Review – Respect Yourself
Artist: Otis Clay
BEING OF SOUND MIND
Movie: The Sea Inside
CRIB NOTE
Movie: Born into Brothels
BEING OF SOUND MIND
Movie: The Sea Inside
Movie: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Our Rating: 4.50 In Guerrilla (titled Neverland when it played the 2004 Florida Film Festival), director Robert Stone takes a sober and keen-eyed look back at a time when the ragtag but surprisingly sophisticated Symbionese Liberation Army held newspaper heiress Patty Hearst – not to mention the media and much of America’s law enforcement agencies…
CRIB NOTE
Movie: Born into Brothels
Movie: Hostage
Our Rating: 2.00 Just as America’s overinflated fear of trenchcoat mafias was in danger of abating, here comes a lurid, exploitative actioner to re-establish that today’s teens want to invade your home, tie your daughter to her bed, shoot investigating cops in the chest and hurl Molotov cocktails around the place like Nerf balls. (This…
Movie: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Our Rating: 4.50 In Guerrilla (titled Neverland when it played the 2004 Florida Film Festival), director Robert Stone takes a sober and keen-eyed look back at a time when the ragtag but surprisingly sophisticated Symbionese Liberation Army held newspaper heiress Patty Hearst – not to mention the media and much of America’s law enforcement agencies…
Movie: The Upside of Anger
Our Rating: 1.00 An afternoon special for edge-averse desperate housewives – or just a meandering sitcom that muffs the “com” – HBO alumnus Mike Binder’s The Upside of Anger strands yet another terrific Joan Allen performance in thematically self-contradicting twaddle. Allen plays Terry, a heavy-drinking, upper-middle-class wreck with four daughters who’s made more distraught when…
Movie: Hostage
Our Rating: 2.00 Just as America’s overinflated fear of trenchcoat mafias was in danger of abating, here comes a lurid, exploitative actioner to re-establish that today’s teens want to invade your home, tie your daughter to her bed, shoot investigating cops in the chest and hurl Molotov cocktails around the place like Nerf balls. (This…
Review – Alone, Not Alone
Artist: Montag
Movie: The Upside of Anger
Our Rating: 1.00 An afternoon special for edge-averse desperate housewives – or just a meandering sitcom that muffs the “com” – HBO alumnus Mike Binder’s The Upside of Anger strands yet another terrific Joan Allen performance in thematically self-contradicting twaddle. Allen plays Terry, a heavy-drinking, upper-middle-class wreck with four daughters who’s made more distraught when…
Review – A Few Steps More
Artist: Monade
Movie: The Upside of Anger
Our Rating: 1.00 An afternoon special for edge-averse desperate housewives – or just a meandering sitcom that muffs the “com” – HBO alumnus Mike Binder’s The Upside of Anger strands yet another terrific Joan Allen performance in thematically self-contradicting twaddle. Allen plays Terry, a heavy-drinking, upper-middle-class wreck with four daughters who’s made more distraught when…
Review – The Diamond
Artist: The Sound of Urchin
Review – Alone, Not Alone
Artist: Montag
Review – Respect Yourself
Artist: Otis Clay
Review – A Few Steps More
Artist: Monade
Movie: The Upside of Anger
The Upside of Anger Length: 1 hour, 58 minutes Studio: New Line Features Website: http://www.upsideofanger.com/ Release Date: 2005-03-18 Cast: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Mike Binder, Erika Christensen, Alicia Witt Director: Mike Binder Screenwriter: Mike Binder Music Score: Alexander Desplat WorkNameSort: The Upside of Anger Our Rating: 1.00 An afternoon special for edge-averse desperate housewives –…
Review – The Diamond
Artist: The Sound of Urchin
BEING OF SOUND MIND
Movie: The Sea Inside
Review – Respect Yourself
Artist: Otis Clay
CRIB NOTE
Movie: Born into Brothels
Review – Alone, Not Alone
Artist: Montag
Movie: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst Length: 1 hour, 29 minutes Studio: Magnolia Films Website: http://www.magpictures.com/distribution/moreinfo.php?7guerilla Release Date: 2005-03-22 Cast: Patricia Hearst, Russ Little, Mike Bortin, Tim Findley, John Lester Director: Robert Stone WorkNameSort: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst Our Rating: 4.50 In Guerrilla (titled Neverland when it played the 2004 Florida Film Festival),…
Review – A Few Steps More
Artist: Monade
Movie: Hostage
Our Rating: 2.00 Just as America’s overinflated fear of trenchcoat mafias was in danger of abating, here comes a lurid, exploitative actioner to re-establish that today’s teens want to invade your home, tie your daughter to her bed, shoot investigating cops in the chest and hurl Molotov cocktails around the place like Nerf balls. (This…
Review – The Diamond
Artist: The Sound of Urchin
GREEN MEANS GO
The story of the churrascaria starts in the high plains of Brazil, the Pampas, where land is rich and soil fertile. It became tradition for the ranchers there to host feasts to celebrate their bounty. Especially enjoyed were the plentiful meats from animals that grazed the land. The cowboys, or gauchos, developed an out-country method…
