Movie: Code 46
Our Rating: 4.00 One charge you can’t level against filmmaker Michael Winterbottom is that he’s coasting on a trademark style. Good luck finding any tangible similarity between his last project, the hyperkinetic music-biz bio 24 Hour Party People, and Code 46, a sci-fi suspense drama that’s as quietly regretful as People was ebullient. Set in…
Review – The Dwarves Must Die
Artist: Dwarves
PRE-EMPTIVE PROGRAMMING
Movie: Uncovered: The War on Iraq
SOUTHERN-FRIED SYRIAN AND GREEK
What do you make of a restaurant that beckons to customers with the hand-painted words “grapeleaves, hot wings, falafel, Greek salad, french fries and fried chicken” on its front window? And what if the restaurant has been in your periphery for about a decade, as the items were added to the window like a roster…
Movie: Code 46
Code 46 Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes Studio: United Artists Website: http://www.mgm.com/ua/code46/ Release Date: 2004-10-08 Cast: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar, Essie Davis Director: Michael Winterbottom Screenwriter: Frank Cottrell Boyce Music Score: Free WorkNameSort: Code 46 Our Rating: 4.00 One charge you can’t level against filmmaker Michael Winterbottom is that he’s coasting…
WHAT GOES UP …
Movie: Rockets Redglare!
Review – New Roman Times
Artist: Camper Van Beethoven
PRE-EMPTIVE PROGRAMMING
Movie: Uncovered: The War on Iraq
Review – Size Matters
Artist: Helmet
Movie: Code 46
Our Rating: 4.00 One charge you can’t level against filmmaker Michael Winterbottom is that he’s coasting on a trademark style. Good luck finding any tangible similarity between his last project, the hyperkinetic music-biz bio 24 Hour Party People, and Code 46, a sci-fi suspense drama that’s as quietly regretful as People was ebullient. Set in…
Review – Treble & Tremble
Artist: Earlimart
AS GOOD AS THE MOVIES
I owe many of my favorite meals to my husband’s penchant for monster movieplexes with stadium seating. For months, our friend, who happens to be Cuban, had been trying to get us down to his part of town to eat at his favorite Latin place, Pio Pio. The problem was, he lives in a southern…
Review – To The Moon
Artist: Monster Movie
Review – The Dwarves Must Die
Artist: Dwarves
WHAT GOES UP …
Movie: Rockets Redglare!
WHAT GOES UP …
Movie: Rockets Redglare!
PRE-EMPTIVE PROGRAMMING
Movie: Uncovered: The War on Iraq
PRE-EMPTIVE PROGRAMMING
Movie: Uncovered: The War on Iraq
Review – New Roman Times
Artist: Camper Van Beethoven
Movie: Code 46
Our Rating: 4.00 One charge you can’t level against filmmaker Michael Winterbottom is that he’s coasting on a trademark style. Good luck finding any tangible similarity between his last project, the hyperkinetic music-biz bio 24 Hour Party People, and Code 46, a sci-fi suspense drama that’s as quietly regretful as People was ebullient. Set in…
Review – Size Matters
Artist: Helmet
Review – New Roman Times
Artist: Camper Van Beethoven
Review – Treble & Tremble
Artist: Earlimart
Review – Size Matters
Artist: Helmet
Review – To The Moon
Artist: Monster Movie
Review – Treble & Tremble
Artist: Earlimart
Review – The Dwarves Must Die
Artist: Dwarves
Review – To The Moon
Artist: Monster Movie
MY KINGDOM FOR A PIE
“This has been a train wreck. I’ve been giving this same speech all day.” So explains the profusely apologetic voice on the other end of my cell phone, explaining how a credentialing screw-up by the Commission on Presidential Debates’ media staff means I won’t be allowed into the Bush-Kerry debate Sept. 30, despite the fact…
FUTURE SHOCK
Some of the most amazing inventions come from humble beginnings. Justin Kent has an invention that redefines the role of the DJ, but it was in front of the couch that he began his journey. In 20th-century fashion, a young Justin was raised in the glow of the television. In his teenage years he started…
THOSE ARE THE BREAKS
When people talk about dance music in America, the cities of Detroit, Chicago and New York are often the first to fall from their lips. But historically, Orlando has been nearly as important in the development of the sound. American progressive house, breaks and drum & bass are examples of movements cultivated locally which spread…
Pixies, The Good Life, Patriot Acts and more
Friday • 8 THE GOOD LIFE Part of Omaha’s Elephant-6-like Saddle Creek clique (which includes Bright Eyes’/Desaparecidos’ Conor Oberst and Lullaby for the Working Class’/Mayday’s Ted Stevens), Tim Kasher fronts quintessential emo act Cursive as well as The Good Life. He started The Good Life as a diversion to satisfy his sleepier, earthier side and…
