Two for the Money
Two for the Money Studio: Universal Pictures Distribution Rated: R Website: http://www.twoforthemoney.net/ Release Date: 2005-10-07 Cast: Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, Jeremy Piven Director: D.J. Caruso Screenwriter: Dan Gilroy WorkNameSort: Two for the Money Our Rating: 1.50 His college football career ended by a sickening injury, an insightful jock (Matthew McConaughey) takes…
Waiting …
Waiting … Studio: Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Releasing Rated: R Website: http://www.waitingthefilm.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-07 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justin Long, Anna Faris, David Koechner, Wendie Malick Director: Rob McKittrick Screenwriter: Rob McKittrick WorkNameSort: Waiting … Our Rating: 2.50 In the closing credits of his writing/directing debut, Orlando expat Rob McKittrick (see article) flat-out admits his…
Into the Blue
Into the Blue Studio: MGM/Columbia Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/intotheblue/ Release Date: 2005-09-30 Cast: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott, Josh Brolin Director: John Stockwell Screenwriter: Matt Johnson WorkNameSort: Into the Blue Our Rating: 2.50 A Gen-Y update of Peter Yates’ 1977 aquatic actioner The Deep, Into the Blue is a paint-by-numbers thriller about…
Return the Gift
Return the Gift Label: V2 Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Return the Gift What the hell is this? Gang of Four gets name-checked by every flavor-of-the-minute from Franz Ferdinand to Bloc Party, so they decide to “reunite.” Said “reunion” leads to a batch of well-received live shows and ‘ what’s this? ‘ a new album. Great. Except…
At Carnegie Hall
At Carnegie Hall Label: Blue Note Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: At Carnegie Hall John Coltrane only played with Thelonious Monk’s group for five months in late 1957, mostly for dates at New York’s Five Spot. Until now, only one poorly recorded album has served as the sole official audio documentary of their live interaction. But this…
Señor Coconut presents Coconut FM: Legendary Latin Club Tunes
Señor Coconut presents Coconut FM: Legendary Latin Club Tunes Label: Essay Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Señor Coconut presents Coconut FM: Legendary Latin Club Tunes Although Coconut FM starts off leisurely enough – with the romantic tropical sway of Gladys’ “No Te Vayas Corazon” – soon enough it’s ass-deep in the divergent sounds of the Latin hip-hop…
PALL OF THE WILD
Grizzly Man Studio: Lions Gate Releasing Rated: R Website: http://www.grizzlymanmovie.com/grizzly.html Release Date: 2005-10-07 Cast: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Werner Herzog, Warren Queeney, William Fulton Director: Werner Herzog Music Score: Richard Thompson WorkNameSort: Grizzly Man Our Rating: 4.50 If March of the Penguins made you want to quit your job and become a field worker for…
SUCKERS WALK
Thumbsucker Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/thumbsucker/ Release Date: 2005-10-07 Cast: Lou Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D’Onofrio, Keanu Reeves Director: Mike Mills (II), Bob Yari, Mike Mills Screenwriter: Mike Mills (II) Music Score: The Polyphonic Spree, Elliot Smith WorkNameSort: Thumbsucker Our Rating: 2.00 Thumbsucker continues the tiresome trend of medicated-teen, clueless-adults…
MYTH UNDERSTOOD
I’m 21 and I’ve always had trouble coming during sex, no matter the position, size of the guy, etc. But it doesn’t bother me because I have NO trouble coming during oral or manual stimulation. So it’s never really been a problem – until I started sleeping with this new guy. Soon after I start…
DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE
Looky here, jerkholes! (Not you – I mean those jerkholes over at the networks.) My TiVo can only take so much! See, I appreciate a certain amount of competitiveness between the networks – but scheduling all my fave shows on one night during the same time slot is a VERY STUPID AND DANGEROUS THING TO…
SPACE FOR EVERYBODY
Should all else fail, Joss Whedon could pull a Tony Robbins and make a mint doing time-management seminars. After writing, directing and/or lording over 144 episodes of TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 110 episodes of its spinoff, Angel, Whedon has in a scant few years co-written Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men comic, begun scripting what some…
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION
I woke up to a throbbing in my lower jaw, my road trip to the anti-war protest in Washington, D.C., jeopardized by an abscessing tooth. Time to call the dentist for the right stuff. I finally pulled out around midnight, blasting up I-95 with a head full of Absolut, cold medicine and Vicodin, a white-knuckle…
Happytown
Back in July, we here at Happytown™ celebrated the larger-than-normal turnout for a Bring Home Our Troops rally. It seemed, if for only an exciting moment, that Orlando might actually care about current issues, that we might be on the road to a more progressive – or at least more politically active – city. The…
