The Hunger Games Trailer
Just quickly, the long anticipated first trailer for The Hunger Games went online this morning. The adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ young adult novels stars Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone, X-Men: First Class) and Josh Hutcherson (Bridge to Terabithia, The Kids are All Right) as tributes in the annual hunger games in a future dystopian version of…
Selection Reminder: Literary Death Match tonight at Mad Cow Theatre!
Sunday, Nov. 13 – Literary Death Match Don’t call it a comeback! Well, actually, go ahead and call it a comeback. The international lit-nerd sensation Literary Death Match returns to Orlando this week for a second round of ox-stunning, panty-dropping, skull-perforating verbosity. Language wranglers Kat Dixon, Rachel Leona Kapitan, Tod Caviness and J. Christopher Silvia…
Selection Reminder: Dwight Howard All-Star Game at UCF Arena!
Sunday, Nov. 13 – Dwight Howard All-Star Game The last time we checked, there were 10,950 Facebook users who like “Dwight Howard’s Shoulders.” Only about one-fourth as many users endorse the D12 Foundation, Howard’s charitable organization. The disparity is a shame, given that D12, not a deltoid muscle, is bringing an All-Star Game to Orlando,…
Sunday Film News Roundup — November 13th, 2011
Billy Crystal? Really? Sure, he’s done it before without it being a disaster, but the man is clearly better in small doses, or at least with Whoopie and Robin Williams and a complimentary bowl of cocaine in the green room. Maybe it was a timing issue, but it’s still five months away. Anyone they got…
Take Two: Come Out With Pride!
Sunday, Nov. 13 – Come Out With Pride Today, Lake Eola Park will play host to the previously postponed Come Out With Pride parade and festival. And in case you missed our extensive coverage of the festivities last month, be sure to read our Oct. 6 cover story “In the name of love (pride),” which…
Selection Reminder: Grab a cold one at the Sanford Brew-Ha-Ha!
Saturday, Nov. 12 – Sanford Brew-Ha-Ha While some high-chinned wine connoisseurs scoff at the grass-roots approach of making beer in your garage, home brewing beer is serious business. Any home brewer could affirm the distinct variances of flavor, aroma and mouthfeel between, say, a pale ale and a stout. See for yourself, as dozens of…
Selection Reminder: The Cock and Gun Show!
Friday, Nov. 11 – The Cock and Gun Show The Facebook page for this art show, thrusting its way into the Blank Space Gallery & Lounge downtown this weekend, describes it as “all things cock and all things guns an art show completely devoted to penises, roosters, peacocks and guns.” (All created by women, by…
Selection Reminder: Harry Potter Home Entertainment Celebration!
Friday, Nov. 11 – Harry Potter Home Entertainment Celebration Now that pesky Halloween is out of the way, the holiday season can officially get underway. To that end (and many others, most involving money or statuettes of golden naked guys), Universal Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter is hosting a three-day marathon – excuse us,…
Selection Reminder: House of Blues Folk Art Festival!
Friday, Nov. 11 – House of Blues Folk Art Festival Visionary art, outsider art, primitive art, naive art, folk art – it’s a school with as many names as practitioners. Every year during Disney’s massive Festival of the Masters, House of Blues sponsors its own little corner featuring the art form that HOB has done…
Opening in Orlando — November 11th, 2011
Immortals — Finally, 3-D technology gets put to the use God intended: dropping Mickey Rourke right in your lap. It’s the facelift that launched a thousand nightmares versus future Superman Henry Cavill in an epic Greek clash that’s in no way meant to remind you of 300. Brought to the screen by visionary director Tarsem…
Selection Reminder: Peace activist Arun Gandhi stops by UCF!
Thursday, Nov. 10 – Arun Gandhi As the grandson of one of India’s (and the world’s) most inspiring civil rights leaders, you’d think it’d be smooth riding on grandpa’s dhoti to fame and fortune. Fact is, Arun Gandhi has stepped beyond Mohandas Gandhi’s shadows, experiencing the world’s brutality first-hand, and for more than three decades,…
Midday briefs
Skip the sweet-and-sour staples and stick to Trey Yuen’s dim sum
Local heroes
After last year’s gustatory afterglow, Slow Food Orlando’s Eat Local Week has returned. During the eight-day stretch between Nov. 11-18, some of Orlando’s finest restaurants will serve menus created around Central Florida’s best ingredients, and chances to interact with our best local farmers, food producers and like-minded eaters will abound. Dishes served on Eat Local…
Orlando Calling: A Q&A with Melvin Benn
Festival Republic’s managing director talks about his company’s first foray into the states
The Skin I Live In
Antonio Banderas reunites with Pedro Almodóvar for a twisted mad-scientist story
Going all in
Kerouac House resident writer Beth Raymer talks about betting, boxing and other forms of risky behavior
Live Active Cultures
Seth renews his vows with cult pop culture
Neutering the watchdogs
Interference in state’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program could mean less oversight of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Orlando Calling: Relighting the Bowl
The Citrus Bowl is no stranger to music fests, but it’s been a while
Happytown
Gov. Rick Scott crashes a gun range, state Republicans play a game of legislative chicken and wouldn’t everything be better in the NBA (or otherwise) with an electronic whip? We’ve got that whip appeal, baby.
Roots and wings
Eustis museum explores the common heritage and diverging paths of three former Research Studio members
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The title of this week’s movie is Uproar of Love, starring the Fantasy Kid and the Most Feeling Machine In the World. It blends romance and science fiction, with overtones of espionage and undertones of revolution for the hell of it. Comic touches will slip in at unexpected moments. When you’re…
This Little Underground
Our local music critic takes on the 99 Percent Fest, True Widow, Emily Reo and more
J. Edgar
Leonardo DiCaprio gives an award-worthy performance as the conflicted FBI honcho
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Elizabeth Olsen storms the screen in a ferocious debut
Orlando Calling: Fest of both worlds
Our pullout guide to getting the most out of the varied offerings of Orlando Calling
Savage Love
I’m an evangelical Christian in a country where that is not a political statement
VOD: Julia’s Leigh’s “Sleeping Beauty”
Sleeping Beauty caused quite a stir at Cannes earlier this year, though it was eclipsed by a certain director and his odd sentence that he couldn’t get out of. It stars Emily Browning (Lemony Snicket, The Uninvited) as Lucy, a young, beautiful student trying to work her way through university as a medical testing guinea pig…
Selection Reminder: Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad head to the Social!
Tuesday, Nov. 8 – Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad With their roots-reggae sound, strictly analog live setup, relentless touring and that band name, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad seem poised to take their place as the band du jour of a gig-taper community in search of the next Phish. GPGDS naturally invite that following, though…
