Review – Trampin’
Artist: Patti Smith
Movie: Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius
Our Rating: 0.00 Having weathered the wholesale scourgings and lightning bolts he incurred as Mel Gibson’s Christ, Jim Caviezel endures an even more horrifying trial: playing a professional golfer. (Not reviewed)
Review – Trampin’
Artist: Patti Smith
Review – Soul Survivor 2
Artist: Pete Rock
Movie: Godsend
Our Rating: 1.50 The best argument yet against stem-cell research, Lions Gate’s dull, dopey thriller puts a married couple (Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) through the trauma of losing a child, then offers them the relief of a cloned replica that’s identical in every way. Or maybe not: When he hits his eighth birthday (the same…
Review – Soul Survivor 2
Artist: Pete Rock
The name pretty much says it all
Wedged into the corner of the Edgewood Isle mall, which itself is wedged into the south tip of the island of land where north- and south-bound Orange Avenue diverge, is Whammies, an unassuming eatery with a well-deserved reputation. If you find yourself in the neighborhood, and don’t drive by the place before you see it,…
Chicks with flicks
Movie: Venus Boyz
Review – Metalogy
Artist: Judas Priest
Review – Like You Like an Arsonist
Artist: Paris, Texas
Review – Tree of Satta
Artist: The Abyssinians
Review – Trampin’
Artist: Patti Smith
Review – Soul Survivor 2
Artist: Pete Rock
Movie: Mean Girls
Mean Girls Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: http://www.meangirlsmovie.com Release Date: 2004-04-30 Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Jonathan Bennett, Lizzy Caplan, Ana Gasteyer Director: Mark Waters Screenwriter: Tina Fey Music Score: Rolfe Kent WorkNameSort: Mean Girls Our Rating: 3.00 I knew I loved Tina Fey when I saw her do a “Weekend Update” riff on the subject…
Movie: Laws of Attraction
Laws of Attraction Studio: New Line Cinema Website: http://www.attractionmovie.com Release Date: 2004-04-30 Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Nora Dunn, Frances Fisher, Parker Posey Director: Peter Howitt Screenwriter: Karey Kirkpatrick, Aline Brosh McKenna, Robert Harling Music Score: Edward Shearmur WorkNameSort: Laws of Attraction Our Rating: 0.00 Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore are competing divorce attorneys trying…
Chicks with flicks
Movie: Venus Boyz
Movie: Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius
Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius Studio: Film Foundry Releasing Website: http://www.bobbyjonesthemovie.com/ Release Date: 2004-04-30 Cast: James Caviezel, Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Northam, Claire Forlani, Aidan Quinn Director: Rowdy Herrington Screenwriter: Rowdy Herrington WorkNameSort: Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius Our Rating: 0.00 Having weathered the wholesale scourgings and lightning bolts he incurred as Mel Gibson’s Christ, Jim…
Movie: Godsend
Godsend Studio: Lions Gate Website: http://www.godsendthemovie.com Release Date: 2004-04-30 Cast: Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Cameron Bright, Jenny Levine Director: Nick Hamm WorkNameSort: Godsend Our Rating: 1.50 The best argument yet against stem-cell research, Lions Gate’s dull, dopey thriller puts a married couple (Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) through the trauma of losing a…
Review – Metalogy
Artist: Judas Priest
Review – Metalogy
Artist: Judas Priest
Review – Like You Like an Arsonist
Artist: Paris, Texas
Movie: Mean Girls
Our Rating: 3.00 I knew I loved Tina Fey when I saw her do a “Weekend Update” riff on the subject of Hugh Hefner’s six (or was it seven?) girlfriends. As she deconstructed each bimbette with salvos of withering sarcasm, even the self-effacing Fey may not have grasped the jubilant subtext that was making the…
Review – Like You Like an Arsonist
Artist: Paris, Texas
Review – Tree of Satta
Artist: The Abyssinians
Movie: Laws of Attraction
Our Rating: 0.00 Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore are competing divorce attorneys trying to iron out the kinks in a complicated marriage — their own. (Not reviewed)
Review – Tree of Satta
Artist: The Abyssinians
The name pretty much says it all
Wedged into the corner of the Edgewood Isle mall, which itself is wedged into the south tip of the island of land where north- and south-bound Orange Avenue diverge, is Whammies Good Eats, an unassuming eatery with a well-deserved reputation. If you find yourself in the neighborhood, and don’t drive by the place before you…
Donna Reed Day and Pershing Plowshares
Generally speaking, ecological awareness and camp style don’t go together. That’s why concerned citizens Carolyn Stapleton and Di Silkwood proclaimed April 25 “Donna Reed Day,” dolling themselves up in their best Sunday-go-to-Thriftco domestic-goddess finery to lead a group cleanup of local problem sites. “It seemed like a real oxymoron,” says Stapleton, who donned a green…
Born freaky
Like Norm at Cheers, Clarence Reid spends a lot of his days at Miami Jai-Alai, and all of the employees of the facility seem to know him as a regular — ironic, in a place where many of the visitors are anything but. “She taught me the Spanish that I know,” says Reid, introducing a…
Dumb luck
Perhaps you’ve seen Spot, the knowledge-hungry blue dog who wears clothes so he can go to school, in the cartoon/movie “Disney’s Teacher’s Pet.” Or maybe you’ve played Cranium, the playfully anarchic board game that challenges you to use every part of your brain. On some level, you may have noticed the quietly subversive edge they…
Get out of my womb!
I’ve never been a good candidate for any established feminist group. Growing up in the 1970s, the women I idolized were sexy, tough, unapologetic — and fictional: Foxy Brown, Cat Woman, Charlie’s Angels. By the time I entered college, I felt more aligned with sex worker/activist Annie Sprinkle than with anti-porn crusader Andrea Dworkin. I…
Locked in limbo
Twenty-two years ago, Wilton Dedge was convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl at knifepoint in the small Brevard County town of Sharpes. He’s serving a life plus 30 years sentence at Cross City Correctional Institution. At 42, he has spent more than half his life in prison. But in 2001, a DNA test excluded him…
Doug & Goliath
The house next door looks like it should be leveled. What was once a simple bungalow, framed by a narrow front porch, is now rotting under years of neglect. One step inside and your foot sinks into what remains of the wood floor. Inside the house, the smell tells you someone hasn’t bothered to use…
Is Bush crazy?
Saturday, May 1, marks the one-year anniversary of George W. Bush’s landing on an aircraft carrier, in full flight suit, and declaring an end to “major combat operations” in Iraq as a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” fluttered behind him. In that year we’ve learned two things: The dire predictions about postwar Iraq so readily dismissed…
Hello, my name is Billy .. .
If I could turn back time, if I could find a way, I’d probably be approaching 32 as a quiet, inspiring (read: gay) history teacher, assigning graphic dioramas of Dorothy Parker’s vicious circle to cute boys in Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts. I’d soberly plod my way through the workaday, finding small pleasures in crickets and…
“Rhyme Schemes”
Were City of Orlando bigwigs fully aware that Church Street developers Robert Kling and Lou Pearlman owed back taxes before the city awarded them $2 million in incentives? Not according to chief administrative officer Richard Levey, who told the Orlando Sentinel that a draft memo that seemed to suggest otherwise “was essentially a stream of…
Pretty in green?
Note to readers: It will enhance your enjoyment of this column if you play O.M.D.’s “If You Leave” while reading. Thank you. I hate an unfulfilling end to a movie. There are few things more unsatisfying than emotionally investing in a film, only to reach the end and see a character make a decision that…
