A loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called “Baster,” The Switch stars Jennifer Aniston as Kassie, who, having failed to find a husband by age 40, informs her sad-sack best friend, Wally (Jason Bateman), that she’s on the hunt for a sperm donor. Though wholly devoted to Kassie, Wally…
For eight years, there has been a steady spot for Wednesdays and booze in West Palm Beach. Within two miles of downtown, in the El Cid district, lies a 43-room historic boutique hotel. The fancy say this building was built in likeness of Bermuda’s vernacular architecture. Whether you agree or…
“No Damn Trespassing, Beware of Mule!” warns the hand-carved sign posted near the high-country cabin of Tennessee recluse Felix Bush (Robert Duvall), whose abrupt decision to reengage with the larger world propels Get Low, an imperfect but rewarding film. It is 1938, and Felix, who’s been in a self-imposed exile…
If the money’s right, we don’t care where the job is.” So explains the leader of hired-gun task force The Expendables, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). This credo lands Ross and his team (Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Randy Couture, and Terry Crews in “The Carl Weathers Memorial Role”) in…
In Sally Potter’s 1993 Marxist-punk-tinged Virginia Woolf adaptation, Tilda Swinton plays the titular British lord blessed with eternal youth who, after failing in the world of men and balking at his preordained role in imperialist war, suddenly shape-shifts into a woman. With Orlando now being reissued in theaters, Swinton’s current…
For all of Scott Pilgrim’s adherence to the graphic novels upon which it’s based — the pop art pows and thwacks, the videogame imagery, the rock ‘n’ roll references, the merging of chop-socky action and puppy-dog-sweet sentiment — it goes even deeper, conveying the ache pulsating between the lines in…
Lusciously shot by Oscar winner Robert Richardson (The Aviator, JFK), Eat Pray Love delivers a sensory overload as intense as Inception’s. But it’s heavily calibrated to stir the hearts, loins, and tear ducts of women for whom love handles and spiritual bankruptcy are of equally pressing concern. Julia Roberts’ Liz…
From Miami Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland asking potential draftee Dez Bryant if his mother was a crack-addled prostitute to several players getting busted for things like DUI and alleged domestic violence to wide receiver Brian Hartline’s pickup being found abandoned on I-75 after a hit and run, this summer…
I’m having a Dickens of a time figuring out what would compel this Arizona quintet to give itself such a frosty moniker as the Maine. It’s just like this whole Twilight Saga bullshit about Aryan vampires and Native American werewolves. Like, why the hell does Bella, who’s supposed to hail…
Between zombies and vampires, the undead have been seeing a trendy resurgence over the past few years. But what about the just plain dead? Sure, some have memorials erected in their honor or entire days dedicated to their memory and good deeds, but they’re usually solemn affairs where an ill-timed…
Satan has been increasingly generous with his musical offerings. Followers were first force-fed the not-too-worshipful Beatles, then the nonblasphemers Led Zeppelin. Before hope was lost, Ozzy emerged with Black Sabbath, and Lucifer led us to new and darker music. Sabbath, with Satan’s help, inspired bands ranging from Iron Maiden to…
There are few things more cliché than a bikini contest in Fort Lauderdale. Since the first humans walked upright (and all the good bits became front and center), mankind (emphasis on man) has been evolving toward the bikini contest. Why else would we have evolved to be so hairless? So…
Dear Pembroke Pines: Kudos for taking the former laundry facility of the old South Florida State Hospital and turning it into a residency for 18 artists. Sure, the washroom was probably awesome for the hospital folks, but now an 11,000-square-foot building gives 18 local artists affordable studios and exhibition space…
Sildenafil is the cold, flaccid, clinical name for Viagra. But it’s also the title of a short film screening at the Colony Theater (1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach) at 8 p.m. Friday — a film about a parched wife trying to persuade her hypochondriac husband to get it up chemically…
Latin at Cabana El Rey, Thai at Ziree, Italian at Il Bacio, Brazilian at Gol!, French at Crepes by the Sea, Mediterranean at Boheme Bistro, and on and on. No wonder the latest downtown Delray Beach event is centered on a $25 Tastemakers of Delray Beach passport, because the bulk…
A fair warning to prospective guests at the Deerfield Beach Hilton: If, while checking in this weekend, you notice a woman in a bikini with hooks in her flesh hanging upside down from a crane by the pool, don’t be alarmed. From Friday to Sunday, the hotel’s being taken over…
The perils of fighting for your rent money are legion — scar tissue, shattered bones, blood loss — but none is worse than defeat. Even though you might still score a paycheck, there’s no glory in getting dragged back home, unconscious and beaten, after a brutal third-round KO. Witness life…
Let’s dust off an oft-quoted nugget of feminist truth from the mouth of Lake Worth-born Robin Morgan: Sisterhood is powerful, people. It’s quite possibly the only reason to explain a dastardly phenomenon like the Red Hat Society or the perennial possibility that at any given moment during a 24-hour period,…
Tattoos are an ancient form of human expression — rich with symbolic meaning and cultural significance. Some tattoos signify religious devotion, rites of passage, or involvement with a certain group. Others act as protection against evil forces or to increase luck. And still others simply allow us to show the…
It seemed especially fitting that on the same day I visited “Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney” at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, I also stumbled upon the 1993 movie Jurassic Park while channel-surfing. I’ve seen the Steven Spielberg screen version of Michael Crichton’s best-selling…
After obligatory helicopter views of New York’s skyline open Adam McKay’s The Other Guys, we’re introduced to Danson and Highsmith (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson), a duo of headline-grabbing, unflappable supercops who keep the city exciting, if not safe, with law enforcement by the Michael Bay book. The Other…
D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gin Game is a two-character play set on the porch of a half-dilapidated old-age home, somewhere in deepest Americana. There, an old man named Weller (Peter Haig) spends his afternoons cheating at solitaire and holding his fellow senescents in silent contempt. His solitude is disturbed…
