Deception, betrayal, and revenge. In his film directorial debut, acclaimed playwright/screenwriter/theater director Craig Lucas is done in by his own script, which becomes so excessively icy and cruel that it breaks, rather than solidifies, any bond it could hope to establish with its audience. A modern-day Greek tragedy — complete…
You’d think that anyone possessed of the notion that “the Jews” are one monolithic whole that thinks and acts alike need only take a look at, say, wrestler Bill Goldberg, Hollywood hottie Natalie Portman, shock jock Howard Stern, and nebbishy right-wing scold Michael Medved to have that idea instantly dispelled…
Eccentric Julliard dance instructor Tobi keeps his toenail clippings in a jar on a shelf in his living room, along with his books and board games. His cheaply furnished, lonely apartment filled with bric-a-brac lies at a remote northern edge of Manhattan, where he laments he doesn’t even have control…
The richly eclectic 2005 Residue is the fall exhibition of the School of the Arts at Florida Atlantic University. Upon entering the school’s Ritter Gallery, one is struck by a duck — a big, puffy duck made of wood, wire, and flexduct tubing. Reminiscent of Claus Oldenburg’s oversized sculptures, Bradley…
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Empire) Caterina in the Big City (Empire) CSI: Five-Season Pack (Paramount) Death to the Supermodels (Columbia/Tristar) Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (Columbia/Tristar) Empire (Buena Vista) Family Guy: Volume 3 (Fox) Formula 17 (Strand) The Frighteners: Director’s Cut (Universal) The Hives: Tussles in Brussels (Universal Music)…
If Hollywood wants to learn from the videogame industry — which outgrossed the box office last year — it should pay careful attention to Shadow of the Colossus, a game with the epic scale of a summer blockbuster but the emotional heart of an indie flick. Shadow is brought to…
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox) The pairing of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, both in real life and on celluloid, is so obvious as to be almost cartoonish. So even though both are better actors than they need to be, they perfectly belong in this goofy, explosiony world. Married assassins,…
While the Florida Pit Bulls of the American Basketball Association (ABA) have provided a stage for B-list ballplayers to show off their talents, they have also given a stage for A-list ballers like Trick Daddy to fire up the home crowd with pregame performances. Half of the ABA is made…
THU 1 If you’re a guy who’s down in the dumps after being dumped, don’t ask Jake Johannsen for advice. Sure, he can make you laugh about it — he is a comedian, after all. But Johannsen’s got his own problems, as he explains on his CD Live at Cobb’s…
Be all that you can be. An army of one. No doubt these tag lines have a poetic ring to them. But a military recruiter’s speech as “performance art”? Who woulda thunk it? Well… two artists who have persuaded a recruiter to come to the “Art Perform” series at Collins…
I’d like to buy a vowel TUE 12/6 Television game shows are like relationships. We lust violently after some for a season or two, only to have them vanish, cowardly, without so much as a “We need to talk.” (I still love you, Remote Control!) Others grow stagnant but possess…
A fundraiser that’s Taylor made MON 12/5 In the logo for the Seminole Tribe of Florida JT’s Ping-Pong Smash 2, a contorted caricature of Miami Dolphin All-Pro Jason Taylor shows his left foot angled behind him as the sole of his right sticks out in the forefront. Pretty funny, but…
A really ungrateful houseguest THU 12/1 You’d think the Bush administration would listen to former POW Sen. John McCain when he says that torturing suspected terrorists is not the way to good intel. But nothing seems to stop Uncle Sam from playing the role of international dominatrix. While the Bushies…
Danny Diablo takes on Fort Lauderdale THU 12/1 Fred Durst and his ilk of rap-metal frontmen know how to go through the motions, but c’mon, who are they kidding? Those dudes are about as street-tough as Michael Jackson. Now, Danny Diablo — there’s a guy who ain’t front- in’. Having…
One of the strongest — and sure to be controversial — films of the year, The War Within goes places that other films wouldn’t dare. Thoughtfully written and nicely acted, it follows an Islamic suicide bomber who comes to New York City with a deadly plan. The film in no…
For those of us who dug Rob McKittrick’s recent comedy Waiting… , Just Friends offers some good news: Ryan Rey-nolds and Anna Faris are together again as a dysfunctional couple. He’s a slick music executive named Chris Brander, still traumatized at having gotten the “Let’s just be friends” speech from…
Having done a post-Wilma update on three of my favorite places in the Gateway Shopping Center in Fort Lauderdale a couple of weeks ago, it seemed only fair to revisit a pair of their counterparts in Wilton Manors, in the little strip mall anchored by Old Florida Seafood House. So…
The Gallery Center in Boca Raton, housing eight galleries, all respected and known for their expansive and diverse acquisitions, is one of South Florida’s top gallery collectives. Rosenbaum Contemporary, a 2,000-square-foot gallery there, opened its 2005-06 exhibition season with major works by abstract-expressionist sculptor Louise Nevelson. One of the most…
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator — Unrated Collector¹s Edition (Fox) Cheaper by the Dozen: Baker¹s Dozen Edition (Fox) 8MM 2 (Columbia/Tristar) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Buena Vista) The Honeymooners (Paramount) Keane: Strangers (Interscope) King Kong (1976) (Paramount) King Kong: Collector¹s Edition (1933) (Warner Bros.) King of the Hill: Season 5 (Fox)…
Ever since its Broadway debut in 1996, Rent has generated a loyal, almost cult-like following. Showered with praise, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical touched a nerve among the young, artistic, gay, urban, and alternatively dressed people who identified as outsiders and wondered how they would make their way in the world…
Most movies intend to entertain or inform us, or maybe take our minds momentarily off personal problems — that bullet-riddled body in the trunk, say, or Aunt Edna’s arrest for shoplifting donuts. Presumably, no picture really means to make an airtight case against children. But after sitting through the witless,…
Punishment Park (New Yorker Video) This 1971 movie from director Peter Watkins could have been made yesterday, which is no doubt why it finally sees video release long after accruing cult status. Born of the filmmaker’s outrage over the Kent State killings, the war in Vietnam, and other abominations of…
