Movie: Rosenstrasse
Our Rating: 3.00 An exploration of mixed marriages in Nazi Germany would be compelling on its own, and there’s even more potential for pathos in this little-told story of a group of gentile women who stood up to armed Nazis holding their Jewish husbands captive in a makeshift prison. Yet screenwriter/director Margarethe von Trotta relies…
Rosenstrasse
Movie: Rosenstrasse
Movie: Seducing Dr. Lewis
Our Rating: 2.50 This French-Canadian comedy is in the tradition of The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine: films about average folk who get into some kind of fix because they need money. This time, the comical commoners are the inhabitants of a tiny former fishing village in Quebec where everyone seems to be on…
Movie: Seducing Dr. Lewis
Our Rating: 2.50 This French-Canadian comedy is in the tradition of The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine: films about average folk who get into some kind of fix because they need money. This time, the comical commoners are the inhabitants of a tiny former fishing village in Quebec where everyone seems to be on…
Movie: The Yes Men
Our Rating: 3.50 Andy Bichibaum and Mike Bonanno began a career of high-level pranksterism with gwbush.com, a subversive clone of Dubya’s own web site. Soon, the dastardly duo had received cease-and-desist letters, which they mailed to the press, grabbing headlines. Andy and Mike followed this effort with a spoof of the World Trade Organization’s site;…
Movie: The Yes Men
Our Rating: 3.50 Andy Bichibaum and Mike Bonanno began a career of high-level pranksterism with gwbush.com, a subversive clone of Dubya’s own web site. Soon, the dastardly duo had received cease-and-desist letters, which they mailed to the press, grabbing headlines. Andy and Mike followed this effort with a spoof of the World Trade Organization’s site;…
Review – Safe at Home
Artist: The International Submarine Band
Movie: Rosenstrasse
Our Rating: 3.00 An exploration of mixed marriages in Nazi Germany would be compelling on its own, and there’s even more potential for pathos in this little-told story of a group of gentile women who stood up to armed Nazis holding their Jewish husbands captive in a makeshift prison. Yet screenwriter/director Margarethe von Trotta relies…
GAUNT IN 60 SECONDS
Movie: The Machinist
Movie: Seducing Dr. Lewis
Our Rating: 2.50 This French-Canadian comedy is in the tradition of The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine: films about average folk who get into some kind of fix because they need money. This time, the comical commoners are the inhabitants of a tiny former fishing village in Quebec where everyone seems to be on…
LOCH, STOCK AND BARREL
Movie: Incident at Loch Ness
Movie: The Yes Men
Our Rating: 3.50 Andy Bichibaum and Mike Bonanno began a career of high-level pranksterism with gwbush.com, a subversive clone of Dubya’s own web site. Soon, the dastardly duo had received cease-and-desist letters, which they mailed to the press, grabbing headlines. Andy and Mike followed this effort with a spoof of the World Trade Organization’s site;…
Movie: Rosenstrasse
Rosenstrasse Length: 2 hors, 16 minutes Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films Website: http://www.rosenstrasse-derfilm.de/ Release Date: 2004-12-10 Cast: Doris Schade, Sigurd Lohde, Svea Lohde, Thekla Reuten, Nina Kunzendorf Director: Margarethe Von Trotta Screenwriter: Margarethe Von Trotta, Pamela Katz Music Score: Loek Dikker WorkNameSort: Rosenstrasse Our Rating: 3.00 An exploration of mixed marriages in Nazi Germany would be…
Review – Safe at Home
Artist: The International Submarine Band
Movie: Seducing Dr. Lewis
Seducing Dr. Lewis Length: 1 hour, 48 minutes Studio: Wellspring Media Website: http://www.lagrandeseduction-lefilm.com/ Release Date: 1900-01-01 Cast: Raymond Bouchard, David Boutin, Benoît Brière, Lucie Laurier, Pierre Collin Director: Jean-François Pouliot Screenwriter: Ken Scott WorkNameSort: Seducing Dr. Lewis Our Rating: 2.50 This French-Canadian comedy is in the tradition of The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine:…
