Movie: Red Lights
Our Rating: 2.50 Wanna feel old? It’s been almost a quarter-century since For Your Eyes Only’s Carole Bouquet was said to be on the verge of a major international breakthrough. Yet here she is, weathering the animosity of an abusive on-screen spouse in French director Cédric Kahn’s pokey highway thriller. Bouquet and her (far worse)…
Movie: Red Lights
Our Rating: 2.50 Wanna feel old? It’s been almost a quarter-century since For Your Eyes Only’s Carole Bouquet was said to be on the verge of a major international breakthrough. Yet here she is, weathering the animosity of an abusive on-screen spouse in French director Cédric Kahn’s pokey highway thriller. Bouquet and her (far worse)…
GOULASH IS GONE FROM NORTH PARK AVENUE
As one might expect, the N. Park Ave. Deli & Food Mart is on the famous Park Avenue in Winter Park. But it’s on NORTH Park Avenue, the more unsightly other end of the spectrum than the chichi shops. For years, the previous owners – Anna Federer, a native Hungarian, and her husband – made…
Movie: Red Lights
Our Rating: 2.50 Wanna feel old? It’s been almost a quarter-century since For Your Eyes Only’s Carole Bouquet was said to be on the verge of a major international breakthrough. Yet here she is, weathering the animosity of an abusive on-screen spouse in French director Cédric Kahn’s pokey highway thriller. Bouquet and her (far worse)…
Movie: Red Lights
Red Lights Length: 1 hour, 46 minutes Studio: Wellspring Media Website: http://www.wellspring.com/movies/movie.html?movie_id=49 Release Date: 2004-01-07 Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Charline Paul, Jean-Pierre Gros Director: Cédric Kahn Screenwriter: Cédric Kahn, Gilles Marchand WorkNameSort: Red Lights Our Rating: 2.50 Wanna feel old? It’s been almost a quarter-century since For Your Eyes Only’s Carole Bouquet…
We go heavy on the sports news and debut our new domanatrix Vendela
For some reason, Happy-town™ is heavy on the sports news this week. Funny, we don’t recall any sodden New Year’s Eve resolutions to be more active … We begin with jai alai, the sport of kings. Nothing changes on New Year’s Day; this is certainly true of that class of people to be found last…
GOULASH IS GONE FROM NORTH PARK AVENUE
As one might expect, the N. Park Ave. Deli & Food Mart is on the famous Park Avenue in Winter Park. But it’s on NORTH Park Avenue, the more unsightly other end of the spectrum than the chichi shops. For years, the previous owners – Anna Federer, a native Hungarian, and her husband – made…
We go heavy on the sports news and debut our new domanatrix Vendela
For some reason, Happy-town™ is heavy on the sports news this week. Funny, we don’t recall any sodden New Year’s Eve resolutions to be more active … We begin with jai alai, the sport of kings. Nothing changes on New Year’s Day; this is certainly true of that class of people to be found last…
Vandals, Launch 2005, Jimmy Eat World, OVAL @ OMA and more
Thursday •6 LAUNCH 2005 You can’t exactly say that Playwrights’ Round Table has a tradition of kicking off the new year by staging a program of short plays by member authors: The first and last such foray took place way back in 2002. Venue-booking snafus caused the group to sit out 2003 and 2004, says…
Culture
India in Mind Edited by Pankaj Mishra (Vintage, 352 pages) You get a lot of variations on the idea of “contradiction” in these 26 essays. Since 25 of the authors are of non-Indian descent, that famously tired analysis of the subcontinent – oh, the poverty! oh, the beauty! oh, the simplicity! oh, the elegance! oh,…
Culture
Like We Care By Tom Matthews (Bancroft, 261 pages) Although this debut novel suffers from too-frequent dips into the pool of neo-pulp cliché, Like We Care is still an inventive and enjoyable read. Matthews harnesses the adult angst so many of us feel when observing the crass and semi-evil way that “those kids” are marketed…
Culture
Kafka on the Shore By Haruki Murakami (Knopf, 448 pages) The lavish praise heaped upon Haruki Murakami’s books has always found me keeping his work at arm’s length; it never fails that when a writer is consistently hailed as a genius that he will be the writer that just doesn’t connect with me. In Murakami’s…
BLEEDING-EDGE REBELLION
COUNTERCULTURE THROUGH THE AGES By Ken Goffman (aka R.U. Sirius) and Dan Joy (Villard, 402 pages) Back during the 2000 elections, it came to my attention that there was a third-party candidate who had slipped under the general radar. R.U. Sirius, editor of the seminal 1990s technoculture magazine, Mondo 2000, was running for a party…
PEOPLE WHO DIED
Freddie Perren died Dec. 16. We had never heard of him, either. But when we read the brief obituary posted on CNN.com, we discovered that we’d known him our whole lives. He was a producer with the Motown Records team known as the Corporation, and along with his cohorts he produced the Jackson 5’s ebullient…
LOSERS CRUISE
Zimbabwe, facing a severe food shortage, is considering an unlikely program to bring rich foreign visitors to the country, according to a government announcement in November. The information minister proposed an “obesity tourism strategy,” in which overweight visitors (especially Americans) would be encouraged to “vacation” in Zimbabwe and “provide labor for (government-owned) farms in the…
CROSSING THE PINK LINE
This is so fucked up. Imagine pressing your thumbnails into your eyes while contorting your limbs into the shape of an angry question mark (use your broken heel as the point at the bottom), and you’ll still have no idea how fucked up it really is. Having survived a militaristic corralling into a wire-fence holding…
BLOG ROLLING
On Aug. 30, the Florida Democratic Party registered the domain name scottmaddox2006.com for its chairman, former Tallahassee mayor and gubernatorial wannabe Scott Maddox, to reserve that website name should Maddox actually make the race. Maddox paid the $35 registration fee himself, a party spokeswoman later told reporters. But the move raised concerns among Democrats about…
Vandals, Launch 2005, Jimmy Eat World, OVAL @ OMA and more
Thursday •6 LAUNCH 2005 You can’t exactly say that Playwrights’ Round Table has a tradition of kicking off the new year by staging a program of short plays by member authors: The first and last such foray took place way back in 2002. Venue-booking snafus caused the group to sit out 2003 and 2004, says…
“Law and ordure”
According to a Dec. 26, 2004, report in The New York Times, members of the legal profession are flocking to AnonymousLawyer.blogspot.com, a website where a hiring partner at an unnamed firm dishes the dirt about his profit-driven, soul-deadening operation. Though the posts are entirely fictitious – writer Jeremy Blachman is a law student whose experience…
LEFTOVER LATIN
It’s hard to expect great things from Spanish-language films that fail to secure U.S. theatrical distribution in the post-Y tu mamá también period, when art-house audiences are clamoring for anything with a hint of Latin spice. The three titles newly added to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s “Cinema Latino” series don’t do a lot to…