Elton John, The Album Leaf, Q and Not U and more
Thursday • 17 KEEPING SHADOWS Photography exhibits always excite the locals, and there’s plenty to ooh and aah over in the historic collection currently on loan to Orlando Museum of Art. Keeping Shadows draws together 100 “masterworks of photography” dating from as far as 150 years ago – not long after the very process of…
POLISHING TURDS
R.E.M. Green, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal, In Time: The Best of R.E.M., Around the Sun (Warner Bros.) Here is a list of five once-great bands that will never again make a great record: The Beatles, Minutemen, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Nirvana, R.E.M. Four of…
ART IMITATES LOWLIFE
Producers announced in February that they were still planning to bring the 3-year-old London stage show Jerry Springer: The Opera to America in early 2006, despite the increasingly vituperative protests of religious groups. The show features “Jerry” mediating confessions in hell between Satan, God, Jesus, Mary and various biblical characters, complete with a raucous audience…
We offer our short list of mayoral hopefuls and Southern Nights shuts its doors
Do we really need to be the ones to say it? OK, fine: Balls to Bill Frederick and his patrician attitude. By generously offering to take the reins at City Hall – no competition, please, because we all know that politicians, especially retired ones, only make naked power grabs out of the kindness of their…
DYER, INTERRUPTED
Alan Apte Ezzie Thomas In a parallel universe, one in which John Hugh “Buddy” Dyer, Jr. wasn’t his own worst enemy, his 2004 re-election to the Orlando mayor’s office would be just another notch in a blossoming political career. As one of the most powerful Democrats in Florida – with statewide name recognition thanks to…
PAPRIKA, PIMENTOS, PIQUILLOS – OH MY!
Haven’t you heard? Spain is the new France. According to food journalist Arthur Lubow, Spanish chefs have a fresh, exciting approach to food that is finally knocking French nouvelle off the throne it claimed in the ’80s. Enter La Tienda, a not-so-new website (they’ve been around since 1996) that is a gold mine of fabulous…
We offer our short list of mayoral hopefuls and Southern Nights shuts its doors
Do we really need to be the ones to say it? OK, fine: Balls to Bill Frederick and his patrician attitude. By generously offering to take the reins at City Hall – no competition, please, because we all know that politicians, especially retired ones, only make naked power grabs out of the kindness of their…
“Mission: innocuous”
In an interview in the March issue of Australia’s GQ Magazine, actor Russell Crowe says that he was the target of an Al Qaeda kidnap plot in 2001. Crowe says that the terror network has been intent on “taking iconographic Americans out of the picture,” and so decreed his kidnapping as part of a “cultural…
THEATRICA OBSCURA
It’s always dismaying when audiences (or, God forbid, critics) dismiss a play as too heady or highfalutin to be accessible. Theater can and should be a learning experience, and woe betide the art form if it ever cracks under the pressure to pander to the general public’s cranial comfort zones. Yet every once in a…
TIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
That there can be medieval silver linings in dark clouds is one way to look at the upcoming world debut of Orlando Ballet’s Camelot. The mythological adventure of King Arthur and Excalibur has never been set to choreography before, not until Samantha Dunster, the company’s ballet mistress, was encouraged to develop an idea suggested by…
RACE TO THE SCREEN
It’s 8:52 p.m., and we’re starting to freak out. We’re exactly 35 hours and 52 minutes into a contest that gave me and nine teammates 36 hours to write, produce, edit and deliver a three- to six-minute movie for the O36 Video Race. It’s that last bit that poses the problem: The movie is shot,…
THE PAIN GUN
On June 25, 2004, the United States Office of Naval Research contracted with the University of Florida to study the “sensory consequences of electromagnetic pulses emitted by laser induced plasmas,” which is longhand for research into an energy-based weapon that will cause pain. Part of the $514,000 study is to determine how much pain a…
DYER, INTERRUPTED
Alan Apte Ezzie Thomas In a parallel universe, one in which John Hugh “Buddy” Dyer, Jr. wasn’t his own worst enemy, his 2004 re-election to the Orlando mayor’s office would be just another notch in a blossoming political career. As one of the most powerful Democrats in Florida – with statewide name recognition thanks to…
WHITE FLIGHT
Some days are better than others. The wind whips through your ears at an unidentifiably high pitch, your feet seem to walk for themselves to the beat of eternal satisfaction, and your entire midsection feels like a string connecting divine intention to glorious whimsy. Ah, the birds! Can you hear the birds? No? That’s because…
