Review – Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Artist: Aimee Mann
LIVING IN THE PAST
Movie: Zelary
Review – The Return of Jack Splash!
Artist: The Plant Life
Review – Retreated
Artist: Trüby Trio
Movie: National Treasure
Our Rating: 2.00 This patriotic action-adventure from Walt Disney Pictures isn’t worth the hype it’s getting, even though its somewhat-historical premise is engaging. As it turns out, a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence and symbols on the dollar bill point the way to a stash of priceless antiquities that represent…
Movie: Silver City
Silver City Length: 2 hours, 9 minutes Studio: Newmarket Films Website: http://www.silvercitythemovie.com/ Release Date: 2004-11-19 Cast: Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Billy Zane, Danny Huston, Daryl Hannah Director: John Sayles Screenwriter: John Sayles Music Score: Mason Daring WorkNameSort: Silver City Our Rating: 3.50 Arriving in the wake of our alleged national swing to the right, John…
Movie: Silver City
Our Rating: 3.50 Arriving in the wake of our alleged national swing to the right, John Sayles’ latest anti-con polemic already feels like a time capsule. How much joy can wounded Dems take in recognizing that Chris Cooper’s character – a lunkheaded candidate for governor of Colorado – is a spot-on caricature of Dubya? To…
Movie: Undertow
Undertow Length: 1 hour, 47 minutes Studio: United Artists Films Website: http://www.theundertowmovie.com/ Release Date: 2004-11-19 Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas, Jamie Bell, Devon Alan, Kristen Stewart Director: David Gordon Green Screenwriter: David Gordon Green, Joe Conway WorkNameSort: Undertow Our Rating: 1.50 Somnambulistic schlockmeister David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls) directs another dreary, self-important rural…
Movie: Undertow
Our Rating: 1.50 Somnambulistic schlockmeister David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls) directs another dreary, self-important rural drama that takes forever to advance its insignificant aims. You’ll be fighting to stay awake as Green (with the aid of two nearly blameworthy co-writers) doles out this cliché-ridden story of a “terrible” tragedy that befalls two sets…
Review – Jandek on Corwood
Artist: Jandek
WHINE CONNOISSEURS
Movie: Sideways
WHINE CONNOISSEURS
Movie: Sideways
Review – Want Two
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
LIVING IN THE PAST
Movie: Zelary
LIVING IN THE PAST
Movie: Zelary
Review – Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Artist: Aimee Mann
Review – Jandek on Corwood
Artist: Jandek
Review – The Return of Jack Splash!
Artist: The Plant Life
Review – Want Two
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
Review – Retreated
Artist: Trüby Trio
Review – Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Artist: Aimee Mann
Movie: National Treasure
Our Rating: 2.00 This patriotic action-adventure from Walt Disney Pictures isn’t worth the hype it’s getting, even though its somewhat-historical premise is engaging. As it turns out, a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence and symbols on the dollar bill point the way to a stash of priceless antiquities that represent…
Review – The Return of Jack Splash!