GAUNT IN 60 SECONDS
Movie: The Machinist
Movie: The Yes Men
The Yes Men Length: 1 hour, 20 minutes Studio: United Artists Website: http://www.mgm.com/ua/yesmen/ Release Date: 2004-12-10 Cast: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonnano, The Yes Men Director: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman WorkNameSort: The Yes Men Our Rating: 3.50 Andy Bichibaum and Mike Bonanno began a career of high-level pranksterism with gwbush.com, a subversive clone of Dubya’s own…
LOCH, STOCK AND BARREL
Movie: Incident at Loch Ness
HOT DONKEY
What do you get when you cross Starbucks with Ron Jon’s Surf Shop? A coffeehouse with a faux molten volcano, 3-D surf wave, saltwater aquarium and brews with an attitude, aka Bad Ass Coffee Company. The fantastical decor of this Hawaiian-rooted chain fits right into its I-Drive location, south of Sand Lake Boulevard – so…
Review – Safe at Home
Artist: The International Submarine Band
GAUNT IN 60 SECONDS
Movie: The Machinist
GAUNT IN 60 SECONDS
Movie: The Machinist
LOCH, STOCK AND BARREL
Movie: Incident at Loch Ness
LOCH, STOCK AND BARREL
Movie: Incident at Loch Ness
GENDER BENT
Eccentric British rock musician Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Megson) and his wife and partner, Lady Jaye Breyer, are gradually transforming themselves surgically into gender-neutral human beings (“pandrogynous”) resembling each other, so that eventually they will be indistinguishable, to demonstrate how overrated gender is as a point of reference. (For example, he wore a lace dress…
“Coppin’ a buzzword”
Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster recently released its list of the top 10 words of the year – the words that visitors to the company’s Internet sites looked up most often in 2004. Here, we explain the popularity of the honored terms, defining them where necessary and explaining the causes of their extraordinary popularity. (Note: Profanities were…
LAST CALL FOR AILEEN
What do you say about a dead serial killer? That she was notorious and nasty and of no account? That she preyed on middle-aged men, trolled the highways as a prostitute, brokered the saddest sex this side of lethal? That execution for a capital crime means never having to say you’re sorry? Surprisingly, none of…
THE BATTLE RAGES ON
“One minute I feel like Erin Brockovich, the next I feel like the Keystone Kops.” Susan Pynchon is standing in the parking lot of the Lake Mary Kinko’s, peering over the mess of files and cardboard boxes in the back of her tan Toyota SUV, which features an anti-Bush sticker on the window. For those…
COURT AND SPARK
We as a people have a strange habit of neutering our fiercest holiday fables. Left to our own devices, we forget that It’s a Wonderful Life is a story about attempted suicide, and that Dickens’ A Christmas Carol lobs more socialist word-bombs than Abbie Hoffman lobbed in his lifetime. Instead, we ghettoize these as “cute”…
SURFEIT OF SCROOGES
At this holly-jolly time of year, productions of A Christmas Carol are as ubiquitous as the gaudy holiday light displays that bedeck our neighborhoods and as numerous as amateur presentations of The Nutcracker ballet. Theatre Downtown has joined the seasonal frenzy with yet another edition of the Dickens classic, proving that we locals can never…
THE LEGEND OF GOAT BOY
Bill Hicks died 10 years, nine months and 13 days ago. For that reason, only God and His angels know what Hicks would think about the current sociopolitical plight of the United States. And it’s doubtless that they do know, because if his behavior on Earth is any indication, Hicks’ rantings have filled the heavenly…
Michael Andrew, Afrika Bambaataa, Isis, Magnetic Fields, Wanda Sykes and more
Thursday • 9 A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS Charisma is Michael Andrew’s gift to the world, all wrapped up in his dashing good looks and swanky wardrobe. His voice alone is sexy enough to make you want to sit in his lap and call him Santa, yet the Sinatra-esque crooner has spared no trimmings on this Christmas…
CRASS MY ASS!