DEBATE EXPOSES DOUBT
Seattle indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie have never worn their politics on their sleeves, but this year the quartet decided to come out of the leftist closet. Frontman Ben Gibbard talked to us about the group’s involvement in the Vote for Change concert series. Some people roll their eyes when they see rock musicians…
NO MORE MIDDLE GROUND
Both have given their time, talents, energy and money to liberal and progressive causes going back over 20 years. Both have lamented the plight of people left behind in America’s mad rush of consumerism and global hegemony. Both have sung out against racism, homophobia and the careless use of economic and political power, yet somehow…
LESBO A GO-GO
Now, I enjoy being a girl as much as the next underpaid effeminate lad, but even I must admit to sometimes wondering what lies beyond the other side of that gold-plated vulva, that vivid swirl of orgasmic womanhood that gurgles and yelps, occasionally subsiding to kittenish come-ons. And no, I didn’t say “golden showers” there,…
ROCKIN’ THE T-1
Slowly but surely, I’m coming to the realization that the DIY ethos of the punk-rock revolution and the at-home production of electronic music are colliding with all this world-wild-interweb technology in an ever-tightening noose of insular clusterfucking, the end result of which will be one trillion bands with exactly one fan each. To wit: www.myspace.com,…
SOUTHERN-FRIED SYRIAN AND GREEK
What do you make of a restaurant that beckons to customers with the hand-painted words “grapeleaves, hot wings, falafel, Greek salad, french fries and fried chicken” on its front window? And what if the restaurant has been in your periphery for about a decade, as the items were added to the window like a roster…
I OFF THE TIGER
Dear Eldrick Woods: Yeah, I went there. I can’t honestly call you “Tiger” with a straight face anymore. The way you’ve been playing golf doesn’t bring to mind a ferocious feline, but it used to. Whether or not you want to admit it to yourself (and the rest of the world), you are in a…
Michael Moore in town and Banned Books Week
In case you hadn’t heard, political activist, filmmaker and best-selling author Michael Moore was in town Oct. 2, at the University of Central Florida. Hosted by the Campus Activity Board, Moore’s 60-city Slacker Uprising tour drew a crowd of 4,000 on the university’s Memory Mall. Not all of them were students. Pat, Eric, Jack and…
TIMELESS HELLO
Is memory simply a filter that reduces all things to a nostalgic trip where the best times remain holy and everything else is swept under the rug, forgotten forever and for good? The legend that is Brian Wilson’s “lost Beach Boys album,” Smile, would seem to fall under that rubric. Thirty-eight years ago, when Wilson…
“Take care! Bevare!”
Believe it or not, there’s a lot more to planning a Halloween event than daubing stage blood on some college drama majors and setting them loose on a busload of old people with pacemakers. You also have to make sure that your walk-through attraction or themed party doesn’t betray any uncomfortable similarities to actual horrors…
LOVE HAPPENS SO FAST
Director Alan Bruun and the Mad Cow Theatre Co. have tackled Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with all the gusto and passion of a high-school wrestling team frantically playing against the clock in the final match of its season. On Mad Cow’s small, unadorned Stage Left playing turf, 17 actors love, fight and soliloquize with all…
QUEEN OF THE BROKEN ARTS
There’s nothing like the freedom that comes with being roundly pilloried. Having made a splash with In the Company of Men, perhaps the bitterest indictment ever of brutish male behavior, playwright/filmmaker Neil LaBute was tagged as – who woulda thunk it? – a misogynist. An overnight poster boy for the idea that life can be…
KERRY UP, DOWN
Editor’s note: This is the second in a weekly series of poll updates on the Nov. 2 presidential election. Daily updates can be found at http://frogblog.journalspace.com. As of Oct. 4, John Kerry had bounced back in most national popular-vote polls, but his standing in the electoral vote tally had slid to a deficit of 70.…
VISUAL IMPACT
It’s difficult to believe, but it’s been seven years since director Chris Cunningham and Aphex Twin collaborated to create the impressively sick video for “Come to Daddy.” The legendary clip – a post-apocalyptic nightmare of hooligan preschoolers all cursed with bearing Richard James’ head on their tiny bodies – is probably one of the best…
