Movie: Meet the Fockers
Our Rating: 3.00 Take the best parts of Look Who’s Talking, The Birdcage, About Schmidt and Grumpy Old Men and you get an idea of the kitschy cuteness that’s drawing the masses to this sequel to Meet the Parents (2000). Also directed by Jay Roach, Meet the Fockers finds its success in the actors who…
Movie: Meet the Fockers
Our Rating: 3.00 Take the best parts of Look Who’s Talking, The Birdcage, About Schmidt and Grumpy Old Men and you get an idea of the kitschy cuteness that’s drawing the masses to this sequel to Meet the Parents (2000). Also directed by Jay Roach, Meet the Fockers finds its success in the actors who…
AMBITIOUS MINDS
Movie: Overnight
AMBITIOUS MINDS
Movie: Overnight
Movie: Meet the Fockers
Our Rating: 3.00 Take the best parts of Look Who’s Talking, The Birdcage, About Schmidt and Grumpy Old Men and you get an idea of the kitschy cuteness that’s drawing the masses to this sequel to Meet the Parents (2000). Also directed by Jay Roach, Meet the Fockers finds its success in the actors who…
AMBITIOUS MINDS
Movie: Overnight
CRITICS CAST A SIDEWAYS GLANCE
The wine-swilling road comedy Sideways has advanced its reputation as this year’s art-house critical darling, amassing a full four awards from the Florida Film Critics Circle. The FFCC, a voting body that now counts 17 Sunshine State reviewers as members, named Sideways the best picture of 2004, as well as recognizing the darkly humorous film…
MORE HUNGRY MOUTHS TO FEED
Most of us have filled ourselves silly with the bounty of the season, and there’s nothing wrong with that – unless you’re going around whining about your tight pants and unsightly bulges. Really, who cares, except for peddlers of diet products? Try and transcend your self-indulgence and the need to complain about it by adding…
The gypsies are coming, and thanks to the MBI patrons of Jerry’s are not
Recently, Happytown™ found a terrifying note taped to its front door: “The Orlando Police Department wants to remind all of our residents to be on the alert for the annual migration of criminal families and individuals, commonly referred to as ‘Gypsies,’ who head for Central Florida in the winter.” Hide your kids! Lock up your…
LOOK WHAT TURNED UP …
Read what you want into hodgepodge of photos that came tumbling out of the folders that had piled up at Orlando Weekly’s former offices on Jefferson Street. (We’re now at 100 W. Livingston St., across from the LYNX station.) The familiar faces and stories that went with them brought a few tears and snorts, but…
THE BEST MUSIC OF 2004
As prescribed by tradition, December means year-end lists. But instead of pretending mine was the only opinion, I thought it might be interesting to ask local music-oriented folks – writers, musicians, promoters, Weekly contributors, etc. – what they thought were the most interesting musical things of 2004. Whether those things actually happened in 2004 or…
THE BEST MUSIC OF 2004
As prescribed by tradition, December means year-end lists. But instead of pretending mine was the only opinion, I thought it might be interesting to ask local music-oriented folks – writers, musicians, promoters, Weekly contributors, etc. – what they thought were the most interesting musical things of 2004. Whether those things actually happened in 2004 or…
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT I DO …
Last Christmas I gave the Orlando Weekly my heart, dragging my drunken lover through the company party of house-special wine and sweaty cold cuts, and courting controversy with my own slurring take on how bad things really can be. This was the historical incident in which Alan (the other half) purported to be a goat…
Godsmack/Alter Bridge, TNA Wrestling, David Lee Roth, Dirrty Hairy and more
Thursday • 30 THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE/MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL In keeping with the common knowledge that life’s filled with conspiracy theories, the Orlando stop-down for the flapper lovefest Thoroughly Modern Millie means something BIG. We’ve yet to precisely decode it, but it’s BIG. There’s a suspicious line in the press release about the traveling Broadway show…
AWARDS FOR LOSERS
In christening the trophy for the first annual Bad Sport End of the Year Awards, one name seemed appropriate. As memories of past Wimbledons and U.S. Opens flooded my mind, there was an endless echo of “You can NOT be serious! That ball was on the LINE! CHALK dust flew!” That’s right, this year’s namesake…
CRITICS CAST A SIDEWAYS GLANCE
The wine-swilling road comedy Sideways has advanced its reputation as this year’s art-house critical darling, amassing a full four awards from the Florida Film Critics Circle. The FFCC, a voting body that now counts 17 Sunshine State reviewers as members, named Sideways the best picture of 2004, as well as recognizing the darkly humorous film…
“Who was that masked cracker?”
The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to hear arguments on whether the word “kemosabe” is racist to native people. Last February, a human rights board of inquiry … spent one day looking at old Lone Ranger shows, eventually concluding that the term was never used in a derogatory way and that the Lone…
RESOLVED: NEW YEAR’S EVE SUCKS
Editor’s note: We asked you, our treasured readers, to tell us about your worst New Year’s Eve experiences. But you let us down (except for you, Mrs. Julaaun Moseley, and your New Year’s Eve 1989 did sound truly sucky. We’re glad things worked out for the best, though). So we asked around, and it turns…
CHEAP SHOTS
Some papers use their final publishing cycle of the calendar to wistfully look back on the year that was, praising the good and excusing the bad, sugar-coating it all with the soft focus of time. We say screw that. We’d rather use this final opportunity of 2004 to take one last swipe at the people…
