“The world changed when Superman flew across the sky,” Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller says early on in Suicide Squad. “And then it changed again when he didn’t,” she continues, over somber images of the Man of Steel’s funeral following his (non-)death at the end of Batman v. Superman. Luckily, that…
Attention, all cosplay enthusiasts, gamers, comic-book junkies, and anime geeks: Your annual South Florida parties have moved to Broward County. Nobody likes to show up dressed like Wonder Woman at the wrong place, so please schedule accordingly. Super Conventions, the company behind the festivals, has moved its Animate Miami and…
Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…
Throughout the summer, “Best Beaches” will highlight the best beach spots Broward has to offer. Don’t agree? Check back next week; your favorite beach in Broward could be next. Hollywood Beach is more than deserving of it’s famous name; it’s the crown jewel of Broward beaches. While we enjoy other…
You can have your houses of cards, your Jessica Joneses, your wet hot American summers. The Netflix original with its finger firmest on the pulse of our fraught current moment? It comes from Germany, comprises three feature-length “episodes,” and commences its tale more than a quarter-century ago. NSU: Germany History…
Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets…
Alec Baldwin is no Steve Harvey. Unlike Harvey, Baldwin seems diminished on the set of a retro ’70s game show dedicated to getting contestants to say gently dirty nonsense. On ABC’s baggy, boozy Match Game, Baldwin crabs into a skinny last-century microphone about how everything’s stupid: his celebrity panelists, the…
Thursday, July 28 Selfie Deception We can all probably agree there is no photographic image more narcissistic than the digital selfie. Those 18th-century kings and queens and judges and dukes and counts who posed for days at a time in starchy regalia so that commissioned artists could paint laborious portraits…
While a lot of South Florida locals focus on the latest trends, a tight group of swing dancers, pinup models, and rockabilly music fans live and breathe a bygone era. After looming large on the cultural zeitgeist during the early aughts, rockabilly events have been few and far between in…
Alex Gibney will be ready if the power grids fail. “We have a place in Maine now,” the director says. “We just installed solar panels. We can fish. We have water. With a little bit of Sterno, we’ll probably be OK.” After a long career dredging up the dark side…
The ludicrous but amusing teen social-media thriller Nerve is committed to pinning its characters into a world we understand as ours. It opens with Skype, Spotify, Gmail and Chrome, all on the MacBook screen of a mousily beautiful teen, Vee (Emma Roberts), who you just know is one horrific adventure…
Few of us live our lives in widescreen. Instead, the frames in which our days play out tend to be tight and personal, the vistas only occasional. We see what we need to, what’s before us, what we actually inhabit. That truth has long been the source of a distracting…
Fort Lauderdale’s FAT Village has been Broward’s art star in recent years, but it’s certainly not the only game in town. Pompano Beach’s cultural scene is ready to pop thanks, in part, to arts management group the Creatives and its initiative Magnetic Pompano. Launched in May, Magnetic is an incubation…
Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and…
Café Society is surprisingly ambitious by the standards of late-period Woody Allen — a veritable epic taking in a broad swath of a young man’s life and charting his progress from wide-eyed innocent to cold, confident operator. But that’s also why the film, in some senses, could only have been…
A more appropriate title for Jason Bourne might be Walking: The Motion Picture. This fifth entry in the franchise loosely (very loosely) based on Robert Ludlum’s best-selling novels brings back director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon to continue the tale of the good soldier-turned-amnesiac-assassin-turned-rogue agent doing battle against his…
Don’t let the publicity photos of the ensemble cast clad in ’70s-era tuxes and flower-child dresses, or even the cloying Mumford-mimicking soundtrack on the trailer, fool you: Captain Fantastic ain’t some twee, cutesy Wes Anderson romp or a Little Miss Sunshine knockoff. This dramedy marking the feature debut of longtime…
If your city’s power grid shuts down this summer, it may be a brownout, or it may be an act of cyber-warfare — a straight-out-of-Hollywood scenario that suddenly seems scarily possible thanks to the labyrinthine story director Alex Gibney tells in his riveting documentary Zero Days. It’s complicated, but know…
‘Best Beaches’ will be a recurring post here at New Times. Throughout the summer we will highlight the best things about various beaches in the county and make an arguments as to why it’s the best beach Broward has to offer. Don’t agree? Check back next week; your favorite beach in Broward…
Hannibal Buress both does and doesn’t care what you think about his comedy. The Chicago native meticulously combs through his material in hopes that audiences find his quirky brand of honest, self-deprecating humor funny. However, as his numerous specials on Netflix can attest, he’s not afraid to experiment with jokes…
Friday, July 22 The Artsy Wayans Standup comedy has few dynastic families, but the Wayans clan is undoubtedly one of them. Keenen Ivory, Damon, Shawn, Marlon, and Kim are talented individually, but together they’re a Hydra of pioneering satire, from their groundbreaking sketch-TV staple In Living Color to Don’t be…
A while back I cracked a dumb joke about all our presidential candidates being corrupt. My wife hit back with this: “You’re a JibJab!” She referred, of course, to the animated viral sensations of America circa 2005 or 2008, the once wildly popular political-parody videos that, in the interest of…
