Movie: The Interpreter
Our Rating: 2.50 Director Sydney Pollack has admitted to worrying that his internationally minded potboiler doesn’t have enough sex and violence to succeed in today’s marketplace. It would probably help if the movie had a decent-sized dollop of anything else. This promising but ultimately forgettable blip of mediocrity casts Sean Penn as a Secret Service…
Review – When the Sun’s Gone Down
Artist: Langhorne Slim
Movie: The Amityville Horror
Our Rating: 2.50 In which we learn what remaining scares can be extracted from a spectral scenario that’s been (pardon the pun) done to death for two decades now. This latest visualization of the Lutz family’s poltergeist scam necessarily ups its shock factor – I think I caught the walls of the infamous Long Island…
FOR HEAVEN’S SAKÉ
You have to admire a girl who goes her own way when she isn’t getting what she wants. Especially when the girl is young and beautiful and smart and has a lot going for her like Maggie Lee, owner of Tatàme teahouse and saké lounge. Lee, a dabbler in music and a business major at…
Movie: Dear Frankie
Our Rating: 3.50 Though the sentimental Dear Frankie could easily have been fodder for melodrama and mush, first-time director Shona Auerbach brings together a family drama that rings true, even in its most unlikely turns. Protective single mum Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) has been lying to her 9-year-old boy, Frankie (Jack McElhone), about his abusive father,…
Movie: Dust to Glory
Our Rating: 3.00 Surfers’ advocate Dana Brown (Step Into Liquid) is slightly less smug when he’s documenting a sporting endeavor in which he has no especial personal stake – here, the 2003 Baja 1000 off-road race. But aside from the lessened condescension in Brown’s voice-over narration, he’s still capable of envisioning a feature-length, theatrical-release doc…
EASY TO SWALLOW
Movie: Inside Deep Throat
FOR HEAVEN’S SAKÉ
You have to admire a girl who goes her own way when she isn’t getting what she wants. Especially when the girl is young and beautiful and smart and has a lot going for her like Maggie Lee, owner of Tatàme teahouse and saké lounge. Lee, a dabbler in music and a business major at…
Movie: Dust to Glory
Our Rating: 3.00 Surfers’ advocate Dana Brown (Step Into Liquid) is slightly less smug when he’s documenting a sporting endeavor in which he has no especial personal stake – here, the 2003 Baja 1000 off-road race. But aside from the lessened condescension in Brown’s voice-over narration, he’s still capable of envisioning a feature-length, theatrical-release doc…
Review – The Wingdale Community Singers
Artist: The Wingdale Community Singers
Movie: Dust to Glory
Our Rating: 3.00 Surfers’ advocate Dana Brown (Step Into Liquid) is slightly less smug when he’s documenting a sporting endeavor in which he has no especial personal stake – here, the 2003 Baja 1000 off-road race. But aside from the lessened condescension in Brown’s voice-over narration, he’s still capable of envisioning a feature-length, theatrical-release doc…
Review – Run the Road
Artist: Various Artists
Review – The Wingdale Community Singers
Artist: The Wingdale Community Singers
Review – When the Sun’s Gone Down
Artist: Langhorne Slim
Review – Run the Road
Artist: Various Artists
Movie: Dust to Glory
Dust to Glory Length: 1 hour, 38 minutes Studio: IFC Films Website: http://www.d2gfilm.com/ Release Date: 2005-04-22 Cast: Jimmy Vasser, Mike “Mouse” McCoy, Mario Andretti, Robby Gordon, Sal Fish Director: Dana Brown Screenwriter: Dana Brown Music Score: Nathan First WorkNameSort: Dust to Glory Our Rating: 3.00 Surfers’ advocate Dana Brown (Step Into Liquid) is slightly less…
Review – When the Sun’s Gone Down
Artist: Langhorne Slim
LAMA, I’M COMING HOME
Movie: Travellers & Magicians
LAMA, I’M COMING HOME
Movie: Travellers & Magicians
Movie: The Interpreter
The Interpreter Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures Website: http://www.theinterpretermovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-04-22 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Max Minghella, Jesper Christensen Director: Sydney Pollack Screenwriter: Scott Frank, Charles Randolph, Steven Zaillian WorkNameSort: The Interpreter Our Rating: 2.50 Director Sydney Pollack has admitted to worrying that his internationally minded potboiler doesn’t…
Movie: The Interpreter
Our Rating: 2.50 Director Sydney Pollack has admitted to worrying that his internationally minded potboiler doesn’t have enough sex and violence to succeed in today’s marketplace. It would probably help if the movie had a decent-sized dollop of anything else. This promising but ultimately forgettable blip of mediocrity casts Sean Penn as a Secret Service…
Movie: The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes Studio: MGM Website: http://www.amityvillehorrormovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-04-22 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jimmy Bennett, Jesse James, Rachel Nichols Director: Andrew Douglas Screenwriter: Scott Kosar Music Score: Steve Jablonsky WorkNameSort: The Amityville Horror Our Rating: 2.50 In which we learn what remaining scares can be extracted from a…
Movie: The Amityville Horror
Our Rating: 2.50 In which we learn what remaining scares can be extracted from a spectral scenario that’s been (pardon the pun) done to death for two decades now. This latest visualization of the Lutz family’s poltergeist scam necessarily ups its shock factor – I think I caught the walls of the infamous Long Island…
Movie: Dear Frankie
Dear Frankie Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes Studio: Miramax Films Website: http://www.miramax.com/dearfrankie/ Release Date: 1900-01-01 Cast: Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small Director: Shona Auerbach WorkNameSort: Dear Frankie Our Rating: 3.50 Though the sentimental Dear Frankie could easily have been fodder for melodrama and mush, first-time director Shona Auerbach brings together…
