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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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Jumping the Snapper (5)
Brosia boards the Mediterranean bandwagon, with mixed results.
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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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Coral Gables Snake-like Mayor
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Latin American F***ability Index
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Breakfast Tacos with Lyle Lovett
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Rick Ross "Speedin" With a New Album
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Tuesday Afternoon Music Fix: Del the Funky Homosapien, Cajun Dance Party and more
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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
Subject(s): Crank
Ludicrously named hit man Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) awakens to the news that he's been injected with a deadly poison, the effects of which can be staved off by cranking his adrenaline up to insanely high levels. Naturally his reaction is to turn the city of Los Angeles into his own personal Grand Theft Auto game while searching for the culprit (José Pablo Cantillo). Property is destroyed, racial prejudices are indulged, and Chev even delivers a very public doggy-style sex scene with his doofus stoner girlfriend (Amy Smart). First-time feature directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor play with speed and sound to effectively re-create the buzz of an overcaffeinated all-nighter, delivering one of the year's best pure junk-food entertainments. They understand that a stimulant high isn't about just fast-motion but also weird periods of slowness and distortion. If you stop to think too hard about any aspect of the story, things might fall apart; but stopping is something the movie never lets you do.
