Movie: The Carlyle Connection
Our Rating: 3.00 Odds are, you first heard of the massively influential investment bank known as the Carlyle Group when you saw Fahrenheit 9/11. This 49-minute Dutch TV special methodically traces the group’s rise to international prominence. But it also shows how skillful Michael Moore was in conveying in a few short minutes the bizarre…
Review – Who Killed the Zutons?
Artist: The Zutons
Movie: The Final Cut
Our Rating: 2.50 Writer/director Omar Naim succumbs to most of the pitfalls of mediocre science fiction, inventing a “dehumanizing” technology that’s patently preposterous and then prodding us into getting all flustered about it. The idea is that humans can have cameras implanted in their bodies from birth, leaving them with a massive video record when…
Review – Turn
Artist: The Ex
Movie: Shall We Dance?
Our Rating: 3.00 Where others have failed, director Peter Chelsom has finally found out how to make Jennifer Lopez useful. Here, she’s a smoldering found object of desire who catches the eye of a world-weary estate attorney (Richard Gere). On a whim, John (Gere) drops into the tatty dance studio where Paulina (Lopez) teaches and…
CINEMA VERY CHÉ
Movie: The Motorcycle Diaries
CINEMA VERY CHÉ
Movie: The Motorcycle Diaries
OVER A BARREL
Movie: The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
OVER A BARREL
Movie: The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
Movie: The Carlyle Connection
Our Rating: 3.00 Odds are, you first heard of the massively influential investment bank known as the Carlyle Group when you saw Fahrenheit 9/11. This 49-minute Dutch TV special methodically traces the group’s rise to international prominence. But it also shows how skillful Michael Moore was in conveying in a few short minutes the bizarre…
Movie: The Final Cut
The Final Cut Length: 1 hour, 44 minutes Studio: Lions Gate Films Website: http://www.finalcutfilm.com/ Release Date: 2004-10-15 Cast: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, James Caviezel, Stephanie Romanov, Genevieve Buechner Director: Omar Naim Screenwriter: Omar Naim WorkNameSort: The Final Cut Our Rating: 2.50 Writer/director Omar Naim succumbs to most of the pitfalls of mediocre science fiction, inventing…
Movie: The Final Cut
Our Rating: 2.50 Writer/director Omar Naim succumbs to most of the pitfalls of mediocre science fiction, inventing a “dehumanizing” technology that’s patently preposterous and then prodding us into getting all flustered about it. The idea is that humans can have cameras implanted in their bodies from birth, leaving them with a massive video record when…
Movie: Shall We Dance?
Shall We Dance? Length: 1 hour, 35 minutes Studio: Miramax Films Website: http://www.miramax.com/shallwedance/ Release Date: 2004-10-15 Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Bobby Cannavale Director: Peter Chelsom Screenwriter: Audrey Wells WorkNameSort: Shall We Dance? Our Rating: 3.00 Where others have failed, director Peter Chelsom has finally found out how to make Jennifer…
Movie: Shall We Dance?
Our Rating: 3.00 Where others have failed, director Peter Chelsom has finally found out how to make Jennifer Lopez useful. Here, she’s a smoldering found object of desire who catches the eye of a world-weary estate attorney (Richard Gere). On a whim, John (Gere) drops into the tatty dance studio where Paulina (Lopez) teaches and…
Review – Dreamtigers
Artist: Judith Shatin
Review – Quaudiophiliac
Artist: Frank Zappa
VINDALOO-JAH!
Beyond the fact that I’ve lived on the east side of Winter Park for years, there’s no need to explain why more of my dining dollars don’t go toward Indian food. Indian restaurants are scarce in those parts; always have been. Standing at Fairbanks and Park avenues, the closest choices are the Indian takeout in…
Review – Who Killed the Zutons?
Artist: The Zutons
CINEMA VERY CHÉ
Movie: The Motorcycle Diaries
Review – Dreamtigers
Artist: Judith Shatin
Review – Turn
Artist: The Ex
OVER A BARREL
Movie: The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
Review – Quaudiophiliac
Artist: Frank Zappa
Movie: The Carlyle Connection
Our Rating: 3.00 Odds are, you first heard of the massively influential investment bank known as the Carlyle Group when you saw Fahrenheit 9/11. This 49-minute Dutch TV special methodically traces the group’s rise to international prominence. But it also shows how skillful Michael Moore was in conveying in a few short minutes the bizarre…
Review – Who Killed the Zutons?
Artist: The Zutons
Movie: The Final Cut
Our Rating: 2.50 Writer/director Omar Naim succumbs to most of the pitfalls of mediocre science fiction, inventing a “dehumanizing” technology that’s patently preposterous and then prodding us into getting all flustered about it. The idea is that humans can have cameras implanted in their bodies from birth, leaving them with a massive video record when…
Review – Turn
Artist: The Ex
Movie: Shall We Dance?
