Noomi Rapace, center, in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.Film: The long waited third shoe in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest -- has just dropped locally, and it snaps the trilogy back into form, paring down the third weighty, introspective novel about Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: A fine ‘Candida,’ an incomplete ‘Desire’
John Leonard Thompson and Kim Cozort in Candida.Candida(Palm Beach Dramaworks; through Nov. 21)Palm Beach Dramaworks, which recently announced plans to move into the vacant Cuillo Centre space a block away from its Banyan Boulevard playhouse in West Palm Beach, continues to take the high road of offering up the towering writers for the stage that other South Florida … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 6-12
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in Countdown to Zero. Film: Robert Oppenheimer had a very good idea of what his Manhattan Project had unleashed in the New Mexico desert in 1945, but at the time, his team was all alone in having become “Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Today, an estimated 23,000 nuclear weapons exist, and the makers of the … [Read more...]
Theater reviews in brief: ‘Bat Boy,’ ‘Tintypes,’ ‘Magical Thinking’
Matthew Korinko, Stephanie Simon, Rick Penaand Anne Chamberlainin Slow Burn Theatre's Bat Boy.By Hap Erstein'Bat Boy' charms, but new company needs smaller spaceMaking its area debut, Slow Burn Theatre Company certainly fulfills its stated mission by selecting Bat Boy: The Musical, a quirky, cult show about, yes, a kid who is half-bat, half-human, based on the character … [Read more...]