Strung Out/Evergreen Terrace, Fat Lip/Mikah 9, Ladies of Lake Eola Heights and more
Friday • 14 STRUNG OUT/EVERGREEN TERRACE We’ve been thinking about Jobriath a lot lately. If you’re not familiar with him, he was an early-’70s glam/pop/rock un-star who made a big deal out of being gay. Nobody cared, because despite the fact that his albums were released on Elektra, they were a little too far ahead…
Movie: Coach Carter
Our Rating: 3.00 Haven’t we all heard enough bitching about spoiled professional athletes with bad-boy attitudes? Based on a true story, Coach Carter refreshingly attacks the subject from a grassroots point of view. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a successful business owner who returns to the high school where he was an all-American basketball player,…
DULLER DAYS
Movie: House of Flying Daggers
Movie: In Good Company
Our Rating: 2.50 Unlike the current torrent of coming-of-age drivel, this Paul Weitz dramedy views youthful self-actualization as a thing to be feared, not encouraged. The story revolves around Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid), a 51-year-old sales manager at a sports magazine whose life is turned upside-down when his firm is bought out by a huge…
Movie: Coach Carter
Our Rating: 3.00 Haven’t we all heard enough bitching about spoiled professional athletes with bad-boy attitudes? Based on a true story, Coach Carter refreshingly attacks the subject from a grassroots point of view. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a successful business owner who returns to the high school where he was an all-American basketball player,…
Review – Burn to Shine: Washington D.C. 01.14.2004
Artist: Various Artists
Movie: White Noise
Our Rating: 2.00 Let’s see: a supernatural thriller about electronic messages from the dead? Starring Michael Keaton? And hitting theaters right after most awards deadlines have passed? Hey, it could be good. Hahaha. No, it couldn’t. TV-spawned director Geoff Sax’s contribution to the traditional January-release boneyard – and to Keaton’s rapidly rotting career – gets…
Movie: In Good Company
Our Rating: 2.50 Unlike the current torrent of coming-of-age drivel, this Paul Weitz dramedy views youthful self-actualization as a thing to be feared, not encouraged. The story revolves around Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid), a 51-year-old sales manager at a sports magazine whose life is turned upside-down when his firm is bought out by a huge…
Review – The Untouchables, Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artists
CHAIN REACTION
You can almost visualize the board meeting: Senior restaurant chain exec: “We’ve done steak. We’ve done barbecue. We’ve done diners. We’ve done Mexican. We’ve done Italian. Lord, have we done Italian! What the hell’s left?” Junior restaurant chain exec, timidly: “Cuban?” Senior restaurant chain exec: “What’d he say, Reubens? A restaurant that just serves Reubens?…
Movie: White Noise
Our Rating: 2.00 Let’s see: a supernatural thriller about electronic messages from the dead? Starring Michael Keaton? And hitting theaters right after most awards deadlines have passed? Hey, it could be good. Hahaha. No, it couldn’t. TV-spawned director Geoff Sax’s contribution to the traditional January-release boneyard – and to Keaton’s rapidly rotting career – gets…
Review – Happiness in Magazines
Artist: Graham Coxon
Review – Burn to Shine: Washington D.C. 01.14.2004
Artist: Various Artists
ROLLS TO GO
Picking up sushi for dinner on the way home from work is a fairly daunting proposition in that it usually means stopping by the Japanese deli case near the produce section at your local grocery store. The convenience is nice, but the sushi – while tolerable and far better than a delivery pizza – leaves…
Review – Before the Poison
Artist: Marianne Faithfull
Review – The Untouchables, Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artists
THE RWANDA YEARS
Movie: Hotel Rwanda
Review – Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight Into the Blow
Artist: The Blow
Review – Happiness in Magazines
Artist: Graham Coxon
21st-CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
Movie: People Say I’m Crazy
THE RWANDA YEARS
Movie: Hotel Rwanda
Review – Before the Poison
Artist: Marianne Faithfull
Movie: White Noise
White Noise Length: 1 hour, 41 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures Website: http://www.whitenoisemovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-01-14 Cast: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, Ian McNeice, Amber Rothwell Director: Geoffrey Sax Screenwriter: Niall Johnson WorkNameSort: White Noise Our Rating: 2.00 Let’s see: a supernatural thriller about electronic messages from the dead? Starring Michael Keaton? And hitting…
21st-CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
Movie: People Say I’m Crazy
