The social-networking generation has arrived. There are Facebook pages for everything from multinational conglomerate megacorporations to the coffee shop on your corner. There are Twitter feeds for celebrities, nobodies, and escaped snakes. The social networking generation wants to know what is going on (now!); then there at the venue, they…
Hot Shots already prides itself on being a premier sports bar: It one-ups every other bar’s pool tables by having 20 in its space, plus table tennis. And now it’s added something unique to its weekly repertoire: “Latin Night,” AKA “Noche Latino Caliente.” If it seems a little out of…
Cheerfully diffident, garrulous yet un-inflected, blithely self-absorbed, the mumblecore brand proliferates: Last year’s star vehicles Greenberg and Cyrus introduced the concept of mega mumble. Likewise, Cold Weather stakes a claim as the founding work of mumble noir. Exhibiting no particular rush to draw the viewer into its world, Cold Weather…
Anthropomorphizing its animal stars to a borderline-dubious degree, African Cats situates itself in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, where two four-legged mothers valiantly struggle to provide for and protect their young. On the northern side of the river that divides this gorgeous but pitiless land lives aging lioness Layla, whose…
Appearing in every frame of Applause, Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen), an aging actress and recovering alcoholic trying to get her life back together, is a woman under the influence — of Gena Rowlands’ Myrtle Gordon, another aging, alcoholic actress, in John Cassavetes’ Opening Night. Danish director Martin Pieter Zandvliet, making…
No passion for fashion is required to enjoy this absorbing portrait of legendary New York Times “On the Street” photographer Bill Cunningham, but a sense of history and tragedy might help. Director Richard Press doggedly shadows the chipper octogenarian, foregrounding the modest lifestyle and quietly radical work ethic that have…
The lacquered-yet-beaten bar top and the weathered bartenders who make you reminisce about the long-lost years of family dinners and Uncle Joe’s drunken antics — well, there’s something about a dive bar that’s just so… well, homey. The Village Well Pub (1023 SE 17th St. Causeway, Fort Lauderdale) caters to…
Charlie Sheen is what’s wrong with America, and you know it. Born the rich, handsome son of a movie star, he was a successful actor — a millionaire in his own right — before he turned 20. But because this is America, he became convinced over the next 25 years…
Harold Bloom is perhaps the world’s preeminent scholar on all things Shakespeare. A purist, Bloom considers Shakespeare to be the epicenter of Western literature, has been known to refer to the bard as God himself, and believes that any playwright, director, or theater company that presumes to change, update, modernize,…
Think of the weaponry at a mini-Renaissance fair inside a coffee shop: a sword in one hand, an iced chocolate cheesecake espresso in the other. The legend making its way around Undergrounds Coffeehaus is that the Battle of Clontarf is one of the last Viking battles. The day was April…
Set in the burgeoning hipster enclave of Portland, Oregon, Cold Weather is a Sherlock Holmes-style detective movie funneled through the lo-fi ethos of mumblecore. This languid, slacker whodunit follows Doug (Cris Lankenau), an unassuming Joe floundering in creative limbo, after jettisoning a career in forensic science. He moves back in…
The Armory Art Center is not just a gallery; it’s an artists’ retreat, a sort of West Point for the creative. Last year, two world-renowned artists, Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, joined Armory as the “2-D Artists in Residence” and taught a class on painting with egg tempera — one…
As Jim Morrison noted, “Film spectators are quiet vampires.” But Thursday at O Cinema (90 NW 29th St., Miami), expect more than just stoned-faced voyeurs lurking in the theater’s shadows. At Cinema Sounds #8, presented by Roofless Rex and the Borscht Film Festival, live bands will suck the boring out…
It can be said without sarcasm that the slider is a grand American culinary achievement and a rare symbol of moderation in the age of bacon sundaes and quadruple stacks. The compact car of beef, it packs the juice and deliciousness of a big burger without putting people at inordinate…
Tyler Perry returns to transferring his own stage work to the screen, donning once again the Lane Bryant floral prints that have made his millions. Like its predecessors, this Madea film features a saintly matriarch (Loretta Devine), a vilified bourgie princess, emasculated husbands, trifling heifers, a lengthy church scene, last-minute…
Save the omelet station, Jell-O molds, and chafing dishes full of flaccid French toast for the post-church chat groups. When it comes to discerning young brunchers, if a meal doesn’t include a wrist band, a bottomless Bloody Mary bar, a DJ, and an enough substance in the dish to shake…
In the early 1800s, the Brothers Grimm traveled Germany transcribing folk tales. Today, the pair is little-known for creating the first primitive German dictionary or developing a revolutionary theory of philology — but they’ve been practically immortalized by the compilation they created from their German fieldwork. Grimm’s Fairy Tales is…
It’s hard to vomit convincingly onstage. Just ask Kim Ostrenko, who has to do it every show through May 15 at the Caldwell. Upchucking with verisimilitude is easier on film, where the artifice of editing can create a more sophisticated illusion. Watching Ostrenko throw up on opening night of the…
In school, history can be deadly boring: all those lists of dates, battles, inaugurations, names. Meaningless-looking timelines that stretch across the pages ticking off events that altered the very course of human history, which we’re condemned to repeat if we fail to remember it. Well, dual exhibits coming to the…
Set in the months after Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, The Conspirator follows the consequences of the fatal shot at Ford’s Theater — specifically, the trial of Mary Surratt, owner of a D.C. boarding house. Surratt was presented before a military tribunal as the den mother in the…
When a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson) — under the influence of a bizarre Christian kids’ TV show and a sci-fi-style encounter with something like God — starts to make himself over into a real-life superhero. On discovering that…
Parrot sex is the narrative impetus of Rio, and yet there’s still little spark to this animated tale of a domesticated Minnesota macaw named Blu (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) who’s reluctantly taken to Brazil by his clingy owner, Linda (Leslie Mann), to mate with the last of his kind, tough…