Our Rating: 3.00 Where others have failed, director Peter Chelsom has finally found out how to make Jennifer Lopez useful. Here, she’s a smoldering found object of desire who catches the eye of a world-weary estate attorney (Richard Gere). On a whim, John (Gere) drops into the tatty dance studio where Paulina (Lopez) teaches and…
CINEMA VERY CHÉ
Movie: The Motorcycle Diaries
Review – Dreamtigers
Artist: Judith Shatin
OVER A BARREL
Movie: The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
Review – Quaudiophiliac
Artist: Frank Zappa
“The sun’ll come out, Samarra”
Members of the Bush administration are excitedly talking up the free and open elections they say are going to take place in Iraq come January 2005. At long last, three in every five Iraqi citizens will enjoy the same voting freedoms our own nation confers on every adult Caucasian without an arrest record or outstanding…
IT’S A TIE
Editor’s note: This is the third in a weekly series of poll updates on the Nov. 2 presidential election. This was the wildest polling week of the campaign! It began with Bush leading by 70 electoral votes. Then there was a massive (176-vote) post-debate swing to Kerry as Iowa, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Florida, Ohio, Nevada and…
FELONS YES, GAYS NO
Two months after a group of homosexual foster parents weathered their third defeat in attempting to overturn Florida’s gay adoption ban, plaintiffs Wayne Larue Smith and Daniel Skahen say they’re setting their sights on the Supreme Court. In the meantime, their lives are ordinary. A white picket fence wraps around their Key West home –…
94 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you believe, George W. Bush has betrayed you, specifically and repeatedly. Are you a law-and-order type? Then you should probably know that Bush has an arrest record (see reason No. 24). Are you a devout Christian? Millions of people just like you think Bush is defiling God’s…
WHAT A WASTE
In August, a sightseeing boat taking guests of the Chicago Architecture Foundation down the Chicago River crossed under the Kinzie Street bridge just as a bus passed over and apparently released its sewage container through the bridge’s grating, directly onto the boat’s passengers. Police subsequently charged a driver for a bus belonging to the Dave…
Chuck Prophet, Fireball Ministry, Art Chantry and more
Thursday • 14 FIREBALL MINISTRY Oh, how we hate ourselves for loving Fireball Ministry. We know they must be some sort of Frankenstein-metal band, crafted out of the best bits of the last 30 years of heavy music. Ozzy-like vocals, Priest-like riffs, Slayer-like drums … mmmm, we’re getting hot just thinking about it. But, oh,…
GUILTY OF IRRELEVANCE
Night of January 16th is a courtroom drama written by philosopher and author Ayn Rand, whose purpose in writing the play was more to advance her musings than to concoct a well-structured narrative with sympathetic characters. Later in life, Rand found the novel form more conducive to the expression of her ideas. Her popular novels…
CITY SLACKER
Have you ever strolled down an empty, big-city street and, though no people were in sight, you didn’t feel alone? People may have been tucked away behind walls and windows doing what they do, but layers of past conversation and movement seemed to linger, far beyond human sight and sound. The overall perception is one…
BITTER OLD QUEEN
Like a wind-beaten gull with tar on its feet and little bits of candy and condom wrappers in its feathers, Orlando has of late been squawking and stumbling back into something resembling motion. You can see it on people’s cautiously optimistic brows a-furrow, and in spotty storefront flashes of optimism. You can smell it in…
COFFEE ON THE ROCKS
After reading my review of Rice Paper `”A great second choice,” Sept. 2`, Lisa Harris e-mailed this question: “Where is the best Vietnamese iced coffee to be had around Colonial and Mills? I assume one does not receive the blank stare Americans give when you order it.” Because I didn’t want to answer on mere…
Patriot Acts and “Bush like me”
Art as a means of protest? Say it ain’t so. We thought art was supposed to be pretty and make you feel good, then along comes this group of artists who are getting all political on us. And before an election even! Why, it’s as if they want you think about issues and stuff before…
GLOBAL TREASURES
Various ArtistsIndia: The Greatest Songs Ever(Petrol/Time-Life Music) Various ArtistsThe Rough Guide to Rebétika(World Music Network) The fine folks who have been putting out Rough Guide releases for the past few years have recently seen their dominance of “world music” compilations challenged by several other labels, mostly England-based concerns with the ability to license a broad…
ROCKIN’ AT THE OASIS
Putting on a concert in the middle of the desert seems an impossible undertaking. The heat, the sand, the lack of roads … it’s nearly a fool’s errand in this day and age of sensitive electronic equipment and corporate-controlled concert halls. However, the nomadic Touareg people of Mali have transformed the we’ve-found-water party they’ve celebrated…
PAGAN LOVESONGS
VIRGIN PRUNES A New Form of Beauty, Heresie, … If I Die, I Die, The Moon Looked Down and Laughed and Over the Rainbow (Mute) Gavin Friday, leader of the long-defunct Virgin Prunes, is nothing if not a goth-punk version of Bryan Ferry. Like Ferry, Friday helped slowly transform an incendiary and daring band into…
