Review – Eastern Energy
Artist: Twelve Girls Band
Movie: Springtime in a Small Town
Springtime in a Small Town Length: 1 hour, 56 minutes Studio: Palm Pictures Release Date: 2004-08-06 Cast: Hu Jingfan, Xin Baiqing, Wu Jun, Ye Xiaokeng, Lu Sisi Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang Screenwriter: Ah Cheng WorkNameSort: Springtime in a Small Town Our Rating: 3.50 In the China of 1946, a sickly landowner welcomes an old chum into…
Movie: Valentin
Valentin Length: 1 hour, 26 minutes Studio: Miramax Website: http://www.miramax.com/valentin/index.html Release Date: 2004-08-06 Cast: Rodrigo Noya,, Alejandro Agresti, Julieta Cardinali, Juan Cruz Bordeu, Carmen Maura Director: Alejandro Agresti Screenwriter: Alejandro Agresti WorkNameSort: Valentin Our Rating: 4.00 Screened for Central Florida critics a full 17 months ago, this foreign-language charmer wins our award for the longest-ever…
Review – Black Fire
Artist: Andrew Hill
Set your clock by the timelessness of Shakers
Tucked away on Edgewater Drive, the tiny cottage called Shakers has served its tried-and-true breakfast and lunch menu for ages without becoming outdated. It’s the kind of place that can be counted on like clockwork, opening every morning at 7 a.m., except for Sunday. Named for the kitschy collection of salt and pepper shakers that…
MOURNING GLORY
Movie: Broken Wings
METAL FATIGUE
Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Movie: The Village
Our Rating: 3.50 Sticking up for M. Night Shyamalan flicks is a risky business – remember how much you initially enjoyed Signs, only to realize a week or so later that it was the stupidest goddamn story ever put to celluloid? Time will tell if a similar consensus attaches itself to The Village, the tale…
Movie: Valentin
Our Rating: 4.00 Screened for Central Florida critics a full 17 months ago, this foreign-language charmer wins our award for the longest-ever lag between a peekaboo sighting and legitimate play. The delay has worked to the movie’s detriment in one respect: After Good Bye Lenin!, it’s tougher to get excited at seeing another kid who…
HYDRO DYNAMIC
Movie: Riding Giants
Movie: Springtime in a Small Town
Our Rating: 3.50 In the China of 1946, a sickly landowner welcomes an old chum into his home, unaware that his wife and the visitor share a history that threatens the resident couple’s already rocky marriage. Rarely venturing far beyond the walls of their stately abode, the movie is a pressure cooker of slowly incubating…
Review – Eastern Energy
Artist: Twelve Girls Band
Review – Black Fire
Artist: Andrew Hill
Movie: The Village
The Village Length: 2 hours Studio: Touchstone Pictures Website: http://thevillage.movies.go.com/main.html Release Date: 2004-07-30 Cast: Judy Greer, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody Director: M. Night Shyamalan Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan WorkNameSort: The Village Our Rating: 3.50 Sticking up for M. Night Shyamalan flicks is a risky business – remember how much you…
Review – Eastern Energy
Artist: Twelve Girls Band
HYDRO DYNAMIC
Movie: Riding Giants
MOURNING GLORY
Movie: Broken Wings
Review – Black Fire
Artist: Andrew Hill
METAL FATIGUE
Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
COVERING THE ANGLES
(NOTE: Chuck Shepherd appeared to be getting too close to his subject matter and thus needs about two more weeks off. Before he left, he picked out some golden oldies to tide you over.) Commissioners in Florida’s Seminole County and Manatee County passed ordinances in 1999 prohibiting public nudity by requiring women to cover at…
ENTER CAMERAMAN
When filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky and his partner, Joe Berlinger, agreed to document the recording of Metallica’s St. Anger CD, they thought they’d be making a record-company-funded infomercial – a fairly pedestrian entry in a career that’s ranged from the provocative (the documentaries Brother’s Keeper and Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills) to…
IT’S BETTER TO BURN OUT, RIGHT?
