Celebrate classic rock at Rex FRI 10/28 Paul and Ringo continue to perform the old hits, but the dream officially died on a London rooftop January 30, 1969, with the Beatles’ last live performance. Fans can relive the magic tonight at Rex at The Marlin (1200 Collins Ave., Miami Beach)…
THU 27 Few directors are as capable of polarizing an audience as David Lynch. Many cineastes worship his enigmatic imagery, deliberate use of sound, and anything-but-linear plot lines. Typically a Lynch movie will cause average moviegoers to scratch their heads and mutter curses under their breath. His films undoubtedly capture…
DreamWorks is so anxious to have you believe in its latest family movie that the words “Inspired by a True Story” are actually part of the title. Yep, Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story is the proper name, and publicists have been well-coached to say and write out the whole…
Note: Owing to Hurricane Wilma, many of this weekend’s events have been postponed or canceled. Please call ahead to confirm. The sight might seem a bit silly, or at least weird: colorful boats zipping along various rivers in China as crowds gather along the shorelines and toss cooked rice at…
Note: Owing to Hurricane Wilma, many of this weekend’s events have been postponed or canceled. Please call ahead to confirm. THU 20 What is Latin beauty? Is it the sultry dark allure of Salma Hayek or the blond glow of Jennifer Lopez? What about the kooky colors of Celia Cruz…
Note: Owing to Hurricane Wilma, many of this weekend’s events have been postponed or canceled. Please call ahead to confirm. Angel readings, pet psychics, and healing crystals might sound like fodder for a segment on The Daily Show, but this weekend’s Mystical Fair — packed with lectures and demonstrations of…
Haunting the Keys FRI 10/21 You might still be recovering from last year’s party, but it’s time for parades, beads, wild costumes, and unthinkable debauchery. The theme for the 27th annual Key West Fantasy Fest is Freaks, Geeks, and Goddesses, and the festival, which kicks off today with a Goombay…
Wake up and grab your board, dude FRI 10/21 When you hear someone yell “check out that hoochie glide” or “wow, what a slurpy,” there’s a fair chance the exclamation refers to an Orlando woman with the keeper name of Dallas Friday. When it comes to skeezers, vulcans, and mobes,…
Light up the big screen MON 10/24 Spielberg directed one. So did Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Kevin Smith. Short films can make a wonderful launch pad for moviemakers who aspire to see their stories splashed across the silver screen. Thanks to the Miami Short Film Festival, local cineastes have…
It’s Bat Boy: The Musical THUR 10/20 On the cover of a 1992 issue, the Weekly World News featured the image of a newly discovered form of cryptid. Little did they know, the strange creature would quickly develop a strong following. Bat Boy was such an instant sensation that budding…
The Adventures of Superman: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) American Movie Musicals Collection (Columbia/Tristar) Batman Begins (Warner Bros.) Bruce Lee: Ultimate Collection (Fox) The Care Bears: Big Wish Movie (Lions Gate) The Coen Brothers Collection (Universal) CSI New York: The Complete First Season (Paramount) Dark Shadows: The Complete Revival…
Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997 (Warner Home Video) There’s good reason to be skeptical of an eight-disc Batman set that forces you to buy the campy Joel Schumacher movies (Batman Forever, its title a veiled threat, and Batman & Robin) when all you need are the dark Tim Burton…
It’s ugly to watch a grown man gush over a puppy. The kissing. The cooing. The “widdle-doggie” talk. Embarrassing stuff. So it was with trepidation that I approached Nintendogs, the cuddly dog-rearing sim for Nintendo DS. A million and a half people have already adopted virtual pooches, making the game…
The Devil is hidden among the details of Diego Singh’s feverishly fresh, knee-bending corpus of work on display at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery. His exhibit, “Rid of Me or The Exorcist,” skulks through a pop cultural purgatory to examine identity-related issues the artist sees brewing in highbrow notions of self-portraiture…
This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biographies continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in Ring of Fire, David Strathairn as an inscrutable Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the ambitiously manipulative Truman Capote in,…
Some films leave an indelible impression on the heart and mind. Innocent Voices is one of those films. Set in El Salvador in the early Eighties, during that country’s protracted civil unrest, the movie depicts the nightmare of warfare through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy. The fact it’s a…
Sex is on everybody’s mind in this breezy, insouciant French film from writer/directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. A comedy — not a farce, thank heavens — about confused identities, misunderstandings, hidden truths, and sexual shenanigans, it’s well acted by an unusually likable cast. Béatrix (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), her husband Marc…
Serenity, Joss Whedon’s big-screen spinoff of the 2002 TV show Firefly, which didn’t even last a dozen episodes, is already a cult phenom well before its opening. The show’s DVD boxed set lines the shelf of every fanboy who dreamed of gunslinging in space alongside preachers and prostitutes, and already…
Director Curtis Hanson, a journeyman only recently bestowed the title of Great Director, has already made his horror movie (1973’s The Arousers), his kiddie action comedy (1980’s The Little Dragons), his teen sex romp (1983’s Losin’ It ), his handful of Hitchcock riffs (1987’s The Bedroom Window, 1990’s Bad Influence,…
At the opening of The Constant Gardener, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles’s adaptation of the novel by John Le Carré, we hear a conversation before we see it. The screen remains black, still running credits, as a man and a woman negotiate a departure. Slowly the scene dawns, revealing the couple…
Arrested Development: Season Two (Fox Home Entertainment) The best show on TV — which you’d know, if you actually watched the thing — also serves as one of the best reasons for the existence of DVD: No show has ever rewarded multiple viewings the way Arrested Development does. The second…
Waking from a trance, you find yourself in the restroom of a diner. You just stabbed a complete stranger to death as he urinated. Blood is on everything — including you. And to make matters worse, a police officer is sitting outside, drinking coffee. Should you take the time to…
