When Bonnie Clearwater took the reins as director and chief curator at the NSU Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale last fall, the Broward art world knew it was in for a treat and a big change. Clearwater came to her new position after 18 years at the Museum of Contemporary Art…
Suppose you are in high school and your interest in movies has begun to run deeper than multiplex fare. You may find yourself gravitating to a particular kind of intellectual film: the dour, the twisty, and the ostentatious must be regarded as the pinnacle of the form, because, you feel,…
The business of childhood is the business of waiting: waiting for Christmas, waiting for school to let out, waiting to be old enough to stay up past 9. No other movie I can think of better captures the wistfulness of those days full of waiting than Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, an…
“The heart wants what it wants,” Woody Allen has taught us, and apparently what his heart wants these days is not to have to bother with writing second drafts of film scripts. His latest, Magic in the Moonlight, plays like a sumptuous vacation, its stars larking in ’20s finery about…
Beware the movie that’s Fun! with a capital F, the one populated with seemingly unpretentious characters that say adorable, clever things, the one that presents each off-kilter joke as if it were a porcelain curio, the one that boasts a comfort-food soundtrack of songs you’ve always liked but perhaps haven’t…
The most radical thing about this eco-terrorism drama is its quiet patience and formal vigor. While most studio pictures slap together their images with all the care of a grocery-store deli clerk assembling the ham and carrots on a cheap-o party platter, Kelly Reichardt, the director of Night Moves, favors…
Violette is a film consumed by hunger, as was its heroine, the French writer Violette Leduc: hunger for love, for companionship, for artistic validation. Portrayed with flickering levels of ferocity by the supple-faced Emmanuelle Devos, Leduc forcefully grasps at potential paramours and sucks down cigarettes with the intensity of a…
James Brown stripped pop to its rhythmic essentials: the groove and the grunt, the bridge, and the scream. Tate Taylor’s Get On Up likewise reduces James Brown — and the biopic form — to all that matters most. Here are the highs of the man’s life, both artistic and recreational…
The Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA) made a real push in July to highlight design elements for the home with South Florida living in mind. This Thursday, it has partnered with kitchen innovators Sub-Zero & Wolf, SieMatic Kitchens, and NEFF as well as Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine to…
Even for the true normies out there, the role of today’s teenager can be a rough gig. What if you were to add to the average pressures of fitting in: a striking resemblance to a wee Marty Feldman, a wild mane of Gene Wilder proportions, a penchant for devouring Mary…
These days, being a comic doesn’t just mean you tell jokes from the stage. A real comic isn’t just a standup; he or she is a mogul of funny. That’s exactly the attitude embraced by Jen Kirkman. She takes funny seriously and keeps her skills spread through different media buckets…
Enjoy a two-hour-long indulgence in all the Tito’s Handmade Vodka you can drink Friday without any guilt. Why no guilt? Because it’s all for a good cause. Cocktails for Charity offers attendees two hours’ worth of the best vodka ever to come out of Austin, Texas, with 100 percent of…
Who doesn’t love dressing up in his favorite costume and running around releasing his inner superhero? KID Hero 5K gives you an excuse to do just that without having to wait for Halloween, and you get to help out Kids in Distress while you do so. If you enjoy running…
As a coveted comedian of the ’90s and early 2000s, no one can forget a guy like Rob Schneider. Although you haven’t seen him in any major motion pictures recently, Schneider is keeping busy with directing, producing, writing, and most recently, standup. After a 20-year hiatus, he continues to feel…
If you enjoy learning about butterflies, being in their midst, watching movies about them, or simply looking at them, Butterfly Weekend at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science will provide a weekend full of activities to please your butterfly-loving heart. From butterfly gardens to 3-D films about butterflies,…
Boca Ballet Theatre is continuing its tradition of bringing the highest caliber of guest artists to perform in Palm Beach County. In its newest production, Swan Lake, New York City principal dancer Sara Mearns will guest-star in the double role of Odette/Odile (the black swan/white swan). Only strengthening her reputation…
Vodka may be the spirit of choice for most South Floridians. Paired with Red Bull, it’s like the legal crack of most clubs. It’s time to expand the palate, people. There is an entire world of alcoholic beverages calling out from afar: Explore. From herbal gin to smoky Scotch to…
Follow your dreams. Find out where you truly belong. Keep your head just above the bullshit to survive the daily struggle — the ideas at play in the Tony-winning musical In the Heights are ones that, no matter where they’re relayed, strike immediate universality. What are not as universal, though…
With Jack Nicholson still enjoying his retirement, it falls to Michael Douglas to swoon over the oh-so-cutesy Diane Keaton in And So It Goes, a timid, elder rom-com in the same wheelhouse as the 2003 Nicholson-Keaton team-up, Something’s Gotta Give. A film of nothing but soft edges, director Rob Reiner’s…
One could be forgiven for being skeptical that a Hercules movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and directed by Brett “Rush Hour Trilogy” Ratner might have a brain in its head, but it actually does. We’re not talking Snowpiercer levels of intelligence, but it’s far less aggressively stupid than, say,…
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an island of rumpled calm in Anton Corbijn’s urgent A Most Wanted Man, a glum-out-of-principle espionage story based on a John Le Carré novel. The role demands that Hoffman be quiet, steady, and occasionally frustrated and that he hold secrets — often from us, which is…
Surely, at some point, they thought of casting Michael Cera. Richard Ayoade’s often marvelous The Double, an existential jest set in a bureaucratic dystopia so familiar and lightly comic that it may as well be Kafka Fantasy Camp, stars Jessie Eisenberg, the Oscar winner and future Lex Luthor, as a…
