The wonderful thing about Tigger
For the second time in almost three years a costumed Tigger at Disney is accused of behaving badly with children. This time itâ??s a 31-year-old Disney employee named Michael J. Fedelem whoâ??s been banished from The Happiest Place on Earth for allegedly smacking Jerry Monaco Jr., 14, in the head Jan. 5 while his family…
Little Children
Little Children Length: Single Studio: New Line Cinema Rated: R Website: http://www.littlechildrenmovie.com/ Release Date: 2007-01-04 Cast: Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Gregg Edelman Director: Todd Field Screenwriter: Todd Field, Tom Perrotta Music Score: Thomas Newman WorkNameSort: Little Children Our Rating: 3.00 Director Todd Field’s overrated 2001 debut, In the Bedroom, turned…
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Length: Single Studio: DreamWorks SKG Rated: R Website: http://www.perfumemovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-12-27 Cast: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Corinna Harfouch Director: Tom Tykwer Screenwriter: Tom Tykwer, Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger, Caroline Thompson, Patick Suskind Music Score: Tom Tykwer, Bronwen Jones, Dana Niu, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil…
Thr3e
Thr3e Length: Single Studio: 20th Century Fox Distribution Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.foxfaithmovies.com/thr3e/ Release Date: 2007-01-05 Cast: Marc Blucas, Justine Waddell, Laura Jordan, Bill Moseley, Max Ryan Director: Robby Henson Screenwriter: Alan McElroy, Ted Dekker Music Score: David Bergeaud WorkNameSort: Thr3e Our Rating: 1.50 Let it not be said that ‘Christianâ?� movies always live up to…
Who’s Camus Anyway?
Who’s Camus Anyway? Studio: Film Movement WorkNameSort: Who’s Camus Anyway? The opening scene of Japanese director Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s Who’s Camus, Anyway? is a seven-minute-long single take, the director’s roving camera hovering above the action, introducing us to each principal character amid the hectic buzz of a colorful art school. The bright students in the movie…
Women’s Prison
Women’s Prison Studio: First Run Features WorkNameSort: Women’s Prison If you could please put your puerile mind on hold for a second, this is not the sort of women-in-prison movie that American audiences have become inured to thanks to the likes of Reform School Girls and Women in Cages. Crafted as a metaphorical statement on…
Darkroom
Darkroom Studio: Anchor Bay WorkNameSort: Darkroom With all the M. Night Shyamalan fakes making flicks with twist endings, it’s easy to get jaded and apply every road-tested conclusion to the latest mystery-occult movie you’re viewing. Maybe I’m getting stupider for watching them, ’cause I didn’t foresee this twist in the distance. And it’s a good…
Anthology Recordings
Anthology Recordings WorkNameSort: Anthology Recordings On Oct. 5, 2006, the ‘Long Tailâ?� came to its most pronounced and obvious fruition: Anthology Recordings, the ‘first-ever all-digital reissue label,â?� was launched. While several labels have harnessed the low-overhead power of digital distribution and reissued dozens of niche-market catalog titles, Anthology took a completely different approach. Digging up…
Lemondie
Lemondie Label: Benbecula Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Lemondie The deep orchestral washes with which Chris Leary rounds Lemodie’s diverse electronica are the album’s easiest digested components. Ochre ‘ a name Leary chose to record under when he was a music student ‘ is cheery and bright in his post-academic achievements on Lemodie,…
Welcome Song
Welcome Song Label: Sickroom Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Welcome Song There’s no getting around the fact that Alexis Gideon thinks quite a lot of himself. This solo outing from half of the now-defunct freak-rap duo known as Princess is all about just how nutty and provocative one man and a laptop can…
BLISTER
;”Boy George, I think I’ve got it!” I lipstick-slur into my cell phone. “Let’s go out a few days early and pretend it’s New Year’s Eve.”; ;”Ooh, Marilyn,” Taylor chaps back. “Even better, we should go up to people and issue them their New Year’s resolutions early. Like you. You could probably do something about…
SAVAGE LOVE
