Hollywood’s Legends of Horror
Hollywood’s Legends of Horror Studio: Warner Home Video Rated: NOT RATED WorkNameSort: Hollywood’s Legends of Horror If the 1960s were the decade in which Hollywood grew paranoid of the government, then American cinema’s great fear in the 1930s was of the medical field. Five out of the six films in Warner Home Video’s Hollywood Legends…
The Bollywood Horror Collection Vol. 1: Bandh Darwaza/Purana Mandir
The Bollywood Horror Collection Vol. 1: Bandh Darwaza/Purana Mandir Studio: Mondo Macabro Rated: NOT RATED WorkNameSort: Bollywood Horror Collection Vol. 1: Bandh Darwaza/Purana Mandir, The With different sets of cultural taboos and sub-psychological fears, other countries have routinely come up with interesting takes on horror films. Not so much with India. Bollywood’s horror boom was…
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Ultimate Edition
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Ultimate Edition Studio: Dark Sky Films Rated: R WorkNameSort: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Ultimate Edition, The The best thing about this two-disc ‘ultimate editionâ?� of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre may be its nifty tin-box packaging from B-movie distributor Dark Sky Films. What’s inside, though, is strictly for the shocking snuff film’s…
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Inifinifilm Special Edition
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Inifinifilm Special Edition Studio: New Line Home Video Rated: R WorkNameSort: Nightmare on Elm Street: Inifinifilm Special Edition, A Showing a marked improvement in image and sound over the previous DVD release, this two-disc reissue of A Nightmare on Elm Street includes the old version’s enlightening commentary, plus a newly…
THE ITALIAN JOB
Fancy sandwiches fit midday demands in the southwest
Better Days Will Haunt You
Better Days Will Haunt You Label: Matador Records Length: LP Rated: NONE Release Date: 2006-10-10 Media: CD Format: BoxSet WorkNameSort: Better Days Will Haunt You Chavez Better Days Will Haunt You (Matador) When the liner notes for a comprehensive boxed set have the heads of a record label confessing to having ‘overlookedâ?� the artist, it’s…
Death Metal in Jerusalem
Death Metal in Jerusalem Label: Bony Orbit Length: EP Rated: NONE Release Date: 2006-10-12 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Death Metal in Jerusalem Libyan Hit Squad Death Metal in Jerusalem (Bony Orbit) When it comes to ‘punk rockâ?� in Orlando, there’s either the kaleidoscopic clutch of bands firmly devoted to the punk ethos or the…
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rodrigo y Gabriela Label: ATO Length: EP Rated: NONE Release Date: 2006-02-19 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela (ATO) A lovely young couple from Mexico â?¦ no, wait. They’re Mexican and they met in Mexico, but got their big break in Ireland, thanks to Damien Rice. OK.…
And Now That Iâ??m in Your Shadow
And Now That IÃ’m in Your Shadow Label: Secretly Canadian Length: EP Rated: NONE Release Date: 2006-10-10 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: And Now That IÃ’m in Your Shadow Damien Jurado And Now That I’m in Your Shadow (Secretly Canadian) Damien Jurado is no longer a lonely singer-songwriter, but a three-piece band. Nonetheless, Jurado could…
IMPROVING ON EXCELLENCE
Infamous tells Capote’s story again … but better
Man of the Year
Man of the Year Length: Single Studio: Universal Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.manoftheyearmovie.net/ Release Date: 2006-10-13 Cast: Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Lewis Black Director: Barry Levinson Screenwriter: Barry Levinson Music Score: Graeme Revell, Allan Mason WorkNameSort: Man of the Year Our Rating: 3.00 There are websites where you can purchase ‘Stewart/Colbert…
IT’S NO SECRET
In our last episode about the woes of the Transportation Security Administration at Orlando International Airport, aka the people who keep crazy bastards from making a bomb out of hair spray and Tab on your flight to Poughkeepsie, we discovered that a lot of screeners secretly think their bosses are incompetent, inept and unqualified (“Why…
POLICE BEAT
Sept. 29, 2:55 P.M.: Some time between 9 p.m. Sept. 28, when our 51-year-old complainant closed the Azalea Park Little League concession stand on North Carol Avenue, and 2 p.m. Sept. 29, when she returned to reopen it, unknown suspect(s) ravaged the establishment. Officer Adams arrived to scrutinize the scene. His investigation revealed that the…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
; ;; ;;; ;English eccentrics ;; At the York Crown Court in England in September, Antonia Pearson-Gaballonie, 36, was convicted of having enslaved a 26-year-old housekeeper from 1997 to 2005 despite her defense that the woman had actually been earning the equivalent of about $55 a week during that time. Pearson-Gaballonie said that all the…
LETTERS
