Updated for a skeptical age, this new World War II movie comes impeccably groomed in period-attentive tans and grays, is written in nonheroic dialogue to suggest ambiguities in the good-evil dichotomies of war stories past, and is sufficiently hopped-up with thrills to warrant the interest of a U.S. distributor. Based…
Why won’t you die? There is a particular sort of stupid-acting-smart movie experience that can be achieved only through the reunion of David Arquette, Courteney Cox, and Neve Campbell. Updated for 2011 with ad nauseum cell-phone app and webcam references — none of which are integrated into the narrative with…
Indeed, as the old axiom goes, “There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.” There are lots of recordings of those special nights when Garcia and company channeled the mysterious cosmos of the Grateful Dead experience to the swirling delight of the colorful, crowd portion — the Deadheads. For the…
Our best guess as to why we have a giant chip on our shoulder is that we were a virgin thrown into a volcano in a past life. We must still hold a grudge, because that’s the last time we sacrificed our comfort for Mother Earth. These days, we can…
With the onset of spring, our equator-neighboring hometown has begun heating up rapidly, and it would be nice of us to take a moment to allow that warmth into our hearts — as well as our parked cars. Sunday, Indie Craft Bazaar takes over the charming Cinema Paradiso (501 SE…
Florida has history. Sure, Fort Lauderdale’s only 100 years old, but other places — places you didn’t realize existed in South Florida — appear to be just as old. Everyone knows about St. Augustine, the Flagler Museum, and Hemingway’s House. People used to know about the Stranahan House, but then…
What is Comicstock? Well, imagine a certain infamous music festival, only at Comicstock, you don’t need to drop acid to see people dressed up as Astro Boy and Batman dancing to classic rock. Actually, you’ll find that and much more at the first “peace, love, and comics festival,” going down…
Kim Morrell is Rosie the Riveter on a souped-up motorcycle going 180 mph. The SoFla native is one of the fastest female drag racers in the world, a single mother capable of covering an eighth of a mile in four seconds. (Try doing that in your minivan.) And she’ll be…
Guaranteed to at least be less awkward — but certainly more booze-filled — than any of your actual class reunions, the Button South Class Reunion this weekend is going to be the gathering for any nostalgic South Florida metalhead. For those of you too young or just too wasted to…
In England, where it was created, it’s called Cluedo. Here in America, it’s just Clue. Don’t deny it’ you loved it all: the board game, the videogame, and even the movie. (Who doesn’t like to solve a good mystery? ) “It was Col. Mustard in the library with the rope!”…
Bikers are rugged individuals, but they also like to travel in packs, especially packs that meet where hot wings and beautiful girls are in abundance. And that’s the case every Tuesday night at Hooters Doral for Motoport Bike Night. In case you didn’t know, Motoport is a great small-engine store…
Of the many wonderful phrases turned in Stephen Belber’s beautifully written Dusk Rings a Bell, one stands above the pack: the “artifice of contrition.” It refers to false acts of remorse or nonapology apologies — the palpable feeling you get when you hear public figures broadcast mea culpas for sins…
Hanna tells a tech-savvy fairy tale, replete with a wicked witch, uncertain parentage, and chop-socky mixed martial arts. Yet despite its 21st-century trappings and proto-feminist protagonist, Hanna strangely reverts to reactionary politics as usual. When we first meet 16-year-old Hanna (Saoirse Ronan, a Tilda Swinton in training who trafficks in…
Heartbeats, the second feature from 21-year-old wünderkind Xavier Dolan, is an Instagram of the way we fuck now — or, more precisely, the way gorgeously costumed and coifed French-Canadian early-20-somethings fuck and/or fail to fuck while tripping over their own misguided attempts to land in love. The film bounces between…
Adapted from the memoirized 2003 tragedy to triumph of Hawaiian teen surfer Bethany Hamilton — who famously returned to her board a few weeks after a tiger shark snapped off her left arm — Soul Surfer offers a ghastlier sight than your wildest 127 Hours -meets-Jaws nightmare: barefaced Christian pandering…
In this rethink of the 1981 screwball throwback, the titular drunken heir, originally played by lovable lump Dudley Moore, has been rebuilt to suit slinky British sleaze-comedian Russell Brand, whose constant nattering rarely transcends throat-clearing improv. Still supposedly a debauchee, Brand’s Arthur cruises Manhattan in too-tight schoolboy suits and fawns…
Paul Giamatti continues contemporary cinema’s longest pre-midlife crisis in Win Win as Mike, yet another schlubby 40-something flummoxed by mundane personal problems. Mike is the coach of the county’s worst high school wrestling team, and his failing small-town law practice has accrued a mountain of debt, which he’s too chicken-shit…
Gigantic form, diminutive content: Born to Be Wild 3D, presented in expansive IMAX and narrated by Morgan Freeman, offers a visually arresting, kid-friendly but cursory portrait of the altruistic efforts of two women to not only rescue orphaned baby animals but to then raise and ultimately release them back into…
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly contemporary-sounding blue humor, blunt profanity replacing the naughty-naughty, tankard-sloshing, heaving-bosom ribaldry that goes with the period setting. The scene: a generic medieval realm from an EverQuest or Forgotten Realms module…
Father, I confess: I dragged my heels before going to see “Vatican Splendors: A Journey Through Faith and Art,” the latest religious extravaganza at the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale. After all, hadn’t the museum already covered much of this territory, first with “Saint Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of…
Like pornography, sexual addiction has probably been around ever since Adam removed Eve’s fig leaf. But in some eyes, it’s still not seen as a legitimate addiction. There is still no entry for sexual addiction in the DSM-IV — the psychologist’s bible — and the recent emergence of sexually addicted…
Don’t talk to Keith Clark about subtlety these days. There’s nothing subtle about three years of losing good jobs and working at near minimum wage just to get by. Nothing subtle about having to short-sell your house and dealing with banks. No subtlety to turning 50 along the way. “My…
