If it’s been a while since you’ve seen a great work of art, perhaps you’ve forgotten what it feels like: It feels euphoric. At least, that’s the glorious, heel-kickin’ boost that resulted after a screening of Look at Me, by French writer/director/actress/superhero Agnès Jaoui. There was euphoria — and jubilation…
Whatever you do, don’t accuse Ridley Scott of turning his back on a fight. Doesn’t matter if it’s slimy-fanged space aliens attacking Sigourney Weaver, Roman slaves in tough against hungry lions down at the Coliseum, or American GIs going at it with Somali insurgents. Sir Ridley is always happy to…
The new House of Wax — a remake, pretty much in name only, of the 1953 Vincent Price movie (itself a remake of a 1933 film ) — manages to be gruesome and grisly, but it falls well short of being truly creepy, much less terrifying. Horror aficionados expecting the…
If you were ever in doubt about theater’s ability to provoke, check out Aunt Dan & Lemon, a creepily ambivalent play about sex, fascism, and the malevolent power of ideas, now at the Sol Theatre in Fort Lauderdale. But be warned: While the show asks some troubling questions, it’s up…
In the era of American Idol and Fear Factor, TV watchers have never before been privy to such a smorgasbord of other people’s humiliations and vulnerabilities. Playwright Jim Tommaney offers a suggestion for raising the bar even farther. His satirical comedy Reality TV, now at EDGE Theatre, tells the story…
The spacious galleries of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, recently home to the haunting inhabitants of “Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time,” have a new set of tenants. And like Bourgeois’ fabric-based sculptures, the creatures in “Anne Chu” are simultaneously alien and familiar, fascinating and repellent. Chu, who…
When is an art exhibition not an art exhibition? Don’t look to Broward Community College for the answer. The school’s downtown Fort Lauderdale campus is currently displaying what may or may not fit the bill, depending on your specifications. The invitation to the opening of “Identity: Correspondences & Complexities” bills…
By our count, there are but two sequels waiting to have oil rubbed on their backs this summer — one featuring an evil lord named Vader, the other featuring an evil lord named Schneider — so the season has that going for it, which is nice. But in lieu of…
In most countries, waking up to supersonic jets tearing down the coast in attack formation while Navy and Marine forces mount a joint amphibian assault on your shoreline means you’re in deep shit. In South Florida, it’s just the beginning of this weekend’s best event — the 11th annual McDonald’s…
THU 28 Comedian Tom Rhodes’ website (www.tommyrhodes.com) sports the typical comedian website type stuff. There’s a bio, a calendar, contact information… and that’s pretty much where Rhodes veers from the confines of normality. The Orlando-born comedian’s “Happiness” section is a comprehensive list of 276 things that make him happy, including…
My (clearly uncultured) colleague who’s written the column on the Air and Sea Show (see article at left) suggests you spend your weekend waving your George Bush posters in the air and watching obnoxious death machines whiz around in the sky. Like that constitutes some sort of party. I say,…
P.’s Spring Fest packs in the celebrities SAT 4/30 It’s a numbers game, they figure. The more big names on the marquee, the more likely you are to show up, and doozies abound on the Miami Spring Fest 2005 ticket. Duking it out at the top of the bill are…
Nets prove formidable foes WED 5/4 Midway through this NBA season, the Miami Heat boasted the top record in the league, Dwyane Wade looked to be the second-best player from his draft class, and Shaq was the sole name on everyone’s very short list of MVP candidates. Over the past…
Ladies salute their shorts at the film festival SAT 4/30 The Broward arm of the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival features a collection of short-and-sweet flicks by women filmmakers during a screening called What Girls Like. Without the filler that plagues the usual 90-minute movie, these films go straight…
Slightly Stoopid is da kind band, brah! TUE 5/3 California’s Slightly Stoopid pulls influences that read like most seasoned potheads’ record collections. There are hefty pinches of ska, punk, reggae, roots, acoustic rock, and hip-hop in between some of the shake and seeds — i.e., that Frampton Comes Alive album…
Author Douglas Adams died at age 49 on May 11, 2001, of a heart attack suffered during a workout at a Santa Barbara, California, gym. His biographer, M.J. Simpson, blamed Adams’ demise in part on his unending battle to get The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on a big screen,…
Don’t let the PG-13 rating fool you. Though it’s acted almost completely by children, Nobody Knows is not a film for children. A poignant, deeply affecting tale of child neglect and abandonment — all the more disturbing for being based on a true incident — this Japanese film (with English…
Agent Fox Mulder, the coolly instinctual sleuth of The X-Files, got pretty good at unraveling paranormal mysteries. If only the actor who played him were as adept at solving the riddle of his movie career. David Duchovny’s new vanity project, House of D, is the tortured tale of a 13-year-old…
Most contemporary thrillers aren’t concerned with moral dilemmas; the emphasis is on action and intrigue. The Israeli film Walk on Water — which, conveniently for American audiences, is primarily in English (the rest is Hebrew and German with English subtitles) — not only raises questions about right and wrong, but…
It’s difficult to decide which is the most disturbing moment in The Loman Family Picnic, now in a masterful production at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton. Is it the opening, with a haggard housewife endlessly repeating her desperate mantra “Ilovemylife, Ilovemylife, Ilovemylife” as she stares at a ghost-lit television?…
They stand in diagonal rows, like bronze sentinels on the second floor of the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale — or, as one security guard who watches over Magdalena Abakanowicz’s 95 Figures commented, like an army of zombies. At any rate, the bronze, human-sized sculptures provoke a strong reaction…
The real contenders square off FRI 4/22 Few sports can match the savage brutality and enthralling artistry of boxing. Two men enter the ring, but only one can leave victorious. And you probably thought it was just a couple of dudes kicking the crap out of each other. Fight fans…
