Cinderella Man (Universal) Back in the Great Depression, boxing matches only cost a nickel, and the ring was uphill both ways. That’s the central message of this well-made if sappy bio of 1930s boxer Jim Braddock. Ron Howard’s direction and a stellar cast save the film from its one-dimensional characters…
In less than a decade, first-person shooters like Doom and Halo have grown from a niche genre to a cottage industry. Whether it’s our love for their immersiveness, competition, or just old-fashioned bloodlust, the popularity of FPS games shows no sign of waning. They’ve become so much of a draw,…
Dirty Love (First Look) Dragonball Movie Boxed Set (Funimation) Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner Bros.) Fun With Dick and Jane (1977) (Columbia/Tristar) The Future of Food (Cinema Libre) Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes (Image) God Save the Queen: Punk Rock Anthology (Music Video Dist.) Hellbound (Warner Bros.) He-Man…
After ingesting the weird brew served up at the Bettcher Gallery, one is left wondering whether Toc Fetch and Tricia Cline are savant fugitives from Bellvue’s Peter Pan ward or just plain old-fangled eccentrics living off the fat of imagination in their Woodstock Xanadu. “Exiles in Lower Utopia” narrates the…
Now onstage at Coral Gables’ Miracle Theatre is Johnny Guitar: The Musical, which respins the tale of when the West was wild, the men were tough, and the women were Joan Crawford. Though the score is surprisingly gentle and its songs don’t match the transgressive thrills of the motion picture…
You’d think anyone possessed of the notion that “the Jews” collectively think and act alike need only look at, say, wrestler Bill Goldberg, Hollywood hottie Natalie Portman, shock jock Howard Stern, and nebbishy right-wing scold Michael Medved to have that idea instantly dispelled. Yet conspiracy theories persist; you’ve probably heard…
Warner Bros. plunked $50 million into Syriana and allowed writer-director Stephen Gaghan as much time and travel as necessary to research and write his story. They’d be well advised to pony up a few extra bucks to provide filmgoers with a flow chart that connects the myriad, scattered dots that…
Between shooting a Shakira video, posing for print ads, and volunteering at Baptist Hospital, how does a stud find the time for sniffing butts? “I’m a Starbucks fiend, so we spend a lot of time there,” says Mark DeCaterino. No, Mark isn’t the stud — well, he is a cool…
It is now the festive time of year, the time of open bars and buffets, visits and vacations, decorations and decadence. In Phoenix and Houston and Chicago and Atlanta, in the deserts and on the plains, deep in the valleys and up on the mountains, all across the nation the…
A big room full of activity, money changing hands, and hordes of snakes, lizards, and other creepy-crawlies. Where are you? No, not city hall. You’re at Repticon, a good place to be whether you’re an aficionado of the scaled set or a neophyte who still thinks snakes are slimy. Get…
At six feet six inches tall, Olympic gold medalist Gary Hall Jr. is difficult not to notice. Whether he’s donning hipster black-rimmed glasses or mirrored goggles, the record-breaking freestyler commands attention both on the starting blocks and behind a podium. Since being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1999, Hall…
The best (and cheapest) gift you can give your family this year is time, so call up your mom and bring her to see Pedro Almodvar’s Academy Award-winning movie All About My Mother. Presented by the Classic/Foreign Film Discussion Group, the film traces a mother’s journey to Barcelona to work…
This year proved to be an eventful one for Awesome New Republic. The local psychedelic rock duo transcended the typically stifling boundaries of being a University of Miami band to become indie darlings with a bright future stretching ahead of them. To celebrate their momentous year, the Republicans are coming…
New Theatre’s Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women could be considered a Victorian-era Sex and the City. But the four New York women at the center of Alfred Allan Lewis’s memory play are not your average singletons searching for Mr. Right. These ladies are the crme de la femmes of high society,…
THU 8 Female empowerment groups aren’t just about breastfeeding in public and Heidi Klum Birkenstocks. Feisty femmes who use their time to create something awesome are cool. Case in point: the incredibly talented ladies known as The Beader Bunch. These four women make funky, distinctive jewelry together, and unlike the…
Not many events at Art Basel Miami Beach — and possibly just as few exhibitions shown over the course of Art Basel Switzerland’s 36-year history — are as rambunctious as “Cars & Fish” promises to be. The Miami Performing Arts Center’s (MPAC) official opening is still more than a year…
The Miami Beach Cinematheque is no stranger to all things weird and wonderful, but this time its coordinators have devised something completely different to coincide with the Art Basel festivities in South Beach. Guy Maddin’s “Cowards Bend the Knee Peepshow Installation” is a movie within a movie, featuring live performance…
For those of us who dug Rob McKittrick’s recent comedy Waiting…, Just Friends offers up some good news: Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris are together again as a dysfunctional couple. He’s a slick music executive named Chris Brander, still traumatized at having gotten the “Let’s just be friends” speech from…
A tale of deception, betrayal, and revenge, this contemporary Greek tragedy — complete with an unwitting Medea — becomes so overwrought in the last act that it’s sure to lose your sympathies. Three likable and fundamentally decent individuals — a Hollywood studio executive, his wife, and a screenwriter whose script…
Like a scruffy old pirate, glass master Dale Chihuly sports a black eye patch (the result of a near-fatal car accident, not a sword fight), puffy shirts, and the jowls of a French mastiff. Chihuly has the swashbuckling swagger and feistiness down too: He’s currently fighting a copyright lawsuit he’s…
SUN 12/4 Eleven months out of the year, elves don’t get a lot of respect. They jingle down the street in their striped tights and bell-tipped shoes, trying to keep a low profile beneath their pointy hats, but they are constantly picked on by tall bullies. “Hey! Go back to…
MON 12/5 In the logo for the Seminole Tribe of Florida JT’s Ping-Pong Smash 2, a contorted caricature of Miami Dolphin All-Pro Jason Taylor shows his left foot angled behind him as the sole of his right sticks out in the forefront. Pretty funny, but also indicative of the importance…
