Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Technically there is only one old dog in Old Dogs -- a 15-year-old Great Pyrenees-Shepherd mix -- but even though director Walt Becker frequently cuts to close-ups of the canine grunting with befuddlement for reaction shots, the movie isn't really about him.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
For three decades, Christopher Durang has been one of American theater's preeminent social satirists. From his breakthrough play, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (a scathing yet hilarious contemplation of Catholicism), to his latest, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Durang has skewered dysfunctional families, psychotherapy, homophobia and more.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"If the human brain is data being passed from neuron to neuron at its basic level and we can simulate that in a computer, shouldn't a conscious mind start to emerge?" Not really: "The difference between simulated thinking and conscious thinking can be illustrated by thinking about the difference between a computer-simulated boat and a real one."...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It's been less than a dazzling year at the movies, so fingers crossed that Hollywood is saving the best for last. Holiday offerings are off to a promising start, with actors such as Daniel Day-Lewis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
George Clooney first read the script of "Up in the Air" at his villa in Lake Como, Italy. The story of a devilishly handsome charmer who extols the single life and has no plans to ever marry or procreate resonated with him. In 1996, Nicole Kidman and Michelle...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Christopher Durang is at the height of his satirical powers in his newest play, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. If you think the title is weird, consider the family at the play's center: Dad (Dave Corey) collects butterflies and may be working for a shadow government; daughter Felicity (Sharon Kremen) discovers she has married a possible terrorist (Nick Duckart) while she was drunk;...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
26 Miles by Pulitzer Prize finalist Quiara Alegría Hudes. Artistic director Ricky J. Martinez is staging the play, about a Cuban-American mom, her long-estranged Jewish daughter, and the bonds they forge as they head west together. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday- Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday (additional shows at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 6 and Dec. 13). The play runs through Dec. 20 at New Theatre,...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
''You're not the first monsters I've met,'' the 18-year-old Bella (Kristen Stewart) yawns at a pack of werewolves. They are fairly impressive creatures, these wolf-men who run around shirtless a lot, turn into giant wolves when angry and seem to own matching sets of magical pants that reappear when they transform back into their human selves.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Beneath the elegant façade, obscured by the opulent trappings of wealth, a scandal is brewing.<p/> A respected, successful man known for his charitable works and his familial generosity has been using other people's money to buy a rich man's lifestyle. He has been found out by someone who trusted him, worked with him. And now the younger man, possessed of this ruinous knowledge, must...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Beneath the elegant façade, obscured by the opulent trappings of wealth, a scandal is brewing. A respected, successful man known for his charitable works and his familial generosity has been using other people's money to buy a rich man's lifestyle. He has been found out by someone who trusted him, worked with him. And now the younger man, possessed of this ruinous knowledge, must decide whether...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The first movie Lee Daniels directed, the 2005 drama Shadowboxer about a terminally ill assassin and her unusual relationship with her partner in crime, was largely derided by critics and virtually ignored by audiences, grossing less than $1 million worldwide.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Marco Ramirez is a wildly imaginative playwright whose writing acknowledges a fundamental reality: If you want to entice the under-30 crowd into experiencing theater, you'd better give 'em something exciting in a form that really speaks to them.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Macon City: A Comic Book Play, a new work getting its first production by The Naked Stage. Jasmine Fluker and Hugh Murphy are in the play, along with Naja Corbett, Jason DeWitt and Giordan Diaz. David Hemphill, Scott Genn and Alyn Darnay round out the cast. They portray citizens of an American metropolis, folks just trying to survive after their decaying city is abandoned by its crime-fighting superheroes....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
How much you enjoy Legally Blonde the Musical -- and loads of people do -- will probably depend on your tolerance for things kitschy and adorable.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
(Untitled) is a comedy for anyone who has ever stood before an abstract painting or sculpture or witnessed a performance of interpretive dance and music, and thought ``I could have done this.'' The question of what, exactly, constitutes art is at the center of director Jonathan Parker's satire of the New York gallery scene. The movie simultaneously mocks the vacuousness of the avant-garde and celebrates...
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