Writers Christopher Landon and Carl Ellsworth receive sole credit for the movie Disturbia, which is surprising, as the film clearly is based on both a previously published work (a 1942 short story by Cornell Woolrich, titled “It Had to Be Murder”) and the John Michael Hayes-penned, Alfred Hitchcock-directed, Academy Award-nominated…
Will Ferrell, having moved on from the anchor desk and NASCAR, at long last ridicules a hallowed profession. I refer, of course, to men’s figure skating. Who until now has dared to mock the sequined costumes, the fondness for power ballads, the Spandex pants? Luckily Our Man Ferrell is up…
Late last month the sister blogs of celebrity snark, Gawker and Defamer, posted guerrilla outtakes from the set of I Heart Huckabees, the 2004 film, in which Tomlin clashes with director David O. Russell. “Leave me the fuck alone!” she shouts. “Do you know what the fuck is going on,…
Samson et Dalila is Camille Saint-Saens’s most well-loved expression of his wild terror of women. While his other operatic celebrations of misogyny have, for whatever reason, failed the test of time, Samson et Dalila still packs houses with regularity. In the hands of Florida Grand Opera, it is eminently worth…
There is an almost Grapes of Wrath veneer to the photos of rural Cubans Ghada Khunji took last year. They look like they have to be at least 80 years old. Her stark collection of eighteen color C-prints, on view at Filtro in Wynwood, is a throwback to the work…
“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…
Sleeping Dogs Lie (First Look) Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait takes a subversive concept (honesty is overrated) and marries it to an outrageous scenario (a woman’s family learns that she once, uh, performed for a dog) to create . . . a romantic comedy? Well, sort of. Like Goldthwait’s underrated Shakes the…
The residents of Mount Olympus haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep since Kratos moved in. Not only is the new god of war a grumpy, self-professed god-hater, he got the throne by killing Ares, something that naturally makes the other gods a little . . . jumpy. It’s not long…
The Aura (Genius) Avatar: The Last Airbender — Book 2: Earth, Volume 2 (Paramount) The Batman: The Complete Third Season (Warner Bros.) Beneath Still Waters (Lions Gate) Bobby (Weinstein) Coming Soon (Lions Gate) Dead and Deader (Anchor Bay) A Guide for the Married Woman (Fox) Life of the Party (THINKFilm)…
Experience New York circa 1944 without getting into a plane or time machine. The University of Miami’s Department of Theater Arts presents On the Town at the Jerry Herman Ring Theater on campus. Opening night is tonight at 8:00. Undergraduate students recreate the classic Broadway hit about three sailors on…
The Mets would have won the World Series last year were it not for a major meltdown in St. Louis. And they may wind up snagging it this year, if their decrepit pitching staff holds up through October. Of course, the young Marlins (young enough, even, to call them “the…
You can’t escape death or taxes, but at least one of those distinctly depressing prospects will taste a little sweeter today. To delight the beaten masses who must fork over their finances to the IRS by today’s deadline, the good scoopers over at Ben & Jerry’s are hosting the 29th…
By this week, the Miami Heat should have a decision on the return of the reigning NBA Finals MVP, Dwyane Wade, for the playoffs. But even without their franchise player, Shaq and Co. have played some great team basketball over the past month and a half. The Boston Celtics, on…
“Miami” Mike Hiscano saves what others throw away. The ephemeral trinkets that people regularly abandon — monogrammed china, postcards, rinky-dink souvenirs from tourist attractions — these are Hiscano’s prized treasures. These are the artifacts that you’ll never find in a fancy museum. “Big, formal museums have benefactors and are curated…
An open mike night is only as good as its event organizers. Location is key. Finding a slate of talented artists is even more important. If you’re looking for an evening of local talent that isn’t hit or miss, come to Ambient at PS14 tonight, when Pokerface Productions present their…
What’s that in the sky? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a marshmallow Peep on steroids! No — it’s the Hot “Hare” Balloon, better known as our favorite relentless pop icon, the Energizer Bunny. The pink idol is one of over 30 hot air balloons that will be floating…
Attention South Beach: Put your thongs away; things are getting civilized ’round here today. The FedEx Miami Polo Cup is riding into town — yes, a real-life polo tournament is taking place all weekend, right there on South Beach. And we mean on South Beach, with Argentine polo ponies literally…
Night after night, they fight it out in the war over your hard-earned dollars, but today and tomorrow, April 15, the sexiest servers from some of South Beach’s most popular clubs, restaurants, bars, and hotels will be fighting a different kind of battle. This weekend is the third annual Beach…
You’ve been breathing for years, routinely inhaling and exhaling like there’s no tomorrow. And you think that you’re doing it right, but sometimes your efforts end up coming out as a gasp or a pant — maybe because of too much puff, puff, pass. So today the people at True…
It’s been some time since you hummed along to “Auld Lang Syne,” yet it might as well be January 1 as far as your New Year’s resolution to lose weight is concerned. Now it’s time to pick up the slack, and you can start by punishing those flabby glutes at…
Although best known for his Buddha Bar compilations, Arno Elias also has a painting pedigree. The artist makes his U.S. debut at the 2300 Studio Gallery as part of tonight’s Wynwood arts crawl, beginning at 7:00. The French funkster’s mixed-media collages twang the chord of the energetic world rhythms heard…
Back in the Teens, the European Dadaist movement rejected logic, reason, and aesthetics as bourgeois, war-mongering concepts. Dada meant freedom from repressive norms, and the embrace of anarchy. Sort of like opposite day on a grand cultural scale: Healthy equalled sick, traditional beauty was ugly, and old-school concepts of prevailing…