Ricky Williams has never been one of the more predictable players in the National Football League. Drafted by the New Orleans Saints out of the University of Texas, Williams wore a wedding dress to his introductory press conference, presumably to show the world he felt like a bride. He was legendary for referring to himself…
Set your clock by the timelessness of Shakers
Tucked away on Edgewater Drive, the tiny cottage called Shakers has served its tried-and-true breakfast and lunch menu for ages without becoming outdated. It’s the kind of place that can be counted on like clockwork, opening every morning at 7 a.m., except for Sunday. Named for the kitschy collection of salt and pepper shakers that…
Doug Gallagher and America: How Great Can We Make It!
Doug Gallagher, the Miami millionaire nobody running in the Republican primary to fill Bob Graham’s U.S. Senate seat, was in town July 29 for the Orlando premiere of what he’s dubbed “Florida’s first-ever political movie.” To help fill seats at D.MAC for the event, Gallagher posted a campaign worker at the corner of Pine and…
STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
It’s no secret that hard times result in better music, and the same goes for The Velvet Teen. “We’re still struggling, which is good in some ways,” says bassist Joshua Staples. “People who are cushy and live comfortably don’t always make the best art.” While the trio may not hold day jobs anymore, going out…
INTENSE ALIENATION
Rjyan Kidwell is a freak and there’s no getting around the fact. Across five albums as Cex, exploring clattering, spasmodic drill & bass, dark, mechanistic IDM, lumbering, glitched-up industrial and even offbeat white-boy rap, the single uniting feature is a sense of odd despondency which Kidwell mocks even as he wallows. “I’ve kinda known for…
LEGACY OF BRUTALITY
Poor, pitiful Dave Mustaine. Dude gets kicked out of Metallica for being a drunk dick, starts up Megadeth, a band that both rocked and sold some records (but is nonetheless shit upon as second-rate). And then, in a two-decades-too-late attempt to bury the hatchet, he’s re-screwed by Metallica, who use him as some sort of…
SURREAL FOLK BLUES
Sixteen seconds into “Todo los Dolores,” Devendra Banhart loses his cool and starts laughing like he just got the punch line to a joke he heard three days ago. He stops singing the airy Spanish ballad, the finger-picked arpeggio accompaniment ceases, and he cracks up. In the background a few other cackles come over the…
“Prepare to meet thy groom”
On a semiregular basis, Orlando Weekly devotes editorial space to guest columns sent in by readers with strong, well-considered opinions on the issues of the day. This week, Maitland video-game designer Brian Gossage discusses the controversial subject of gay marriage. Hi. If you’re like me, you’ve been hearing a lot about gay marriage recently. Some…
THIS WAS YOUR LIFE
This is the last thing I need. (Not-so) fresh from a road trip to hell and back, and thoroughly engaged in self-indulgent wound-licking, I’d be far happier to crawl up under a crack rock, laugh a little maniacal laugh and die. Just halfway into my emotional breakdown, and my battered hip begins to vibrate tauntingly.…
IT AIN’T WHERE YOU’RE FROM
Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet By Patrick Neate (Riverhead, 274 pages) Several years ago, British novelist Patrick Neate found himself in a Tokyo hip-hop club called Harlem where up was down and down was up. African men posing as black Americans danced with Japanese girls who’d tanned their skin…
FEEL THEIR MUSCLE
Talk of “something different” always stirs curiosity in this town, and that’s one of the reasons why the Shades of Limbo performance by the Voci modern dance company is such a highly anticipated affair. It will be spectacularly different: Inside the Mad Cow Theatre, two performance spaces – one themed “light” and the other “dark”…
THE REVOLUTION WAS NOT TELEVISED
On June 2, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission, under the Republican stewardship of Commissioner Michael “Son of Colin” Powell, decided on a radical rewrite of media ownership laws. The Bush-approved decision would have allowed any one of the Big Five media giants – AOL Time Warner, Walt Disney Company/ABC, Viacom, News Corporation and Vivendi-Universal (now…
CASE CLOSED?
Wilton Dedge’s 22-year fight to get out of prison for a rape that DNA testing indicates he didn’t commit may be coming to a close soon, but not because the physical evidence in the case proves he is innocent. On July 21, Dedge’s attorneys asked 18th Circuit Court Judge Preston Silvernail for a new trial,…
