorMask is that it was scripted by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean, with a final product that, while less plot-heavy than most of Gaiman’s writing, faithfully adapts McKean’s unique drawing/collage style into three dimensions. Since those who…
These reviews are part of our continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. The Far Side of the Moon (La face cachée de la lune) — Judging from what’s on the screen, you’d be hard-pressed to guess that this French-Canadian production started out on the stage — as…
Broward Art Guild’s 55th Anniversary Exhibition at ArtServe is a juried show of the guild’s members, ranging from some whose work might never be displayed if not for their yearly dues to those whose skills could easily pay the bills. Daniel Garcia won Best in Show with his abstractly figurative…
Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997 (Warner Home Video) There’s good reason to be skeptical of an eight-disc Batman set that forces you to buy the campy Joel Schumacher movies (Batman Forever, its title a veiled threat, and Batman & Robin) when all you need are the dark Tim Burton…
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Platform: Nintendo DS
Price: $29.99
ESRB Rating: E for Everyone
Score: 8 (out of 10)
What Else Is New? Our top DVD picks for the week of October 18: The Adventures of Superman: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) American Movie Musicals Collection (Columbia/Tristar) Batman Begins (Warner Bros.) Bruce Lee: Ultimate Collection (Fox) The Care Bears: Big Wish Movie (Lions Gate) The Coen Brothers Collection…
Admit it. You’ve Googled your name once or twice, curious to see how many other “yous” there are in cyberspace. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Dave Gorman certainly wasn’t embarrassed when he wrote Are You Dave Gorman?, a true tale about hunting down 24 other people who share his…
THU 20 This month alone, The Weekly World News broke exclusive stories about a modern-day leprechaun colony, a human planet, and a man who speaks French out of his butt (“Poo La La” read the headline). But no front-page star has charmed us quite like Bat Boy, with his pointy…
“Something isn’t right — I don’t know how I know,” Aimee Mann sings in the opening lines of “Going Through the Motions,” one of the more upbeat tracks from her new album, The Forgotten Arm. And as any fan of hers can tell you: There’s often a lot wrong in…
But Galaxy Girl’s one of a kind THU 10/20 “I have a home studio. Inside there, it’s a mad place!” warns lovely electronica artist Jeannette Romeu, a.k.a. Galaxy Girl. Her Weston pad houses “12 synthesizers, four computers, a supernova, access virus — that’s an instrument! — guitars, violins…” And the…
Ricky gets to play SUN 10/23 In case you missed the most entertaining story of last football season, let us recap: Miami Dolphins’ running back Ricky Williams did what so many hippie stoners have done before him — quit his job to smoke more marijuana. Unlike the average hippie stoner,…
Lake Worth needs earplugs! FRI 10/21 Sure, a movie called Blow Me could be about a lot of things. But since it springs from the quirky cranium of Lake Worth’s merry prankster Kenny 5, there’s nothing prurient or suggestive about its content. “Brutal hurricane footage with noise” is how he…
Is that you? WED 10/26 When Rob Thomas learns that Bat Boy: The Musical will be in town the same night as his show at the Hard Rock Live (One Seminole Way, Hollywood), his competitive spirit comes out. “Actually,” he confides, “my producer and I have a few songs that…
This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biography continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in Ring of Fire, David Strathairn as an inscrutable Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the ambitiously manipulative Truman Capote in,…
These reviews are part of our continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Somewhere on television right now, you can find plenty of “documentary” footage about every aspect of human life. But film festival documentaries — through brilliant cinematography or coverage of issues you’ll never see distilled on…
When we first see the protagonist of North Country, a working-class heroine portrayed by a deglamorized Charlize Theron, she’s sporting a black eye and a slight limp, the results of an encounter with her abusive husband. We soon learn that Josey Aimes is only now beginning to take her lumps…
It’s the cover-up, stupid! It doomed Nixon during Watergate, got Clinton impeached, inspired outrage against the Catholic Church, and apparently it’s just part of the day-to-day operations at places like Enron and Tyco. The initial crime is bad enough, but the conspiracy to hide it always ends up hurting more…
Saint Therese of Lisieux, whose Catholic feast day was celebrated October 1, is the patron saint of missionaries, aviators, orphans, tuberculosis patients, and, most recently, of AIDS sufferers, which is fine coincidence for the Public Theatre’s production of Larry Kramer’s 1985 autobiographical play, The Normal Heart. The Normal Heart, like…
After learning that the Coral Springs Museum of Art was hosting its third Clyde Butcher exhibition, I wondered what was left to say about the “Ansel Adams of the Everglades.” After all, it was only eight months ago that ArtServe served up a retrospective of the photographer’s four-decade career. And…
