Support Mathew Modine’s Full Metal Jacket Diary
Over on the Kickstarter blog, there is a plea up to help finance the iPad app version of Mathew Modine’s Full Metal Jacket Diary, which was released as an oversized art book limited to 20,000 copies. It’s one of those great oversized film books you flip through in Barnes and Noble while thinking, “God damn,…
Exclusive: Steve Carell’s “Office” replacement announced!
It’s Catherine Zeta Jones. He r doctors have assured the show’s producers they can count on her for at least 36 episodes a year. And how was your Easter?
Selection Reminder: Civil Twilight tonight at the Social!
Monday, April 25 – Civil Twilight You have to hand it to New York’s Wind-up Records: They know what people didn’t know they kind of wanted. Similar to the way Michael Bay bludgeons mass audiences over the head until they admit to somewhat enjoying dumb popcorn movies, Wind-up has an eerie sixth sense for populist…
NYU returnee Shyamalan expects stimulating courseload, painful wedgies
So I’ve been thinking about this whole campaign to send M. Night Shyamalan back to film school. It’s a cute idea, with a whimsical web presence and the kind of insouciant auteur-baiting I normally revere. And I can’t argue that a few more credit hours poring over Battleship Potemkin wouldn’t give America’s notorious Scrunt-peddler a…
Florida Film Festival Award Winners
Yes, sorry that we were a bit lazy with this (I had a few computer problems this week). After 10 days of film screenings, Q&As, food and parties, the 20th Annual Florida Film Festival award winners were announced on Wednesday. I personally haven’t seen any of these as none of them were assigned to me,…
Selection Reminder: Leo Kottke tonight at the Plaza Live!
Friday, April 22 – Leo Kottke It’ll hit you right in the gut: Leo Kottke’s 12-string guitar tuned two steps down vibrates like a bell and thunders like a full orchestra. He made a case for instrumental steel-string guitar composition with a demo sent to John Fahey (the father of American primitive guitar), but Kottke’s…
Selection Reminder: Pop princess Ke$ha performs two shows at House of Blues!
April 22-23 – Ke$ha, Beardo She’s an easy target for exactly the same reason she’s so damn easy to love. From an artistic standpoint, Ke$ha is virtually without merit. Canned beats, cheesy samples and processed vocals meld into a stereotypical yet wonderfully noncommittal mess of retro-futuristic sounds, like some sort of dance-floor time warp. At…
Tim Hetherington’s Experimental Short Film, “Diary”
By now I’m sure you’ve all heard the terrible news about the death of Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington, as well as American photojournalist Chris Hondros. They were in Misrata, Libya covering the war when fighting broke out in the streets. Last year he made an experimental short film, Diary, which he called a “kaleidoscope of…
Simplicity is the order at Thuyen Vien
Temple-run eatery brings another vegetarian choice to Colonial Drive
No place like home
Hannibal Square Community Land Trust puts a new twist on homeownership
The British connection
John McLoughlin makes a business out of teaching businesspeople to network
Savage Love
My wife and I have been married for a few years and are expecting our first child. I’m really into the idea of being sprayed with my wife’s breast milk. The other night, she was fretting about when her boobs are going to start leaking. This seemed like a good time to bring it up,…
Super
Failed superhero satire crosses the line into psychosis
Orlando Ballet stages powerful performance of Carmen
Show reflects heat of original 1949 production
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Telethon’s Matt Kamm
Happytown
The city starves its empathy (again), DPAC trips over its pretense (again) and your legislature does not want you to vote. No alarms, no surprises … please.
Live Active Cultures
Imagine a future in which a single card eliminates the need to carry keys and wallet … in which you can cut every queue you encounter (if you’ve got the cash) … in which everything you see, do and eat is planned out months in advance. This is the future that Walt Disney World is…
Eastern influence
Contemporary Japanese artists use old master as inspiration for new works
Onward, Pilgrim
Anamanaguchi on the possibilities and limitations of chiptune music
Best of the fest
A quick preview of best bets appearing at this year’s Fringe Festival
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Now comes one of the supreme tests that most every Aries must periodically face: Will you live up to your promises? Will you follow through on your rousing start? Will you continue to stay passionately committed once the fiery infatuation stage evolves into the earthy foundation-building stage? Here’s a secret to…
Spring Break Madness in Potterland and Exclusive Haunted Mansion Video
You probably remember that last summer’s debut of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando was one of the most-attended grand opening events Central Florida’s theme parks have ever seen. And you may also remember hearing that last December saw a remarkable rebound in local tourism, bringing big attendance to Orlando’s parks after…
