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Kill Gus Boulis's Killer?
Paul Brandreth didn't want to murder anybody. Or did he?
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Silly Wabbit
So a guy in a bunny suit walks into a bar ...
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Mayor of the Nude Beach
So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
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Vamos a Cuba!
Join us as we try to hitch a ride to the island before the gold rush strikes.
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Sarnoff Turns His Back on Blacks
Coconut Grove's other half feels left out.
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City Hall Stinks (58)
There's a war on Dinner Key, and Marc Sarnoff is a bomb-thrower.
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Sarnoff Turns His Back on Blacks (20)
Coconut Grove's other half feels left out.
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Sarnoff Shmarnoff (14)
Commissioner Marc's claim to a famous bloodline just might be fiction.
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Mayor of the Nude Beach (5)
So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
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The Reporter and the Tranny (4)
He kissed her, um, him, and that was only the beginning.
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Reel Wrap
Our critics review a sampling from week one of the film fest.
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Movie Magic City
The Miami International Film Festival may have finally arrived on Hollywood's radar.
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Reel Wrap Redux
Week two at the Miami International Film Festival.
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The Truth Won't Set You Free
Multiperspective, mega-annoying Vantage Point.
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Personal Foul
Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half bad. His half.
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Now The Battle Begins: Blu-ray At Center of Console War
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The Party Crasher - Vanessa Minnillo and Brody Jenner Team Up for “Rally at the Raleigh”
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Coral Gables Snake-like Mayor
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SXSW Guest Blog: Rachel Goodrich, Torche, Ash Grundwald
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Guest SXSW Blog: The Wedding Present, Van Morrison, Kreamy 'Lectric Friends, R.E.M., and more
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The Cool Kids+Black Punk Done Right
09:00PM 03/14/08
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That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
Sporting a prosthetic bulb-nose, a faceful of warts, and a lumpy torso Lon Chaney might envy, the usually elegant Emma Thompson makes for a grotesque presence in this rather dark children's fantasy — at least until her character's no-nonsense good works start to score points with the seven unruly brats in her care and she begins to shed her deformities, one by one. Thompson's sour nanny (she first appeared in a series of Sixties books by Christianna Brand) is the anti-Mary Poppins, and the movie's bleak tone suggests Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket. But in the end, the redeemed children and their beautified keeper float off on a cloud of delightful contrivance. Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) directs with skill, Thompson's screenplay (this is a labor of love) is witty, and the classy cast includes Colin Firth (as the kids' baffled widower-father), Angela Lansbury, Imelda Staunton, and Celia Imrie. Good fun.
Subject(s): Nanny McPhee
Now playing at select local theaters
