Many wouldn’t attend an event after they hear it’s at a warehouse. New Times gets it. Sounds like no AC, very un-yuppie, scary even. Well, the best local indie artists and bands have been rocking out at a warehouse — a Fort Lauderdale locale called the Bubble (another tough thing…
We’re all familiar with the traditional haunted house experience: You go in, things jump at you, you scream, and finally you exit. We’re not saying it’s not fun; we’re just saying it’s been done. But there’s a South Florida way of doing most everything differently — and scaring the crap…
Remember the good ol’ days of the early ’90s when patrons flocked to mixed martial arts for the honest spectacle of the brutality and pain being dished out, like in some Jean-Claude Van Damme film? Truth is, MMA has been with us a lot longer than that. Historians point to…
One Miami Heat player got lost in all the hoopla surrounding the hoops news over the past summer. Just a couple of years ago, he was the hope for the team’s future. But that dream was extinguished faster than the joints he so liked smoking during his time in Miami…
After its predecessor’s vain attempt at newsworthy health-insurance and mortgage-lender commentary, this latest Saw again strives for relevance via the trendiest gimmick available: 3-D! Or, rather, post-production conversion 3-D, which further uglifies its flat, gloomy aesthetics, and thus proves in keeping with the overall cruddy nature of Lionsgate’s annual horror…
What’s most striking about the fall exhibitions at the Coral Springs Museum of Art is the uniformly high level of craftsmanship. So much contemporary art favors concept over execution that a presumption of craft is no longer a given. Technical accomplishment, in such a context, is especially worth nothing. The…
The Trotsky poses the question: What’s a young dissident to do in our postmodern world of iPods and Facebook, especially if he’s a teenaged rebel without a cause? The film also answers the question: Take on the oppressive institution we call high school and try to put power back in…
If there’s any doubt that patriarchy is alive and well — in some cultures more than in others — consider this wrenching drama exhibit A. It’s a remarkably assured first feature from writer/director Feo Aladag, and it has already amassed a handful of well-earned honors around the world, including the…
He’s normally reticent, nerdy, and on edge, but by midway through this film, Danish psychologist Adrian Gabrielsen (Nikoaj Lie Kaas) proves that behind his wire-rimmed specs lurks the will of Rambo. After suffering under an overbearing father and a stagnating practice, Gabrielsen jumps at an offer from the Danish government…
Robert De Niro’s alarm must have finally gone off — in Stone, the actor seems more awake than he has in years. De Niro is Jack, a prison corrections officer who, abandoning all professional and common sense, foolishly screws himself by screwing Lucetta (Milla Jovovich), the wife of cornrowed arsonist…
As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg’s game-changing poem Howl is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasibiographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Howl the movie — which, in addition to touching on Ginsberg’s early life (and successful coming out), dramatizes the poem’s…
Fall in Fort Lauderdale — barring the occasional property-pulverizing hurricane — brings the perfect weather for outdoor events. And for the 23rd year now, the Las Olas Art Fair is a good excuse for cruising Las Olas Boulevard on foot, checking out the many styles and media on display. This…
Winning or losing loves company. It’s true. When a team is on top of the world, there’s no better feeling than sharing it with others who share the cause. And when things aren’t going so great… well, misery loves company. It’s why since the first pig was skinned for a…
Michael Moore is polarizing enough that as soon as his name is mentioned in the same sentence with “An Evening With” and “at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival,” you probably already know whether you’ll go. You may think he’s unfairly jeered by conservatives: Fox News once famously announced to…
Halloween isn’t only for young people, but it’s a little odd to show up at someone’s door as an adult, unaccompanied by any kids, holding out a bag and demanding candy in a costume. If you’re looking for a classy way to celebrate as a nonkid, Fright Night, an adult…
Halloween just hasn’t been that scary since New Times’ iPhone fell into a construction ditch. When we climbed down to retrieve it, we tripped on a shovel, mountains of earth collapsed on us, and dirt filled our lungs. That’s when we noticed the dead body next to us and the…
The witch represents many archetypes in our culture. But somehow, over time, she has become increasingly good. At least, The Wizard of Oz has both a bad witch (traditionally, ugly and green) along with a good witch (pretty and blond). But then came Samantha of Bewitched and Sabrina the Teenage…
Friday is the opening of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF), the region’s ultimate cinephilic event. At 7 p.m., Nice Guy Johnny screens at Broward College’s Bailey Hall (3501 SW Davie Road, Davie). It’s a comedy about — you guessed it — a nice guy named Johnny. Played by…
Wednesday, New Times will be dressed up as Goldilocks at the Ghoulish Gathering: Halloween Dance Party at Monterey Club. Our tale started last weekend, when we walked right into downtown Fort Lauderdale. At the first dance floor we tried, napkins littered the ground, ’90s hip-hop blasted out of the speakers,…
Sure, opening your thin wallet for designer clothes you don’t really need strikes many as being an inappropriate use of funds. But that’s why it’s fortunate that retailers know that peer pressure and alcohol can go a long way in lowering inhibitions. ShopSwagg Inc. has partnered with Pangaea Lounge and…
Human beings are a lot like sponges: We soak up a lot of water, and even in a state as seemingly waterlogged as Florida, that can be an issue. Set in 1928 and the present, Cane tells the story of one farm in Florida that once was drowning and now…
Is America’s last cowboy icon prospecting for more Oscar gold? Taking for his map an original screenplay by British docu-dramatist Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), Clint Eastwood rides a sleepy burro deep into Iñárritu territory. Multiple story lines cross international borders to mix personal tragedy with post-9/11 existential terror. Hereafter…