Artist: The Plant Life
Movie: Silver City
Our Rating: 3.50 Arriving in the wake of our alleged national swing to the right, John Sayles’ latest anti-con polemic already feels like a time capsule. How much joy can wounded Dems take in recognizing that Chris Cooper’s character – a lunkheaded candidate for governor of Colorado – is a spot-on caricature of Dubya? To…
Review – Retreated
Artist: Trüby Trio
WHINE CONNOISSEURS
Movie: Sideways
Movie: National Treasure
Our Rating: 2.00 This patriotic action-adventure from Walt Disney Pictures isn’t worth the hype it’s getting, even though its somewhat-historical premise is engaging. As it turns out, a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence and symbols on the dollar bill point the way to a stash of priceless antiquities that represent…
LIVING IN THE PAST
Movie: Zelary
Movie: Silver City
Our Rating: 3.50 Arriving in the wake of our alleged national swing to the right, John Sayles’ latest anti-con polemic already feels like a time capsule. How much joy can wounded Dems take in recognizing that Chris Cooper’s character – a lunkheaded candidate for governor of Colorado – is a spot-on caricature of Dubya? To…
Review – Jandek on Corwood
Artist: Jandek
Movie: Undertow
Our Rating: 1.50 Somnambulistic schlockmeister David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls) directs another dreary, self-important rural drama that takes forever to advance its insignificant aims. You’ll be fighting to stay awake as Green (with the aid of two nearly blameworthy co-writers) doles out this cliché-ridden story of a “terrible” tragedy that befalls two sets…
Review – Want Two
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
WHINE CONNOISSEURS
Movie: Sideways
GOOD GRAVY
It’s Thanksgiving evening, and you’ve just settled into your easy chair. As you ponder whether or not you should have had that third helping of green bean casserole, you are confronted by not just one but two awful football games on television. Further compounding the problem is your Uncle Ernie, who steadfastly refuses to surrender…
KEEPIN’ IT FAKE
Finding Neverland (PG) Being Julia (R) At a time when deconstruction and demystification are all the moviemaking rage, it’s sweet indeed to celebrate the opening of two deeply satisfying pictures that bravely trumpet the healing properties of artifice. Hammering the point home are twin lead performances that rank among the best their respective gender classes…
THE POLITICS OF STUFFING
Feast: Food to Celebrate Life By Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, 472 pages) Is everyone sick of Nigella Lawson? Has she worked the voluptuous gourmandise persona to death and become a parody of herself, appreciated only by tail-end-of-the-trend-hoppers? No answers here. Feast will not change anyone’s mind – it will only serve to intensify already-formed opinions about…
Sentinel employees sacked, OPAC on the fast track and the Fat-Ass Ride for Cancer
This isn’t such a happy town for the nine Orlando Sentinel employees who were unceremoniously sacked last week. Blaming “the difficult economic times we are in,” and below-target advertising revenues, publisher Kathy Waltz sent out a memo Nov. 8 informing all Sentinel employees of the layoffs, and of the paper’s plan to leave unfilled 11…
“Ask me again”
This presidential election has been described by many as one in which morality mattered most to voters. But that perception may be driven at least partially by how pollsters asked voters about their priority issues. Whether voters named “moral values” their key issue partly depended on whether that subject was included in a list of…
THE SHOE FITS
Running through the holidays, Mad Cow Theatre’s musical Cinderella provides a pleasant counterpoint to the other seasonal favorites that seem to get done to death on stages around town. The show will delight children and amuse adults, even if the score by Rodgers and Hammerstein doesn’t really provide a good song to hum on the…
NAUGHTY AND VICE
Theater maven Michael Wanzie knows how to make people laugh. He’s wildly clever at weaving socially forbidden subject matter and slurs of every stripe into his scripts, including the one he wrote for the just-debuted A Trailer Trash Christmas. (Like it or not, ’tis the season.) But the big kill of this one-hour comedy comes…
WAS IT HACKED?
Editor’s note: This is a corrected version of this story. A section on votes exceeding the number of registered voters in 47 Florida counties has been removed because it could not be substantiated. Despite mainstream media attempts to kill the story, talk radio and the Internet are abuzz with suggestions that John Kerry was elected…
News
Could the mysterious glowing ball of “green cheese” suspended in our night sky be a catalyst for chaos here on earth? Is it merely coincidence that the word “lunatic” derives from the Latin word meaning “moon”? For centuries, the superstitious and the scholarly have toyed with the notion that a full moon unleashes aggression in…
Hot Snakes, The Hives, Salome, Global Peace Film Festival and more
Thursday • 18 HARBINGER After adding another guitarist and shedding the “Trio” part of their moniker last year, Orlando’s Harbinger have hit their stride on their latest, the three-song EP Millhopper. Consisting of bassist Christopher A. Wren, drumming powerhouse Daniel P.M. Fox and Darin E. Hughes and Charles E. Amyx III on guitars, Harbinger plumbs…
LIKE MINDED
In dark times like these – y’know, times of depreciated self-worth created by second-degree citizenship thanks to the braided Bible-belts of folk who find Regis and Kelly to be a little too risqué for their morning Wheaties doused in blood – one alternates between teary-eyed, drunken knee-biting and the insane comforts of personal pop-cultural history.…
