Say what you will, but the lead actors in Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella’s latest film do have lovely (or at least handsomely shot) peepers. But the secrets you ultimately find therein are hilarious. Feeling like he has missed out on life, retired court investigator Esposito (Ricardo Darin) visits his…
Be advised, dear reader: On opening night, Mosaic Theatre’s Dying City was so gripping that this reviewer forgot to take a single note. Therefore, anything I say about the show is reconstructed from memory and from conversations with other people who were there. Not that they’re much help. Because Dying…
I’m no obstetrician, but I’d wager that Jennifer Lopez’s own labor when birthing fraternal twins two years ago was much less interminable and painful than watching this romantic comedy, the star’s first movie since 2006’s El Cantante, about knocking yourself up. As single, financially comfortable, baby-craving Tribeca pet-store owner Zoe,…
For baseball fanatics, it feels like forever since the Yanks swiped their 27th World Series title, this time from the Phillies. But opening day has once again dawned on America’s favorite pastime, so off you’ll go to Monday’s 7:10 p.m. Marlins versus Padres ball game, where you’ll sit in the…
Stone crab, lobster, fish both local and fresh, South Florida is the friggin’ best. We get drunk and have good times, stomachs full, dressed to the nines. We dance in the party lights, just to work up our appetites. We drink a few rounds of red and a few rounds…
Sure, Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat closed out the final month and a half of the regular season by posting 17 wins and only four losses. But here’s the thing: Miami spent the past seven days of the playoff race eking out meager wins against some of the Eastern…
The Rising Action Theatre is billing its new play, The Sum of Us, in terms that could be bait for incest fetishists. According to the theater’s website, the play is “a love story… a love story about a widowed father and his gay son, who’s trying to find Mr. Right.”…
For two hours this Saturday, play tourist in your own town by catching a ride on the narrated Delray Beach bus tours. The tour begins at the Museum of Lifestyle and Fashion History and travels through five historic districts in the area. Learn the stories behind converted homes from the…
Jim Gaffigan is quite pale, and he’s aware that he’s quite pale. But the pasty poster boy of white-on-white comedy hasn’t become a ubiquitous face on TV by just laughing at his unusual whiteness. His genius comes through the lens of a comedic microscope that breaks down life’s truly important…
Miami-based artist Terribly Odd will showcase his interpretations of European social history at Bear and Bird’s newest exhibit. At “Le Iconique: Terribly Odd Solo Show,” iconic French figures such as Joan of Arc and Napoleon will be painted or printed on distressed wooden boxes. “For me, it’s been interesting to…
The quaint Undergrounds Coffeehaus on Oakland Boulevard beats any Starbucks-type coffee joint, even ones with a drive-through. For starters, the coffee is tastier: Some caffeinated gems are the iced chocolate cheesecake espresso, Turkish coffee, or the peanut butter latte. It also trumps the others with its service. The woman who…
If anthropomorphized lady parts — women monologuing on behalf of their vaginas — is all you know about women’s theater, then you don’t know much. Take the new production from the Women’s Theatre Project called Going to See the Elephant. The phrase “going to see the elephant” is a figure…
If you’re nostalgic for the free love of the 1960s and the disco of the 1970s, Coral Springs Museum of Art has got you covered. Every year, they put on the Great Art Fair, which is “Flower Power Rock” themed: meaning it’s a mélange of the two decades. Rick Shaw…
The Jets fans will forever have the lock on Radio City Music Hall — and witness to some of the great draft miscues in modern history. You owe it to yourself to YouTube this, seriously. Chortle as Jets fans in 1995 chant “We want Sapp!” only to see the franchise…
MUTEMATH — yup, the band name’s all one word and contains all capital letters and no, we have no idea why either — has been one of rock’s more unlikely success stories in recent years. Caught in major-label limbo in 2005, the band successfully won the rights to self-release its…
Environmentalist and 305.org founder Bill McKibben has plenty to say on the global climate change, and what’s more, he’s been published. So respected is McKibben that the folks at Books and Books (265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables) are having him put on a lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday that’s sure…
Kick-Ass sets itself up as an unadulterated exposé of the teenaged mind. Tired of being mugged by high school thugs in a Manhattan that’s notably scummier than the real thing, our hero Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson, a hot young thing given a perm-and-glasses nerdover) wonders, in a hilariously put-on and…
Seamstress Inge (Ursula Werner), professorial husband Karl (Horst Westphal), and silver fox Werner (Horst Rehberg) form a Berlin love triangle with more than 200 collective years of experience. She strikes up the affair after hand-delivering a pair of pants, and, within minutes, their living-room-floor intimacy goes beyond whether Werner dresses…
A fixture of New York City’s no-wave scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s — an era of prolific DIY filmmaking, when everybody seemed to be collaborating with everyone else — Bette Gordon continues her exploration of desire with Handsome Harry. A road-movie ensemble piece interrupted by Fireworks-like flashbacks,…
For a while, at least, a pitch-black (and therefore pitch-perfect) tale of our times: Four business partners masquerading as a happy family move into seven-figure suburbia and sell their friends and neighbors — which is to say, contacts and customers — on their early-adopter, newer-than-brand-new layaway lifestyle. David Duchovny, Demi…
The beloved Sol Theatre is long gone now, but a band of dramatists called Infinite Abyss Productions is operating out of its erstwhile digs — for this month, at least. Sol was long Florida’s funkiest, chillest theater, with a performance space at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale that was magical…
It doesn’t take much to improve the first Death at a Funeral, the flat Frank Oz–directed Britcom of 2007; a few tossed-off references to Jet and sickle cell anemia will do it. Though the plot of Dean Craig’s original script remains almost entirely intact (he receives the sole writer’s credit),…
