Review – Live At Carnegie Hall
Artist: Lang Lang
Movie: Spartan
Our Rating: 0.00 David Mamet wrote and directed this thriller about a secret agent’s (Val Kilmer) pursuit of a kidnapped girl — a hunt that uncovers a seedy subeconomy of white slavers and other working professionals. (Not reviewed)
Two sides of the story
Kres Chophouse is all about atmosphere. Red-and-brown-toned fixtures and sumptuous lighting fill the grand room, creating a coziness that you wouldn’t expect. Most of the food sampled was outstanding and caused the “mmmmohmygod” reaction common among foodies. And yet, there was another side to my meal — one that caused me to pout and make…
Review – Yes To Everything
Artist: The Washdown
Review – Morning Song
Artist: Kalaparush and the Light
Review – Monsoon
Artist: Preston School Of Industry
Review – Live At Carnegie Hall
Artist: Lang Lang
Kappy’s looks crappy, but makes a statement
The Florida Film Festival at Enzian Theater continues through March 14, and visitors to the Maitland area have been exploring the shiny eateries along Orlando Avenue, north of Winter Park Village. But to complete the Maitland experience, make a visit to Kappy’s, the downscale landmark that makes its own “anti-” statement about development. Use a…
Movie: Secret Window
Secret Window Studio: Columbia Pictures Release Date: 2004-03-12 Cast: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Charles S. Dutton, Timothy Hutton Director: David Koepp WorkNameSort: Secret Window Our Rating: 2.50 Unseating James Caan as the least convincing Stephen King stand-in ever, Johnny Depp is hopelessly miscast in “Secret Window,” a hokey, emotionally remote thriller based on…
Movie: Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London Studio: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Website: http://www.futuresecretagent.com Release Date: 2004-03-12 Cast: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Keith David Director: Kevin Allen WorkNameSort: Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London Our Rating: 0.00 Send this kid to spy camp: Frankie Muniz is back as the teen intelligence agent, this…
Movie: Spartan
Spartan Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://www.spartanthemovie.com Release Date: 2004-03-12 Cast: Tia Texada, Ed O’Neill, Val Kilmer, Kristen Bell, Alexandra Kerry Director: David Mamet WorkNameSort: Spartan Our Rating: 0.00 David Mamet wrote and directed this thriller about a secret agent’s (Val Kilmer) pursuit of a kidnapped girl — a hunt that uncovers a seedy subeconomy of…
Review – Yes To Everything
Artist: The Washdown
Review – Morning Song
Artist: Kalaparush and the Light
Review – Monsoon
Artist: Preston School Of Industry
Review – Live At Carnegie Hall
Artist: Lang Lang
Review – Yes To Everything
Artist: The Washdown
Review – Morning Song
Artist: Kalaparush and the Light
Movie: Secret Window
Our Rating: 2.50 Unseating James Caan as the least convincing Stephen King stand-in ever, Johnny Depp is hopelessly miscast in “Secret Window,” a hokey, emotionally remote thriller based on a novella from the author’s “Four Past Midnight” collection. Depp’s role as embattled author Mort Rainey hands him the thankless task of supporting King’s deathless delusion…
Review – Monsoon
Artist: Preston School Of Industry
Movie: Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Our Rating: 0.00 Send this kid to spy camp: Frankie Muniz is back as the teen intelligence agent, this time posing as an exchange student to get his super-sleuthing ya-yas out on the other side of the pond. We knew Tony Blair wasn’t getting off without some kind of punishment … (Not reviewed)
Jerry’s General Store and Shannon Burke
Those loveable purveyors of porn down at Jerry’s General Store are at it again. In fact, despite the bumbling, heavy-handed efforts of Central Florida’s own Keystone Cops — the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation — the Jerry’s crew never stopped renting and selling XXX tapes and DVDs, god bless their hearts. And now they’ve gone to…
Kappy’s looks crappy, but makes a statement
The Florida Film Festival at Enzian Theater continues through March 14, and visitors to the Maitland area have been exploring the shiny eateries along Orlando Avenue, north of Winter Park Village. But to complete the Maitland experience, make a visit to Kappy’s, the downscale landmark that makes its own “anti-” statement about development. Use a…
CARNAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON
While America has been momentarily fixated on Janet Jackson’s breast, Cannibal Corpse has, for the past 15 years, been focusing a bit more intensely on body parts … or at least what those body parts would look like if mutilated. And though Janet Jackson’s Q-rating went through the roof after her publicity stunt, Cannibal Corpse…
Also …
Sharing a hometown with Hootie & the Blowfish before and during the period covered by their new hits collection, “The Best of, 1993 thru 2003,” allowed me a unique perspective on what happens to a thoroughly unhip city when one of its bar bands accidentally becomes a pop sensation. Apologists and hangers-on exploded out of…
A master’s work is never done
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.” — Duke Ellington, at the age of 66, on being passed over for a Pulitzer Prize There’s little doubt that Ellington had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he made the above statement. After all, Duke had…
Megacon
I’ve seen my generation destroyed by Spandex. I’ve seen hysterical drag queens pushing themselves through the sweaty aisles of the Orange County Convention Center looking for rare comic books or Japanese cartoons. I, like thousands of other fanboys and fangirls, have spent a weekend paying homage to popular culture. Yes, I have been to The…
Picking up the pieces
Four days after they’d nearly been slaughtered in an ambush outside Fallujah on Christmas Eve morning, Maj. Woody Nunis’ short-handed civil affairs team takes another hit. Driving back the half-hour from Baghdad late on the afternoon of Dec. 28, speeding past farms and mud huts in the lush rural area west of the city, bad…
Waxy buildup
Paul Horan paints with a mix of hot beeswax and varnish, a method called “encaustic.” He’s not onto something new and trendy — Greek artists were painting with pigmented wax as far back as 5th century B.C. But there was a resurrection of the method in the 20th century, thanks to safer materials (the early…
Swinger’s ball
Swing low, sweet Geritol, someone’s gotta carry me home. Or at least so I’m thinking, assigning myself to cover a glorified swingers’ party while searching for intelligent life in Florida’s moist midsection. I’m no stranger to rubbing up against private parts in search of life-affirming and environment-destroying oil. Hell, I’d have sex in a rig,…
Those crazy kids
Among the most-anticipated products at the February American International Toy Fair in New York City (according to the New York Post) were a gun that shoots boogers, a squeezable doll that smells like rotten eggs, a flea (based on a pro wrestling character) that emits rank body odors after warning “I’m gonna blow,” and a…
Kerry the Nerd
It pains me to say this, inasmuch as I’d give damn near anything to see George Bush shipped back to Crawford next year, but John Kerry is one truly uninspiring human being. Which scares me a bit. Michael Dukakis was a dork, and Shrub’s pappy whupped him good 16 years ago. Al Gore was similarly…
Where the streets have no shame
Never let it be said that Orlando Weekly lets something as petty as marketplace competition get in the way of championing a bright idea. We’re absolutely thrilled that a street team has been formed to hawk orlandocitybeat.com, the entertainment-oriented web site the Orlando Sentinel launched a few months ago to intellectually ass-rape — sorry, “cater…
