Shootout at Lokhandwala
Shootout at Lokhandwala Studio: White Feather Films Rated: NOT RATED Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt Director: Apoorva Lakhla WorkNameSort: Shootout at Lokhandwala Our Rating: 3.00 This shockingly violent and bloody Bollywood import somehow manages to squeeze a handful of song-and-dance numbers, but with all its magazine-emptying shootouts, it seems much more intent on…
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai Studio: Palm Pictures Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, The When call girl Sachiko Hanai gets shot in the head ‘ and survives ‘ her life is irrevocably altered. While this would be a poignant starting-off point for a drama about treating every day as a golden…
The Lost Room
The Lost Room Studio: Lionsgate WorkNameSort: Lost Room , The The Lost Room boasts a premise that would have a more Dada Philip K. Dick kvelling from beyond the grave. Seems that in 1961 something caused reality to spaz out and disgorge super-powered ‘objectsâ?� ‘ think a killer pen, a bus ticket that teleports the…
Meatballs: Special Edition
Meatballs: Special Edition Studio: Sony WorkNameSort: Meatballs: Special Edition Bill Murray is a hilarious force of nature in Meatballs, his first credited big-screen appearance. He stars as Tripper, a hipster summer-camp counselor who makes it his business to help Rudy, a shy, unpopular boy. When Tripper encounters Rudy with a suitcase at a bus station,…
10 Items or Less
10 Items or Less Studio: First Look WorkNameSort: 10 Items or Less An oddly intoxicating comedy, 10 Items or Less finds an original way to create yet another movie about a movie. Morgan Freeman plays an aging actor looking to end a four-year hiatus from film by dipping his toes in the emerging independent film…
Baby 81
Baby 81 Label: RCA Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Baby 81 There’s always been something immediately attractive about BRMC. Like a well-scrubbed, polite cousin of the Jesus and Mary Chain, they’ve got the right influences, their music oozes with style and they don’t fuck around with esotericism. But by leaning on them too…
In Glorious Times
In Glorious Times Label: RCA Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: In Glorious Times As metal continues to get smarter and smarter, it seems that Sleepytime Gorilla Museum just keeps getting dumber and dumber. Perhaps encouraged by the affirmation that metalheads have given their more blatant heaviosity, the Gorillas are more than willing to…
Tromatic Reflexxions
Tromatic Reflexxions Label: Domino Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Tromatic Reflexxions Remember the abomination that was Strobe Talbot? It involved Half Japanese’s Jad Fair fronting a synth-pop band, and that band was horrible. It’s a relief to be able to report that Von Südenfed ‘ the synthesis of Fall curmudgeon Mark E. Smith…
Licker’s Last Leg
Licker’s Last Leg Label: Ipecac Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Licker’s Last Leg Chris Goss (Masters of Reality) and Jeordie White (Nine Inch Nails, ex’Marilyn Manson) are both underappreciated talents. They’re both also very odd birds, and neither of them are quick to conform to any predetermined sonic expectations. Thus, Licker’s Last Leg…
Jindabyne
Jindabyne Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne Director: Ray Lawrence WorkNameSort: Jindabyne Our Rating: 4.00 Short-story writer Raymond Carver may be the best America has ever produced, so it’s a mystery why his work largely has been ignored by U.S. filmmakers; Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, an adaptation of several of…
Ocean’s Thirteen
Ocean’s Thirteen Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG-13 Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt Director: Steven Soderbergh WorkNameSort: Ocean’s Thirteen Our Rating: 3.50 Here’s what Ocean’s Thirteen has going for it: It’s better than Ocean’s Twelve (which was a convoluted mess of absurdities glued together by charisma and the power of Steve Soderbergh’s direction). This time around,…
Surf’s Up
Surf’s Up Studio: Sony Rated: PG Cast: Jeff Bridges, Brian Benben Director: Chris Buck WorkNameSort: Surf’s Up Our Rating: 3.50 Surf’s Up proves to be a more enjoyable experience than one would expect heading into the theater, especially given its ho-hum premise about penguins competing in a surf contest and, oh yeah, this being the…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Surreal hope” means having faith in a future opportunity that at first appears in an out-of-context situation. Say, for example, that you have an unsettling initial exposure to a stranger whom you will eventually realize is an important ally. Maybe when you see this person for the first time, he or…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
So … ‘ja miss me? So … ‘ja miss me? Let’s kick it off with a couple of recently released music DVDs. Distinguished indie label Ipecac Recordings is responsible for A Purge of Dissidents, an audiovisual collaboration between former NYC graffiti artist Dalek (James Marshall, not to be confused with the rap artist Dälek ……
