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May 4-10, 2005

May 4-10, 2005 / Vol. 21 / No. 18

Movie: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Our Rating: 3.50 It’s been a good two decades since I read Douglas’ Adams satirical space opera, so I thankfully have only a dim recollection of the story elements this adaptation has been pronounced guilty of omitting and/or truncating. Unable for the life of me to remember who the drummer for Disaster Area was, I…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Our Rating: 3.50 It’s been a good two decades since I read Douglas’ Adams satirical space opera, so I thankfully have only a dim recollection of the story elements this adaptation has been pronounced guilty of omitting and/or truncating. Unable for the life of me to remember who the drummer for Disaster Area was, I…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven Length: 2 hours, 25 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Website: http://www.kingdomofheavenmovie.com Release Date: 2005-05-06 Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Irons Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriter: William Monahan Music Score: Harry Gregson-Williams WorkNameSort: Kingdom of Heaven Our Rating: 3.00 Ridley Scott’s summer-epic take on the Crusades spins the tale…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Length: 1 hour, 50 minutes Studio: Touchstone Pictures Website: http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/ Release Date: 2005-04-29 Cast: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Billy Nighy Director: Garth Jennings Screenwriter: Douglas Adams, Karey Kirkpatrick WorkNameSort: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Our Rating: 3.50 It’s been a good two decades since…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Mondovino

Mondovino Length: 2 hours, 15 minutes Studio: ThinkFilm Website: http://www.mondovinofilm.com Release Date: 2005-05-06 Cast: Hubert De Montille, Aime Guibert, Michael Broadbent, Robert Parker, Jonathan Nossiter Director: Jonathan Nossiter Screenwriter: Jonathan Nossiter Music Score: Joe Hisaishi WorkNameSort: Mondovino Our Rating: 2.00 The gist of this lengthy (131 minutes) documentary on the state of the wine industry:…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Kingdom of Heaven

Our Rating: 3.00 Ridley Scott’s summer-epic take on the Crusades spins the tale of a blacksmith-turned-knight (Orlando Bloom) who journeys to Jerusalem for a rendezvous with destiny. The fate he finds there isn’t as an executioner of infidel unbelievers, but rather as a principled uniter who’s tough enough to protect the rights of Christians and…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Mondovino

Our Rating: 2.00 The gist of this lengthy (131 minutes) documentary on the state of the wine industry: Globalization is leading to an emphasis on new wines with hip brand names, and it’s driving the older winemakers – who favor slow processes and borderline-mystical attitudes toward the ability of wine to evoke its place of…

Orlando Weekly Staff

NATURAL ORDER OF CHICKENS

There is a sense of action when you walk up to the historic building that houses Natural Chicken Grill and step into the ice-cold air, reggae music blaring. THWAP goes the butcher’s knife as it lands heavily on a chopping block, while an employee (who thankfully had no welcome spiel) asks you how your day…

Orlando Weekly Staff

FAT BOYS … AND GIRLS

We all know that safety deposit boxes are places of personal treasure – diamonds, gold, family heirlooms. But index cards? Not exactly the family riches. Unless, of course, you’re Todd Keller. Keller, of Keller’s Bar-B-Q, has pulled his father’s recipes out of lockdown once again to bring authentic barbecue to a new University Boulevard location.…

Orlando Weekly Staff

REUSE, REUSE, REUSE

Lynn Marquise of Albany, N.Y., had a broken car sitting in her driveway. It quit running after she’d spent $1,500 on it in the previous six months, and she’d given up on it. “It was just a headache to me,” she says. In most cases this would mean the car was headed for the junkyard.…

Miriam Axel-Lute

SPACE INVADERS

I won’t bore you with my religious/spiritual dogma, but I will say that I believe there are nine levels of Hell for cursed souls. Eight of those levels are populated with same-side-sitters in restaurants and telemarketers. The ninth is reserved for the most wretched of the despicable: pedophiles, televangelists, the WNBA and autograph hounds. To…

Drew Garabo

NATURAL ORDER OF CHICKENS

There is a sense of action when you walk up to the historic building that houses Natural Chicken Grill and step into the ice-cold air, reggae music blaring. THWAP goes the butcher’s knife as it lands heavily on a chopping block, while an employee (who thankfully had no welcome spiel) asks you how your day…

Adrian J.S. Hale

SAME PLACE, RIGHT TIME

Everything old is new again, and the world has once again found itself tied up in synthesizer cables and keeping digital time together. We’re all winking irony, The Killers are high-end chart contenders, while Fischerspooner and The Postal Service are skirting the mainstream. Kelly Osbourne has recorded a Human League cover and all of it…

Billy Manes

Ask Uncle Tony

With the U.S. government’s support of in-school sex education programs winnowing to abstinence promotion only, the youth of America are in sore need of honest, reliable information about the changes their bodies are putting them through. Beginning with this issue, it’s a service Orlando Weekly is determined to provide. Our handpicked advice guru, Tony LaFemina,…

Steve Schneider

DEM DRINKERS

Don’t get me wrong. While I thoroughly enjoyed the clumsy dusting of the campaign trail – mostly the knitting together of monosyllabic pearls of wisdom into beige shrouds of civic overstatement – I’ve always been more comfortable in a cynical shade of misery. It might have been fun pretending that I was JFK, throwing my…

Billy Manes

ROPING IN THE ROOTS OF RODEO

Chasing the RodeoBy W.K. Stratton(Harcourt, 336 pages) American sports culture is as diverse as it is divergent. NBA hopefuls, competitive cheerleaders and freestyle BMXicans can prosper and fail in states of mutual obliviousness. Even still, it’s odd that a seemingly home-brewed sport like rodeo is so marginal in today’s mix. Author (and Southwest native) W.K.…

John Dicker

POP PSYCHOLOGY

You can learn a lot about Ireland just by attending plays like Theatre Downtown’s production of Hugh Leonard’s Da. The land is verdant and magic fills the air, but there’s never any work, never any money, and everything is compressed into a small room with a peat fire. There’s always a good excuse to drink…

Al Pergande

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