Three new exhibits at CSMART FRI 12/3 If you’re upset that you missed the exhibit “Yuroz’s Narrative Culture of Cubism” at the Coral Springs Museum of Art (2855 Coral Springs Dr., Coral Springs), you can stop fretting; the museum is extending the exhibit to coincide with the opening of three…
Burly hardcore dudes put a hurtin’ on Revolution WED 12/8 Their tattoos are older than yours, their T-shirts are blacker than yours, and their music will intimidate you into joining their side or wet your pants wishing you could. It probably wouldn’t have been all that hard to give the…
Mike Nichols’ new film Closer is a boiling pot of lust, mistrust, and double-dealing that might well be taken for outright soap opera — or, in quite a few places, soft-core porn — were it not for the sophisticated gleam of its well-heeled London desperadoes and the vicious dazzle of…
Before he made Primer for some $7,000, Dallas software engineer turned writer/director/actor/editor Shane Carruth had no idea how to make a movie. Some who see his creation will argue he still doesn’t, while others will lavish upon it hearty praise reserved for visionaries who leap from the shadows to the…
At the bottom of the ocean, inside a giant pineapple, lives a yellow, oblong sponge who likes to blow bubbles, eat more ice cream than is good for him, and work as a fry cook. The “Krabby Patty” sandwiches he makes are so popular that a one-eyed plankton, who runs…
Oh, that Johnny Depp. Played in some dime-a-dozen rock bands, did some average television, made a few cutesy little movies. Whatever. Yeah, he messes with his looks in a fun way sometimes, but otherwise he merely rides that nicotine-sunken-cheeks thing all the way to the bank. The guy’s popular, but…
Margo Channing cracked wiser. And her devious protégée cooked up better schemes to steal the limelight. Still, half a century after they lit up the screen, the principals in All About Eve would likely get a charge out of Being Julia. This bittersweet backstage drama skillfully combines — as all…
There is something very important to know about Enduring Love that is not apparent from the title: It’s a thriller. More specifically, it’s a creepy, twisted, overproduced, and often intelligent psychological thriller with an ending all too loyal to the genre. Director Roger Michell (most recently of The Mother, a…
At one point during the performance of Other People’s Money at the Soref Jewish Community Center, a character looks around and says, “I haven’t seen a place this shitty since I left the Bronx.” At that moment, patrons of the Public Theater of South Florida, looking at the shabby surroundings…
For the dazzling new show “Cut: Film as Found Object,” the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in North Miami has been transformed into a multiplex cinema of sorts. Emphasis on the of sorts. There are 14 works in the exhibition, and thanks to MoCA’s ever-versatile display space, each has been…
Given the precarious nature of the gallery business these days, especially in fickle Broward County, every new arrival should be welcomed with open arms. So it is with Opus Fine Arts, which debuted in a strip mall in Oakland Park in mid-November. It’s a lovely little space that offers works…
Parties and peace at the Morikami THU 12/2 Sushi and sake go together like pizza and beer, chocolate chip cookies and milk, yada yada yada… So to kick off “Taishi,” its spanking-new social group, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach) is throwing a “Sushi…
Jerry Bruckheimer has always insisted he cares less about critical acclaim than commercial appeal. “We make movies for the common man,” he said almost three years ago, as Black Hawk Down was crash-landing in theaters. “The pictures that I’ve made over the last 20 years or so have been very…
Night, Mother, set in the rural South, is a realistic and moving drama centered on suicide. The clock is ticking; it won’t be long until Thelma Cates’ (Barbara Bradshaw) orderly life will unwind. The day begins like any other. Thelma crochets quietly in her housedress and slippers, eating snowballs; her…
The late Victor Vasarely, acknowledged leader of the op-art movement, felt that any observer should be able to “get” his art, filled with precise shapes and oscillating colors leaping from the plane, regardless of educational background or experience. “Art for all” was the Hungarian-born French artist’s motto. But as with…
Sometime after the era of Menudo but before the scourge of the Spice Girls, two New York City musicians with Caribbean roots had a Making the Band moment. They gathered in their secret underground laboratory. “Let’s put together a high-caliber konpa group that will reach the top of the charts,”…
THU 25 Last night, while you were yanking the innards out of a turkey, a certain nightlife guru named Garfield (the guy behind M.I.A. Mondays at Mama Mia’s in Hollywood) was opening the doors of the new club Chrome (1421 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Oakland Park). Garfield sends his apologies…
They’re not gonna take it THU 11/25 “What do women want?” How about to be left the hell alone? Penny Darling says that if you’re a woman and you’ve got two best girlfriends and you live anywhere on Earth, one of the three of you is going to get badly…
Superman and Flash form dominant duo SUN 11/28 So far, so good for the Miami Heat. Less than one month into the season, the Heaters lead the Southeast Division, have set a franchise-best mark to open the season, and the big fella is meshing well with his new cohorts. How…
Pics get Institutionalized MON 11/29 The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale’s eighth-annual Student Photography Show offers enough visual creativity to keep even the most verbose orator tongue-tied. With 60 student pieces showcasing traditional and digital photography in photojournalism, commercial, portrait, and fine art genres, it’s miles past the shaky shots…
Romancing the past with Wonder Bread FRI 11/26 Have you been too busy negotiating car insurance, condoms, and office politics to play with your G.I. Joe or Barbie? If so, you might find a balance in The Wonder Bread Years, comic Pat Hazell’s one-man show that celebrates the childhood joys…
The most shocking thing about Kinsey, the first film from writer-director Bill Condon since 1998’s Gods and Monsters, is how shocking it actually is. Within the confines of a standard biopic (A Beautiful Dirty Mind, you might call it), Condon refuses to play it straight — which is only appropriate,…