Last year, when Orlando Weekly’s editorial staff learned that we’d be publishing our personal Christmas wish lists as a holiday gift guide, the idea initially struck me as unforgivably crass. But by the time New Year’s Day rolled around, I realized that I had scored an impressive 60 percent of the items on my list…
I’M BROKE
Somehow, this year has wound up being the year of being broke. I’d like to blame it on George Bush, but truthfully, it’s because I don’t get paid enough. OK, no, really it’s because I’m up to my eyeballs in debt and this has been the year of coming to terms with that fact and,…
HOT DONKEY
What do you get when you cross Starbucks with Ron Jon’s Surf Shop? A coffeehouse with a faux molten volcano, 3-D surf wave, saltwater aquarium and brews with an attitude, aka Bad Ass Coffee Company. The fantastical decor of this Hawaiian-rooted chain fits right into its I-Drive location, south of Sand Lake Boulevard – so…
BLEEDING-HEART CHRISTMAS
The holiday spirit of excess and indulgence doesn’t sit well with this bleeding-heart liberal, especially when it’s corporate America that ultimately reaps the bounty. So here’s a list of things I really want, the purchase of which benefits local nonprofits and businesses. This way, both the giver and givee can feel good about stimulating the…
Dems choose new leaders and Jesus comes down off the cross
You’d expect the Democrats to be licking their wounds after Nov. 2, planning a more unified front for next time, right? Fat chance. On Dec. 1, the Orange County Democratic Executive Committee gathered for one last meeting of the year to choose their new leadership, and the result was little-d democracy at its ugliest. Nearly…
THE URGE TO MOVE
Last year, at the very top of my Christmas list was an end to George W. Bush’s presidency. Well, I got my gift, except I have to wait until 2008 to unwrap it. Unless, of course, the Republicans decide that it’s far too dangerous to change presidents anymore at all and make W. Ruler for…
GOBSMACKED
Guided by Voices shows in Orlando have become a circus-like event in the past four years, resembling a Gallagher show in reverse. While the onstage beer cooler (from which GBV frontman Robert Pollard knocks down cold one after cold one during their entire set) has become a staple for GBV’s live show, Orlando crowds are…
JUST THE BIG STUFF, BIG GUY
Dear Santa, Being that I didn’t receive one item off my lengthy Christmas list last year, I’ve decided to up the ante and ask for strictly big-ticket items this time. I’m hoping a shorter list will make it easier to remember and thus easier to buy for me. You know I’ve been extra-good this year.…
EMBRACING MY INNER CHILD
When it comes to holiday gifts, little brats today don’t know how good they have it. In the ’70s and ’80s, you were lucky if you got a Cabbage Patch Doll and a jar of Play-Doh to keep you occupied. Twenty years ago, the toy industry was a sleeping giant. Today, the giant is awake,…
ALL IS WELL
So my boss wanted me to write an intro to my wish list, giving some sort of rhyme or reason for the things listed below. Best I can tell, there isn’t one. Yeah, the year has been sort of a personal roller coaster, but I’m happy to report that things are looking up. I have…
I WANT A MINK-LINED TEACUP
I want a disco ball 8 feet wide. I want inflatable cutlery. I want a clipper ship and a full crew of sailors. I want a pair of goats who can sing all of the Bacharach-David songbook. I want to ride an elephant. I want a night-vision ant farm. I want a document shredder. I…
BACKFAT!
Eww. To my right are two gentlemen geriatrics sharing a boiled hot dog in meet-you-in-the-middle style while staring down at their own exposed droopy members. Flatulence, I dare say, is delivered as due. Overhead, in some videotaped pimp-and-ho party situation, a white-powdered/dark-skinned stripper is grinding on the dance floor, pouring chocolate on her frontal girl-lobes…
