Movie: Tarnation
Our Rating: 4.00 “Unease” is too mild a word for the feelings you’ll experience upon opening this Pandora’s box of a family history proffered by documentary filmmaker Jonathan Caouette. Unsettling music, sound/image dissonance and other deconstructive techniques lend a sinister edge to still photos and home movies from Caouette’s personal collection; as reassembled here, they…
Movie: Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Our Rating: 5.00 Everything about Ong-bak screams “B-movie”: bad lighting, bad acting, bad script. Yet the debut film from director Prachya Pinkaew has raised the standard for low-budget memorability, thanks to the honesty with which it spotlights the physical prowess of new action star Tony Jaa. The ancient martial art of Muay Thai (or kickboxing)…
Movie: Fever Pitch
Our Rating: 3.00 “It’s cute” will be the overwhelming coo that greets this sweet meetup between Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore. And Fallon certainly is cute as a schoolteacher with a Boston Red Sox jones that preoccupies his entire life. Aside from seeing only red, he’s a bundle of thoughtfulness and unpolished charm. Barrymore is…
Review – Impressions
Artist: Faust
Review – Alligator
Artist: The National
Review – Umbrellas
Artist: Umbrellas
Review – Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
Artist: Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
Review – Impressions
Artist: Faust
Movie: Tarnation
Our Rating: 4.00 “Unease” is too mild a word for the feelings you’ll experience upon opening this Pandora’s box of a family history proffered by documentary filmmaker Jonathan Caouette. Unsettling music, sound/image dissonance and other deconstructive techniques lend a sinister edge to still photos and home movies from Caouette’s personal collection; as reassembled here, they…
Review – Alligator
Artist: The National
Movie: Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Our Rating: 5.00 Everything about Ong-bak screams “B-movie”: bad lighting, bad acting, bad script. Yet the debut film from director Prachya Pinkaew has raised the standard for low-budget memorability, thanks to the honesty with which it spotlights the physical prowess of new action star Tony Jaa. The ancient martial art of Muay Thai (or kickboxing)…
Review – Umbrellas
Artist: Umbrellas
Movie: Fever Pitch
Our Rating: 3.00 “It’s cute” will be the overwhelming coo that greets this sweet meetup between Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore. And Fallon certainly is cute as a schoolteacher with a Boston Red Sox jones that preoccupies his entire life. Aside from seeing only red, he’s a bundle of thoughtfulness and unpolished charm. Barrymore is…
Review – Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
Artist: Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
SPICE TRADERS
As we sauntered into our friends’ kitchen, in anticipation of a delicious home-cooked meal, we were handed glasses of a refreshing sparkling wine that we downed while watching the making of the feast. These friends are the most adventurous and skillful at this very task. I couldn’t help but comment on the smell of spices…
Movie: Tarnation
Tarnation Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes Studio: Wellspring Website: http://www.i-saw-tarnation.com/ Release Date: 2005-04-15 Cast: Jonathan Caouette, Renee LeBlanc, David Sanin Paz, Rosemary Davis, Adolph Davis Director: Jonathan Caouette Screenwriter: Jonathan Caouette WorkNameSort: Tarnation Our Rating: 4.00 “Unease” is too mild a word for the feelings you’ll experience upon opening this Pandora’s box of a family…
Review – Impressions
Artist: Faust
Movie: Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior Length: 1 hour, 47 minutes Studio: Magnolia Pictures Website: http://www.ongbakmovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-04-15 Cast: Tony Jaa, Petchthai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol, Rungrawee Borrijindakul, Chetwut Wacharakun Director: Prachya Pinkaew Screenwriter: Suphachai Sithiamphan Music Score: Atomix Clubbing WorkNameSort: Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior Our Rating: 5.00 Everything about Ong-bak screams “B-movie”: bad lighting, bad acting,…
Review – Alligator
Artist: The National
Fever Pitch
Movie: Fever Pitch
Review – Umbrellas
Artist: Umbrellas
Review – Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
Artist: Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
FELL FROM THE SUN
The Kills’ singer Alison Mosshart hates heat and, as her chalky complexion suggests, she shuns sunlight. Such preferences can be problematic for a Vero Beach, Fla., native, so she eventually found sanctuary in London’s dungeon climate. However, she still holds a special place in her heart for the home state that drove her to subsequent…
“Letter of the law”
Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary found himself in hot water recently, when he sent a letter to a private citizen who had criticized him on the letters page of the Orlando Sentinel. Alice Gawronski says she felt intimidated by Beary’s missive, which accused her of “slandering” him by decrying his department’s use of Tasers and…
THE HEALING ROAD
Outside O’Horan Public Hospital in Merida, Mexico, the heat is crippling. Dozens of Mexican citizens wait for hours in blue plastic chairs just beyond the hospital’s main doors to be seen by a doctor. The hospital is too small to have a waiting room, but sitting in the sunlight feels like baking in an oven.…
BAD EDUCATION
For Michael Satz, Florida Metropolitan University seemed like a good choice. Already working as a paralegal, Satz could get his bachelor’s degree and enroll at Nova Southeastern Law School. FMU, a subsidiary of California-based Corinthian Colleges Inc., offered flexible scheduling, small class sizes, online courses and help securing student loans. In June 2003, he toured…
THERE’S THE BEEF
In my white-knuckled world of emotional roller coasters and intentional nonprocreativity, there are certain biological anomalies that necessarily whiz right by unnoticed. It’s not because they’re not there; no, it’s just that I’ve programmed my squinting reflex so efficiently as to diminish them into blurred comets resembling a hunk of roast beef with an eyelash…
Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, Megaphone, Dizzee Rascal, Comedians of Comedy and more
Friday • 15 SAM RIVERS We’re not sure if we’re jaded or spoiled, but weekly gigs by one of our favorite avant-garde legends at one of our favorite local bars have somewhat raised the bar for what we expect out of a jazz show. Even though we love the fire of Rivers’ small-group stuff more…
I LOST YOUR DIGITS
The inspirational Charles Gonsoulin of Los Angeles, pursuing a Canadian woman he had met on the Internet, sneaked across the border on foot in February from the North Dakota side (because a 1984 crime would have prevented his legal entry), heading for the bus station in Winnipeg, 75 miles away, even though he had no…
SWEET EMULSION
AFTER INNOCENCE Directed by Jessica Sanders7 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at Enzian Theater Lenny Bruce, the legendary comedian and social commentator of the 1950s and ’60s, once opined: “In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.” It’s a piquant phraseology, albeit one whose black humor could easily be lost on an…
SPICE TRADERS
As we sauntered into our friends’ kitchen, in anticipation of a delicious home-cooked meal, we were handed glasses of a refreshing sparkling wine that we downed while watching the making of the feast. These friends are the most adventurous and skillful at this very task. I couldn’t help but comment on the smell of spices…
The (not-so) Great Wall of (Splendid) China comes down and legislator Dennis Baxley de-evolves
Time is running out for the Great Wall of China. If someone doesn’t step forward soon, the sucker’s gonna get bulldozed. All three vertical feet of it. (Which Great Wall did you think we were referring to, exactly?) Lake Mary resident Steven Phillips wants to be the latest owner of the Great Wall replica at…
CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
Like ancient embalmers, Nile can yank brains out of earholes. This musically and intellectually intimidating outfit combines death-metal riffs with guitarist/vocalist/amateur Egyptologist Karl Sanders’ meticulously researched lyrics. Annihilation of the Wicked, its forthcoming fifth record, combines cerebral content and cathartic noise, like Carl Sagan breaking into Slayer covers, while the band’s inhumanly swift concerts conjure…