Happy to live in Belle Glade Wow! I have to say that I don’t appreciate your assessment of a town that I love VERY much `”Welcome to beautiful Belle Glade,” Oct. 5`. I have lived here all of my life with the exception of two years when I lived in Orlando to attend the University…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•12 Dew Action Sports Tour Attention X Games—lovers: This event is better than any Tony Hawk video game you could imagine. Aside from Ludacris performing — yes, Luda will be there — the athletes in these quasi-daredevil competitions will pull off tricks that are well worth the price of admission. The Dew Action Sports Tour…
THEY SAY IT’S NOT ALLOWED
;The bar was nearly full to capacity. The reason everyone was here — aside from drinking, dancing, being seen, and the fact that being out till 2 a.m. on a Sunday hurts less when you’re 22 — was Girl Talk, a Pittsburgh DJ who went from complete obscurity a few months ago ;to being profiled…
GOOD FRIGHT
;Friday the 13th, the infamous pseudo-holiday of evil popularized in silicone and celluloid, is now upon us. And on Oct. 13, 2006, an expected 10,000 horror aficionados will swarm Orlando for one of the biggest horror conventions in the country, ScreamFest. For the first time in its four-year history, ScreamFest will call Orlando home. Revelers…
UNCOVERING ORLANDO’S GAY HISTORY ISN’T EASY … BUT SOMEONE’S GOTTA DO IT
Sometimes a picture says it all. A black-and-white photograph of a young man, sinewy and lean-muscled. The look on his face, detached; the look of the rest of him — all of the rest of him — decidedly attached. A large, semihard member is slapped on his right leg, hanging out for all the world…
BLOOD AND GUTS
Knives, hatchets, machetes, spears, screwdrivers, chainsaws or pruning shears. Slashing throats, bashing skulls, severing heads, ripping apart limbs or bisecting torsos. A hockey mask, a gas mask, a clown mask or a plain cloth sack. Mix, match, add hormonal teenagers and a plot with a twist. Start stabbing and slaughtering and you’ve just made yourself…
BLISTER
;I am getting more than a ;little bit horny. Having just one-hand scrolled through a thrillingly un-(copy)edited transcript of Maf54’s surly texting with 16-year-old “xxxxxx,” up-and-down arrowing over the aesthetic value of textured cum rags and plaster-cast fetishes like a page boy with wine-cooler breath, my mind is racing with attention deficit possibility. I grab…
CAN THIS GUY KNOCK OFF SHERI MCINVALE?
Editor’s note: In the interest of full disclosure we note that Dave Plotkin, Scott Randolph’s campaign manager, was once a freelance columnist for this newspaper. Plotkin also ran staff writer Billy Manes’ mayoral campaign in 2005. Editor’s note: In the interest of full disclosure we note that Dave Plotkin, Scott Randolph’s campaign manager, was once…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am a 20-year-old woman going to school in New York. Recently I admitted to myself that I am either a lesbian or a strongly female-oriented bisexual. But I have no idea how to meet women. I also worry because I have never had an actual sexual experience with a woman. I feel that I…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES According to the Midwest Book Review, David Foster Wallace’s 1,088-page book Infinite Jest is “perhaps the most innovative novel in the English language since James Joyce’s Ulysses.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction calls Infinite Jest “so brilliant you need sunglasses to read it.” On the other hand, critic Dan Schneider (Cosmoetica.com) believes Infinite Jest…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
The panhandle of Florida isn’t the first setting that comes to mind when speaking of innovation. But this past weekend, some 50-odd miles north of Panama City, the Founder’s Festival marked the official opening of Chipola Music Village. It’s billed as a “true live, work and play eco-based community that is based around music and…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;Paranoia. It’s a fallacious ;emotion generally experienced by the insecure and mentally ill. That being said, everyone in the world is out to get me. Now obviously I am NOT insecure — I mean, I’m great, right? Besides, paranoia is the assumption that people are out to get you, and with me it’s no assumption…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
‘TICKET’ Transport yourself into the cultural takes and travels of painters Gustavo Llenas and Perez Lee at Taste in College Park, which is hosting an opening party for the dual exhibition. It’s been six years since Llenas, raised in the Dominican Republic, participated in a 1st Thursdays event at Orlando Museum of Art, which helped…
HAPPYTOWN
If you’re like us — and we’ve installed cameras in your shower, so we know you are — you’ve been wondering what the hell is going on with Tom Feeney lately. Oviedo’s Republican congressman is cruising to re-election against a negligible (and possibly nutty) Democrat in an overwhelmingly red district that Feeney drew for himself…
The right wing is cannabalizing itself
Here’s Exhibit A, from some fundie nutcase who thinks the House GOP should find and exterminate – er, run out – er, do something really bad to gay Republicans in their midst. Allow me to quote: As I contended during an interview on the public television program NOW, the Republicans have only themselves to blame…
