Secret Agent (aka Danger Man) – The Complete Collection
Secret Agent (aka Danger Man) – The Complete Collection Studio: A&E Home Video Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2007-02-27 Cast: Peter Madden Director: Stuart Burge, Charles Crichton WorkNameSort: Secret Agent (aka Danger Man) – The Complete Collection Fans of The Prisoner, the cult classic starring Patrick McGoohan, will recall that he played a secret agent…
SHE SELLS SANCTUARY
You’d hope that the wave of high-rise development in downtown Orlando would eventually give rise to cuisine equally as lofty. After all, when it comes to downtown dining, there’s nowhere to go but up. Enter real estate developer Steve Kodsi. The condo mogul responsible for the Sanctuary just south of Lake Eola and the Star…
Thisish Vol. 1 / As The Tables Turn
Thisish Vol. 1 / As The Tables Turn Label: Redline Music / The Ablist Productions Rated: NONE Release Date: 2007-03-13 Media: CD Format: Compilation WorkNameSort: Thisish Vol. 1 / As The Tables Turn Just as they were gaining a gargantuan audience, New York’s X-ecutioners were losing key member and 1992 DMC East Coast Champion Rob…
Children Running Through
Children Running Through Label: Ato Records Length: LP Website: http://www.pattygriffin.com/ Release Date: 2007-02-06 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Children Running Through The songwriter’s songwriter whose career misfortunes have turned her into alt-country cultdom’s patron gal of suffering and cover stories returns with her quietest album yet. ‘Stay on the Rideâ?� and ‘Getting Readyâ?� go brassy…
Arriving at Night
Arriving at Night Label: Hefty Records Length: LP Release Date: 2007-02-20 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Arriving at Night Late winter afternoons are warmed by the light of Victor Bermon’s debut album. The Australia native blends sleepy beats with clipped folk and jazz elements on Arriving at Night, and like a teetering rowboat at dusk,…
Countrypolitan Favorites
Countrypolitan Favorites Label: Yep Roc Records Length: LP Website: http://www.scots.com Release Date: 2007-02-20 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Countrypolitan Favorites This North Carolina ensemble were doing their kitsch & roll long before other junk-shop surfers started hijacking the aesthetic. As is true for all garage sale patrons, early birds reap the rewards. Rick Miller and…
REVOLUTIONARY INJUSTICE
Cuban cinema deserves better than this DVD set
Black Snake Moan
Black Snake Moan Studio: Paramount Vantage Rated: R Website: http://www.moanmovie.com/ Release Date: 2007-03-02 Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, John Cothran Jr, Michael Raymond-James Director: Craig Brewer WorkNameSort: Black Snake Moan Our Rating: 3.50 For his follow-up to Hustle & Flow, writer-director Craig Brewer skillfully evokes an atmosphere of lingering racial hostility in…
Breaking and Entering
Breaking and Entering Studio: The Weinstein Company, Buena Vista International Rated: R Release Date: 2007-02-09 Cast: Jude Law, Vera Farmiga, Juliette Binoche, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone Director: Anthony Minghella WorkNameSort: Breaking and Entering Our Rating: 2.50 Writer-director Anthony Minghella has been pillaging the literature section of his local bookstore for some time, with adaptations of…
Wild Hogs
Wild Hogs Studio: Buena Vista Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://wildhogs.movies.go.com/ Release Date: 2007-03-02 Cast: John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Tichina Arnold Director: Walt Becker WorkNameSort: Wild Hogs Our Rating: 0.00 Words like ‘revoltingâ?� and ‘contemptibleâ?� do little justice to this offensive biker comedy. City Slickers without the intelligence or chemistry, Wild…
Zodiac
Zodiac Studio: Warner Bros., Paramount Rated: R Website: http://www.zodiacmovie.com/ Release Date: 2007-03-02 Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox Director: David Fincher WorkNameSort: Zodiac Our Rating: 3.50 Zodiac is a 154-minute ode to directorial excess, a movie more interested in minutia than character development, a seemingly structureless descent into life-destroying…
Un Chant D’Amour
Un Chant D’Amour Studio: Cult Epics Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2007-03-27 Cast: André Reybaz, Coco Le Martiniquais Director: Jean Genet WorkNameSort: Un Chant D’Amour Un Chant d’Amour has long been a Holy Grail for fans of both queer and experimental cinema, capturing the controversial nexus of the two much like Kenneth Anger’s more lauded…
13 Tzameti
13 Tzameti Studio: Palm Pictures Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2007-02-13 Cast: George Babluani, Pascal Bongard, Aurélien Recoing, Fred Ulysse, Nicolas Pignon Director: Géla Babluani Screenwriter: Géla Babluani WorkNameSort: 13 Tzameti After a roofing job for immigrant Georgian laborer Sébastien abruptly ends with the death of the Frenchman who hired him, he puts together the…
HAPPYTOWN
While Anna Nicole Smith’s carcass decays in a South Florida freezer into something resembling Suzanne Somers — damn you, Howard K. Stern! — the thoughtful (and usually pensive) folks-with-espresso-machine-burns at Stardust are doing their best to keep her well-endowed spirit alive. Starduster Alli Long, with the assistance of quirk-ubiquity Doug Rhodehamel, have launched a fitting…
POLICE BEAT
