SOCK IT TO WHOM?
Movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
SOCK IT TO WHOM?
Movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Review – Sings: The Who Sell Out
Artist: Petra Haden
ONE NATION AT C LEVEL
Movie: Silent Waters
Review – LCD Soundsystem
Artist: LCD Soundsystem
Movie: Hitch
Hitch Length: 1 hour, 55 minutes Studio: Columbia Pictures Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/hitch/ Release Date: 2005-02-11 Cast: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Michael Rapaport, Ato Essandoh Director: Andy Tennant Screenwriter: Jessica Bendinger, Kevin Bisch, Lowell Ganz WorkNameSort: Hitch Our Rating: 3.00 Finally, a romantic comedy made for men (or their ilk) – one that won’t earn…
Review – The Golden Republic
Artist: The Golden Republic
Movie: Uncle Nino
Uncle Nino Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes Studio: Lange Film Releasing Website: http://www.uncleninothemovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-02-11 Cast: Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Pierrino Mascarino, Trevor Morgan, Gina Mantegna Director: Robert Shallcross Screenwriter: Robert Shallcross WorkNameSort: Uncle Nino Our Rating: 1.00 The PR poop on the alleged underdog phenomenon Uncle Nino is that it’s being granted a…
SOCK IT TO WHOM?
Movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
ONE NATION AT C LEVEL
Movie: Silent Waters
Movie: Hitch
Our Rating: 3.00 Finally, a romantic comedy made for men (or their ilk) – one that won’t earn any awards but will make millions this Valentine season. In the title role, Will Smith embodies the polarities always at odds in the love game. On the one hand, we have the suited-up, ultraconfident, urbane dating expert…
Movie: Uncle Nino
Our Rating: 1.00 The PR poop on the alleged underdog phenomenon Uncle Nino is that it’s being granted a national release after playing to wildly appreciative audiences in one Grand Rapids theater for an entire year. Apparently, the year in question was 1954, because the cloying Nino is terminally square to an extent that would…
CONJURING LOVE
Some images naturally evoke romance – not the Harlequin variety, but a more decadent version made up of long, luscious nights of freedom and beauty, love and passion. For me, this fantasy is colored in a tropical patina that conjures Havana in the 1950s, something the Samba Room also effects. OK, so you’re not exactly…
Review – Sings: The Who Sell Out
Artist: Petra Haden
Review – LCD Soundsystem
Artist: LCD Soundsystem
Review – The Golden Republic
Artist: The Golden Republic
Review – Sings: The Who Sell Out
Artist: Petra Haden
ONE NATION AT C LEVEL
Movie: Silent Waters
Review – LCD Soundsystem
Artist: LCD Soundsystem
Movie: Hitch
Our Rating: 3.00 Finally, a romantic comedy made for men (or their ilk) – one that won’t earn any awards but will make millions this Valentine season. In the title role, Will Smith embodies the polarities always at odds in the love game. On the one hand, we have the suited-up, ultraconfident, urbane dating expert…
Review – The Golden Republic
Artist: The Golden Republic
Movie: Uncle Nino
Our Rating: 1.00 The PR poop on the alleged underdog phenomenon Uncle Nino is that it’s being granted a national release after playing to wildly appreciative audiences in one Grand Rapids theater for an entire year. Apparently, the year in question was 1954, because the cloying Nino is terminally square to an extent that would…
SOCK IT TO WHOM?
Movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
The Mikado, Rocket 88, NESkimos, The Cocktail Hour and more
Friday • 11 LOVE CROSSING Hey, did you happen to save your Orlando Broadway Dinner Theater tickets when the venerable home of buffets and belting it out went belly-up at the end of 2004? Probably not; odds are, you tossed the now-worthless ducats into a homemade bonfire when you realized you had bought entry to…
“This is my life, bitches”
I’m a writer, which means I have to know a little bit about a lot of things. Fortunately, I’m a writer for Orlando Weekly, which means the things I “know” don’t necessarily have to be true. Is there really a sinkhole in Seminole County that can swallow more per hour than Kirstie Alley? Did Patty…
SPORE WARS
After 10 minutes of conversation in his apartment, John Godfrey tells me he needs to leave. He’s having trouble breathing, he says, and his skin is itchy and irritated. “I’m getting dizzy.” Though you wouldn’t know it, Godfrey hasn’t lived in this apartment – a beautiful three-bedroom unit in a complex now called The Hamptons…
SLIP-SLIDIN’ AWAY
The Super Bowl was held in Jacksonville Feb. 5, in case you hadn’t heard. Something about grown men in pads knocking into one another, then retiring to a locker room to slap asses and howl. Football. Sounds like a hoot. I’ll have to check that out someday when I’m really old. Or not. Due to…
The Mikado, Rocket 88, NESkimos, The Cocktail Hour and more
Friday • 11 LOVE CROSSING Hey, did you happen to save your Orlando Broadway Dinner Theater tickets when the venerable home of buffets and belting it out went belly-up at the end of 2004? Probably not; odds are, you tossed the now-worthless ducats into a homemade bonfire when you realized you had bought entry to…
UNFORGETTABLE BLACKNESS
The Early Years, 1901-1909(Archeophone) The Middle Years, 1910-1918(Archeophone) His Final Releases, 1919-1922 (Archeophone) The genius of Bert Williams echoes on, eight decades after his death. When we talk about something being (or not being) a cakewalk, we’re referencing the dance Williams and his partner George Walker popularized in the 1890s. If we laugh at the…
LET IT RIDE
Dinosaur Jr. Bug (Merge) Dinosaur Jr. You’re Living All Over Me (Merge) Lou Barlow Emoh(Merge) It appears that Lou Barlow has done a little growing up. Not only has his music progressed far beyond the self-indulgent lo-fi bedroom recordings that garnered him such a dubious reputation in the years following his dismissal from Dinosaur Jr.,…
FREE TO BE YOU AND ME AND US
Now that many in America’s homosexual community have hocked their gay cards in order to purchase some final shreds of dignity and personal freedom, blatant political activism has seemingly given way to crossing one’s fingers and hoping that the inevitable isn’t as bad as it might be. The nation has spoken, after all, and what…
ADDICTED TO (PUPPY) LOVE
While other theaters put their Valentine-season stock in traditional romantic comedies, Theatre Downtown is reaping the rewards of a lesson it learned last year: Not even a human pairing that’s written in the stars can compete with the heart-melting love of a man for his dog. That’s the kibble-kernel of wisdom behind the theater’s reprise…
“This is my life, bitches”
I’m a writer, which means I have to know a little bit about a lot of things. Fortunately, I’m a writer for Orlando Weekly, which means the things I “know” don’t necessarily have to be true. Is there really a sinkhole in Seminole County that can swallow more per hour than Kirstie Alley? Did Patty…
CLAP HAPPY
What am I doing with my life? No matter how much freshly-heaved sick I find myself trudging through, no matter how many retina burns suffered from flashes of brilliance and the bright lights of failure, I still always have the pitiful feeling that it’s all happening on the other side of a slab of tempered…
INSERT HARD DRIVE JOKE HERE
News of the Weird recently mentioned the Sinulator, a vibrating device operated over the Internet that permits thrusting movements at one computer to be mimicked by an insertable wand (typically, for use of a female) at another computer. For less excitable people, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently developed The Hug, which allows one user…
BRIDGES: BURNT
The following is a fictitious interview between New England Patriots running back Corey Dillon and former radio talk show host Drew Garabo. Any resemblance to reality is no coincidence. Drew Garabo: Tonight we’re going to talk to Corey Dillon. This dude came from a torturous situation in Cincinnati, where all anyone could talk about was…
FINDING THE OOH-LA-LA IN FOOD
Consider this scenario: You’re riding through Napa Valley in a convertible, surrounded by a cool, dry breeze as the sun sinks into late afternoon. Permeating the air is the thrilling smell of charred oak and aged fruit, like you’ve sunk yourself into a wine cask. In the distance, you see rolling hills, layered with green…
We go ribbon-cutting with Kevin Beary and push media buttons with sexy vegetarians
Last year, during election time, Marine Corps Capt. Derek Watson of Orlando got something in the mail he didn’t like: a re-election flyer from Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary. It wasn’t the candidate that bothered Watson, it was the ribbons on his chest. Watson recognized that the ribbons on Beary’s uniform were military decorations, including…
SLIP-SLIDIN’ AWAY
The Super Bowl was held in Jacksonville Feb. 5, in case you hadn’t heard. Something about grown men in pads knocking into one another, then retiring to a locker room to slap asses and howl. Football. Sounds like a hoot. I’ll have to check that out someday when I’m really old. Or not. Due to…
