Premonition
Premonition Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing Rated: PG-13 Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Mark Famiglietti, Kate Nelligan, Nia Long Director: Mennan Yapo Screenwriter: Bill Kelly WorkNameSort: Premonition Our Rating: 2.00 Sandra Bullock’s husband dies ‘ or does he? ‘ and she goes batshit crazy trying to figure it all out. Like Groundhog Day for PTSD sufferers,…
2006 Academy Award Nominated Live Action Shorts
2006 Academy Award Nominated Live Action Shorts WorkNameSort: 2006 Academy Award Nominated Live Action Shorts Collecting the five nominees for Best Short Film (Live Action), this 99-minute program exemplifies the economical strengths of the mini-movie format. It also speaks well of the Academy’s global attitude: Only one of the five films is from the U.S.…
The Ed Wood Collection: A Salute to Incompetence
The Ed Wood Collection: A Salute to Incompetence Studio: Passport WorkNameSort: Ed Wood Collection: A Salute to Incompetence, The Really? Criterion didn’t want to touch this one? It’s a shame, because there’s a perverse satisfaction in knowing that more than 400 minutes of Ed Wood’s unmistakable oeuvre is concentrated in one place. Along with anti-classics…
The Bros.
The Bros. Studio: Lionsgate WorkNameSort: Bros., The Rollins graduate Jonathan Figg has been working on The Bros. for a long time. Now that it’s finally gone straight to DVD release, it’s hard not to wonder if Figg considers the many years of work that went into the comedy to be worth it. The gag ‘…
Harsh Times
Harsh Times Studio: Weinstein Company WorkNameSort: Harsh Times No list of 2006’s most overlooked movies would be complete without Harsh Times, the cathartic and compulsively watchable directorial debut from Training Day screenwriter David Ayer. This gritty crime film vanished from cinemas in a blip, and with it Christian Bale’s best performance, maybe ever (even topping…
JAMAICAN FARE-THEE-WELL
It’s all in the crust at this bakery and grill
Our Fight
Our Fight Label: (self released) Length: EP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Our Fight The hooky, post-shoegaze swirl of Spacebar’s phenomenal debut EP was an invigorating blast of smart poppiness that floated the woozy wallop of ’90s alt-guitar bands atop a blend of catchy melodies and intriguing rhythm sequences. The addition of renowned local synth…
The Weirdness
The Weirdness Label: Virgin Length: LP Format: Album WorkNameSort: Weirdness, The They’ve stayed true to themselves. In the end, that’s all you can ask. The lightning in the bottle the Stooges caught with their three studio albums back at the turn of the ’70s wasn’t something you plan and it isn’t something you re- create.…
I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead Label: Definitive Jux Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead Producer, MC and head of independent hip-hop powerhouse Definitive Jux, El-P remains a vehement stream-of-consciousness stickler on I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead. It’s another batch of his sonically devastating works featuring collaborations with…
Drums and Guns
Drums and Guns Label: Sub Pop Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Drums and Guns Low has always taken their damn sweet time to get anywhere. Anyone who’s taken their previous albums on a road trip deserves to get to his destination three days late. Take this one with you and you’ll end up…
BUFFY GOES GRAPHIC
“She is a complete hero,” Joss Whedon said to this writer a couple years back. “She simply will not accept that things should be as bad as they are. And so she is someone who is at odds with this world.” Whedon was speaking about his big-screen vision of Wonder Woman, which, due to the…
MINT-TEA FRESH
Buffs of Berber-influenced cuisine have had to withstand the recent closures of two Moroccan restaurants — Couscous and Casablanca. Thankfully, the Moroccan pavilion at Epcot isn’t the only option for those of you craving sensually seasoned lamb couscous and chicken tagine. Nearby, on the corner of State Road 535 and Palm Parkway, tucked in the…
BLISTER
;Here it comes again. No ;sooner has my dirty cohabitational coffee table recovered from the spit-sparring of the last tedious election cycle than twat-twig Ann Coulter pops up on the flat-screen calling hottie John Edwards a “faggot” at CPAC. Why, oh why, do I have to be worrying about homebound stumping fights when it’s only…
SAVAGE LOVE
