Review – Tékitoi
Artist: Rachid Taha
Review – Girls of War
Artist: Die Monitr Batss
Review – School of the Flower
Artist: Six Organs of Admittance
Review – Dignity and Shame
Artist: Crooked Fingers
Review – Tékitoi
Artist: Rachid Taha
FEAR OF A RED HAT
Movie: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Review – Girls of War
Artist: Die Monitr Batss
AUSTEN TRANSLATION
Movie: Bride and Prejudice
Review – School of the Flower
Artist: Six Organs of Admittance
Movie: Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Our Rating: 2.00 If the posters have primed you for wicked fun with a gun-toting matron from the projects, be forewarned that writer/actor Tyler Perry’s cross-dressing turn as same only accounts for a meager portion of this cynical exercise in manipulation. The cheesed-off sister of the title is actually the younger Helen (Kimberly Elise), a…
FEAR OF A RED HAT
Movie: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Movie: Mystery of the Nile
Our Rating: 3.00 While not the equal of past large-format stunners like Everest, the newest adventure travelogue being projected on the Dr. Phillips Cinedome at the Orlando Science Center has its moments of enormity-obsessed transcendence: Any movie can make the sight of an unmanned raft going over a waterfall appear dramatic is worth a gander.…
Movie: Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Diary of a Mad Black Woman Length: 1 hour, 56 minutes Studio: Lions Gate Films Website: http://www.diaryofamadblackwomanmovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-02-25 Cast: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Tyler Perry, Shemar Moore, Lisa Marcos Director: Darren Grant Screenwriter: Tyler Perry WorkNameSort: Diary of a Mad Black Woman Our Rating: 2.00 If the posters have primed you for wicked…
Review – Tékitoi
Artist: Rachid Taha
Movie: Mystery of the Nile
Mystery of the Nile Length: 45 minutes Studio: MacGillivray Freeman Films Website: http://www.nilefilm.com/ Release Date: 2005-02-25 Cast: Pasquale Scaturro, Gordon Brown Director: Jordi Llompart Music Score: David Giro, Steve Wood WorkNameSort: Mystery of the Nile Our Rating: 3.00 While not the equal of past large-format stunners like Everest, the newest adventure travelogue being projected on…
Review – Girls of War
Artist: Die Monitr Batss
BIG AND EASY, BUT NO N.O.
Mimis Cafe is new construction trying to wear an old-world face. Sitting on Millenia Boulevard, on the fringe of our most popular consumer mecca, there wasn’t anything authentic or quaint about it. Actually, Mimis is exactly the kind of restaurant I hate. Don’t get me wrong, the food is fine. Not great, but good enough.…
Review – School of the Flower
Artist: Six Organs of Admittance
FEAR OF A RED HAT
Movie: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
AUSTEN TRANSLATION
Movie: Bride and Prejudice
Movie: Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Our Rating: 2.00 If the posters have primed you for wicked fun with a gun-toting matron from the projects, be forewarned that writer/actor Tyler Perry’s cross-dressing turn as same only accounts for a meager portion of this cynical exercise in manipulation. The cheesed-off sister of the title is actually the younger Helen (Kimberly Elise), a…
Movie: Mystery of the Nile
Our Rating: 3.00 While not the equal of past large-format stunners like Everest, the newest adventure travelogue being projected on the Dr. Phillips Cinedome at the Orlando Science Center has its moments of enormity-obsessed transcendence: Any movie can make the sight of an unmanned raft going over a waterfall appear dramatic is worth a gander.…
SAVE THE PINK PISTOLS!
Norman Bednar picks up his MAK-90 assault rifle from its resting place on his living room carpet. His lean, 6-foot, 1-inch, 150-pound frame wraps around the rifle, while his thin arms pop the magazine into place. He examines the sights intently, and for a moment it appears as if he’s actually hugging his weapon. “There’s…
GAME ON
Officially, the Florida Coalition to Protect Marriage’s push to enshrine in the state’s constitution an amendment banning gay marriage began on Feb. 14, St. Valentine’s Day, though the writing has been on the wall for some time now. Start with President Bush’s call for an anti-gay marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution last year. Add…
SCREW THE POOR
After whining about John Kerry’s loss, I took a few months off. It was a time for introspection, a time to recalibrate my moral compass. I found myself perusing Barnes & Noble for copies of the latest from Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter. I put down my New York Times, picked up the The Wall…
THE REFLEX
“I just ran into this group of girls,” squawks a pudgy wet-curl outside the St. Pete Times Forum, speaking even louder then the tragedy that is her Buffy the Vampire Slayer tattoo. “They were talking about Simon’s package in his jeans. I was like ‘whatever’. I mean, if they were talking about Simon naked, then…
LURE OF THE RINGS
Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen have 11 championship rings between them, and there there are those who say many of Jordan’s wouldn’t have been won had Pippen not come along to relieve some of the pressures of being the primary scoring option. And that may be true, but at the end of the day, there…
BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY
Sometimes putting the cart before the horse can be a dangerous thing. But that wasn’t the case with Dagsy Contreres, who had a dream and decided to follow it – forget traditional business planning. True, she opened D Chocolat Boutique before she really knew what she was doing, but she really is doing quite well…
Sentinel snubs its own coverage and we toast the death of the Leader
Here at Happytown™ HQ,we like to refer to wasted newspaper as “fishwrap.” And there’s something very fishy indeed about the omnipresent “This is my life” ad campaign the Sentinel is using to push its latest and most lackluster Friday-calendar revamp. In addition to spotlighting featured columnists, the ads supposedly introduce us to a cross-section of…
NEW DIRECTIONS
Back when Lucero first stated playing their Memphis hometown in 1998, frontman Ben Nichols thought mixing country and punk would work as well as a mosh pit at a rodeo. Seven years later, however, Lucero – and their ever-growing audience – embraces the unlikely hybrid. “A really weird mix of people come to our shows,”…
It’s all coming back to on me now
The recent past should be an easy thing to remember. And it probably would be, if not for all that mercury in the water. Test your knowledge of Earth-shattering events that seem like theytranspired only yesterday, when it’s probably closer to a week and a half. 1) Who accepted the key to Orlando in lieu…
Kevin Stevers, Megacon, Skeleton Key, Elvis Costello and more
Thursday • 24 KEVIN STEVERS There are loads of professional musicians and/or music educators in town wedging creative side projects into their schedules (see, um, Side Project, below). Their self-promotion tends to operate at a sad-sack level, perhaps because they usually don’t possess the clever monikers in such abundant supply amongst the area’s amateurs. Stevers’…
PAC IS BACK: WHO PLAYED WHO?
Recently, while walking in Manhattan, I saw something curious out of the corner of my eye: an alien. One of the original Space Invaders, to be precise. Some local artist had used ceramic tiles to re-create one of the little attackers from the famous 1978 video game. It was hanging there, frozen in midstride –…
FALLUJAH FALLOUT
Director Bobbie Bell saves the best for last in Seminole Community College’s production of Trojan Women. Hairs are raised as multimedia effects kick in and a message of despair is sent home: War is hell. The holocaust is experienced through the women of Troy in Bell’s own translation and adaptation of Euripides’ ancient anti-war classic,…
