Review – Black Forest
Artist: A Frames
Review – Guero
Artist: Beck
Review – Alien
Artist: Strapping Young Lad
WE CAPTURE THE CASTLE
Movie: Gunner Palace
Review – Black Forest
Artist: A Frames
SAME RING, DIFFERENT COLLAR
Movie: The Ring Two
Movie: Guess Who
Our Rating: 3.00 Bernie Mac + Ashton Kutcher = big box office. The two comedic actors create a chemistry that hold together this race-reversed remake of the Sidney Poitier classic Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? This time around, Mac’s character has a daughter (the exquisite Zoë Saldaña) who brings home a white boy (Kutcher) on…
Movie: Guess Who
Our Rating: 3.00 Bernie Mac + Ashton Kutcher = big box office. The two comedic actors create a chemistry that hold together this race-reversed remake of the Sidney Poitier classic Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? This time around, Mac’s character has a daughter (the exquisite Zoë Saldaña) who brings home a white boy (Kutcher) on…
Movie: Steamboy
Our Rating: 5.00 The rich visuals of Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s earlier animated film Akira made it the standard to which all other anime has been compared. His latest, Steamboy (which was nine years in the making), again shows that he’s a true master. Instead of Akira’s post-apocalyptic ghetto, Steamboy takes place in England during the industrial…
Movie: Steamboy
Our Rating: 5.00 The rich visuals of Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s earlier animated film Akira made it the standard to which all other anime has been compared. His latest, Steamboy (which was nine years in the making), again shows that he’s a true master. Instead of Akira’s post-apocalyptic ghetto, Steamboy takes place in England during the industrial…
CINEMATIC SPREAD
It used to be a familiar plot: While catching a film at Enzian, a moviegoer opens the menu, scoffs at the offerings, pines for something more substantial, orders anyway, eats and then awkwardly pays the bill just as the movie’s clincher flashes onscreen. I’ve been there and done that, many times. But over the past…
Review – Guero
Artist: Beck
Movie: Guess Who
Guess Who Length: 1 hour, 37 minutes Studio: Columbia Pictures Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/guesswho/ Release Date: 2005-03-25 Cast: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoë Saldaña, Judith Scott, Hal Williams Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan Screenwriter: David Ronn, Jay Scherick, Peter Tolan WorkNameSort: Guess Who Our Rating: 3.00 Bernie Mac + Ashton Kutcher = big box office. The two comedic…
Review – Alien
Artist: Strapping Young Lad
WE CAPTURE THE CASTLE
Movie: Gunner Palace
Review – Black Forest
Artist: A Frames
SAME RING, DIFFERENT COLLAR
Movie: The Ring Two
Review – Guero
Artist: Beck
NO SIDEWALK BUT STILL A COMFORT ZONE
Pulling up to the shopping plaza at the corner of Sand Lake Road and Orange Blossom Trail, it becomes apparent that Camille’s Sidewalk Café has no sidewalk. Well, there is a strip of pavement out in front scattered with tables. But Camille’s has never been associated with real sidewalks – sigh – it’s just another…
Review – Alien
Artist: Strapping Young Lad
Movie: Guess Who
Our Rating: 3.00 Bernie Mac + Ashton Kutcher = big box office. The two comedic actors create a chemistry that hold together this race-reversed remake of the Sidney Poitier classic Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? This time around, Mac’s character has a daughter (the exquisite Zoë Saldaña) who brings home a white boy (Kutcher) on…
Movie: Steamboy
Our Rating: 5.00 The rich visuals of Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s earlier animated film Akira made it the standard to which all other anime has been compared. His latest, Steamboy (which was nine years in the making), again shows that he’s a true master. Instead of Akira’s post-apocalyptic ghetto, Steamboy takes place in England during the industrial…
WE CAPTURE THE CASTLE
Movie: Gunner Palace
SAME RING, DIFFERENT COLLAR
Movie: The Ring Two
Codeseven, The Sugar Oaks, Crystal Method/Fatboy Slim, Inkwell and more
Thursday • 24 CODESEVEN Over their 10-year existence, Codeseven has managed to alienate not one, but two groups of fans. First they made a name for themselves as a respectable, if anonymous, death metal band. Then they fused a melodic, hardcore sound to their metal attack, becoming a respectable, if anonymous, metalcore band. Unhappy with…
CONTACT HIGH
“I should have brought a gun.” It was the only thing I could think of to say as we sat in the long line of cars slowly making their way into Markham Park. This was not only because there was an arrow pointing to the park’s target range, but also because a weapon would have…
MEN ON THE MAT
There are some things that humans are into that I just don’t get. I’m not a NASCAR fan by any means, but I can at least comprehend why a few hundred thousand ‘necks would fill a stadium to watch cars drive around a track for a few hours. Watching high-performance vehicles weave around and past…
NO SIDEWALK BUT STILL A COMFORT ZONE
Pulling up to the shopping plaza at the corner of Sand Lake Road and Orange Blossom Trail, it becomes apparent that Camille’s Sidewalk Café has no sidewalk. Well, there is a strip of pavement out in front scattered with tables. But Camille’s has never been associated with real sidewalks – sigh – it’s just another…
The Sentinel slobbers over Bill Frederick and Manes for mayor!
