Cocaine Cowboys
Cocaine Cowboys Length: Single Studio: Magnolia Pictures Rated: R Release Date: 2006-12-07 Director: Billy Corben Music Score: Jan Hammer WorkNameSort: Cocaine Cowboys Our Rating: 3.00 With a flat visual style, cheap-looking graphics and music by Jan Hammer, Cocaine Cowboys starts off looking like an episode of City Confidential or some similar A&E crime show. Within…
The Holiday
The Holiday Length: Single Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/theholiday/ Release Date: 2006-12-08 Cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach Director: Nancy Meyers Screenwriter: Nancy Meyers Music Score: Hans Zimmer, Nick Angel WorkNameSort: Holiday, The Our Rating: 3.00 When two beautiful, successful women ‘ one in London and one…
Shut Up and Sing
Shut Up and Sing Length: Single Studio: The Weinstein Company Rated: R Release Date: 2006-12-07 Cast: Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, Emily Robison, Simon Renshaw Director: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck Music Score: The Dixie Chicks WorkNameSort: Shut Up and Sing Our Rating: 4.00 With watchmaker skill, director Barbara Kopple plays both loose and tight with time…
Unaccompanied Minors
Unaccompanied Minors Length: Single Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution Rated: PG Website: http://unaccompaniedminors.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2006-12-08 Cast: Wilmer Valderrama, Dyllan Christopher, Gina Mantegna, Quinn Shephard, Tyler J. Williams Director: Paul Feig Screenwriter: Paul Feig, Mya Stark, Jacob Meszaros, Kate Kondell, Susan Burton Music Score: Jennifer Hawks, Michael Andrews WorkNameSort: Unaccompanied Minors Our Rating: 1.50 When…
GRIDDLE ME THIS
Waffle joint offers satisfying hotcakes and breakfast basics
Pandora’s Box
Pandora’s Box Studio: The Criterion Collection WorkNameSort: Pandora’s Box In classical and popular culture, the Greek myth of Pandora’s box has become an oft-cited paradigm of the horrors of temptation and morbid curiosity. The box containing all the world’s evils isn’t the problem ‘ it’s our compulsion to open it, knowing that the consequences lead…
Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season
Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season Studio: Universal Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season In just the first 24 episodes of SNL, you can see the evolution from a shapeless, scattershot variety program to the fine-tuned comedy juggernaut that would experience its still-unparalleled golden years in the late ’70s and…
The Internationale
The Internationale Studio: First Run Features WorkNameSort: Internationale, The At 135 years old, it would be wonderful to say that ‘The Internationaleâ?� ‘ the workers’ rights song this brief documentary focuses on ‘ has aged well. For if it had, this half-hour of watching crusty lefties natter on about ’empowermentâ?� and ‘inspirationâ?� wouldn’t have seemed…
Courage – The Complete Atlantic Recordings
Courage – The Complete Atlantic Recordings Label: Rhino Handmade Media: CD Format: BoxSet WorkNameSort: Courage – The Complete Atlantic Recordings Someone once said something along the lines of, ‘There ain’t no jazz in a flute.â?� Maybe it was Buddy Rich. Maybe it was me. I don’t remember, but what’s important is that there are some…
Eat Your Young
Eat Your Young Label: Kiss of Death Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Eat Your Young You may know Ryan Seagrist from his half-decade as a member of South Florida semilegends Discount, or even from his more recent tenure as guitarist in New Roman Times. Perhaps you just know him as the really friendly…
In The Pines
In The Pines Label: Second Nature Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: In The Pines Like a moonlit cabin that hides unspoken horrors behind its charming facade, In the Pines’ debut disc reflects rural life at its most picturesque-yet-simultaneously-unsettling. The sextet takes no shortcuts in establishing this atmosphere, which means none of its five…
Today
Today Label: DRG Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Today Brazilian singer Gal Costa has reigned as her country’s premier female vocalist for much of the past four decades, belonging to a cosseted musical elite that dominates Brazil’s sonic output abroad. Costa has had her share of lackluster releases, but for the most part…
ON THE CASE
A discussion with the A-Team about Blood Diamond
Apocalypto
Apocalypto Length: Single Studio: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Rated: R Website: http://apocalypto.movies.go.com/ Release Date: 2006-12-08 Cast: Dalia Hernandez, Mayra Serbulo, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Trujillo, Rudy Youngblood Director: Mel Gibson Screenwriter: Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia Music Score: James Horner WorkNameSort: Apocalypto Our Rating: 1.50 Apocalypto, Mel Gibson’s labor of love about the final days of Mayan…
