Review – Circa: Now! +4
Artist: Rocket From the Crypt
Movie: The Clearing
Our Rating: 2.50 The victim of mysterious forces, kidnapped corporate titan Robert Redford pins his hopes on divining the motives of his abductor (Willem Dafoe, whose stick-on ‘stache makes him look like either William H. Macy or Steve Buscemi – the verdict at our screening was mixed). While the bigwig’s family (headed by wife Helen…
Review – Circa: Now! +4
Artist: Rocket From the Crypt
Review – She Like Electric
Artist: Smoosh
GOADING, GOADING, GONE
Movie: Love Me If You Dare
Review – She Like Electric
Artist: Smoosh
Review – By the Grace of God
Artist: Hellacopters
Movie: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Our Rating: 3.00 Will Ferrell could be funny reading the 9/11 Commission Report, but don’t tell him: His script choices are dodgy enough already. Enthusiastic but nakedly scattershot, Anchorman casts the well-liked SNL alum as a 1970s newscaster sent into a tailspin by the hiring of a female co-anchor (Christina Applegate). The role allows Ferrell…
Review – By the Grace of God
Artist: Hellacopters
Movie: King Arthur
Our Rating: 3.00 As Troy proved, there’s little sense in adapting a great mythology while excising its supernatural aspects – especially when you’re obviously trying to appeal to the Lord of the Rings crowd. Yet director Antoine Fuqua’s (Training Day) take on the Arthurian mythos is dramatically sound entertainment for the first hour or so,…
Review – Action
Artist: Jackie McLean
Review – Backstroke
Artist: Matthew Dear
Review – Circa: Now! +4
Artist: Rocket From the Crypt
Review – She Like Electric
Artist: Smoosh
Review – By the Grace of God
Artist: Hellacopters
GOADING, GOADING, GONE
Movie: Love Me If You Dare
Movie: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Length: 2 hours, 10 minutes Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Website: http://www.anchorman-themovie.com/ Release Date: 2004-07-09 Cast: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Kevin Corrigan, Chuck D Director: Adam McKay Screenwriter: Adam McKay, Will Ferrell Music Score: Alex Wurman WorkNameSort: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Our Rating: 3.00 Will Ferrell could…
Movie: King Arthur
King Arthur Length: 2 hours, 10 minutes Studio: Touchstone Pictures Website: http://kingarthur.movies.go.com/main.html Release Date: 2004-07-07 Cast: Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy, Ioan Gruffudd WorkNameSort: King Arthur Our Rating: 3.00 As Troy proved, there’s little sense in adapting a great mythology while excising its supernatural aspects – especially when you’re obviously trying to…
Movie: Oasis
Oasis Length: 2 hours, 12 minutes Studio: Lifesize Entertainment Website: http://www.lser.net/OASIS.html Release Date: 2004-07-09 Cast: Sol Kyung-Gu, Moon So-Ri, Ahn Nae-Sang, Ryoo Seung-Wan, Chu Gui-Jeong Director: Lee Chang-Dong Screenwriter: Lee Chang-Dong Music Score: Lee Jae-Jin WorkNameSort: Oasis Our Rating: 4.00 Simultaneously transcending our notions of the unlikely love story and the tour-de-force performance, Korean filmmaker…
SECOND SITE
When judging Mexican food, it helps to have some ex-Californians in your camp. So when I headed over to the Taquitos Jalisco near MetroWest, I called on the most suitable contender I know – my mother. This is a woman of the belief that you can’t grow up in Los Angeles without knowing what real…
Movie: The Clearing
The Clearing Length: 1 hour, 31 minutes Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Website: http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/ Release Date: 2004-07-09 Cast: Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Helen Mirren, Alessandro Nivola, Matt Craven Director: Pieter Jan Brugge Screenwriter: Justin Haythe Music Score: Craig Armstrong WorkNameSort: The Clearing Our Rating: 2.50 The victim of mysterious forces, kidnapped corporate titan Robert Redford pins…
Review – Action
Artist: Jackie McLean
Review – Action
Artist: Jackie McLean
Review – Backstroke
Artist: Matthew Dear
Movie: Oasis
Our Rating: 4.00 Simultaneously transcending our notions of the unlikely love story and the tour-de-force performance, Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong submits the defiant Oasis, a movie that challenges you to keep watching as it peers into the keyhole of lives governed by denial and despair. Bad luck has a way of dogging Jong-Du (Sol Kyung-Gu),…
Review – Backstroke
Artist: Matthew Dear