Movie: Dear Frankie
Our Rating: 3.50 Though the sentimental Dear Frankie could easily have been fodder for melodrama and mush, first-time director Shona Auerbach brings together a family drama that rings true, even in its most unlikely turns. Protective single mum Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) has been lying to her 9-year-old boy, Frankie (Jack McElhone), about his abusive father,…
EASY TO SWALLOW
Movie: Inside Deep Throat
Review – The Wingdale Community Singers
Artist: The Wingdale Community Singers
LAMA, I’M COMING HOME
Movie: Travellers & Magicians
Run the Road
Artist: Various Artists
“It’ll all come out in the wash”
According to CNN.com, a South Carolina man is appealing his conviction on rape charges because jurors found a written confession in a pair of his pants. The jurors, who had received the trousers as evidence, admitted to a prosecutor that they read Stanley Bradley’s confession before registering their verdict. CNN did not mention if the…
FLIPPING OUT WITH FIRE
Intimidated by tongs and the raw heat of meat and charcoal? Well, get over it. This is Florida, where grilling is not limited to summer and just about any cook’s spell of recipe ennui can be remedied with the strike of a match. And here’s a little secret about grilling – it’s really easy. You…
We get an eyefull of Exodus, Manes puts the “fun” in fund-raising and politicians hate you
Hey homos! No need to go on living that way, you know. You can be cured of impure thoughts and urges and start lusting after the opposite sex, like the rest of us. Or so says a group that put up a billboard on Orange Blossom Trail, and that’s the part of town from which…
WARRING FACTIONS
Nothing, it’s said, fails like success. If so, rap music is looking forward to a major comeuppance. One can spot the burgeoning seeds of destruction in what acts are signed, how they’re marketed, and especially growing schisms within the hip-hop community. Where the hip-hop nation once comfortably encompassed a broad array of acts from 2…
“It’ll all come out in the wash”
According to CNN.com, a South Carolina man is appealing his conviction on rape charges because jurors found a written confession in a pair of his pants. The jurors, who had received the trousers as evidence, admitted to a prosecutor that they read Stanley Bradley’s confession before registering their verdict. CNN did not mention if the…
“It’ll all come out in the wash”
According to CNN.com, a South Carolina man is appealing his conviction on rape charges because jurors found a written confession in a pair of his pants. The jurors, who had received the trousers as evidence, admitted to a prosecutor that they read Stanley Bradley’s confession before registering their verdict. CNN did not mention if the…
FINAL FRONTIER
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, one little towheaded miscreant of mild suburban means found solace in the chaos of destruction. While it may have been a predictable choice of what we used to call a “hobby” (as in “You really should find a hobby or else you’ll grow up to…
HEART AND SOUL FOOD
It’s not your typical dinner show: three tales by Zora Neale Hurston distilled by George C. Wolfe into one musical, Spunk!, performed by the multiculturally and spiritually focused People’s Theatre in front of a crowd that is first sated by a soul-food buffet. But who needs typical, especially when the entertainment is this captivating? A…
CONTROL OF THE PUCK
The Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival is getting its money’s worth out of Shakespeare’s timeless comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. OSF’s current production, at the Walt Disney Amphitheater alongside Lake Eola, is the third rendering of the play the troupe has performed – and the second mounted by Jim Helsinger, the company’s artistic director, in only a…
DON’T YOU BE OUR NEIGHBOR
Nearly 200 people are packed inside the small Deerwood Elementary cafeteria off Econlockhatchee Trail in southeast Orlando on the evening of April 14. There aren’t any open seats for people arriving late, and a third of the crowd is forced to stand against the walls. Residents of several area neighborhoods are here to vent their…
A MODEST PROPOSAL
April 21, 2005 To: Mayor Ernest Page (or current office occupant)cc: The Orlando City Commission From: Rick Schreiber, publisher, Orlando WeeklySubject: What to do with the Centroplex Dear Mayor Page: We’ve read with much excitement the city’s proposals to redevelop the 60 acres of city-owned land known as the Centroplex and use the money from…
Drowning Pool, Aida, Dave Attell, Mindless Self Indulgence and more
Thursday • 21 DROWNING POOL Some bands are resilient; Drowning Pool is a goddamned Weeble. Here was a pretty average, up-and-coming radio-metal band, who saw their nascent career derailed when their lead singer died. After an appropriate period of mourning, the band returned with a new lead singer and a follow-up to their decent-selling debut.…
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Keeping Shadows: Masterworks of Photography from the Worcester Art MuseumIt would be difficult not to be totally wowed by at least one of the 100 photo images – dating from the mid-19th century to the present – in this collection curated by the Worcester Art Museum. (The exhibit is traveling around the country, and this…
ODD COUPLES
Orlando has suffered in the image department since 1971. This is not new information for anyone who lives here, as the shadow The Mouse casts is long and dark, making it difficult for anyone outside of Orlando to think there’s anything else going on here. I’ve lived here for 27 years, and I can’t even…
