Doing it all for the rookie
Movie: The Recruit
Movie: Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2 Studio: New Line Cinema Website: http://www.deathiscoming.com/ Release Date: 2003-01-31 Cast: A.J. Cook, Andrew Downing, Michael Landes, Ali Larter, Tony Todd Director: David Ellis Screenwriter: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber WorkNameSort: Final Destination 2 Our Rating: 0.00 The sequel to 2000’s premonition-rich thriller has the best self-contradictory title ever. What comes after “final,”…
Movie: Final Destination 2
Our Rating: 0.00 The sequel to 2000’s premonition-rich thriller has the best self-contradictory title ever. What comes after “final,” anyway?
Review – Bigger Cages, Longer Chains
Artist: The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Review – Bigger Cages, Longer Chains
Artist: The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Review – Zos Kia Cultis (Here and Beyond)
Artist: Behemoth
Review – So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
Artist: Joan of Arc
Review – DJ-Kicks
Artist: Tiga
Review – Zos Kia Cultis (Here and Beyond)
Artist: Behemoth
Review – Dub It to the Top: 1976-1979
Artist: Yabby You
Review – Sailor’s Warning
Artist: Con Dolore
Review – Way of the Dead
Artist: Yakuza
Review – DJ-Kicks
Artist: Tiga
Review – Bigger Cages, Longer Chains
Artist: The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Review – Dub It to the Top: 1976-1979
Artist: Yabby You
Review – Zos Kia Cultis (Here and Beyond)
Artist: Behemoth
Movie: Biker Boyz
Our Rating: 0.00 Black professional men trade their suits for leathers as weekend members of a California motorcycle club
Review – DJ-Kicks
Artist: Tiga
Aboriginal sin
Movie: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Review – Dub It to the Top: 1976-1979
Artist: Yabby You
Doing it all for the rookie
Movie: The Recruit
Review – Way of the Dead
Artist: Yakuza
Review – Way of the Dead
Artist: Yakuza
The Chau line
I’m a lucky guy. What I do for a living doesn’t require that I spend long days out in a fishing boat or toiling in the fields. So, unlike the people sushi was originally developed for, I eat it as a luxury. That’s right, sushi was the original box lunch, with the fermented or vinegared…
Movie: Biker Boyz
Biker Boyz Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Website: http://www.bikerboyz.com/ Release Date: 2003-01-31 Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Derek Luke, Kid Rock, Orlando Jones, Lisa Bonet Director: Reggie Rock Blythewood Screenwriter: Reggie Rock Blythewood, Craig Fernandez WorkNameSort: Biker Boyz Our Rating: 0.00 Black professional men trade their suits for leathers as weekend members of a California motorcycle club
Aboriginal sin
Movie: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Four for the job
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of stories about the eight candidates for the Orlando mayor’s office. Candidates Buddy Dyer, Tico Perez and Bill Sublette were profiled in previous issues. Derrick Wallace is the subject of this week’s cover story. Pete Barr is old Orlando. Literally. He’s old (68), and he’s been…
The Black Vote
In 1984, a 44-year-old financial planner named Tim Adams took a look at the large number of black voters registered in Orlando and decided he would do something no other black person had done before: be a candidate for mayor of Orlando. Adams, now the 59-year-old president of a west-side construction company, prepared for a…
Soup-er bowls all year round
Whoever lived in the bungalow near the corner of Mills Avenue and Montana Street before the house joined the other commercial properties must have left a happy vibration, because the current tenants certainly seem glad to be there. Kim Long Vietnamese Cuisine (1326 N. Mills Ave., 407-228-0031) has been open about five years. While you…
“They bring my mind to a …
“They bring my mind to a complete halt.” — Carla Bley on The Shaggs “Disco, disco, disco. I am going to get Crisco.” — From “How Long Are You Staying,” a song-poem written by Mary Urrutia and sung by Bill Joy Ask any self-confessed fan what they look for in music beyond mere entertainment, and…
Mostly Martha
A Montana district judge ruled in January that for a homicide suspect with apparent multiple personalities, exercise of a Miranda right by one of them carries over to all the others. Tessa Haley lawyered up when police sought to question her about the stabbing death of her roommate, and though police questioning ceased, Haley transformed…
Know your candidates: Part Two
With the Orlando mayoral race entering the home stretch, it’s time for every undecided voter to pick a candidate based on the one true yardstick available to us: the strength of their campaign slogans. (Yeah, we’re talking to you: Anybody with a more sophisticated political sensibility would be reading the front section of this newspaper…
Culture
Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter (Eclectic DVD Distribution) Think very carefully before you risk hellfire and damnation by watching this one. In director Lee Gordon Demarbre’s action comedy (the recipient of an Honorable Mention at Slamdance 2002), the city of Ottawa is overrun by a new strain of vampires that can walk in the daylight. To…
Culture
BaadAsssss Cinema: A Bold Look At 70’s Blaxploitation Films (Docurama) If you’re looking for a primer in the so-called “black exploitation” craze of three decades ago, getting on the bus is made easy by this hour-long historical retrospective, aired last August on the Independent Film Channel. Pegging the start of the movement to the 1971…
Oh, say can I sing?
With “American Idol” chiming in its second season of humility glory, and its main squeeze, Simon Cowell, overdosing every interview show on the docket — being mean on cue (but not cute on me) — it would only seem appropriate that I should find myself in line with a legion of head shots and the…
Gay, like me
Why the Long Face? — The Adventures of a Truly Independent Actor (St. Martin’s Press) The tendency to memorialize a life still in process is usually best avoided, just in case the latter years materialize into an invalidating process of the whimsy that fed a youthful mind. Self-described “truly independent actor” Craig Chester proves quite…
The tenant of late night
By now you’ve probably heard all about “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” which debuted on ABC following the Super Bowl. You’ve seen the Emmy-winning host making the rounds on other talk shows. You’ve seen the unending barrage of advertisements online and on the tube. You’ve seen everything, that is, but the show itself. It’s old news that…
Make that 23
On Jan. 24 Rudolph Holton walked out of Union Correctional Institution after 16 years on death row. The state of Florida gave him a $100 check for his trouble. Holton is now the 23rd person released since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Holton’s case reflects many of the problems inherent…
Keller’s family-less values
Nobody cares if a public official separates from his wife. But if the public official is Ric Keller, the 38-year-old conservative Orange County congressman who swept into office in 2000 waving the family-values flag, the rules are different. Keller isn’t answering questions about his recent separation from wife Cathy Keller. Sources close to the congressman…
