Selection Reminder: Florida Citrus Sports Shootout tonight at Amway Center!
Monday, Nov. 28 – Florida Citrus Sports Shootout Didn’t you hear? Tonight, Amway Center will finally host its season-opening basketball game. No, poor Magic fans, we’re sorry to say this game won’t star your beloved (and cash-starved) NBA ballers. However, this court battle is its own David & Goliath tale, pitting Southeastern Conference powerhouse the…
Selection Reminder: Grandpa’s AV Club Swap Meet!
Sunday, Nov. 27 – Grandpa’s AV Club Swap Meet A happy ending on the A&E show Hoarders usually includes dramatic footage of a professional cleaning company extracting tons, literally tons, of accumulated junk from the decrepit home of a compulsive collector who has taken the brave step of parting with his or her unique but…
Sunday Film News Roundup — November 27th, 2011
“Now I have a machine gun. HO – HO – HO.” Wonderful words, aren’t they? They burst at the seams with a jolly, pudding stuffed Christmas spirit perfection. Thanksgiving is gone, finally, and so are all the leftovers. Christmas lights are beginning to go up, and next week so will the tree in Rockefeller Center. It’s a…
Selection Reminder: Wanzie’s Glittering Star-Studded A Christmas Carol!
Through Dec. 17 – Wanzie’s Glittering Star-Studded A Christmas Carol In a not-so-surprising turn of events-season events (it happened the last two years, too!), cherubic whirligig of holiday jeer Michael Wanzie directs and narrates his own sort of drunken Hollywood Squares piss-take on the musty old Dickens classic meant to imbue sober children with humility…
Selection Reminder: Afternoons With Archibald Leach!
Saturday-Tuesday Nov. 26-29 Afternoons With Archibald Leach “I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person.” By the point the former acrobat and mime Archibald Leach tossed off that bon mot to a breathless reporter, he had transformed himself into Cary Grant, preternaturally well-groomed and devastatingly charming leading man.…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra presents Home for the Holidays!
Saturday, Nov. 26 – Home for the Holidays Psst! Hey, kids, c’mere for a second. We’re gonna let you in on a little secret. You listening? Ahem your holiday tunes suck!! They really do, you just don’t know it yet. You think Lea Michele’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “River” is heartbreaking? Seriously? And we’re sorry,…
Selection Reminder: Small Business Saturday!
Saturday, Nov. 26 – Small Business Saturday We’ll call this one “smallwashing.” Just as large companies with not-so-hot environmental records try to improve their images by “greenwashing” – that is, adopting feel-good, eco-friendly practices – American Express is trying to build some indie cred by sponsoring a day of shopping meant to give small businesses…
Underrated: Pieces of April – Peter Hedges (2003)
Thanksgiving has to be the most forgotten holiday in film history. Rightly so, in my opinion. Still, while plenty of movies have Thanksgiving scenes in them, very few are actually about Thanksgiving. Television might actually have the best track record for Turkey Day. Roseanne used to do good thanksgiving episodes, especially the episode “Angstgiving”, but…
Hell’s kitchen
East Colonial draft house offers a badass take on bar food
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing,” said rocket scientist Werner von Braun. I think it’s an excellent time for you to plunge into that kind of basic research. You’re overdue to wander around frontiers you didn’t even realize you needed to investigate.…
The Descendants
Alexander Payne returns, seven years after Sideways, with his best film yet
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
Jeff Nolan of the Ludes
Santasma
A roundup of box sets, the traditional no-brainer gift for music fans
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Sondre Lerche, Peter Wolf Crier and Boom Chick, and brings news on DeLand’s Cafe DaVinci, Hoops Tavern and Firestone Live
My Week With Marilyn
Michelle Williams leaves everyone else, even the film itself, in her dust as Marilyn Monroe
Happytown
The local Democratic machine gets a swift kick in the ass, a Food Not Bombs founder exchanges anarchist recipes and we take a look at the sports that happen when no sports are happening. It’s a Happytown Thanksgiving!
Live Active Cultures
Pity poor Thanksgiving, the forgotten holiday. This festival of gratitude has been flung aside in our sprint from Halloween straight into Christmas. Even OW is propagating the under-promotion of our brave (i.e., genocidal) Pilgrim forebears’ Wampanoag potluck by publishing this wish-list-filled holiday guide on a day when we should be thinking gratitude instead of gifts.…
Hugo
Scorsese’s first children’s adventure comes from his own inner child
Savage Love
I consider myself a socially progressive person, have been a vocal supporter of LGBT issues since high school
Melancholia
Lars von Trier’s latest is new and the same, but brilliant either way
The Muppets
Limited scope and an overabundance of winks spoils Jason Segel’s good-natured Muppet reboot
2012 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival Lottery Results
If you follow me on Twitter (@skubersky) you may have been confused by an avalanche of incoherent messages this past Monday night. Fear not for my sanity; I was only live-tweeting the results of the 2012 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival lottery, held at the Parliament House’s Footlights Theater. Just as in past years, the…
Study: Movies give women laryngitis
Forget those “Please don’t spoil the movie by adding your own soundtrack” PSAs. The film industry has just stumbled across a great new campaign to get more beleaguered husbands and angry single guys into the theater: “The movies — where you can at least get a bitch to pipe down!” Confirming everything you’d suspected but…
“The Umbrella Man”, a cautionary tale by Erroll Morris
Today is the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It’s a murder that will live unsolved alongside the likes the White Chapel killings, the murder of Jimmy Hoffa (and Nicole Brown Simpson? hmm) in its infamy. Except that the Kennedy assassination was captured on film, making it all the more frustrating…
Photo Gallery: Southern Pinball Festival at Maitland Civic Center
Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve played the silver ball. But I ain’t seen like the Southern Pinball Festival, held last weekend inside Orlando’s Maitland Civic Center. For three days, more than five dozen pinball machines from vintage to virtual, representing the entire range of the genre, filled the mod meeting hall with…
Proposed legislation would allow 9/11 families to sue alleged Saudi financiers of attacks
For the cover of our Sept. 8 issue, we profiled Bill Doyle, a Central Florida retiree and one of the lead plaintiffs in the trillion-dollar “9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism” lawsuit. When the suit was first announced in 2002, it made headlines not only for its price tag and its thousands of plaintiffs (6,706,…
