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Gossip Girl and The O.C., the two teen TV shows created in the past decade by 36-year-old Josh Schwartz, are sly bait and switches. Both are easily marketable for their hot...
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From Can't Hardly Wait to Superbad, debauched teen parties have long been a theme on the big screen. But in live theater? Not so much. So when Girls vs. Boys opens at the...
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In 2008, African-Americans clinched the White House for Barack Obama by turning out to vote in record numbers. In that year's U.S. presidential election, about 2 million more...
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Punk rock is a big tent.
Is there any other genre that manages to link seemingly disparate entities like British rude-boy skinheads with screamo-haircut mall goths from...
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Chloroform is a psychopath's best friend in Sleep Tight, though having unfettered access to the home of one's target doesn't hurt either. That's the cozy position César...
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Every year, a few Halloween costumes are so ubiquitous it's painful. Just think back and cringe at how many Amy Winehouses, Sarah Palins, and Twilight characters you saw last...
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Though he's replaced his hobo-chic regalia and trademark multicolored hair with custom-fit three-piece suits and elegant fedoras, George Clinton is still the gnarliest...
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The trailer for Cloud Atlas, the gargantuan new movie of David Mitchell's 2004 novel that took two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer to adapt, looks less like a preview than a...
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As most South Florida neighborhoods have sprouted unseemly subdivisions like toadstools in the shade, the Village of Palmetto Bay has remained a sleepy, middle-class enclave...
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Take another toke, have a blow for your nose, and don't forget to pack your sunscreen. That smell is a good reminder Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man Cruise is just a few days...
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Less a bastardization than simply a watered-down and superfluous redo, Pusher faithfully mimics Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 Danish crime saga while missing its nasty, grungy...
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In early May, Inverness residents John and Pat Wade got a call from their son Darryl with distressing news. Miami-Dade police had just found a full-scale marijuana grow lab...
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Whenever Dirty Harry isn't blasting the brains outta unlucky punks or snarling at empty smartass socialist chairs, he's keeping it cool with a copy of Ornithology. That's...
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The action-hero debut of a famous funnyman, the reboot of a neglected cinematic franchise, a strong candidate for dumbest film of the year—there are so many compelling...
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Cancer Cluster
These guys need help: From what I've read of your investigation into why residents in the northwest Dade neighborhood of Broadmoor have been getting sick...
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Even though the high point of both the Lemonheads' and the Psychedelic Furs' careers is a song from a movie, these bands are as decade-defining as the films that their hits...
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"You were really and truly inside me," Helen Hunt's sex surrogate Cheryl assures her client, 36-year-old Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes), a poet and journalist confined to an iron...
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Are you an electronics moron? Are you incapable of shooting a cell phone video, much less managing the intricacies of a Web cam chat? Congratulations! Your ineptitude...
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We knew from Heavenly Creatures that Kate Winslet had a bright career ahead, but in that film, Melanie Lynskey was the one to watch. Is it possible that no director since...
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Ham-fisted dialogue and clichéd characterizations trump genuine chemistry in The Other Son, a contrived Franco-Israeli drama about two 18-year-olds, an Israeli and a...
