My first exposure to The Three Stooges happened in the eighties, when I caught several of their shorts on TBS. I quickly learned to change the channel anytime they aired. Why would I waste my time with their sadistic brand of numbskull slapstick? (What can I say? I was more of a Little Rascals fan.) [...]
They’re the doormats of moviedom. Throwaway characters created for the primary purpose of eliciting our scorn or pity. Kids who are the targets of bullying frequently fade into the background, all too often limited to playing second fiddle in their better adjusted peers’ narratives. Who would pay to see an entire movie made up of [...]
By Annie Hollingsworth, artburstmiami.com Paris-based choreographer and performer Radhouane el Meddeb, born and raised in Tunisia, is on the way to Miami. This weekend, on April 13 and 14, Miami Light Project will present his multi-sensory work I Dance and I Feed You. Firmly rooted in the cultural traditions of his country, el Meddeb was [...]
The Sicilian Film Festival Honors the Art, Culture and History of Cuba The Sicilian Film Festival, which runs at the Miami Beach Cinematheque this month, opens a “Window to Cuba” three events honoringthe rich art, culture and history of its people, which like Sicily, is an island with a global cultural impact. The festival will [...]
American Pie was that rare mainstream anomaly: a teen sex romp with a big heart. It may have been perceived by many as Porky’s for Generation Y, but the film’s raunch factor was anchored by a genuine affection for its insatiable characters that transcended its overeager need to please its impressionable target audience. Even when [...]
Shirley Jones Turner Classic Movies, as part of its ten-city Classic Film Festival, brought Elmer Gantry (1960) to the big screen of downtown Miami’s Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts on March 20. Special guest SHIRLEY JONES – whose portrayal of a vengeful hooker won her an Oscar statuette at age [...]
By Miguel Angel Estefan, Jr., artburstmiami.com The performance highlight of Dance Now!’s Spring to Dance Now! is the second-half encore presentation of Six Characters, a critically acclaimed “Whodunit Murder Mystery” with theatrical inspiration from Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (on March 31 and April 1 at The Colony Theatre). The dramatic [...]
Every movie franchise deserves a second chance. Unless, of course, you wind up with even more inept people behind the camera. Scanning the credits for Wrath of the Titans, the brain-dead sequel to 2010’s Clash of the Titans, I cringed when I read the name of the guy calling the shots. Jonathan Liebesman is the [...]
Katniss Everdeen took over my life. Deadlines were looming, errands needed to be run, but I could not stop reading. Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” is a grabber. Once the author lays out the foundations of her grim post-apocalyptic society, I found it imperative to discover what happened next to her plucky, stubbornly resolute heroine. [...]
By Tony Guzman GableStage’s third offering in what is proving to be another exceptional season put together by producing artistic director Joe Adler is A Steady Rain by Chicago-based playwright Keith Huff, perhaps best known as the writer/producer of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series Mad Men. A Steady Rain is a gritty, sometimes [...]
It seemed like the most cynical of endeavors: repackaging a hit TV series from the eighties as a feature film for the YouTube generation. But what’s most surprising about the big screen version of 21 Jump Street is how it relentlessly deconstructs the same high schoolers it seeks to entertain. The action comedy, one of [...]
By Elizabeth Hanly, artburstmiami.com A promise was made to the South Miami Dade community after the destruction of Hurricane Andrew. The “revitalization plan” developed by Commissioner Dennis Moss envisioned an anchor, a new public space around which the community could again build their lives. And so the idea for The South Miami Dade Arts Center [...]
