In one key way, the kinda-maybe sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane might be the purest example yet of the J.J. Abrams house style. Directed by first-timer Dan Trachtenberg but produced by Abrams (Super 8, Lost, Alias, Cloverfield, etc.) the thriller is yet another of the fannish wunderbrand’s mystery boxes, a genre…
Thursday, March 10 There is a reason the last lottery ticket you purchased was also paired with a fake mustache, a baseball cap, and a giant set of shades. That’s because as many people who would be there to cheer you on in your win, there would still be those…
If you missed the opening of Sweet Dillard at the Miami International Film Festival on Sunday, you made a big mistake. The documentary, by a cadre of South Florida Sun Sentinelers, tells the story of the Dillard Center for the Arts Jazz Ensemble. This is no small-time group. Started in…
A legitimate stunner in that word’s truest sense, Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s river-trip Embrace of the Serpent mesmerizes and jacks with you, leaving you not quite certain, at its end, how to go about the rest of your day. The film is beautiful and ferocious, calm and torrential, a plunge…
1. Journalist & Author Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post Columnist and CNN Host 7 p.m., Monday, March 7 The first must see is Fareed Zakaria’s talk on the topic of Global Trends and Hot Spots: The Next Security Crisis. Viewers will get a taste of economic and political trends from one of…
Since 1988, Fort Lauderdale’s annual gathering of famous authors and bibliophiles alike has raised more than $3 million to support Broward County Library’s literary programs and services. This year, the twenty-eighth Literary Feast will host nearly 20 nationally acclaimed authors in a series of literary events over three days. The festivities begin…
The third season of Broad City (Comedy Central) opens with a toilet-centric montage that already feels like one of the year’s TV highlights. At once exuberant, absurd and all-too-real, a split screen reveals besties Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) living their best lives in their respective bathrooms. They…
Two movies, same scenario: Moments before a scheduled execution, just as the blade or gas pellet is set to deliver its fatal blow, the hero bursts into the room and carries the victim to safety. Banter is exchanged: “What took you so long?” “Traffic was a bitch.” “What took you…
Thursday, March 3 Hurricane-force waves batter a dock jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. A gleaming high-rise spikes toward the heavens, nearly dwarfing the full moon behind it. An empty rowboat casts a reflection on water made from sewn patches. These works, by Mike Fossler, Charles Langjahr, and Claudia Groll, are…
What if Terrence Malick directed an episode of Entourage? Well, we’re about to find out, sort of. In Knight of Cups, the director of Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life turns his roaming camera and ruminating voiceovers toward Los Angeles and the movie business,…
In Zootopia, animals do a lot of the things that animals in Disney movies usually do: They speak, to begin with; they walk upright and wear funny clothes; they exhibit attitudes that align or ironically misalign with their species’ appearance and reputation; they hold jobs; they experience outsize emotion and…
The title of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s strained dark comedy, in which the War in Afghanistan serves as the backdrop to an American woman’s self-actualizing journey, is the military phonetic-alphabet rendering of WTF. The mild Islamophobia and highly questionable casting choices in the film call to mind other texting…
At first blush the least Romanian of the Romanian New Wavers, Radu Jude’s new film is in no way a steely-eyed, ultra-realist, uninflected working-class trudge, and the cranial wounds of Eastern European Communism are yet a gleam in the characters’ eyes. Rather, more acutely than The Hateful Eight, Aferim! is…
When you need to up Instagram game, there’s one awesome way to do it: “underwater fashion” which is getting super popular — especially in the warm waters of South Florida. According to photographer Kim Porter of Fort Lauderdale, clients are lining up not just for shoots in which they wear…
Let’s give Gods of Egypt this much: An hour in, a giant cobra crashes and explodes like a bad guy’s car in a dumb movie from the ’70s. That snake, one of two in Alex Proyas’ film, is wide as a locomotive and long as a parade. It’s also straddled…
We’ve all been there. You finally get around to watching this year’s nominees, and you think, “Didn’t I see pretty much this same Oscar-bait movie last year?” You probably did, thanks to the McKee/Weinstein-driven formula behind most Best Picture noms. You can even build your own! Just mix and match…
As BroCo’s tight-knit arts scene grows into a more serious place for professional visual artists to call home, the small yet ever-evolving scene continues to foster an innovative community where artists crank out impressive works and organize quality exhibitions. While Broward can sometime feel like Miami’s ignored little sibling, plenty…
Kathleen Madigan is just here for the jokes. In her 25-plus year career in stand-up comedy, she has bypassed the coveted sitcom and movie route that so many comedians strive for and stayed doing what she really loves instead – simply standup. It is what has made her a frequent…
“Sometimes the tattoo artists in primitive cultures were shamans,” explains Fakir Musafar, the preeminent researcher of body modification and of the so-called “modern primitives” movement. “They envisioned the marks, tattooed them on the body, and then the person who got the tattoo was whole, complete. It was their pattern, their…
Thursday, February 25 Thursdays are the worst. You’re so close to the weekend and yet so far. You can’t really justify dinner out when you’ve already got Friday-night plans, but you’re just sick of dinner in front of the TV. New Times would like to tempt you off your couch…
In the Winter Olympics, ski jumping is one of those sports — bobsledding and luging are others — where Joe and Jane Satellite Dish cannot tell the difference between a great performance and a terrible one unless the athlete is carried away on a stretcher. No doubt there are crucial…
Bad cop movies — whether bad movies about cops or movies about bad cops — can be like those Arctic core samples from which scientists determine long-gone CO2 levels, though in this case they’re measuring American anxiety about police authority. Pop on John Hillcoat’s agonized pulp thriller Triple 9 in…