I LOVE TELEVISION
;OK, the absolute final episode of The Sopranos is this Sunday (HBO, 9 p.m.), and if the past six seasons are any indication, here’s how it will end … Oh, yeah: SPOILER ALERT!; ;”Gab, gab, gab. Nothing happens, nothing happens … wait. Looks like something’s going to happen … aaaaand nothing happens. More gab, gab,…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
Dancing With the Porn Stars: Location, location, location This show could go down in infamy or it could be forgotten, but let’s set the record straight (no pun intended): Dancing With the Porn Stars was one of the 80 titles at the recent Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival. A gay riff on the TV competition,…
HAPPYTOWN
How desperate is the city to build Rich DeVos’ Golden Pleasure Dome™ right friggin’ now? So desperate that it’s about to spend $3 million and toss out the last few Parramore landowners who stand between Mayor Buddy Dyer and his dreams of eternal glory, or between DeVos and his dreams of an even fatter wallet.…
COUNCIL WATCH
;Following last session’s wash ;of boredom and boosterism for venue-fication, it came as no surprise that this week’s perfunctory walk-through registered lower on the excite-o-meter. Mayor Buddy Dyer presented a “brief” mayor’s update alchemized with homeownership (which now has its own month … this one!), property-tax reform (still uncertain) and hurricanes (comin’ right for us!).…
POLICE BEAT
MAY 23, 7:22 P.M.: The 24-year-old manager of a popular clothing store in the 1800 block of South Semoran Boulevard, where folks come to dress for less, busily stuffed change into the cash register at this evening hour. All was cool under the fluorescent lighting, but a trio of sneaky females and one dude were…
MAIL SACK
;Unfair ;Bob Whitby: You characterized in your editorial “Time to go” [May 31] that criticizing me is unfashionable. I find it unfair.; ;Regarding restricting tandem housing, the legislation is written for you, Mr. Whitby. If you are so concerned about your neighborhood, you could attend a Lake Davis neighborhood meeting, and organize and apply an…
OUT OF SESSION
“Way up here in the stratosphere, holler mighty loud and clear, E-diddley-ock! Ho! This is Jocko and I’m back on the scene with the record machine. Correct time now … 8:19.” — Jocko Henderson, “The Original Rapper,” WDAS-AM Philadelphia “And er … what was I going to say now? Ah … yes.” — John Peel,…
TREATED LIKE A CRIMINAL
Fifteen years ago, an unexpected boom was taking root in the music industry, one that owed as much to the short shelf life of such rackjobber favorites as Milli Vanilli and New Kids on the Block as it did opportunistic entrepreneurialism. The used CD was, at the time, a revolutionary concept; a hasty record-buying decision…
THE F BOMB
Take a guess what they sell at www.fuckingmachines.com. Or just go to the site. Once you verify that you are 18 or older, and that there are no local laws prohibiting you from viewing online porn, the site directs you to a catalog of every kind of sex toy imaginable, from vibrators to strap-ons to…
SPRING TRAINING
My circle-changeup zipped off the batter’s check-swing and into left field. It should have been a routine out — Rex Hudler even said so — but the left fielder was clearly dogging it, because it landed along the line in shallow left. The runner on third, crafty bastard, sprinted home, taking my one-run lead with…
GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE GALAXY
On May 23, just days before the start of the Star Wars Celebration IV at the L.A. Convention Center, I attended a six-movie Star Wars marathon. The commemoration began with the screening of George Lucas’ sci-fi trilogies, and so I survived not only 17 hours of balls-out, back-cramping Star Wars but also fulfilled a 10-year…
THE PEOPLE’S CAFE
In an economic climate conducive to corporate crookery and deceit, an organization flies in the face of convention by giving away 100 percent of its profits back to the community. Sound like a trailer for a flick playing at the Socialist Film Festival? Maybe, but in actuality, it’s the raison d’être for House Blend Cafe.…
BLISTER
“I should have shaved my pussy for this! The stubble is sticking to my dress.” And so begins one mighty headache of a journey out to the One Mighty Weekend VIP reception way out at Disney’s Buena Vista Palace. Savannah’s playing annoying, no-underpants girlfriend/Gay Days antidote, while I’m doing my best mean-dad-with-a-crumpled-Google-Map, lamenting the absence…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’ve got a confusing issue with my girlfriend. Our relationship was great until I caught her having an emotional affair via MySpace. She swore to never hurt me again. Well, I recently found out that she posted an ad looking for NSA sex. When confronted, she encouraged me to look through her e-mail, to prove…
