Sons and lovers
Movie: Tadpole
Sons and lovers
Movie: Tadpole
Movie: Simone
Simone Studio: New Line Cinema Website: http://www.s1m0ne.com/index2.html Release Date: 2002-08-23 Cast: Al Pacino, Jason Schwartzman, Jay Mohr, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince Director: Andrew Niccol Screenwriter: Andrew Niccol WorkNameSort: Simone Our Rating: 3.00 At its best, it’s “The Idolmaker” with a hard drive, but most of the time, writer/ director Andrew Niccol’s comic fantasy comes…
Counter culture
Movie: The Good Girl
Movie: Serving Sara
Serving Sara Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: http://www.servingsara.com/ Release Date: 2002-08-23 Cast: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell, Amy Adams, Vincent Pastore Director: Reginald Hudlin Screenwriter: Jay Scherick, David Ronn WorkNameSort: Serving Sara Our Rating: 1.00 An extended set piece involving Matthew Perry, an impotent bull, an artificial cow and a long rubber glove typifies the…
Movie: Simone
Our Rating: 3.00 At its best, it’s “The Idolmaker” with a hard drive, but most of the time, writer/ director Andrew Niccol’s comic fantasy comes off as a static and trivial revisitation of his far superior “The Truman Show.” Fast-fading film director Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) gets a new lease on studio-lot life when a…
Counter culture
Movie: The Good Girl
Movie: Serving Sara
Our Rating: 1.00 An extended set piece involving Matthew Perry, an impotent bull, an artificial cow and a long rubber glove typifies the desperation of “Serving Sara,” a would-be romantic comedy that pairs the TV Friend with gorgeous Brit Elizabeth Hurley. The second misfire in a row from filmmaker Reginald Hudlin (“The Ladies Man”), it’s…
Falling under the spell o…
Falling under the spell of Tammy Faye Starlite is an experience that’s impossible to duplicate, unless you’ve ever been to Dollywood while under the influence of prescription drugs. As portrayed in concert and on record by New York-based performance artist Tammy Lang, Starlite is an emotionally conflicted coquette of a country singer whose life and…
DJ /ruptureMinesweeper S…
DJ /rupture Minesweeper Suite (Tigerbeat6) DJ /rupture Gold Teeth Thief (Violent Turd) On a late-June weekend, the ninth floor of a Brooklyn, N.Y., loft isn’t holding a rave. Not quite. Music is background here rather than center; there is just as much emphasis on the tire swing and the fire machines and various revelers’ costumes.…
Proprietors bark up another tree
Brian Wettstein and Jeff Brow weren’t satisfied with selling designer dog collars and whole-grain puppy treats to the canine clientele of their shop, The Doggie Door. No, they had to venture into the world of human treats, as well. Wander through the people door of their latest venture, Olive This, Relish That (346 N. Park…
Leave it to Disney
As Walt Disney World’s technical director of global engineering, Bill Kivler spends his days on issues like keeping “Space Mountain” ice cold and making sure “Pirates of the Caribbean” is sufficiently dark and not leaking water. Since early 2002, however, he’s been spending a lot of time as a Disney-funded consultant for the Orange County…
O’ Jerry who art thou?
If you’ve been following the Orlando Sentinel’s coverage of new Department of Children and Families boss Jerry Regier, you may have wondered the same thing I have: Did he or didn’t he? (You may have also wondered whether Regier really talks like Tarzan, but let’s assume the headline on Sunday’s front-page story — “I just…
Satanic verses
I used to go to church. Not sure why really, except that it was the easiest way to meet gay choreographers and have big women think I was cute. Since about 12, though, I’ve approached religion with the same giggled-up anxiety that accompanies my stumbles into Fairvilla MegaStores, i.e. writhing uncomfortably and having to pee.…
Wanton women want fair share
I feel sorry for kids today, not in a caring, concerned way, but in a detached, patronizing, figure-of-speech kind of way. Just look at all the cool TV we had when we were kids: “Bewitched,” “Gilligan’s Island,” “The Brady Bunch,” none of it high art but all of it endearing enough to be integral to…
Social studies
As the saying goes, those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. That adage should be displayed like a Whitman sampler in the offices of University of Florida graduates Sandra Krasa and Bianca White, whose thesis film, “Ocoee: Legacy of the Election Day Massacre,” was named Best Documentary Short at the Aug.…
Thrill of the hunted
Artist Brock Enright of Virginia Beach, Va., originally started staging rough, vivid kidnappings, using volunteers, so that he could show them on video at New York City galleries, but found so many willing, thrill-seeking victims that he now charges $500 or more for the realistic experience (but they get to keep the videos). Enright now…
Going native
It’s the time of summer when Orlando’s mugginess is at its heaviest, and the sky can go from azure blue to angry gray in minutes. It pours nearly every day, usually around the same time. The land is hot and soggy — suitable only for mosquitoes and alligators. And yet this summer, I feel strangely…
Sweetheart deal
Nobody will ever accuse Miguel Arteta of harboring a fatal attraction to glamour. In his three feature films, “Star Maps,” “Chuck & Buck” and the new “The Good Girl,” the Puerto Rican-born, Wesleyan-educated director has evidenced a fascination with societal cast-offs who try to advance themselves on the basis of their patently finite personal gifts,…
