Ice Age: The Meltdown
Ice Age: The Meltdown Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: PG Website: http://www.iceagemovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-03-31 Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Josh Peck Director: Carlos Saldanha Screenwriter: Jon Vitti Music Score: John Powell WorkNameSort: Ice Age: The Meltdown Our Rating: 3.00 The follow-up to one of the least justified successes in recent…
La Ninja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita
La Ninja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita Label: Plug Research Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: La Ninja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita The processors and machines that Mia Doi Todd shed in order to put together the contemplative organics of last year’s Manzanita have returned in electronically augmented renditions on La Ninja: Amor and Other…
Psychic Secession
Psychic Secession Label: Load Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Psychic Secession With each passing year, it seems, Oakland’s Yellow Swans approach their synapse-searing electro-noise maelstroms with ever-greater subtlety and flair. Not so long ago, Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindel Saloman were just two kids stirring up mindless, faceless CD-R rackets via their fledgling Jyrk imprint; today they…
Basic Instinct 2
Basic Instinct 2 Studio: MGM Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/basicinstinct2/ Release Date: 2006-03-31 Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis, Hugh Dancy Director: Michael Caton-Jones Screenwriter: Henry Bean, Leora Barish WorkNameSort: Basic Instinct 2 Our Rating: 1.50 Basic Instinct 2 H1/2 I was going to say I respect any movie that can make…
Film Geek
Film Geek Studio: First Run Features Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.scottysfilmpage.com/synopsis.html Release Date: 2006-03-30 Cast: Melik Malkasian, Tyler Gannon, Matt Morris Director: James Westby Screenwriter: James Westby Music Score: Jason Wells WorkNameSort: Film Geek Our Rating: 3.00 Self-awareness fuels the sly but slight amateur comedy Film Geek, a 78-minute, halfway-there character study set in a…
Find Me Guilty
Find Me Guilty Studio: Yari Film Group Rated: R Website: http://www.findmeguilty.com/ Release Date: 2006-03-31 Cast: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Annabella Sciorra, Richard Portnow, Linus Roache Director: Sidney Lumet Screenwriter: Sidney Lumet, T.J. Mancini, Robert J. McCrea WorkNameSort: Find Me Guilty Our Rating: 1.00 OK, you’re guilty. An oafish Vin Diesel stars in the reality-based story…
Inside Man
Inside Man Studio: Universal Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.insideman.net/index.php Release Date: 2006-03-31 Cast: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor Director: Spike Lee Screenwriter: Russell Gewirtz WorkNameSort: Inside Man Our Rating: 2.50 Viewers who cut their teeth on Dog Day Afternoon are most likely to look charitably on Spike Lee’s latest, in…
COMFORT AND SOY
Comfort food: Every cuisine has it. Whether it’s American macaroni and cheese, English trifle or French cassoulet, comfort foods share certain basic qualities – lots of carbohydrates, a lack of challenging texture or spices, and a comforting reminder of childhood. And on those terms, Pilin is a total success. American “Thai” food is undoubtedly different…
WHO LEADS?
