Theater: Broward Stage Door Theatre, which moves from Margate to its new permanent home in Lauderhill this August, is an erratic producer of musicals. But like the girl with a curl in the middle of her forehead, when the company is good, it is very, very good. As it is with its current mainstage show, Nice Work if You Can Get It, another Gershwin jukebox musical in the style of … [Read more...]
Tired tropes, gimmicks take edge off ‘Unsane’
A young professional woman (Claire Foy), traumatized by irrational visions of a stalker from thousands of miles away, visits a therapist. She’s done everything she can do to escape his presence, yet she still sees him, suddenly, in the eyes of other men. She confesses to the counselor that she has, in the past, harbored suicidal thoughts. All of a sudden, after signing some … [Read more...]
‘Girlfriend’ an intense look at way we live now
No film better describes the world we live in right now than Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience. The film is almost designed to be a time-capsule artifact, a vivisection of America in late 2008, ready to be unearthed and dissected in some future economics, political science or cinema studies course (because The Girlfriend Experience is about all three). On the … [Read more...]