There is stupid, and then there’s ridiculous. That’s the line the Orlando Sentinel has erased with its insipid slobbering over Bill Frederick, the long-ago mayor who wants to come back to save our city from chaos. Frederick is a remnant of the city’s good-ol’-boy network, a fixture of the inner circle who had the chutzpah…
TEAM PLAYERS
Running nine members deep and likened to a West Coast Wu-Tang Clan, the Living Legends crew has embodied the heart and soul of underground hip-hop for over a decade. By producing and distributing their albums and organically cultivating a following with relentless touring, the California outfit helped cement the modern indie hip-hop template. Success has…
CHERRY BOMBED
As studies in over-the-counter music industry psychology go, that of The Donnas is about as charming as a cold, middle-aged hand on the lap. In a fit of punkish overstatement, four late-teen girls craft pseudo-anonymous identities, each operating under “Donna” aliases followed by just a letter (Donna A., Donna R., etc.), then launch into a…
Codeseven, The Sugar Oaks, Crystal Method/Fatboy Slim, Inkwell and more
Thursday • 24 CODESEVEN Over their 10-year existence, Codeseven has managed to alienate not one, but two groups of fans. First they made a name for themselves as a respectable, if anonymous, death metal band. Then they fused a melodic, hardcore sound to their metal attack, becoming a respectable, if anonymous, metalcore band. Unhappy with…
A LITTLE CHUTZPAH
It’s not always a good idea to hold community theater to the same standard as its “professional” counterpart. When workday engineers and housewives sing their hearts out on an auditorium stage, a viewer watches through a natural filter of forgiveness. So what if one performer forgets his lines or his costume falls apart? Everyone laughs,…
IF YOU HAD WINGS
In his 1959 drama Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams depicted Florida as a breeding ground for Faustian bargains between pathetically self-interested dreamers – a place built on bribes, blackmail and bluster. We can all agree that not much has changed since then, but that doesn’t dull the challenge a Sunshine State theater company –…
TOUGH LOVE
“I’ll admit it, I’m a Disney freak,” says Robert Rexach, as he munches on his breakfast at Crystal Palace restaurant in Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. The room is buzzing with the day’s first round of groggy, early-morning tourists. Half a dozen cast members squeeze between tightly packed tables, greeting the guests and posing for…
HEAD GAMES
Six years ago, during a brief affair in Chicago, Dr. Sharon Irons manually inseminated herself with sperm from Dr. Richard O. Phillips, following oral sex. The result was a daughter, now aged 5, whom Phillips has reluctantly been paying $800 a month to support while his lawsuit against Irons for deception travels through Illinois courts.…
“Who’s who in the cast”
Dan Abramson (Mercutio/Nathan Detroit) is making his debut at Hidden Valley Theater with this current production of Bard to Broadway: Theater’s Greatest Moments. He is grateful for the chance to return to the stage for the first time since high school, when he played a tap-dancing eunuch in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way…
GLORY DAYS
“I’m Chrissy. I’m a little bit Jenny and Terry, but tonight I’m totally Chrissy.” “No you’re not, because then I have to be Janet.” “What about Tim?” “Oh, he’s definitely Jack.” “On second thought, Billy, you’re Larry. Or maybe Mrs. Roper in a muumuu coming down the stairs and hankering for some whoopee.” Such are…