BLISTER
“I hate you,” I clench my teeth around my steering wheel. “You are dead to me.” “Don’t say that!” Savannah drawls inaudibly … to me. Life has taken a bloated tryptophan turn over the past couple of days, and my car has taken a few extra turns itself in just the past half-hour. A half-baked…
SAVAGE LOVE
My boyfriend and I are currently doing the long-distance thing. About two months ago during some dirty phone talk he said he’d been masturbating while thinking about me fucking another man while he watches. This was unexpected. He knows that I only want to be with him and that I am not interested in additional…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES In the ancient Hebrew text known as the Second Book of Enoch, the author describes his trip through the 10 heavens and a meeting with God. He’s surprised to find that hell is here, located in the northern regions of the third heaven. Why is this relevant to you? Because I believe it might…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
I was recently on holiday in France (’cause that’s the way I roll, bitch). I have family over there, so my exposure to le Gallic way stretches back to childhood and, consequently, I hold much respect for the culture. In matters of taste, however, the French are certainly not infallible. The dark cloud of their…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Annoying thing 2,934,653: people who want to see unattractive people on television. Just the other day, someone sez to me, “HUMPY. Why aren’t there more ordinary people on TV? It’s always hot people or supermodels!” To which I replied, “If I wanted to see ugly people, I’d walk outside.” Would you really want to see…
HAPPYTOWN
Here’s a fun fact: Did you know that the TD Waterhouse Centre — home to the Orlando Magic and schlocky touring acts like Billy Joel — is named after a company that hasn’t existed in more than a year? It’s true! And it’s also the reason why there is no TD Waterhouse Centre anymore. There’s…
POLICE BEAT
NOV. 21, 9:35 P.M.: A local community center in the 1000 block of Carter Street proved an alluring target for a creative vandal or vandals. A vandal or vandals easily broke into the center the night before because “there are several areas that are unsecured,” Officer Correia reports. Perfect! The report continues by chronicling the…
LETTERS
Be a county watcher Thank you for the Nov. 30 Happytown™ item on CountyWatch. CountyWatch is a multipartisan organization in Orange County that focuses on ensuring citizen-friendly local government. We are committed to promoting open and accountable local government that listens to the concerns of its citizens and is responsive to those concerns. CountyWatch meets…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•7 Blind Guardian To be honest, we’re not crazy about Blind Guardian’s latest album, A Twist of the Myth, which, for all its power-metal trappings, occasionally conjures unpleasant flashbacks to Survivor’s earnest anthems and Foreigner’s choir-abetted choruses. Also, we could do without the German group’s woodland-minstrel ballads. Still, Blind Guardian, like Iron Maiden, provides enough…
FATHER IN REGALIA
It’s hard to believe in this modern age when hit songs are created from prepackaged sample collections, but not too long ago, audiences clamored for the innovative, mind-blowing music of Frank Zappa. By turns witty social satirist, remarkable guitarist and innovative composer and producer, Zappa released a string of consistently genre-busting records in the ’60s…
DIRTY PUNKS
The floor was a shitstorm of flying beer cans and flopping bodies. At the judges’ table, a bonfire fed by scorecards danced and flickered. On the stage, a band was performing — loudly and badly — in public for the first time, two of its members completely nude; one of them would end up in…
A BILL OF GOODS
Standing at the corner of Otey Street and Parramore Avenue, in the middle of a blighted neighborhood too dangerous to walk alone at night, it’s hard to imagine $350,000 homes on the 3.5-acre vacant lot here. The property is fenced off to keep hookers and junkies from using it as a place to sleep; trash…
TALKING BRAINS
Five minutes after arriving at the Marriott Marquis in New York City for the National Book Award ceremony Nov. 15, Richard Powers remembered he had forgotten his finalist medal, which the writers had been reminded to bring in case they were photographed. “I really should go back and get this,” said the tall 49-year-old novelist…
Maybe Dubya is right
Iran apparently is a charter member of the axis of evil.
The city hateful
You think you know people, but you donâ??t. You want to get a sense of what God-fearing Orlando is really like? Spend some time on Craigslist Orlandoâ??s rants and raves board. Youâ??ll come away with a different perspective on the residents of the City Beautiful, I guaran-damn-tee it. If CL is to be believed O-Town…