To make a long and stupid story short, I met a guy on Craigslist who said all the right things. We had plans to meet a few times, but he always canceled at the last minute. He had an excuse — an anxiety problem. After a few months, I called him on it. He admitted…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES The coming year will be a favorable time for you to prostrate yourself in prayer on mountaintops, to grunt ferocious promises into the night wind while standing on rooftops, to dance yourself into an ecstatic state and then meditate on your life’s bottomless questions, to make love with funky spiritual grace while flying on…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
I could sit here and wax romantic about the field of flowering possibilities that stretches before us in 2007 and lull you into complacency. Or I could cast wild prognostications about what will happen this year in music and then watch them blow up in my face like a vice-presidential quail hunt. But instead, I’m…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;The “holidays,” as they put it, blow … SO… HARD! Have you tried to watch TV in the last couple of weeks? It’s been a goddamn wasteland, I tell ya! Nothing but boring repeats, weird British versions of America’s Next Top Model and crazy Jimmy Stewart screaming, “Merry Christmas, you old savings and loan!”; ;…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
Ballroom boys Readers of our cover story `”Who leads?” March 30, 2006` about Orlando’s same-sex ballroom dance partners Stuart Nichols and Richard Lamberty should know that not only did this lively couple take first place at the Gay Games VII in Chicago last summer, as was their goal, but they went on to take the…
HAPPYTOWN
What would the New Year be without a good ol’-fashioned cop-on-cop pissing match? Boring, that’s what. Which is why we are excited to report that the battle royale between Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary and his deputies’ union is just heating up. First, on Dec. 11, Beary sent a memo to everyone in his office…
POLICE BEAT
;DEC. 11, 6 P.M.: A snoopy neighbor, 59, lingered in his apartment-complex parking lot in the 2800 block of West Arlington Street with a video camera. No, he wasn’t filming squirrels or a random passer-by; he wanted to catch his drug-dealing neighbors on candid camera.; ;But he wasn’t cunning enough. Unexpectedly, two men sneaked up…
LETTERS
The source of all sprawl You missed the best reason of all to kill the beast: The expressway authority is the single biggest cause of environmental destruction in Central Florida `”Kill the beast,” Dec. 28`. They are the foundation of sprawl. Without them, it could not happen. The GreeneWay is a perfect example. Ten years…
DID ORLANDO KILL BOBBY JONES?
These people will have their judgment before God, not man,” Brian Nichols, pastor of the First Vagabonds Church of God, tells the dozen or so homeless people gathered in front of him. This is a different kind of funeral. There’s no mourning widow, no organ music, no black-suited clergy repeating ominous scripture about mortality and…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•4 Inaugural Roar Before the Rolex 24 at Daytona Oh, God, just what Daytona Beach needs: more rednecks plus wannabe rednecks from countries we can’t even pronounce. They come every year for the Daytona 500 and the Pepsi 400 and whenever the hell else they can drink Busch from a can and watch cars turn…
TALK SAFETY TO ME
;Remember how every ;two-bit singer from Lionel Richie to the Mandrell Sisters insulted John Lennon’s memory after his murder by beefing up their security, as if to say, “My God, we could be next”? Made you want to sit those brow-moppers down and say, “Look, you robots will never mean to the world what a…
RANTING WHILE FAMOUS
;At the height of the Cold War, the great Lenny Bruce predicted that the bitter U.S./Soviet rivalry wouldn’t last forever. One day, he prophesized, the Russians would be our friends; then, in need of a new enemy, we would end up turning on our own public figures and celebrities. ;;He was right. Near the end…
NO FAT CHICKS
;It’s simple, really. Kurt Spath, 36, is a good-looking, eligible bachelor. He lives in Winter Park; he has a good job and a well-stamped passport. And he ;doesn’t like fat chicks.; ;Spath’s a busy guy, so he paid a dating service to cull the fat chicks from his dating pool. All was well when he…
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
One of the nice perks of being a movie critic is that even if a film doesn’t open in your area, you still might get to see it via the DVD screener. With DMAC and the Altamonte 8 out of commission and Enzian limited by its single screen, Orlando’s independent/art cinema market has suffered one…
