Review – For Flowers
Artist: Joelle Leandre
Movie: Shaolin Soccer
Our Rating: 2.00 Miramax has been in a dither about what to do with this Chinese slapstick sports melodrama since acquiring it eons ago; at one point, there was even a dubbed version floating around that never saw release. The print that’s finally hitting theaters is a standard subtitled affair, but the 25 minutes that…
GETTIN’ YER GOAT
Foodwise, our corner of the state is a lot more diverse than meets the eye. You could dine at Applebee’s every night for a fortnight and never eat at the same restaurant twice, true, but if you venture off the beaten track even a little in Central Florida you are bound to come across some…
FEAR AND BALANCE
Movie: Control Room
FEAR AND BALANCE
Movie: Control Room
Movie: Collateral
Our Rating: 4.00 Count your summer-cinema blessings, because this stylish yet restrained thriller finds Michael Mann indulging most of his best qualities and few of his worst. Immediately establishing an entrancing, dreamlike mood, Mann takes us for an overnight spin with cabbie Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx), who becomes the terrified hostage of a coolly homicidal…
LET LOVE RULE, DAMMIT
Movie: A Home at the End of the World
Movie: Carandiru
Our Rating: 4.00 When we tell you that this film concerns a doctor working to stem the spread of AIDS in a Brazilian prison – and that it runs nearly two and a half hours – you’ll probably prime yourself for an uphill death march of sanctimony. It’s a relief, then, to report that the…
Review – Bubblegum
Artist: Mark Lanegan Band
Movie: Collateral
Our Rating: 4.00 Count your summer-cinema blessings, because this stylish yet restrained thriller finds Michael Mann indulging most of his best qualities and few of his worst. Immediately establishing an entrancing, dreamlike mood, Mann takes us for an overnight spin with cabbie Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx), who becomes the terrified hostage of a coolly homicidal…
Review – Singles Box
Artist: Blondie
Review – Bubblegum
Artist: Mark Lanegan Band
Review – Five Guys Walk Into a Bar
Artist: Faces
Review – Singles Box
Artist: Blondie
Review – Recorded Live: Solid Steel Presents
Artist: Amon Tobin
Review – Five Guys Walk Into a Bar
Artist: Faces
Review – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Artist: M83
Review – Recorded Live: Solid Steel Presents
Artist: Amon Tobin
Review – For Flowers
Artist: Joelle Leandre
Review – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Artist: M83
Review – Bubblegum
Artist: Mark Lanegan Band
Review – For Flowers
Artist: Joelle Leandre
Review – Singles Box
Artist: Blondie
Throwing a barbecue in your car
O’Boys is on the top rack of reliable barbecue joints and it’s a homegrown venture too, one that’s been around since 1997 in various locations. It’s a Best of Orlando veteran, especially for the sweet tea, presented in genuine Southern style – in an oversized plastic cup with lemon and ice for big gulps, and…
Review – Five Guys Walk Into a Bar
Artist: Faces
LET LOVE RULE, DAMMIT
Movie: A Home at the End of the World
Review – Recorded Live: Solid Steel Presents
Artist: Amon Tobin
Movie: Carandiru
Carandiru Length: 2 hours, 28 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Website: http://www.carandiru.globo.com Release Date: 2004-08-13 Cast: Caio Blat, Gero Camilo, Luis Carlos Vasconceros, Milton Goncalves, Nelson Machado Director: Hector Babenco Screenwriter: Hector Babenco, Fernando Bonassi, Drauzio Varella Music Score: Andre Abujamra WorkNameSort: Carandiru Our Rating: 4.00 When we tell you that this film concerns a…
Review – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Artist: M83
Movie: Shaolin Soccer
Shaolin Soccer Length: 1 hour, 51 minutes Studio: Miramax Films Website: http://www.miramax.com/shaolin_soccer/ Release Date: 2004-08-13 Cast: Stephen Chow, Wong Yut Fe, Lee Wai, Ng Man-Tat, Zhao Wei Director: Stephen Chow Screenwriter: Stephen Chow, Kan-Cheung Tsang WorkNameSort: Shaolin Soccer Our Rating: 2.00 Miramax has been in a dither about what to do with this Chinese slapstick…
Throwing a barbecue in your car
O’Boys is on the top rack of reliable barbecue joints and it’s a homegrown venture too, one that’s been around since 1997 in various locations. It’s a Best of Orlando veteran, especially for the sweet tea, presented in genuine Southern style – in an oversized plastic cup with lemon and ice for big gulps, and…
Judicial Poll, Susan Clary and Twiggy
Lawyers! You may think they’re bottom-feeding scumbags, but we kinda like ’em. Especially this time of year when the Central Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers gives them a chance to bitch about local judges via the annual Judicial Poll. The results, which were faxed to our office last week, are both informative and humorous.…
FREE YOUR MIND AND YOUR MOUSE WILL FOLLOW
Beneath the turbulent and stormy woes of the modern music industry, the avant-garde underground – the true underground, really – has continued to plod along, partially immune from and partially impacted by the problems and solutions of its commercialized cousin. In a sense, much of the credit for the survival of this alternate universe can…
COLLAPSING THE MASSES
At first glimpse, Trivium seems to be a band of contradictions. Its members are in their late teens/early 20s, yet embrace the style and musicianship of a metal band from 15 years ago. They tinker with a European sound, yet hail from Altamonte Springs. They initially signed with a German metal label, yet are one…
WHO’S COUNTING?
As of Aug. 4, the official Coalition death toll for the war in Iraq was at 1,041 (919 of whom were Americans), according to the Department of Defense. And according to Reuters, the number of U.S. casualties from the Iraq war has already surpassed the number of U.S. soldiers killed within the first three years…
Culture
The Spam Letters By Jonathan Land (No Starch Press, 336 pages) Spam, a term defined by Hormel, expanded by Monty Python and finally drowned in the wading pool of ubiquity by the mongers of penis enlargement schemes, has become the cockroach of the modern digital experience. Who among us hasn’t wished for some kind of…
Culture
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category Edited by Dave Eggers, et al (Knopf, 239 pages) A fairly essential element of being a smartass is the “smart” part. Otherwise, of course, you’re just an ass. The smartasses gathered around Dave Eggers’ cult of literacy are, thankfully, as smart as they…
STUBBORN FIDELITY
Collected Poems By Chinua Achebe (Anchor, 84 pages) In the Greek myth of Icarus, a young boy straps wings to his back and flies toward the horizon. He flies so high, however, that the sun melts the wax holding his wings together and he plummets to earth. Poets love this story: Fly too high and…
NECESSARY ROUGHNESS
Checkpoint (Knopf, 115 pages) Vintage Baker (Vintage, 195 pages) By Nicholson Baker If you’ve seen Fahrenheit 9/11, paid attention to the news (the real news, not the sound bites on the networks’ evening broadcasts), looked at your savings account balance or read any of the dozens of books that chronicle the multiple levels of corruption…
FRINGE, HEAL THYSELF
The latest status report from the Orlando International Fringe Festival follows the famous “good news/bad news” template. The good news is that the festival’s operating shortfall may be slightly less than the $35,000 that was reported two weeks ago (“Fringe fallout,” July 29). The bad news is that the potential miscalculation was only possible because…
EMERALD’S KITCHEN
Pity the poor Irish. They have a surfeit of gloriously green countryside, a literary tradition of unusual depth and a firm belief that everything will be better if they migrate to America. Sure, some folks are stuck there, with family or cows or both, but miracles do happen. In Marie Jones’ Stones in His Pockets…
BRAND NEW LOW
I was up above it. Now I’m down in it … shoulder deep. Anxious to assimilate into the sideburn-and-spike, body-ink stink of Orlando masculinity (mostly because this feeble excuse for Vogue transcendence is currently spitting up Tic-Tacs and shooting out blanks), I’ve chosen on this particular Monday morning to access the short list of things…
MEMBERS ONLY
(NOTE: Chuck Shepherd needs to revisit the roots of “weird” and engage in two more weeks of reflection. Before he left, he picked out some golden oldies to tide you over.) As of May 1999, the city-supported Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik was closing in on its goal of housing at least one sample penis…
“Mmmm … nice collection”
To an employee, the downtown offices of Orlando Weekly are a wonderland of amenities: ample parking, state-of-the-art day-care center, 24-hour aromatherapist on the premises. But what many area residents don’t know is that one of our building’s best features is maintained solely for the benefit of the general public. Thanks to thoughtful grants from the…
