Movie: The Manchurian Candidate
Our Rating: 2.50 The only good reason to remake a movie as historically significant as 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate is to comment on the conspiracy culture that’s formed since that film became a footnote to tragedy. It’s an agenda this lumbering retread gets around to for about five minutes; the rest of the time, director…
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Movie: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Studio: New Line Cinema Website: http://www.haroldandkumar.com Release Date: 2004-07-30 Cast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Ethan Embry, Steve Braun Director: Danny Leiner Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg Music Score: David Kitay WorkNameSort: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Our Rating: 3.00 If you grew up…
Review – Miss Machine
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Movie: The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate Length: 1 hour, 10 minutes Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: www.manchuriancandidatethemovie.com Release Date: 2004-07-30 Cast: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Kimberly Elise, John Voight Director: Jonathan Demmi Screenwriter: Daniel Pyne, Dean Georgaris, George Axelrod WorkNameSort: The Manchurian Candidate Our Rating: 2.50 The only good reason to remake a movie as historically significant…
Review – Green Imagination
Artist: The Sunshine Fix
Scratchin’ the surface
Movie: Five Sides of a Coin
STEAKS WELL DONE
When it comes to eating meat, steakhouses still reign supreme. What meat-eater is not enamored with those dark, lavish dungeons that allow us to feast to our blood-craving heart’s content? Even those who rarely go out to eat are likely to occasionally splurge on an outing at a local steakhouse institution – one like my…
Review – Music to Start a Cult to
Artist: Gram Rabbit
Review – Miss Machine
Artist: The Dillinger Escape Plan
Review – Green Imagination
Artist: The Sunshine Fix
Scratchin’ the surface
Movie: Five Sides of a Coin
Gab kids
Movie: Before Sunset
Movie: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Our Rating: 3.00 If you grew up in New Jersey on a diet of White Castle burgers and Cheech and Chong movies $#150; as did this reviewer $#150; it’s practically a genetic certainty that you’ll be drawn to this modern-day stoner comedy. And about half the time, suspending your subsequently learned suspicion of the genre…
Culture
Dirt Eaters By Teri Youmans Grimm (University Press of Florida, 60 pgs) Those of us born in Florida – or, more accurately, those of us whose grandparents were born in Florida – are more than likely to have some snake-handling, shack-living, dirt-eating relations only a couple of branches away from us on the family tree.…
Culture
Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America By John Powers (Doubleday, 272 pgs) Any nuanced survey of the Dubya years that, albeit anti-Bush, also bitch-slaps milquetoast Democrats (paging Sen. Daschle!) and robotic radicals (is there a Dr. Chomsky in the house?) seems destined to be ignored in the stampede toward partisan…
Culture
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization By Franklin Foer (HarperCollins, 261 pgs) Franklin Foer really loves soccer. In the course of writing his debut book, How Soccer Explains the World, Foer traveled from Brazil to Belgrade, from the Ukraine to Tehran and farther. He explored each city (and its approach to…
SHINE ON, YOU DIAMOND CRAZIES
With the founding of the new Red Moon Theatre Joint, actor Rus Blackwell must own the distinction of having started more dramatic companies than anybody else in greater Orlando. But trying to divine the exact number is a useless enterprise, especially as it directly contradicts the message of Red Moon’s inaugural offering, Rounding Third: There…
MOSCOW ON THE WISKAH
Making its Orlando debut on the cusp of ’90s nostalgia, writer/director David Lee’s Cobain-exhuming musical Nirvanov is like grunge itself: morose, pedantic, inward-looking and enlivened by moments of exquisite, heartbreaking beauty. The show, which has been performed elsewhere a handful of times between 1994 and 1999, already feels like a Gen-X time capsule –or a…
THE HOME AFFRONT
Toney Edwards met his daughter around midnight in the hallway at Fort Sam Houston’s Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. Prepare for a shock, she told Toney and his wife as they entered the hospital room that night in 1998. The father edged to the bedside and peered down at the distorted face of his…
FRINGE FALLOUT
Mere weeks after reporting respectable attendance and cash receipts for its 2004 edition `”Fringe stays afloat in parted waters,” July 8`, the Orlando International Fringe Festival has experienced some unforeseen, perhaps even seismic upheavals. At a July 19 meeting, the Fringe’s board of directors parted ways with business manager Rob Ward and executive director Ed…
ARE WE FAMILY?
Just one week after the Sol.illaquists of Sound were voted the best hip-hop act in Orlando’s by Orlando Weekly readers, the band faced a much harsher audience: the Edgewood City Code Enforcement Board. This wasn’t your average town hall meeting. On July 21, band members Swamburger (Asaan Brooks), DiViNCi (Glen Valencia Jr.) Alexandrah (Alexandrah Sarton),…
DON’T BE CLINGY
(NOTE: Chuck Shepherd has become overstimulated and needs about four weeks off. Before he left, he picked out some golden oldies to tide you over.) Walt and Kathy Viggiano of Wichita, Kan., convinced Judge James Burgess to return their four children from foster care in 1999, following their removal because of the excessively unsanitary state…
Pearlman’s jihad
I could almost hear Lou Pearlman chortling — actually, I imagine it to be more like wheezing — as I read the July 21 Orlando Sentinel story “State clears Pearlman after modeling probe,” which noted that a two-year attorney general’s investigation into Big Lou’s model-scouting company — variously Wilhelmina Scouting Network, Options Talent, Trans Continental…
“Kreme and scream again”
Once the fried-dough embodiment of hot and fresh, Krispy Kreme has transformed its original glazed doughnut into a new frozen beverage for the summer. The chain introduced a new line of frozen drinks Wednesday, including Frozen Original Kreme – a drinkable version of the company’s signature doughnut `.`— money.cnn.com, July 21, 2004 ACT ONE (The…
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Home on La Granja
The building’s not much to look at, but there’s no missing the brilliant color of La Granja – yellow-orange and lots of it. The only adornment is the name of the South Florida fast-food chain emblazoned in red along with the description: “Pollos y carnes a la brasa,” which loosely translates into “chicken and meat…
French-fry grease-fueled cars
Props to HUGR Systems for knowing how to get our attention. First, the press release: “Revolutionary New Engines Running on French Fry Grease Unveiled in Apopka Monday.” Mmmm, French fries. Next, the sales pitch: “Lunch will be served, cooked in oil that will later be used to fuel lawn mowers and heavy equipment.” Mmmm, lunch…
APROPOS OF NOTHING
I’ve always detested Treasure. Not because of the record, but because of the vibe at the time, when we were pushed into all that kind of arty-farty pre-Raphaelite bullshit.” — Robin Guthrie Reconciling the music of the Cocteau Twins with the rest of your collection has, for most fans, been a struggle. Despite being deeply…
THE BIG EASY
Not to be overly dramatic – because that would be inappropriate in this piece of real estate betwixt the theater listings and phone-sex lube – but I have the feeling that the end is nigh. I say this because I’m starting to notice something extremely dire in my day-to-day swish through life, equal parts fabulous…
