In the first scene of Israel’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a 40-something Talmudic scholar whose research has earned adulation while his 60-something father’s has mostly been ignored — accepts an honor with an obliviously glib speech built around a childhood anecdote about his…
Adrien Brody stars as Henry Barthes, a career substitute teacher whose childhood trauma has left him flamboyantly unable to connect with other people or keep his shit together. The movie spans his monthlong gig at a Queens high school, where the faculty and students share an absurdly uniform collective malaise…
The Forgiveness of Blood tells the story of two sparring Albanian families whose conflicts lead to a death in one clan shortly after the movie begins. The fallout from that bloodshed is the film’s razor-sharp focus. This ranges from the religion-infused cultural dictate that the killer’s family submit to housebound…
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen concerns London fisheries specialist Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor), who’s tasked by the prime minister’s flack (Kristin Scott Thomas) to export British salmon to a Yemeni river at the request of a sheikh (Amr Waked) with a jones for fly-fishing. The sheikh’s real estate assistant (Emily…
An inspirational sports tearjerker in distilled form, this doc lands in North Memphis, where the underfunded, all-black Manassas High School football team sucks wind so bad, they’re a state joke. Enter white volunteer coach Bill Courtney and a handful of walking clichés on his roster (the straight-outta-juvie hard case, the…
Intruders sets up a clever dual narrative that shifts between Juan (Izán Corchero), a young boy in Madrid who’s terrorized by the nebulous, Freddy Krueger-esque Hollow Face, and Mia (Ella Purnell), a pointedly pubescent Londoner who seems to have created the monster in an ongoing school story project but receives…
Like many a franchise-killer, this big, flailing dud of a sequel to 2010’s Clash of the Titans is more (retina-herniating CGI), less (fun), and the same (basic plot) as its predecessor. What it lacks are the very elements that made the first movie such a surprise: wit and nerve. What,…
The fairy-tale movie is “trending” at present, with promise of all sorts of bandwagoning rubbish to come, but Mirror Mirror, one of 2012’s two Snow White films, is an enjoyable exception. This is because director Tarsem Singh is no mere follower, having done extravagant work in the realm of pure…
Beth Lipman’s One and Others sits in the center of a medium-sized gallery on the third floor of the Norton Museum’s southwest wing. At first, it seems thoughtlessly hidden away, far from the main galleries clustered around the Central Courtyard on the first floor, where most of the action is…
With The Pillowman, The Unseen, and now Death and the Maiden, the Broward County theaterscape has been populated of late by dramas with one theme in common: totalitarian governments and the havoc they wreck on innocent, or possibly innocent, lives. But all of them share another trait: the enigma of…
March is officially recognized as Women’s History Month, also the month Congress decided to hold an all-male panel on birth control. Many men, particularly the legislative type, have traditionally loved to speak on behalf of vaginas everywhere that might or might not want to push out cantaloupe-size humans every nine…
Everyone remembers using an Apple product for the first time. Perhaps it was to play Oregon Trail on a Macintosh II in the ’80s. Maybe it was last year, using an iPad to FaceTime with a spouse who’s away at war. Regardless of the product or reason, Apple has undeniably…
Marina Font — a woman, an immigrant, and an artist — believes that women are “the keepers of culture, bearing tradition on their shoulders.” The Girls’ Club (117 NE Second St., Fort Lauderdale) is committed to this mission as well, providing creative space for female artists to not only create…
In January 2010, a 7.0 earthquake tragically hit Haiti, sending widespread devastation and damage throughout the country. Structures collapsed and innocent lives were taken, leaving the country with little hope of recovery. Following the tragedy, the world pulled together, charities formed, and rescue teams were sent, all in the name…
If you went to school in the ’80s and ’90s, you know that gym class not only changed its name to P.E. but it also lost anything fun (read: dangerous or expensive) that schoolchildren used to be allowed to do. Activities were restricted to those that required the least amount…
You know his face. You know his name. But, where do you actually recognize him from? Jerry Maguire? Picture Perfect? Or as the host of Last Comic Standing? His charmingly quirky personality and humorous antics have found their way into your home somehow. On Friday and Saturday night, you’ll have…
Once upon a time, we were all born naked. But just as soon as our asses hit the wind, society swaddled us up in rules and norms and regulations like, “Hey, these are clothes; wear them outside or go to jail.” What with all the pressure to keep our balls,…
If people-watching is the unofficial sport of South Beach – and we can all agree that it is, right? – then Wednesday kicks off our own personal Olympics. Miami Beach International Fashion Week brings faaaah-bulous fashions from around the globe to our shores – as well as plenty of designers,…
Drag queens or female impersonators — whichever term you prefer — are certainly not a rare phenomenon in South Florida. Until recently, however, if you wanted to see grand dames strut the stage in full female regalia, you generally had to head down to Fort Lauderdale or South Beach. Delray…
A couple of months ago, silent films might not have seemed impressive to fans of modern cinematography. Silent movies don’t feature huge musical scores, high-quality computer-generated imagery, or transforming creatures. They don’t even feature words. But then The Artist came along and seduced Hollywood into a night of Oscar sweeps,…
Beatlemania swept the nation in the ’60s and never truly left. As John Lennon once said, “The Beatles are more popular than Jesus.” Offensive? Maybe. Controversial? Completely. But hey — how many albums has Jesus sold? Unfortunately, since Lennon’s life was taken, future generations are unable to get the full…
A high school drum line is something to see. Straight-backed majorettes in crisp uniforms march in perfect time. Sure, they might not be the most popular kids in school — mocked mercilessly for their epaulets and tasseled boots — but on the field, they are a choreographed ballet of step…
