The Coen brothers’ pulpy, ultimately pretentious neo-Western No Country for Old Men screened early in the Cannes Film Festival and by the end had maintained its standing as the most widely approved Yankee feature to bow here since Pulp Fiction (though it didn’t win any awards). Once again, the appeal…
Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer’s pirates were once again storming the international box office, the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) bestowed its two top prizes on a gut-wrenching Romanian movie about backroom abortion and a plaintive Japanese drama about a sad old man who wants to dig his own grave…
There is a moment early on in “Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers,” the 14th episode of the brilliant but canceled television series Freaks and Geeks, in which gangly, bespectacled, picked-last-in-gym-class high school freshman Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) arrives home from school, makes himself a grilled cheese sandwich, and sits down…
“I think the public doesn’t care about reviews,” says Eli Roth, writer-director of Hostel Part II, which — surprise! — isn’t being shown to the press before it opens Friday on more than 2,500 screens. Still, the 35-year-old perpetrator of high-grossing “torture porn” does appreciate critical kindness when he sees…
“It’s astounding,” says Stuart Meltzer. “When I first started working in this region, you couldn’t get a new play down here. Nobody wanted to touch new work. It was, Sorry, this isn’t Gypsy, this isn’t Neil Simon, and we don’t want to go near it.’ It’s interesting how much this…
The genesis for “I Do, I Do” came when one of Yovani Bauta’s frustrated art students blurted, “I want to torch my wedding dress!” in his portrait painting class. Bauta had been teaching the tight-knit group of mostly middle-age Latin American women during community education classes at Miami Dade College’s…
The Sergio Leone Anthology (MGM) Sergio Leone made westerns like Wagner made ditties. This essential box set — four films with four discs of supplemental material, much of it scholarly and insightful — shows the Italian director supplanting the elegiac Monument Valley iconography of John Ford with a darker, ruder,…
The Abyss: Special Edition (Fox) The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Extra Frills Edition (MGM) Bruce Springsteen With the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin (Sony) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Re-Imagining of the 1919 Masterpiece of Horror (Image) CHiPs: The Complete First Season (Turner) Coming to America:…
Bold proclamation time: There wouldn’t even be an Xbox 360 without Halo. Microsoft lost billions on the original Xbox even with its mega-successful sci-fi games, so it’s hard to imagine the red ink that would have spilled without them; even suggesting a second go at the console business would’ve had…
The United States is often called the land of milk and honey, and if that’s the case, Miami must be the town of soy milk and Splenda. The fact that we’re a city of fitness freaks, hard-bodies, and health nuts is well established, but what does the flip side of…
Whether you’re deep-sea fishing, partying, dumping bodies, or just cruising around, Miami is always more fun when you own the city’s most quintessential accessory: a boat. Fortunately that’s why we host the South Florida Boat Show, the largest in the southeastern United States. With boats selling for as little as…
If we were holding our breath for downtown to finally evolve into the cool, pedestrian-friendly tourist attraction that Miami’s mayors and public officials have been promising all these years … well, you wouldn’t be reading this article. Because we’d be dead. Sure, pockets of downtown feature funky bistros and quirky…
The last time you went out to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, you found that your only company on the drive home were the cartoon moths flying out of your pants’ empty, out-turned pockets. Expensive drinks (and women who want them) can drain your bank account quicker than an…
Summertime, and the University of Miami campus is easy. Fish are jumpin’, and there’s nary a frat boy in sight. It’s the perfect time for a leisurely bike ride across the verdant green. Who cares if the Rathskellar and food court are practically closed? It’s an even better time to…
Summer really is the best time to live in South Florida. Sure it’s so hot outside it’s like walking on the surface of the sun, until the occasional hurricane comes along and blows us all to bits. And since those fickle tourists pack up and leave — they really have…
Yes, we love the Seventies. But when we think of goldfish tank platforms and fuzzy armpits, we realize that some trends are best left where they belong — in the past. Then we imagine ourselves at Throb: The Ultimate Roller Disco Club Night, on four wheels, gliding effortlessly to the…
Miami’s Royal Poinciana Festival has been chugging along for 70 years now, earning the enviable title of Miami’s oldest continuously running festival. During that time, the essence of the celebration has remained largely unchanged. Every year a gathering of flower lovers convenes to celebrate the Madagascar native that has been…
Tom Tancredo might think Miami is a Third-World country, but Arts at St. John’s isn’t afraid to celebrate and belt out what’s great about South Florida. This weekend the organization will serve up another performance supporting its mission to embrace diversity among not only people but also art forms. Around…
If brain freeze is the feeling you get when you take in too much of something cold too fast, what is it called when you have too much damn fun too fast? If you love diving or just think you might, we think it might be called Island Sun Splash…
Arch Creek Park and Museum (1855 NE 135th St., North Miami) is one of those magical places you remember from school field trips. If you’re longing to get back on the yellow bus for a visit, but there’s not even a hint of a permission slip to fill out, then…
Downtown scenesters were aghast when Stop Miami — the little corner bistro that provided a popular haven for live music, affordable vino, and an eclectic, arty band of regulars — shuttered its doors owing to an acute combination of relentless rent hikes and midtown Miami machinations. But if the fat…
Everyone can agree that Miami traffic sucks, especially when you’re alone. Every radio station suddenly breaks for commercial (a conspiracy? We think so), and your only options for eye candy are the endless taillights on the Dolphin Expressway or your extraordinarily focused neighboring nose-picker. Thankfully today you can break free…