BULLY FOR YOU
SEPT. 27, 9:20 A.M.: A 13-year-old boy was walking along a sidewalk en route to school in the 1600 block of Willie Mays Parkway. All was peachy until a passing ne’er-do-well, 16, strolled by and demanded that the youngster hand over his tennis shoes. When the young ‘un refused, the suspect sent him soaring into…
THE MOST DEPRAVED SITE ON THE INTERNET
The summer 2004 launch of the very aptly named website www.nowthatsfuckedup.com was supply-and-demand economics at its purest. Young entrepreneur Chris Wilson saw a hole in the ever-burgeoning Internet pornography racket – not enough amateur, “girl next door” porn, he says – and figured he could make a good living filling it. So far, Wilson’s hunch…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I’m afraid I had to name you “Underachiever of the Month” for September. You didn’t quite succeed at wrestling your frustrations into submission, though you had the power to do so. You also failed to cash in on much of the great potential you had for smashing injustice, exposing fakery and…
Notable Noise
It doesn’t get more appropriate than this: The PR build-up to the release of Scott Stapp’s new solo album is underway. According to a recent press release, this “long-awaited solo album” from “one of the most recognizable voices in music” hits the streets Nov. 22. It’s called The Great Divide and the big “integrated marketing…
JUGS AND JURY
The Supreme Court shed its staid image Tuesday, giving stripper-turned-Playboy-model Anna Nicole Smith a new chance at a piece of the fortune of her 90-year-old late husband. The court said it would hear arguments early next year as part of Smith’s effort to collect as much as $474 million from the estate of J. Howard…
HARD ROCKING
Am I dead yet? Well, by all accounts I ought to be balancing eye-pennies and stretching mouth sutures while my sewn-on tendrils drape down the satin insides of a pine box. Oh, but no. I’m merely displaced so that the other pests that occupy my domicile can be toxically exterminated by way of a circus…
Henry Rollins, Celebration, Yerba Buena and more
Thursday • 6 MARGOT VEIL, AN ENTERTAINMENT Ever since director David Lee met Obie-winning playwright Len Jenkin in 1990 at New Smyrna’s Atlantic Center for the Arts, the two have enjoyed a fruitful and lasting collaboration. This weekend, the student body of the University of Central Florida reaps the rewards of that recurring partnership, as…
GRUNGY GLOBALISM
It appears that Alan Bishop is doing a marvelous job of turning himself from a guitarist in an avant-garde rock band (Sun City Girls) into a 21st-century Alan Lomax. Every few months, another batch of new releases issues forth from his Sublime Frequencies label, and every time that happens, a window is opened into faraway…
THE GRUDGE REPORT
Thomas Haberbush, 72, pleaded guilty in April in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to two counts to settle charges that he recently stalked as many as nine long-ago supervisors and committed petty vandalism on their homes, in retaliation for his having received unfavorable job reviews as an elementary school teacher nearly 30 years ago. And retired political…
PEACE OFFERING
World peace: That’s all Mono wants from us. Not exactly the sort of dead-serious mission statement you’d expect from a band whose bombastic, firework finale of a second album is called One Step More and You Die. “It’s been great to experience the new meetings across the borders, over different cultural backgrounds or different languages,”…
Letters
Schneider nails it! I am a 38-year-old male, and as far as humor goes, I’m literally an “anything goes” type of guy. The movie The Aristocrats that recently played at the Enzian did not offend me one bit. The general populous definitely felt differently. I was amused. However, I found Steve Schneider’s satirical write-up `”Target-rich…
IT’S THAT CANDY TIME OF YEAR — BETTER STOCK UP
With candy season upon us, I couldn’t help but notice this sweet little company that still makes candy by hand. Supermarket shelves are filling up fast with bags of Hershey’s kisses, candy corn and fun-size Snickers, but these handmade sweets are rare treasures. Made in small batches with high-quality ingredients, Route 29 candies taste like…
OUT OF THE WEEDS
Six or so years ago, I sat in the TGI Fridays on East Colonial Drive, listening to a server named Rob McKittrick talk up a feature-film script he had written, Waiting … . It was “Clerks in a restaurant,” he told me, impressing me equally with his pitching skills and lack of artistic pretension. He…
Wildside Bar ‘n’ Gri
Not Dexter’s-bubbly and a few dollars short of Hue-snooty, Wildside’s bar is a casual hangout for those who want a beer after dinner in Thornton Park. An inside bar with adjacent outside seating doesn’t hurt the people-watching ‘ or dog-watching, either.
310 Park South
A chirpy, liquored antidote to the cat-scratch of Park Avenue shops, 310 Park South reserves the pretentiousness for the customers themselves to provide. And they do. Still, with a fancy menu and a casual atmosphere, 310 takes care of your cravings.
