Thursday, June 23 Forget girls’ night out. Instead, celebrate girls’ pint night out. That’s what the local Palm Beach chapter of Girls Pint Out will be doing on Thursday — and everyone’s invited. The national craft beer organization was first organized in Indiana in early 2010 and has quickly spread…
Has Paul Rudd become Hollywood’s idea of the face of economic insecurity? There his handsome mug was, in Ant-Man, beneath a Baskin-Robbins ball cap, his character making do behind an ice-cream counter while Marvel made bank in promotional tie-ins. And now, in The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett’s alternately winning/cloying…
Woodrow Wilson described D.W. Griffith’s notorious Civil War epic Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning.” Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones, which covers roughly the same period as Griffith’s film, is more like writing history with index cards. Diligent and informative but also fragmented and inert, it…
Budding filmmakers in South Florida finally have a chance to show off their skills and make a movie that will get some attention. It need not be the next Gone With the Wind or Citizen Kane, but it must be made in only 48 hours. Participants in the 48 Hour…
A blue thicket of braided, industrial nylon rope winds through the four-story atrium gallery at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) in the Design District. A foot wide at one end, the rope narrows and wraps around the museum’s white support beams and columns like a giant cobra. By…
Let me tell you all the good things about Nicolas Winding Refn’s high-art, lowbrow horror film The Neon Demon before I tell you what I will not tolerate. After Drive, Refn seems obsessed with his idea of Los Angeles, one where there’s always a full moon, no traffic and everyone…
“It all grew from my desire to want to buy handmade things I saw online,” says Linton. Back in 2007, Amanda Linton noticed a need for homemade crafts in South Florida. Inspired by the boom of Etsy, Linton longed to touch the things she saw people making online. She had…
The most surprising thing about the new buddy action-comedy Central Intelligence is the sight of Kevin Hart playing straight man to another actor’s antics. In previous comedies, Hart has been the pint-sized, fast-talking dynamo at the center of the action. Even in movies where he’s the guy in over his…
Despite the rise of ereaders, true lovers of the written word will always have a special place in their hearts for bookstores. There’s something about plopping down in an aisle, flipping pages and breathing in that bookish scent, warm, like cinnamon. There is a fear that the American book…
Thursday, June 16 It’s not too often that a certified beer judge starts a brewery in South Florida, but that’s what Adam Feingold — along with his partner Matthew Giani — did in 2015 with the opening of Bangin’ Banjo Brewing Company in Pompano Beach. At the time, it was…
Given the recent tragic events in Orlando, the solidarity of the LGBT community here in South Florida is more important than ever. And you will see that solidarity in full display this weekend as the community takes to the streets of Wilton Manors. The Wilton Manors Stonewall Festival, held on…
If you can get past the spectacle of British and Australian actors portraying some of the most important figures of 20th-century American literature, Genius is a good example of a prestige pic that is not only literate but surprisingly vibrant. It’s the story of the tumultuous relationship between hot-tempered, Asheville-born…
Finding Nemo may have been a cartoon about a clownfish traveling across the ocean looking for his son, but it was also one of Pixar’s first overt forays into the workings of the human mind. The film, from 2003, was haunted by loss: The protagonist, Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks),…
Even when working from source material crafted by others, Terence Davies, like all singular filmmakers, imprints it with his DNA. At once solemn and lusty, Davies’ page-to-screen transfer of Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel beautifully conveys human fragility, our bodies and minds outmatched by the brute indifference of…
Thursday, June 9 For Gen-Xers, Heathers was one of the defining films of the 1980s—a coffin-black satire about the cruel, libidinous cesspool that we call public high school. The lead character, 17-year-old Veronica Sawyer, has recently been invited to join her school’s elite clique of much-feared mean girls—the “Heathers”—until her…
South Florida’s profile keeps growing in the international art world. This has created a thriving landscape for artists of all mediums to ply their trades in – with the support network of representation, gallerists, and museum professionals growing in tandem. But not all artists are able to successfully jump from…
Orenthal James Simpson always seemed a singular figure. Hardly anybody got where he got or did what he did. Certainly nobody got away with it. But of course it isn’t just the man who fascinates: It’s the image. This he shares in common with every super-grandee and megastar, every tabloid…
In a refreshing departure from art that’s political, disturbing, or oh-so-serious, three new shows at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood focus on “expressing small-scale emotions.” Take, for instance, Kenton Parker’s work. The Los Angeles-based artist’s show, “Everything Counts in Small Amounts,” consists of small life-size structures where people…
With the perfect timing of a deadpan comic and the keen observational skills of a zoologist, Athina Rachel Tsangari highlights just how bizarre the most banal of human activities can be. In Attenberg (2010), the filmmaker’s previous feature, walking itself is presented as a deranged means by which to move…
Back in 2013, James Wan’s The Conjuring represented the high point of a wave of mainstream horror that showed there was still value in old-school scares — that there was life beyond torture porn and slick slasher reboots. It was a ghost story-turned-possession thriller that mined terror out of the…
In 2001 a friend, a grown-up, saw The Fellowship of the Ring more than a dozen time in the theater. Sometimes she’d leave with a half hour left. “I just needed to get to Galadriel and Lothlorien,” she told me. She didn’t need all the climactic fighting. In 2012 I…
There’s something satisfying about hearing Tyler Perry, as mad scientist Baxter Stockman, say the words “Eliminate those turtles,” but it’s not quite novel enough to bring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows up to street level and out of the sewers. Early on, giant squid-like brain Krang (Brad…