;FEB. 15, 9:50 A.M.: It was reported early this morning that an unknown person or persons broke into a multileveled law firm in the 200 block of South Orange Avenue and partook in an burglary spree. ; ;The secret suspect(s) stealthily whisked through floors 22, 23 and 24 of the firm, extracting a total of…
LETTERS
One big, happy county It is ridiculous to think that cutting property taxes will lift a financial burden off the citizens of Orange County `”How to bankrupt local government,” Feb. 8`. Local government still has to pay the bills. So our sales taxes will increase therefore forcing people to buy things online and driving local…
SELECTIONS
;Thursday•1 ;;Femme, Femme, Femme Reminiscent of speakeasies and whiskey on the rocks, Cheryl Turner’s paintings illustrate the decadent bar life of women in the 1930s. We dig the swank. A self-taught, Orlando-based artist, Turner uses nostalgic themes to depict her glamorized view of lesbian watering-hole culture. Femme, Femme, Femme is a solo showing from the…
EPIC IMPRESSIONS
One of the most prominent practitioners of the “epic” metal song — tracks characterized by gradual, repetitive buildups and cathartic detonations — Isis demonstrates its mastery of the craft on its latest release, In the Absence of Truth. The album places less emphasis on ebb-and-flow dynamics than previous efforts, a conscious reaction to what bassist…
TIGHT LACED
They’ve been referred to as “sneakerheads,” a legion of enthusiasts who, quite literally, get their kicks from customized sneakers — the bolder, the more flamboyant, the better. Arriving on a wave of footwear frenzy, their so-called “shoe culture” brings a whole new meaning to footwear. Diversitile Custom Clothing, a local art troupe consisting of four…
WELCOME HOME!
;How many hippies does it take to put out a forest fire? All of them, which in this case means the 300 to 400 who are nearby when a blaze ignites – probably from an errant campfire – and threatens to scorch a remote, tinder-dry campsite that is their temporary home. It takes hippies in…
A HORNET’S NEST
Ten years ago, Mike Kwasnik gave the Orlando Science Center a relatively minor exhibit to display. The science center isn’t using it anymore, so he wants it back. There’s one problem: The science center has no idea where it is. Not only that, it says locating the nest isn’t the center’s responsibility. In other words,…
DEATH BY CLICHÉ
With the recent release of Hannibal Rising and this week’s Zodiac — David Fincher’s ode to the men who became obsessed with identifying San Francisco’s Zodiac killer in the ’60s and ’70s — we thought it would be a good time to evaluate what the motion pictures have taught us about serial killers. Though we’ve…
BLISTER
“I’ve just done the dumbest thing in the world!” Tony’s on the porta-horn spewing self-satisfaction at the sad fact that he’s locked his keys in his running car at 7-Eleven on Valentine’s Day, thereby forcing his flowers-free husband to actually offer affection in the form of a pop-a-lock rescue. He’s lucky. My husband’s gambling in…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES You’re facing a classic dilemma: You can either run away from demanding responsibilities toward an illusory freedom that might allow you to cling to a false sense of pride … or else you can gleefully embrace interesting responsibilities that will build your self-confidence as you fight for a whole new kind of freedom. The…
SAVAGE LOVE
Serious question: I have always had a thing for Anna Nicole Smith and frequently masturbated to her Playboy photos. I’ve always felt some guilt about masturbation to begin with, but since her death, I now feel a little creepy doing it. Do you think it’s OK to continue now that she has passed away? Missing…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
;You know the kind of wicked bug that has you knotted in a fetal position and trembling in a pool of your own perspiration while visions both absurd and nightmarish materialize in your mind? Well, last week, I had just a garden-variety cold. But, for a disorienting moment, I was convinced it had kicked into…
TOO FULL TO JUMP OVER THIS MOON
“I feel like a 5-year-old!” says my wife, who, though certainly young, has at least graduated from kindergarten. Dwarfed by the epic-sized slices of pizza at Lazy Moon Pizza (12269 University Blvd., 407-658-2396), she was reminded what it’s like to be a miniature person, when everything seems outsized. The wide variety of toppings make for…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
;PlayFest ;; “That was awful! Give me another one!”; ; It’s the Friday-night opening reception for the 2007 Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, better known as PlayFest. The subject of my schizophrenia isn’t any of the plays-in-progress being presented; rather, it’s the complimentary cocktail on offer. Some satanic sommelier…
COUNCIL WATCH
;Inside council chambers,;secular praise was being dispersed with uncommon frequency. Following an invocation about “the fruits of our labors,” a baker’s hour of awards, presentations and recognitions saw the mayor leaving his comfy command chair for what seemed like an eternity. ; ;It was difficult to pay attention to all that, though, because the University…
Roger Moore should consider bodyguards
The Sentinel movie dude posted a defense of James Cameron’s new Discovery Channel documentary on his always insane blog this morning. The doc concerns an archeological find in Jeruselum that may or may not hold the bones of the supposedly unrisen Jesus, his wife, son and extended family. Care to guess what happened next? Check…
