FRI 12/2 When photographer Robert Klemm began sending photographs of his new city to his family in Germany, they were so impressed by his prints of the tropical foliage and Mediterranean architecture they suggested he turn them into a calendar. Instead Klemm published a pictorial book, Landscapes of Coral Gables,…
THU 12/1 In the American justice system, a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. What happens if a person is sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit? Playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen face the issue of wrongful conviction head-on in their intense drama The Exonerated…
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox) The pairing of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, both in real life and on celluloid, is so obvious as to be almost cartoonish. So even though both are better actors than they need to be, they perfectly belong in this goofy, explosiony world. Married assassins,…
If Hollywood wants to learn from the videogame industry — which outgrossed the box office last year — it should pay careful attention to Shadow of the Colossus, a game with the epic scale of a summer blockbuster but the emotional heart of an indie flick. Shadow is brought to…
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Empire) Caterina in the Big City (Empire) CSI: Five-Season Pack (Paramount) Death to the Supermodels (Columbia/Tristar) Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (Columbia/Tristar) Empire (Buena Vista) Family Guy: Volume 3 (Fox) Formula 17 (Strand) The Frighteners: Director’s Cut (Universal) The Hives: Tussles in Brussels (Universal Music)…
Close your eyes and visualize Dennis Rodman. What do you see? A laughing b-baller with leopard-spotted hair, helping lead the Chicago Bulls to victory? A towering vision in wedding-dress drag, drumming up media attention for his book? Or the unexpected winner of the reality-television pot on Celebrity Mole Yucatan? Dennis…
THU 1 Ask a woman who loves a man in uniform, and she’ll tell you a sooty, sweaty firefighter is the ultimate “working man” fantasy. But there’s no better way to ruin the illusion than to reveal a thick pelt of nasty back hair under the flame-proof garb. Pay homage…
Punishment Park (New Yorker Video) This 1971 movie from director Peter Watkins could have been made yesterday, which is no doubt why it finally sees video release long after accruing cult status. Born of the filmmaker’s outrage over the Kent State killings, the war in Vietnam, and other abominations of…
Deep down, we all want money for nothing and chicks for free. Back in 1985, when Dire Straits first revealed this eternal truth, it seemed that any goofball with a DayGlo headband could pour himself into package-hugging spandex and become a rock star. But it turned out that noodling on…
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator — Unrated Collector’s Edition (Fox) Cheaper by the Dozen: Baker’s Dozen Edition (Fox) 8MM 2 (Columbia/Tristar) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Buena Vista) The Honeymooners (Paramount) Keane: Strangers (Interscope) King Kong (1976) (Paramount) King Kong: Collector’s Edition (1933) (Warner Bros.) King of the Hill: Season 5 (Fox)…
Assuming the role of a woman who allegedly inspired 40,000 people to petition the Vatican for her canonization is no easy task. Trying to emulate the qualities that made Eva Pern an Argentine icon — namely sex appeal and dogged determination — is even more difficult while belting out thirteen…
Walk quickly past Miami Art Museum’s New Work Gallery and you’ll probably miss Shahzia Sikander’s “Nemesis.” Barely visible from the bottom of MAM’s main stairway, the exhibition features a suite of drawings titled 51 Ways of Looking — the clean, white surfaces of the papers scarcely marked by the ink…
Earth, Water, and Fire: This group homage to three of the four fundamental elements — hurricane-force winds probably deserve an exhibit of their own — curated by FIU professor Carol Damian, hardly does justice to its almighty nomenclature, an imposing task no doubt. For the “Earth” segment, Tori Arpad —…
Ever since its Broadway debut in 1996, Rent has generated a loyal, almost cultlike following. Showered with praise, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical touched a nerve among the young, artistic, gay, urban, and alternatively dressed people who identified as outsiders and wondered how they would make their way in the world…
Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) is a big-time attorney in a small-time town looking to make a break for it on Christmas Eve, so he and porn-makin’ partner Vic (Billy Bob Thornton) steal two million dollars from a mob boss. Charlie looks like he’s got his shit together, but he’s merely…
Writer and director Noah Baumbach has made three light films — one so slight (1997’s party-hopping Highball) it didn’t see release until five years after its completion, and even then it snuck onto video-store shelves credited to a pseudonymous writer and director. There was nothing on his filmography — not…
All Barbara Ehrenreich wanted was a white-collar job at 50K a year plus bennies. (Don’t we all?) In Bait and Switch this veteran social critic uses the same undercover tactics as in her best-selling Nickel and Dimed to explore life in Dilbert Country. Her goal is simple: Land a cubicle…
Thanksgiving is upon us, and many Miamians are wondering the same thing: What exactly should we be thankful for this past year? The Magic City was battered by three damaging hurricanes. Katrina ripped down trees, Rita littered our streets with debris, and Wilma’s winds sliced through electricity poles like a…
FRI 11/25 Ahoy, ye mateys! Proudly don yer puffy shirts and eye patches, set yer squawkin’ Polly upon yer shoulder, and take pause from pillaging and plundering for the Pirates in Paradise Festival in Key West. Kicking off ten days of buccaneers, battles, and booty is the first of several…
FRI 11/25 He once was the well-paid superstar, the big man upon whom the Miami Heat placed its championship weight. Then came kidney disease, and Alonzo Mourning was gone, only to return last season as a backup to the new big man upon whom…. Thank goodness. With Shaq falling out…
WED 11/30 Most artists will spend Art Basel ensconced in the safety of a swanky gallery. Not the artists who will display their creative work at the Faktura Gallery (7128 NW Second Ave., Miami). You’ll find them pushing shopping carts around Miami Beach, as part of a refreshing exhibit titled…
SAT 11/26 Once upon a time, there was a sweet young thing known as house music. House music was simple folk, riding boxcars, carrying only a small bundle wrapped in a kerchief tied to the end of a stick. People said this beat would never amount to anything. But house…
