There are myriad moments during Get Him to the Greek — the roller-coaster spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall — when it feels as if the thing will jump the rails and smash to the ground in a thousand pieces of what-in-the-fuck. It’s a complete and utter mess from the big-loud-dumb…
A pleasant, minor-key romance, Darko Lungulov’s Here and There has the unadorned integrity of a classic joke. There’s pleasure in watching the conceit unfold, which is sweetened by an unexpectedly poignant payoff. Veteran bit player David Thornton headlines as Robert, a surly boho graybeard who’s given up jazz saxophone for…
There is something ennobling about really great acting. Adequate acting is the assumption of a disguise, but great acting illuminates how the raw stuff of humanity can be made ugly or beautiful, saintly or demonic. It may, if an actor desires, invite sympathy for a creature whose course through life…
Brad Anderson’s long-running saga of the melty-looking Winslow family and the gangling, interfering Great Dane that should’ve been put to sleep ages ago gets a film treatment, and once-mute Marmaduke gets expressive CGI-arched eyebrows and a voice provided by Owen Wilson. Relocated from Kansas to Orange County by master Phil…
For some folks, Monday Night Raw is the night of the week that’s set aside for sex without contraceptives. And for the men and women of the WWE, it’s almost the same, except with a thin layer of spandex covering their you-know-whats, million-dollar pyrotechnics, and an arena full of fans…
The film 8 1/2 won the Best Foreign Film Oscar like 45 years ago — it’s Italian — and was chosen to be shown the closing night at 6 for Cinema Paradiso’s first Italia Festa Film Festival, which runs Thursday until Monday. 8 1/2 is on a ton of current…
When Afrobeta scored the sweetest time slot of all at the Bayfront Live Stage at Ultra Music Festival prior to Orbital’s performance, one hoped they would make the best out if it and rep South Florida well. Not surprisingly, they did, and perhaps that’s why they are crossing the pond…
Now, it may be true that marriage is being assailed these days. The cantankerous Right would have you think that two dudes smooching is going to undo centuries of man-woman coupling as a cornerstone of civilization. Of course, if we’re worried about two chicks saying “I do” at a Massachusetts…
The women of Modernesque Burlesque will bitch you out and strip down. They are Florida’s gothic answer to the Pussycat Dolls: sassy, bodacious, sequined, and — as the night goes on — increasingly less clothed. Now their act is at Respectable Street, a dance club/café that revels in the unusual…
The free, quarterly indie mag WeMerge Magazine thrives when it comes to promoting local artists. Case in point: It held a cover-art contest for its eighth issue, which will be released June 1. The winner was Japanda, and now not only will her art don the cover but WeMerge plans…
There was a time when gambling evoked more than the image of little blue-haired ladies hunched over slot machines engulfed in the clouds of their chain-smoked companions. A time when being underground really meant something, like knowing where all the good bars were, especially the ones that actually served alcohol…
OK, so there’s a lingerie show this Friday. But before we get into the details, let’s give the Maxim crowd time to play out their fantasies… wait… almost… OK, that should do it. Anyway, local designer Mariana London is joined by photographer Tracy Mendy and some underwear-clad models to showcase…
We know what you’re thinking: Legos as art. Yeah, right. If by art you mean sweet-ass minihelicopters or little Death Stars or any of the other bazillion structures or machines that Legos have built over the past 60 years, then, yes, Legos can be art. But aside from badass dinosaurs…
On Thursdays, the street partiers come out once dusk descends upon the end of Clematis Street — it’s Clematis by Night, and there are live bands, food, and beer stations. It’s been in effect for 15 years now — that’s more than 700 nights filled with sidewalk shopping to the…
The only way the Florida Marlins can get any attention from the national media is when their star player kicks a ball into right field, runs after it lackadaisically, and then publicly criticizes manager Fredi Gonzalez when he gets benched for it afterward. Hanley Ramirez did just that, and ESPN…
In these hard-pressed economic times, the arts are faced with lagging ticket sales and shrinking audiences, but there is one way guaranteed to get people to come to see your show: fill the stage with a bunch of naked men! Rising Action (get it?) Theatre hopes to bring in some…
What sort of music do you like to hear when you just wanna party? In South Florida some folks gravitate toward whumpity-whump thumpatronics. That’s fine, but when you want a rippin’ guitar solo and high-octane rockabilly, there’s no better choice than the Hep Cat Boo Daddies. Comprising rip-snortin’ guitar slinger/singer…
OK, so those Pixar Toy Story films teach your little rug rats how to buy another action figure, but not much else. So, instead of paying the new $40 family-of-four ticket prices at your local 3-D Imax, maybe it’s time for the kids to spend the afternoon with toys they…
Let’s hear it for female empowerment movies that are so graphic they could never air on Lifetime TV flicks such as Hard Candy, Jennifer’s Body, and the latest The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. When it screened at this year’s Miami International Film Festival, women in the sold-out crowd at…
Jeffrey Loria knows how to give a gift. The owner of the Florida Marlins may be known as one of the cheapest owners in baseball, but one look at his track record shows that he is not without generosity. Over the years, he has rewarded various Marlins with gold coins,…
Whether feeding mice to a pet snake, painting X-rated scenes on cars, or inviting us into his hospital room to watch his own testicular cancer surgery, Tom Green delights in making his audience squirm. The comedian got his start doing standup and college radio before becoming a pop-culture figure in…
The list of medical conditions for which studies have found medical marijuana to be an effective treatment is longer than your busted dealer’s jail term. Unfortunately, state law still bans the use of the miracle weed as medicine in Florida. Among efforts to correct this injustice is tonight’s Medical Marijuana…
