Movie: Hope Springs
Hope Springs Studio: Touchstone Films Release Date: 2003-09-05 Cast: Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver, Oliver Platt, Mary Steenburgen Director: Mark Herman Screenwriter: Mark Herman WorkNameSort: Hope Springs Our Rating: 0.00 “Fish out of water” romantic comedy divides a British artist’s (Colin Firth) affections between his fiancée (Minnie Driver) and a new flame (Heather Graham).…
Movie: Hope Springs
Our Rating: 0.00 “Fish out of water” romantic comedy divides a British artist’s (Colin Firth) affections between his fiancée (Minnie Driver) and a new flame (Heather Graham). (Not reviewed.)
Review – Empty The Bones of You
Artist: Chris Clark
Review – Misanthropic Generation
Artist: Disfear
Review – Hocus-Pocus
Artist: Enon
Review – Zion High
Artist: Ranking Joe
Review – Fado: Exquisite Passion
Artist: Fado: Exquisite Passion
Review – The Gospel According to The Studdogs
Artist: The Studdogs
Review – Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished/Danse & Manatee
Artist: Animal Collective
Review – Empty The Bones of You
Artist: Chris Clark
Review – Fado: Exquisite Passion
Artist: Fado: Exquisite Passion
Review – Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished/Danse & Manatee
Artist: Animal Collective
Movie: The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters Length: 1 hour, 59 minutes Studio: Miramax Films Website: http://www.miramax.com/the_magdalene_sisters/index.html Release Date: 2003-09-05 Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Dorothy Duffy, Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Walsh, Nora-Jane Noone Director: Peter Mullan Screenwriter: Peter Mullan WorkNameSort: The Magdalene Sisters Our Rating: 2.50 Until 1996, the Irish branch of the Roman Catholic Church sent more than 30,000 “fallen…
Movie: The Secret Lives of Dentists
The Secret Lives of Dentists Length: 1 hour, 44 minutes Studio: Manhattan Pictures International Website: http://www.thesecretlivesofdentistsmovie.com/ Release Date: 2003-09-05 Cast: Campbell Scott, Robin Tunney, Denis Leary, Hope Davis, Adele D’Man Director: Alan Rudolph Screenwriter: Craig Lucas WorkNameSort: The Secret Lives of Dentists Our Rating: 3.50 A darkly comic film about infidelity and latent hostility. Believing…
Movie: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: http://www.dickieroberts.com/ Release Date: 2003-09-05 Cast: David Spade, Scott Terra, Craig Bierko, Danny Bonaduce, Jenna Boyd Director: Sam Weisman WorkNameSort: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Our Rating: 0.00 David Spade has fun with the concept of kiddie sitcom actors who are unable to find credible adult work.…
Movie: The Magdalene Sisters
Our Rating: 2.50 Until 1996, the Irish branch of the Roman Catholic Church sent more than 30,000 “fallen women” — meaning prostitutes, single mothers, social activists, the poor and the orphaned — to Dickensian forced-labor camps called Magdalene asylums. Speaking was not allowed, and food consisted of foul gruel. Each day was a grind of…
Review – Misanthropic Generation
Artist: Disfear
Movie: The Secret Lives of Dentists
Our Rating: 3.50 A darkly comic film about infidelity and latent hostility. Believing that his wife and business partner (Hope Davis) is having an affair, dentist David Hurst (Campbell Scott) descends into a festering, semi-silent resentment. In his shattered psyche, he’s haunted by visions of his most difficult patient (Denis Leary), who suggests machismo-surfeited courses…
Review – Zion High
Artist: Ranking Joe
Movie: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Our Rating: 0.00 David Spade has fun with the concept of kiddie sitcom actors who are unable to find credible adult work. How about adult sitcom actors who are unable to find credible movie work? (Not reviewed.)
Review – The Gospel According to The Studdogs
Artist: The Studdogs
Review – Sahara
Artist: Javier Ruibal
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Artist: Chris Clark
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Artist: Disfear
Review – Fado: Exquisite Passion
Artist: Fado: Exquisite Passion
Review – Zion High
Artist: Ranking Joe
Review – Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished/Danse & Manatee
Artist: Animal Collective
Review – The Gospel According to The Studdogs
Artist: The Studdogs
Review – Sahara
Artist: Javier Ruibal
The Bitchy Bunch
It’s not necessarily a casting couch (sadly) but more of a Barbara Walters wicker/rattan situation, imprinting both my elbows and my emotions with crossed currents. It’s early Satur-day morning, and I, along with a smattering of other sun-dried Florida menopause splashes, am looking to change my life … publicly. Well, not really. There is no…
Ask the consumer advocate
Got a question about buying and selling? Send it to Jeff Caveat, America’s favorite free-market watchdog! Dear Jeff: Last month, I bought a PT Cruiser. I’ve always admired the looks of the car, and plenty of my friends have had positive experiences with theirs. But it was only after I’d been driving it for a…
The big bucks
Stan Lieberman stopped by a few days ago to complain about the exhorbitant salaries paid to administrators at Valencia Community College. Lieberman used to work there as a contract computer programmer and claims he saw firsthand how top administrators make a lot and do a little. Generally, people’s complaining about ex-employers holds little interest for…
Hate for one, hate for all
On July 21, hundreds of people crowded into the downtown First Presbyterian Church for Exodus International’s annual conference. Vicki Vargo was there too. The Orlando city commissioner best known for her sometimes juvenile opposition to Chapter 57 — the city’s equal protection ordinance — stood up and delivered a proclamation praising Exodus for, among other…
Far from the tree
ACORN’s downtown office looks exactly the way you might picture an activist operation’s office would: small and messy, with news clippings and goal sheets taped to the nondescript walls. The place is staffed by young, casually dressed staffers working the phones and sifting through paperwork. ACORN’s Florida head organizer, Brian Kettenring, fits in perfectly in…
Meta shop
Chuck Klosterman is the cultural conscience of a generation that otherwise has little use for 20/20 self-critique. In his first book, “Fargo Rock City” (2001), Klosterman looked back on his metal-crazed adolescence in Wyndmere, N.D., trying to find meaning in the experience of coming of age in the hair-farming ’80s. Part rural memoir, part rock…
Death to the Ferals
Feral cats are not yet taking over the world; it only seems that way. Informed estimates put the number at something like 60 million of the little beasts roaming the United States. To put that in perspective, that’s equivalent to the population of Florida and California combined, plus another 10 million or so. The feral…
Hot enough for ya? Just add salsa . . .
Folks complain about the heat, unless you’re talking about hot sauce. And three Florida manufacturers of the Devil’s Condiment keep things spicy for those addicted to “the burn.” Two hours south of Orlando in Fort Pierce, there’s Cracker Cow-boy Enterprises (772-464-1971; www.floridacowboys.com), home of the award-winning Golden Guava Salsa and Devil Horse Citrus Sauce, a…
Free to be
Like the riddle about why dogs lick their balls, Dave Brockie takes the same, “because he can” attitude when it comes to his absurdly offensive songwriting. As frontman of shock-rockers GWAR, Brockie (aka Oderus Urungus) is no stranger to writing crude, rude music that knows no subject boundaries. Now, sans the monster suit and huge…
Dig U better dead
You know things are bad when songs like “I Rock, Therefore I Am” start to sound good, but that’s just how messy Prince’s career has become in the past few years. Seemingly bent on a course of self-induced musical mutilation, this once promising “genius” has abandoned the thrill of making heads snap and booties bounce…