Longtime reader with a vanilla question: What to do about differing libidos? We’re a straight couple together 20-plus years, and we’ve aged well. No weight gain, no radical changes in appearance. We are open and loving, and I am cognizant of her needs and feelings. Yesterday, I read an interview with Joan Sewell, author of…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES Here you come, dragging your exhausted but redeemed ass out of the deep, dark forest of symbols. The monkey demons fall off your back as you straggle toward the light. Your sunken eyes see wonders they were blind to before your ordeal. Your heart rages with a wild angelic love you’ve never tapped into…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
For one night last Saturday, Orange Avenue was radioactive with credibility. Bottlenecked on a six-block stretch, a cluster of national indie pezzonovantes paraded through downtown. Orlando was the seat of hipness, and it felt good, goddammit. Over the short course of a few fated hours, the stages of the Social and Club Firestone would play…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Dancing With the Stars returns this week for another season — and this time it’s going to be a bona fide marijuana freakout! The reason I love this show (which pairs pro dancers with washed-up celebs) is because something fa-REAKY happens on nearly every episode: If it’s not somebody’s boobies falling out, then it’s the…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
;Southeastern Photography Invitational ;; It was difficult to figure out the Friday (March 2) opening of the 10th biannual Southeastern Photography Invitational at Crealdé School of Art. There were 60 people there, tops, and many of them were students. There was a camouflage pickup truck in the parking lot with “Abortion is murder” spray-painted on…
HAPPYTOWN
It’s official. Lou Pearlman’s free fall from downtown savior to scumbag extraordinaire is such that, what with the bankruptcies and search warrants and more court cases than we care to count, another lawsuit against Big Poppa nary merits mention in this wildly popular column. Sure, we could point out — again — that before this…
POLICE BEAT
;FEB. 28, 11:56 A.M.: A Korean man, 42, and a woman, 34, worked busily at a beauty shop in the 2100 block of Bruton Boulevard. One minute they watched as female shoppers scanned aisles for moisture-rich lipsticks and the perfect shade of bronzer; the next, they observed a peculiar pair wearing ski masks scaring everyone…
LETTERS
Question of sensitivity Greetings. I just read Cole Haddon’s film review for 300 `March 8, Film & DVD` and I found the last sentence to be quite disturbing: “… it’s hard not to leave the theater wanting to become a Spartan and cut off a few Persian heads of your own.” I understand that I…
DOWNTOWNOPOLY – 2017 EDITIONâ?¢
; It’s the Year of Our Lord 2017. The City Beautiful is booming. Parramore is without crime, diverse both in race and income. The Magic won the NBA championship in their sparkling new arena. Hipsters are pouring into the Creative Village and yuppies are packing downtown condos. Taxes are low. The urban core is vibrant.…
ROHMER REDUX
Despite Chris Rock’s loud persona, his large, equally loud smile, or the way he paces back and forth across stage like a perpetual motion machine while being funny and, you know, loud, he’s actually low-key and quiet in person. His latest, I Think I Love My Wife, is his sophomore effort as a director, and…
SELECTIONS
;Thursday•15 ;Spring Training On the one hand, the Braves are back in Central Florida for Spring Training. On the other hand, they returned to the cup holder–less seating of Disney’s “Cracker Jack Stadium.” So on the actual other hand is your drink. But if you manage to find space for the beverage down by your…
SOUND OF CERTAIN TROUBLE
;I suppose every great book, fiction or not, has to include that black moment in the narrative, usually three- ;quarters of the way through, where the protagonist is at the end of his rope and the situation appears hopeless. For John Sellers, that moment became abundantly clear in his new musical memoir Perfect From Now…
UNHAPPY NEW YEAR’S
There were few cries of “Happy New Year” on Austin Road the night of Dec. 31, 2006. No popped champagne corks, no black-eyed peas and no acquaintances to be forgotten. On this small, inconspicuous road between Lake Lancaster and Lake Davis — a quiet area of single-family homes and expensive lakefront property — a holiday…