Review – Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight Into the Blow
Artist: The Blow
DULLER DAYS
Movie: House of Flying Daggers
THE RWANDA YEARS
Movie: Hotel Rwanda
Movie: Coach Carter
Our Rating: 3.00 Haven’t we all heard enough bitching about spoiled professional athletes with bad-boy attitudes? Based on a true story, Coach Carter refreshingly attacks the subject from a grassroots point of view. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a successful business owner who returns to the high school where he was an all-American basketball player,…
21st-CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
Movie: People Say I’m Crazy
Movie: In Good Company
Our Rating: 2.50 Unlike the current torrent of coming-of-age drivel, this Paul Weitz dramedy views youthful self-actualization as a thing to be feared, not encouraged. The story revolves around Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid), a 51-year-old sales manager at a sports magazine whose life is turned upside-down when his firm is bought out by a huge…
Review – Burn to Shine: Washington D.C. 01.14.2004
Artist: Various Artists
Movie: White Noise
Our Rating: 2.00 Let’s see: a supernatural thriller about electronic messages from the dead? Starring Michael Keaton? And hitting theaters right after most awards deadlines have passed? Hey, it could be good. Hahaha. No, it couldn’t. TV-spawned director Geoff Sax’s contribution to the traditional January-release boneyard – and to Keaton’s rapidly rotting career – gets…
Review – The Untouchables, Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artists
THE RWANDA YEARS
Movie: Hotel Rwanda
Review – Happiness in Magazines
Artist: Graham Coxon
21st-CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
Movie: People Say I’m Crazy
Review – Before the Poison
Artist: Marianne Faithfull
DULLER DAYS
Movie: House of Flying Daggers
Review – Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight Into the Blow
Artist: The Blow
ARCH-RIVALS
Christmas Day 2004 was notable for many reasons. We didn’t know it yet, but on the 26th, we would be saying goodbye to the most spiritually sound defensive lineman the NFL has ever seen (Reggie White) and Peyton Manning would break Dan Marino’s long-standing record for most NFL touchdown passes in a single season. More…
ROLLS TO GO
Picking up sushi for dinner on the way home from work is a fairly daunting proposition in that it usually means stopping by the Japanese deli case near the produce section at your local grocery store. The convenience is nice, but the sushi – while tolerable and far better than a delivery pizza – leaves…
FDLE’s mayoral vote fraud investigation conjures up happy memories
Did you hear the latest in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s vote fraud investigation into the 2004 mayoral election? Dean Mosley, the lawyer for Ezzie Thomas – a “consultant” to whom Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer paid $10,000 – announced that his client had been paid to collect absentee ballots, which runs contrary to state…
BECAUSE I CARE
When the extent of your Tuesday-morning post-tsunami philanthropy is an early chatty lunch at a Thai restaurant, cracking tasteless jokes and drowning them in tofu, squid and peanut oil, perhaps it’s time to realign your chakras into something a little more heart-y and a little less ironic. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I…
“Get a grip”
As we went to press with this week’s issue, the state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans was headed for criminal court, charged with wielding a vigorous handshake that crossed the line into battery. According to an article in the Orlando Sentinel, Douglas D. Dawson is accused of assaulting his second-in-command, Robert E. May,…
DEATH BE NOT PROUD
For most of us, the timing and manner of our deaths is not a matter to which we are privy. But for the convicts on death row in Bruce Graham’s taut and compelling drama Coyote on a Fence, the knowledge of their impending executions is an inescapable fact of existence. For John Brennan (Jim Howard),…
PLAYING FOR KEEPS
For proof that the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival’s November 2003 PlayFest succeeded in its mission to hunt down and cultivate promising new scripts, one need look no farther than the stage of the OSF’s mighty Margeson Theater. The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, a comedy that was workshopped at that inaugural PlayFest, just wrapped a well-received performance…
THE TEFLON CHIEF
“I’ve been tried, and it’s time to quit. It’s getting old.” And so, with a forced smile barely hiding a look of annoyance, Edgewood police Chief Clarence L. Bass abruptly ends a 30-minute interview. Heavyset, mustached and bald, Bass is imposing in an unintentional way. There’s weariness to his demeanor, underscoring the fact that he…
