Review – No. 3
Artist: Firebird
Movie: Monster Road
Monster Road Length: 1 hour, 20 minutes Studio: Bright Eye Pictures Website: http://www.brighteyepictures.com/monsterroad.html Release Date: 2004-08-27 Cast: George Bickford, Bruce Bickford Director: Brett Ingram Music Score: Shark Quest WorkNameSort: Monster Road Our Rating: 3.50 The intricate clay-animation fantasies of Bruce Bickford are populated by humanoid weaklings and scary behemoths that refashion and recombine themselves in…
Review – Weightlifting
Artist: Trashcan Sinatras
DIVINE PROVINCE
Movie: Hero
Review – Grace: Legacy Edition
Artist: Jeff Buckley
FREE-FLOATING PANE
Movie: Facing Windows
Movie: Exorcist: The Beginning
Exorcist: The Beginning Length: 1 hour, 54 minutes Studio: Warner Brothers Website: http://exorcistthebeginning.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2004-08-20 Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, James D’Arcy, Izabella Scorupco, Alan Ford, Billy Crawford Director: Renny Harlin Screenwriter: Caleb Carr, William Wisher, Alexi Hawley WorkNameSort: Exorcist: The Beginning Our Rating: 1.00 Filled with maggoty babies, murdered children and even a wet nekkid…
Review – No. 3
Artist: Firebird
DIVINE PROVINCE
Movie: Hero
FREE-FLOATING PANE
Movie: Facing Windows
Movie: Exorcist: The Beginning
Our Rating: 1.00 Filled with maggoty babies, murdered children and even a wet nekkid woman, Exorcist: The Beginning is less a fully formed franchise product than a bunch of naughty bits strung together and begging to be spanked. Almost entirely reshot by hired hack Renny Harlin after Paul Schrader turned in a film deemed unacceptable…
FIXED FOR BLADES
Movie: The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
SHRINK RAP
Movie: Intimate Strangers
Movie: Monster Road
Our Rating: 3.50 The intricate clay-animation fantasies of Bruce Bickford are populated by humanoid weaklings and scary behemoths that refashion and recombine themselves in ceaselessly churning, often violent ways. This feature-length documentary about Bickford exists in a similar state of flux, alternating views of his painstaking artistic process – which could have been captured in…
Review – Weightlifting
Artist: Trashcan Sinatras
Review – Grace: Legacy Edition
Artist: Jeff Buckley
Review – No. 3
Artist: Firebird
EMERIL VERSUS EARLEAN
In my line of work, people often ask me my favorite place to eat. If they expect a dissertation on the merits of Alain Ducasse’s twist on classical French as opposed to Thomas Keller’s new California cuisine, they will be sorely disappointed. My favorite place in the whole world to eat is at Judy’s –…
Going to that happy place
The first thing that strikes you about Uncle Henry’s is that it’s a happy place. You’re greeted with a smile from a man in a bright, button-down shirt, and your chair is pulled out for you when you sit. The plastic flowers that adorn the inside are colorful. This oasis of cheer, coincidentally enough, is…
FREE-FLOATING PANE
Movie: Facing Windows
FREE-FLOATING PANE
Movie: Facing Windows
Review – Weightlifting
Artist: Trashcan Sinatras
FIXED FOR BLADES
Movie: The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Review – Grace: Legacy Edition
Artist: Jeff Buckley
SHRINK RAP
Movie: Intimate Strangers
I HATE CHARLEY
Sometimes hell doesn’t seem so far away; like with just one trip of a blistered foot, you could instantly and glamorously descend into cavernous sunken eternity, or maybe Anne Rice’s bondage bedroom. And sometimes, especially at this particular time of fallen-tree powerlessness, “sometimes” feels like a blacklit “forever,” even without the assistance of horns and…
INSTANT KARMA
Jacksonville, Fla., resident Shannon Kramer, 35, was hospitalized in March with serious burns after (according to police) trying to toss a lighted firework at his girlfriend from his car during an argument; however, he overestimated the burn time, and it went off in his hands. And Aravis Walker, 23, was killed when his car exploded…
Going to that happy place
The first thing that strikes you about Uncle Henry’s Restaurant is that it’s a happy place. You’re greeted with a smile from a man in a bright, button-down shirt, and your chair is pulled out for you when you sit. The plastic flowers that adorn the inside are colorful. This oasis of cheer, coincidentally enough,…
Patty Sheehan and the Hurricane Opportunist of the Week
Hurricane Opportunist of the Week: This week the prize goes to Affordable Residential Communities, a Denver-based owner and operator of mobile home parks. Out of the kindness of their hearts, ARC is offering trailers in its parks “at cost” to families affected by Hurricane Charley. “Our goal is to help people find a place to…
DEEP IN THE CRATE
“It’s an old expression,” says Orlando musician Ben Champion, “you know, come on down, sleep on the beach or whatever, you’ll get sand in your shoes. Well, we’ve got grit, too, in our music. ‘Sand ‘n Your Blues!'” The leader of the Jazzberry Patch trio, with a good-natured chuckle, reveals the source of one of…
CAREFUL WHAT U WISH 4
The list of items that Prince fans have clamored for is a long one. Topmost, of course, is unfettered access to the legendary “vault” of unreleased material, followed closely by remastered and expanded CD editions of his seminal ’80s work. (Prince’s creative masterwork, Sign ‘O’ the Times, is currently a sonic disgrace on CD, and…
DICKS LIKE US
There’s that splendid moment for every band when, after years of touring, they finally receive some recompense. Last year, The Explosion had theirs when they became the subject of a major-label tug-of-war. After months of bean burritos in their hometown of Boston, they were soon in Hollywood, land of steak dinners, and like any reprobate…
BACK UP, TRY AGAIN
Marc Sirdoreus was in his pajamas buying milk and cookies at a local 7-Eleven one recent evening – because that’s just what he does – when some guy approached him with something like, “Hey, you’re Marc With a ‘C’!” Taken aback, yet immensely flattered, Marc, 26, admitted that, yes, he was Marc With a “C,”…
IT AIN’T A TIE
Despite virtually universal media insistence that the presidential popular vote remains too close to call, Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry has held significant leads in the crucial electoral vote total since late May – briefly interrupted by the mid-June media circus over Ronald Reagan’s death, but firmly re-established since early July (after Fahrenheit 9/11 began…
THE WAR THAT WON’T HEAL
Three decades have passed since the last helicopter rose from the American embassy roof in Saigon, and in that time, our leaders still feel the need to announce, at regular intervals, that the Vietnam War is behind us. Yet, in stone-headed contradiction, they also regularly haul the nation into situations that repeat the bungled thinking…
CALLED ON A TECHNICALITY
Orange County screwed up. Like most screw-ups, this one doesn’t fall into the category of a grand conspiracy, but into that of an unintentional oversight, a glitch overlooked for four years, albeit one that may now come to haunt the county’s code enforcement department. How much of a headache it will ultimately cause remains unclear.…
BOGUS OUTRAGE
If you repeat a rumor enough times, people assume it’s true. That’s what’s happening now, with allegations of voter intimidation surrounding the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s investigation into the Orlando mayoral election. The March election, you’ll recall, was marred by allegations that Ezzie Thomas – a consultant whom Buddy Dyer paid $10,000 – manipulated…
“W is for Wish list”
President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave.Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: I know the last thing you’ve been expecting is a fan letter from me. But I’d feel like a hypocrite if I didn’t offer a hearty “Well done!” for the great job you’ve done helping us Floridians get through the nightmare of…
