Movie star brothers have it rough. Sibling rivalry takes on an entirely different meaning when your bro’s paycheck can be counted in the millions. For every Frank Stallone or Joey Travolta who has languished in his sibling’s shadow, there is finally hope. Thanks to Dave Chappelle, Charlie Murphy has become…
Owen Wilson has moved up in the world: He’s gone from crashing weddings to crashing entire marriages. In the listless farce You, Me and Dupree, his eponymous ne’er-do-well shows up on the doorstep of his childhood friend Carl (Matt Dillon), having lost his job and been evicted from his apartment…
Perhaps no one can pinpoint the exact moment Vaudeville died, but there’s a moment early in Strangers with Candy when you’d swear you had just witnessed the death of visual comedy. En route to her first day of high school, a tarty middle-age jailbird — this is not a Disney…
Gymnast Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz) is one of the best at what he does, and he has it all — perfect abs, a big bulge in his crotch, beautiful girlfriends, and the ability to balance full beer glasses on his feet. There’s just one small problem: He has bad dreams…
The only large thing about the M Ensemble company and its latest production, a gospel musical titled Mahalia, is Charlette Brown-Seward’s voice. And honey, it is a big ‘un. Despite the theater’s physical limitations — its seating capacity is approximately 60, and the stage is maybe seven feet deep —…
Ella: It’s ten years this month since songstress Ella Fitzgerald died. Fitzgerald, whose romantically distinctive voice has gently passed from generation to generation since her first recordings in 1936, didn’t so much have her own songs but rather made anything she sang an Ella experience. In the past year, Florida…
The only way of doing justice to the Miami Art Museum’s expanding holdings would be to run a list in very small type, with which proud museum honchos would undoubtedly agree. Judging by the latest show, it’s difficult to dismiss the rocketing optimism. For an institution that began collecting only…
I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…
Grand Prix (Warner Bros.) John Frankenheimer, as underrated as he was brilliant, made a racing picture in 1966 that’s yet to be topped 40 years later. James Garner suffered through the director’s churlish demands (which Frankenheimer reveals and owns up to, in archival footage on one of the documentaries here)…
From Pokémon to Dragon Ball Z, Japanese pop culture has captured the imagination of American kids. The latest import craze is Naruto. Anyone hip to Harry Potter will find the story familiar: A bunch of otherwise ordinary kids, including titular hero Naruto Uzumaki, study ninjitsu (rather than wizardry) in a…
Basic Instinct 2 (Sony) Bill Maher: New Rules (HBO) Bridezillas: The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons (Weinstein) Care Bears: Hearts at Sea (Family Home Ent.) Dennis Miller: All In (HBO) Dolla Morte (Grimoire) The Dudesons Movie (Rhino) The Ellen Show: The Complete Series (Sony) ER: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner…
For those feeling blue that France gob-smacked the defending champs out of the World Cup and spoiled your party, you can still samba on over to the Miami Art Museum where Stephen Dean’s Volta keeps the dream of a Brazilian victory alive. Dean’s euphoric experimental film, spooling at the museum’s…
As the words Miami and NBA champions begin to sound natural together, it’s fair to say this city is ready for the next step: a three-on-three street basketball tournament open to everyone, hosted by the world’s largest athletic store. Foot Locker’s 3 on 3 Basketball Tour will be making eight…
Submitted for your consideration: several rock stars, one restaurant/casino chain, a good cause, and enough dramatic irony to make Rod Serling crack a smile. Rock and roll is a funny little industry that sells not music but attitude. Sometimes, though, the attitude gets in the way of business. For instance,…
Well, here we are again. July 15 is upon us. You know what that means? Two days after my birth — oh, whoops! Actually it’s the day after Bastille Day, a good reason to practice your enunciation of the word we (only spelled differently), and the perfect opportunity to check…
As her name indicates, soul singer Jaguar Wright is fierce. She has been known to steal the spotlight, most notably when she belted out the hooks on “Song Cry” and “Heart of the City” during Jay-Z’s MTV Unplugged performance. Wright nonchalantly shrugged off an ill-fitting genre via her most recent…
You want Italian; he wants sushi. You’ll settle for Mexican, but he is insisting on seafood. Can you even decide on dessert? The gloves can come off tonight when you food-fighters agree on attending the nineteenth annual Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation presented by American Express and Jenn-Air…
It may not be Oktoberfest yet, but Summerfest is happening right now. Not too familiar with Summerfest? How about Mozart or Vivaldi? Each year Summerfest hosts an acclaimed European string orchestra for a one-month cultural exchange. This year it is the famed I Musici Estensi Chamber Orchestra of Italy. In…
It’s Friday evening, and the young professionals pouring onto Brickell Avenue after a long day of work and a tiresome week of toil do not have many options when it comes to a nearby postwork wind-down. The surrounding area is sprinkled with bars, but there are no real nightclubs for…
Dennis Emmanuel Brown had a voice as smooth as a honey-dipped spliff. His roots-reggae anthems, such as “Revolution,” “Wolves and Leopards,” and “Love and Hate,” influenced a generation of performers, and Bob Marley declared the dreadlocked troubadour his favorite singer. “I refer to Dennis Brown as Jamaica’s most prolific artist…
A true buccaneer has always known that pirates arrr! cool, but take a few hot actors (Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley) and mix them with some Disney magic, and now everyone wants to wear a puffy shirt. Even best-selling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson know it is the…
It’s not every day you get to celebrate the life and literature of an alcoholic misogynist. Especially not one who put a shotgun to his head. No, a celebration like this comes just once a year. But here we are. Hemingway Days return to the Keys. Head down to where…
