Movie: The Mother
The Mother Length: 1 hour, 51 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/themother/ Release Date: 2004-07-23 Cast: Anne Reid, Steven Mackintosh, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan, Cathryn Bradshaw Director: Roger Michell Screenwriter: Hanif Kureishi WorkNameSort: The Mother Our Rating: 4.00 Anybody who thought that Diane Keaton’s tearful soaking of the furniture in Something’s Gotta Give was…
Review – Humanure
Artist: Cattle Decapitation
MECHANICAL ANIMAL
Movie: I, Robot
Review – You Sound, Reflect
Artist: Tara Jane O’Neil
HIGHER GROUNDS
Movie: Coffee and Cigarettes
Review – Humanure
Artist: Cattle Decapitation
FROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE
Movie: Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Review – You Sound, Reflect
Artist: Tara Jane O’Neil
Movie: The Mother
Our Rating: 4.00 Anybody who thought that Diane Keaton’s tearful soaking of the furniture in Something’s Gotta Give was a triumph for the cause of older women on the screen needs to make an appointment with The Mother. Anne Reid, an actress with gobs of artistic acumen and taste, plays May, a newly widowed British…
Movie: Catwoman
Our Rating: 1.00 Well, we all knew this mangy stray was going to stink up the summer litter box (That costume? Really now!), but we at least thought we’d get a few good yuks out of it. Instead, Crapwoman is just plain old pathetic, a cynical and taxing trip through a thoroughly artificial world of…
Review – Humanure
Artist: Cattle Decapitation
Review – You Sound, Reflect
Artist: Tara Jane O’Neil
Fast or slow, spices get things cooking
Cooking Indian food at home can be a leisurely, luxurious experience. Hours spent grinding spices, chopping vegetables and slowly simmering curries and kormas are ideal for getting to know a cooking partner, affording as they do plenty of time for wine-sipping and conversational digression. There’s none of the flash and sizzle or the split-second timing…
MECHANICAL ANIMAL
Movie: I, Robot
HIGHER GROUNDS
Movie: Coffee and Cigarettes
FROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE
Movie: Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Movie: Catwoman
Catwoman Length: 1 hour, 44 minutes Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://catwoman.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2004-07-23 Cast: Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, Lambert Wilson, Frances Conroy Director: Jean-Christophe ‘Pitof’ Comar Screenwriter: Ed Solomon, John Brancato, Michael Ferris Music Score: Klaus Badelt WorkNameSort: Catwoman Our Rating: 1.00 Well, we all knew this mangy stray was going to…
ROGUE WARRIORS
The Iraq war has been good to Evan Wright. The series of articles he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine about being embedded with frontline combat troops won the 2004 National Magazine Award for reporting, beating out competitors from The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly. Now his book-length account of the ground assault, Generation Kill: Devil…
PANNED PARENTHOOD
“Hey Billy, do you wanna get laid?” Do I ever! Only, in this case, the voice ringing to the back of my dental work is not one of muscular man-fever, but rather that of Lesa Kramer, Director of Development for Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando. Nor is it the kind of lay my loins typically…
“I, reboot”
Last week, the technology company Accenture tried to distance itself from a scrapped database it had designed to help Florida identify nearly 48,000 potential felons. According to company spokesman Jim McAvoy, responsibility for the egregious errors found in the database should rest with the state, which provided the faulty information – not his firm, which…
FLESH FOR FANTASY
Some things are best left to fantasy. Those who have actually gone through with a threesome only to deal with the awkwardness that’s inevitable once the drugs and/or booze wears off know what I’m talking about. Same goes for football. After 30, playing real football leads to sprains, aches and even heart attacks. Fantasy football…
Fast or slow, spices get things cooking
Cooking Indian food at home can be a leisurely, luxurious experience. Hours spent grinding spices, chopping vegetables and slowly simmering curries and kormas are ideal for getting to know a cooking partner, affording as they do plenty of time for wine-sipping and conversational digression. There’s none of the flash and sizzle or the split-second timing…
Kayla LaSala and MoveOn.org
We should all worry that the authorities were “shocked” at the “cunning” of Kayla LaSala, the 14-year-old arrested July 13 in Altamonte Springs, on the lam from her home/prison in West Virginia (she’s accused of stabbing her father 100 times). He died, and her murder trial’s in September. Who would have thought the girlishly criminal…
A FORCE OF NATURE
Ask the man on the street “What do you think of Elvin Jones?” and you’re likely to get a puzzled look. Ask any drummer the same question and they’ll go slack-jawed, open-mouthed, barely able to voice their appreciation and reverence. You might as well have asked a preacher, “What do you think of God?” I…
WRITES OF PASSAGE
Playwrights’ Round Table’s “Summer Shorts” is a consistently ambitious exercise that’s been known to yield some spotty results. PRT, a locally based organization dedicated to the nurturing of new writing talent, spends a considerable portion of its yearly energies hunting down and evaluating short plays by unproven, unaffiliated or otherwise underappreciated authors. The handful of…
RIM(BAUD) SHOT
Marjorie Taub is the kind of character you might expect to find in a Neil Simon play, or perhaps in any number of conventional TV sitcoms. She is a well-off, middle-aged denizen of New York’s upper West Side who wears all the right clothes and has, at one time or another, supported all the right…
JOHN EDWARDS IS TOTALLY HOT!
John Edwards is a dreamboat. Bearing stark contrast to that other Democratic John’s equine-long, Massachusetts-weathered mug, Edwards’ winsome Southern-boy charm is just the pinup perfection that all panty-waving Democrats drool for. Whereas you might take Kerry home to Dad for a game of mah-jongg, you’d take Edwards home to Mom, pop on a sundress and…
IT’S GOOD TO BE IN OFFICE
Gov. Jeb Bush owed Sandy Goard a favor. Goard was the Republican Seminole County supervisor of elections who, before the 2000 presidential election, allowed GOP operatives to alter absentee-ballot request forms that were originally rejected because they lacked necessary information. Had that not happened – or had the Florida Supreme Court tossed those absentee ballots…
MIKE EMMONS IS MAD AS HELL
For Michael Emmons, the road from well-paid I.T. worker to anti-outsourcing activist began on a sweltering June afternoon in 2002 when his Lake Mary employer, Siemens ICN, summoned the entire I.T. department to a meeting. In less than 30 minutes, nearly 20 highly skilled, white-collar employees and contractors were asked to pack their belongings and…