END OF THE WORLD ASSAULT
Local metallians 5 Billion Dead are, first and foremost, a live band, with shows that consistently find the group departing the stage breathless, exhausted and grasping amps just to stay afloat. Because of said stage-trouncings, they’ve developed a reputation around the Southeast that is building them an ever-growing fan base. “Even without a CD, it’s…
Sizzling Mexican outpost
This is the quick-stop outlet for the full Margarita’s Grill on Chickasaw Trail, an east-side Mexican restaurant that’s built an audience for its sophisticated Mexico City-style menu. Too bad they stuck Quesadilla’s next to the cheap movie theater in the seen-better-days Colonial Promenade. By comparison, Quesadilla’s fare is far too fresh – quality meats and…
Islamic Independence Day
Being an American Muslim isn’t easy. You can’t even host an open-to-the-public Fourth of July party without drawing the flak of suspicious righties who think your party is just cover and what you really want to do is take over the world. We refer here to WFLA 540-AM talk-show host Bud Hedinger, who questioned on…
END OF THE WORLD ASSUALT
Local metallians 5 Billion Dead are, first and foremost, a live band, with shows that consistently find the group departing the stage breathless, exhausted and grasping amps just to stay afloat. Because of said stage-trouncings, they’ve developed a reputation around the Southeast that is building them an ever-growing fan base. “Even without a CD, it’s…
ARMIES OF EMOTION
At last check, Nick Drake is still dead. You can’t be blamed for thinking otherwise considering the amount of attention he’s received over the past few years. The Volkswagen Cabrio hasn’t enjoyed anywhere near the profile of its unintentional song-and-pitch man, whose “Pink Moon,” featured in VW’s ads, led to unprecedented interest in the songwriter…
“Six of one, Seven of Nine of the other”
Former Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan is offering refunds to donors following last week’s collapse of his campaign amid embarrassing sex allegations.Ryan had raised about $1.5 million since winning the Republican nomination, said Jason Miller, who managed Ryan’s campaign. Miller said the campaign expects about half of the donors to request refunds.Ryan, a 44-year-old investment…
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ANONYMOUS
Ever since the Guardian of London revealed almost two weeks ago that “Anonymous,” the author of the soon-to-be-published Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror (Brassey’s, Inc.), is a CIA figure “centrally involved in the hunt for Bin Laden,” the American press has been playing catch-up – yet in a strangely…
QUIET PLACES
It’s Sunday afternoon and the Seminole Towne Center is buzzing. Cars swarm to primo spots in the disturbed anthill of a parking lot. Inside, shoppers flit in and out of stores, buying up overpriced goods. This is Florida, but it’s not the real Florida. Down State Road 46, the swamps of Blackwater Creek are alive…
FRINGE STAYS AFLOAT IN PARTED WATERS
With official figures finally in for the May 20-30 Orlando International Fringe Festival, it appears that the event’s drastic organizational overhaul– including the splitting of venues between downtown Orlando and Loch Haven Park – was neither an instant windfall nor a calamitous fumble. A total of 18,507 tickets were sold to the nonjuried showcase of…
THE KURE FOR COMPLICATION
Designer Heidi Kure had a lot going on: a successful career as a costumer for Disney, creative work with local theater groups, a relationship and a new son. Sure, her life was busy – dealing with a huge corporate entity like Disney is never a completely straightforward proposition, and whose family life isn’t just a…
APATHY IN A BENZ
Apathy is everywhere. I mean, who says it’s just the snotty-nosed, frosted queers leaning over their high-rise balconies with sneers of liquor-breathed disinterest? This whole town is an underdressed tortoise pecking at the feces of the long-gone hare. We move slowly nowhere, treating our televisions like prison windows and staring at channels 65 through 73,…
TRADING PLACES
Tracy McGrady just got traded from the Orlando Magic. The deal has been in the works for quite some time now, stemming from last year’s atrocious 21-61 record and T-Mac’s inability to assume the responsibilities of being the team captain. Rather than taking a strong hand in helping the franchise regain its place among the…
