We´re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It´s tricky, but it works.¨ So declares Michael Moore in the midst of his new documentary, Sicko. Moore may be riffing on the war in Iraq, to name only our most recent intervention, but he´s actually referring to U.S…
Still an all-American bloodhound after all these years, Bruce Willis´ Det. John McClane begins Live Free or Die Hard sniffing around a Rutgers-Camden parking lot and busting the frat boy who´s been trying to cop a feel off his daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Oh, Dad! Since much of the…
It takes Bruce Willis awhile to get warmed up. He’s always just a bit below room temperature — a cool brother, dig, dating back to his Moonlighting days as a private dick belting out “Tighten Up” while going undercover as a man of the cloth in Wayfarer shades. He’s been…
¨Art of Asia: Focus
on Japan¨ On display through August 18 at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, 2855 Coral Springs Dr., Coral Springs.
Call 954-340-5000.
Terre Rybovich really takes the saying ¨Put yourself into your work¨ literally. ¨Bodyprints¨ are exactly that: drawings made with the artist´s naked body. You don´t get much more personal than that. Known previously for her sculptural work, the Lantana artist was one day inspired to cover a piece of paper…
Black Snake Moan (Paramount) The best place to see Craig Brewer’s mash-up of blood-boiling exploitation elements would be a Mississippi drive-in circa 1972. His tale of a black bluesman (Samuel L. Jackson) who chains up a seething, scantily clad cracker nympho (Christina Ricci) would’ve had the lot under martial law…
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Wii
Price: $49.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 3 (out of 10)
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: The Complete Series (Shout!) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Anchor Bay) Dead Silence (Universal) Echo & the Bunnymen: Dancing Horses (MVD) Film School (Docurama) Frankenstein Conquers the World (Tokyo Shock) Going Under: Unrated Version (Blue Underground) High School Musical: The…
People who nostalgically pine for a time before events like the civil rights and women’s movements have some explaining to do. Sure, the 1950’s had a couple of things going for them, like the drive-in restaurant, the milkman, greasers, and a booming industry for girl groups — but all that…
We humans can be an annoyingly fickle bunch — rarely satisfied, usually wanting more — and often discarding whatever or whoever we no longer need. So the fact that dogs have remained our best friends for 10,000 years or so is really something for us to be proud of. Yes,…
Listen up, gents, and listen good: Women are taking the pole back. As in stripper pole. That’s right; those buffed, metal pillars are no longer phallusized representations of sexual oppression. Now they’re sources of exercise (Carmen Electra, eat your heart out), self worth (Freud would have a field day), and…
Etienne Courcelle says his greatest passions are the ocean and women. While he certainly would not be the first artist (or even the thousandth) to cite those particular sources of inspiration, the French contemporary painter and sculptor has a few strokes on his palate you may not have seen before…
Every year, the gay art collective Arts United presents its ¨United and Proud¨ exhibition to coincide with gay and lesbian pride month in June. This year, someone hit on pairing the show with a historical exhibit organized by the Stonewall Library & Archives, and the idea is an inspired one…
Evan Almighty, the follow-up to Bruce Almighty, is the work of an angry God. At 89 minutes that last a lifetime, it´s a sanctimonious sitcom dolled up as the most expensive comedy ever made — $175 mil, so they say, no doubt choking — and marks an unfortunate low point…
Mike Enslin, the travel writer played by John Cusack in 1408, could use a better travel agent. Every hotel room in which he finds himself booked is said to be occupied by the ghost of some suicidal creep or a murderous goon who left behind a pile of bodies in…
Following in your father’s footsteps is probably the oldest career path known to man. And with the exception of political dynasties, that’s typically a good thing. Hopefully you spent Father’s Day reflecting on what you’ve inherited from your dad, be it the family business or just natural-born talent. Which brings…
Eli Roth is obviously a poseur, but on the evidence of Hostel: Part II, he´s also kind of a pussy. Anyone can string a naked woman up by the ankles and slit her throat, and while I admit it takes a little extra something to position a Eurotrash villainess beneath…
Once, written and directed by John Carney, is a deceptively simple movie — a narrative strung together by pop songs but without the sheen (or arrogance) of most cinematic musicals. By day, a Dublin busker (Glen Hansard) sings Van Morrison on a street corner for spare change, which, on occasion,…
Objets trouvés. Found objects. In the right hands, so to speak, few words are as charged with artistic possibilities. And when the hands are those of someone as ingenious as puppeteer extraordinaire Pablo Cano, whose ¨Pablo Cano: Marionettes as Sculpture¨ exhibition has been extended through the summer at the Coral…
¨His work is so mature for an artist his age,¨ gallery owner and director Donna Tribby effused at the recent opening of ¨Matt Godwin: Spring Paintings.¨ Just a year after graduating from Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach in 2006, the 19-year-old artist calls Boston home, now…
Glastonbury (THINKFilm) Only a Julien Temple concert doc would get the R rating — for nudity (male, mostly, and not terribly flattering at that), drug use (weed, mostly — yawn), language, and sexual content. Also dig the overwrought BBC narration, in which Glastonbury is described as a former refuge for…
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Price: $59.99
ESRB Rating: E (for Everyone)
Score: 9 (out of 10)