Inside a studio tucked into the Alfond Sports Center at Rollins College, floor-to-ceiling mirrors line a lengthy wall, reflecting the glossy wooden floor where two ballroom-dancing partners are practicing their moves. You can watch the action on the floor and the reflection in the mirror simultaneously as the couple sweeps from one end of the…
There & Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter
One of the great falsities of “travel literature” is the idea that we lurch into strange lands, eyes turned mostly outward. The truth is quite the opposite: Staring out at passing landscapes often turns us inward, as do the static hours spent waiting for connecting flights or buses. James Salter seems to understand this, and…
Happytown
ACLU v. Liberty Counsel, part one. Perhaps Mat Staver has too much time on his hands. Isn’t there a woman trying to get an abortion somewhere to harass? Or maybe a gay couple that wants to hold hands in public? Perhaps there’s a biology teacher on the cusp of discussing evolution who could be silenced…
BIG, BAD BULLIES
After Winter Springs middle-school student Chris Penley recently took a pellet gun to school and was shot in the ensuing raid by police, reports came out, as they often do, that the 15-year-old was bullied. One 14-year-old classmate said, “You can poke him with a stick, and he won’t talk.” The Penley case illustrated, again,…
Police Beat
March 15, 8:17 a.m.: Officer Hayes responded to a report of criminal mischief in the 2100 block of Oregon Street. He met with a 66-year-old victim about someone vandalizing his car, as the report reflects: “The victim states that on 3/14/2006 at 2100 hours, he parked and locked his vehicle in his driveway, at this…
Savage Love
I am a 17-year-old straight girl with a boy problem – and as such I am fairly sure it won’t be terribly interesting to read and will thus avoid publication, but I figured it would be worth a try. I’ve known this boy for three years. A year ago, he asked me out but wanted…
SELF-CONSCIOUSLY SCREAMING
When a musician hits upon both artistic and monetary success, it’s written that said performer is then at a crossroads in their career, a point at which they must decide whether to follow the muse or to follow the money. But with Oklahoma’s Flaming Lips it’s more like they’re at a 10-point intersection, with traffic…
PERFECTLY CUFFED
On March 24, the Orlando Sentinel reported that St. Cloud City Council member Mike Wetzel had been charged with driving under the influence, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. An Osceola County deputy sheriff who was quoted said that Wetzel had been “polite but argumentative” when he was stopped. “Polite but argumentative?” At…
Jean Grae, The Sword, Dynamic Relationships, Paul Oakenfold and more
Thursday • 30 DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS: CREALDÉ SCHOOL OF ART’S MENTORS AND STUDENTS Showing the effect of mentors upon their students is the purpose for this city exhibition staged in collaboration with Crealdé School of Art. A work by an experienced half of the equation will be presented next to a creation by a novice, allowing…
Letters
Billman gets sacked Sitting at my favorite watering hole the other day, I was reading the Weekly and came across the review of Friends café by Jeffery C. Billman [“Full of friends,” March 23]. After reading his 10th or so reference to his vegetarian status (as vegetarians are wont to do), it occurred to me:…
Notable Noise
Lucky for you, dear reader, I am willing to trudge through the morass of garbage that passes for live music in this shithole. That way, you can stay tucked away in your house, complaining about how awful Orlando is, and I can spend four days in a row reveling in the blissful diversity of this…
Blister
Something has gone very horribly wrong. Trapped in a shades-drawn, couch-sore tailspin peculiar to drunken housewives with traveling husbands, I’ve spent the better part of the week in a personal panic attack. Whatever. I don’t care anymore. Except I do. Or at least I used to. To that end I’m dragging my tightened chest and…
NIGHT VISION
To any artist, opening up a direct portal into your subconscious is an undertaking fraught with risk. What if inner visions that you consider inherently beautiful strike your audience as grotesque? What if attempts to render the fiercest hellhounds of the mind inspire nothing more than a tossed-off “It’s nice”? Is it even possible to…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES It would be a great time to launch several new ventures all at once, even if it means abandoning an old project you’ve been working on for months. April Fool! Don’t you dare do what I just suggested. The future won’t thrive unless you lavish the past with the gift of your careful attention.…
CLOSING FRAMES
American Stag Directed by Ben Meade Midnight Saturday, April 1, at Enzian Theater Return with us now to yesteryear, when viewing smut meant gathering with 20 or so of your (male) buddies in a dark, smoky room in the back of the Moose Lodge to watch grainy, silent, black-and-white footage of average-looking people pawing at…
The Last Time I Saw You
Rebecca Brown is one of the best-kept secrets of short fiction. A San Diego native who now lives in Seattle, she made her literary debut in the mid-’80s with The Evolution of Darkness and recently published The End of Youth. These titles are appropriate bookends for her work, as to read Brown’s fiction for literal…
I Love Television
Though my reputation may lead you to believe otherwise, I do not wish “death” upon anyone. OK, maybe I do wish death upon Dr. Phil – but C’MON! That balding, pear-shaped dickhole is a blight upon humankind, and needs to have his head shoved into the bottom of a gastrointestinally challenged donkey. Then, after forcing…
Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape
Our environmental prophet has been hard at work again, and this time, Bill Belleville gets personal on us. The true-blue Florida boy (“I’ve been sinking into Florida for decades now,” is the opening of his introduction) shares the slow-heartbreak story of how he bought and lovingly restored a venerable Cracker house in Seminole County. Actually,…
