Movie: Without a Paddle
Without a Paddle Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: http://www.withoutapaddlemovie.com/home.php Release Date: 2004-08-20 Cast: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Abraham Benrubi, Rachel Blanchard Director: Steven Brill Screenwriter: Harris Goldberg, Tom Nursall, Jay Leggett WorkNameSort: Without a Paddle Our Rating: 2.00 Despite the title, it’s not a sequel to Up the Creek, which is bound to disappoint…
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Artist: Finn Brothers
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Artist: Rachel Goswell
LARGER THAN LIFE
Movie: Garden State
Review – White Rabbits
Artist: Neotropic
Movie: Alien vs. Predator
Our Rating: 3.50 Director Paul W.S. Anderson (Event Horizon, Resident Evil) is fast becoming a master of genre-recombinant guilty pleasures, and Alien vs. Predator is the apotheosis of his embarrassingly enjoyable approach to source poaching. Led by a multi-culti Ripley replacement named Alexa (Sanaa Lathan), a crew of scientists goes to the Arctic and discovers…
Review – Everyone Is Here
Artist: Finn Brothers
SO LONG, OLD CHUM
Movie: Open Water
Review – Waves Are Universal
Artist: Rachel Goswell
Movie: Without a Paddle
Our Rating: 2.00 Despite the title, it’s not a sequel to Up the Creek, which is bound to disappoint viewers who can never get enough Tim Matheson and Cheap Trick in their lives. What it is, though, isn’t much better: An eye-rolling amalgam of City Slickers and a played-for-laughs Deliverance, with a trio of Regular…
Review – White Rabbits
Artist: Neotropic
Review – Everyone Is Here
Artist: Finn Brothers
CLUED-IN TO FUSION
In dining, as in casino gambling, it helps to have a man on the inside. That’s certainly the case at Hot Olives – the comfortably stylish Hannibal Square eatery that’s been wending its way toward upscale fusion since taking over the site of the old Winter Park Grill in 2001. On a recent visit, our…
Review – Waves Are Universal
Artist: Rachel Goswell
Review – White Rabbits
Artist: Neotropic
LARGER THAN LIFE
Movie: Garden State
Movie: Alien vs. Predator
Alien vs. Predator Length: 1 hour, 27 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Website: http://www.avp-movie.com/ Release Date: 2004-08-13 Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon Director: Paul W.S. Anderson Screenwriter: Paul W.S. Anderson, Shane Salerno WorkNameSort: Alien vs. Predator Our Rating: 3.50 Director Paul W.S. Anderson (Event Horizon, Resident Evil) is fast…
SO LONG, OLD CHUM
Movie: Open Water
“Why not fake all of me?”
As Oscar Wilde so sagely observed, “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” To that timeless adage, feel free to add the following codicil: “If one is to be talked about, it’s always more fun if what’s being said is weird as all…
THE FULL MONTY
If I were a betting man, I’d live in another town. I’d walk with purpose through each day, bouncing off electric pinball obstacles, gaining super points and sweat beads, eventually flipping the damn thing with all of the personal direction that my hair implies. But I’m three-day-pants lazy; a pile of marrow-free bones resting daily…
NOT YOUR FATHER’S D.A.D.
There’s been a buzz about the development of a formal Downtown Arts District for years. A few things happened, and a few proclamations were made, during Mayor Glenda Hood’s reign. (Remember Horizons 2000 and Arts for All Seasons? Nobody else does, either.) But since Mayor Buddy Dyer took over in early 2003 when Hood upgraded…
SAME PLAYERS, NEW GAME
In late 2003, boy-band magnate Lou Pearlman launched what amounted to an elaborate public relations campaign to clear his name. Tired of the drubbing he was taking at the hands of the Florida attorney general’s office and in the press over his association with Trans Continental Talent – aka Web Style Network, Wilhelmina Scouting Network,…
THE LAW IN THESE HERE PARTS
It’s been a rough year for Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary. In October, Beary’s former No. 2 man, Rick Staly, announced he wanted his former boss’ job. That made Staly the second ex-Beary ally to run against him, including former division chief John Tegg. In November, his deputies voted to unionize, citing poor pay and…
SAVED IN TRANSLATION
Thirty years after our Civil War broke out, a Canadian named James Naismith concocted an activity for a group of bored Northeastern American youth: basketball. Dr. Naismith considered himself quite fortunate at the age of 75 to be able to witness basketball becoming an Olympic sport in 1936. If he could see the state of…
Well-kept secret
The name refers to the sauce, not the location, though it’s easy to see why you’d make that mistake. It’s a Secret is tucked away behind a gas station near the intersection of Curry Ford Road and Bumby Avenue. (It’s the old Hungry Howie’s location, if you know your way around the area.) There’s no…
Facing hurricane Charley
Friday afternoon, Aug. 13: Stop at Nick’s Discount Beverage on Crystal Lake Road and the line’s out the door. Friggin’ Charley. Why is it spelled that way anyway? Some dude with a thick accent walks in and says the line reminds him of a Boston blizzard. Came in for a 12-pack of Yuengling, but the…
OPEN BORDERS
Just when it seemed that the idea of musical fusions had reached their peak, that consumers preferred the nostalgic sounds of such world-music stalwarts as Buena Vista Social Club to anything daring and experimental, oud master and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil explodes everyone’s expectations. You might think that the current conservative era would curtail interest in…
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
You may have seen the recently Internet-circulated “eighth-grade test from 1895” that required students to “mark diacritically,” name all the republics of Europe (and their capitals) and “relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.” Whether or not Kansas pupils really needed to know such things to move on to ninth grade, the fact…
