A GOOD STIFF ONE
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Studio: Warner Brothers Rated: PG Website: http://corpsebridemovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2005-09-23 Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse Director: Mike Johnson, Tim Burton Screenwriter: Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler Music Score: Danny Elfman WorkNameSort: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Our Rating: 4.00 Any Hot Topic buyer worth her salt…
PLENTY IN COMMON
The Thing About My Folks Studio: Picturehouse Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.myfolksmovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-09-23 Cast: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Perkins, Mackenzie Connolly Director: Raymond De Felitta Screenwriter: Paul Reiser WorkNameSort: Thing About My Folks, The Our Rating: 3.00 Appreciating The Thing About My Folks is easier once you acknowledge that you’ve already…
Flightplan
Flightplan Studio: Touchstone Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://flightplan.movies.go.com/ Release Date: 2005-09-23 Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean, Haley Ramm Director: Robert Schwentke Screenwriter: Peter A. Dowling, Billy Ray Music Score: James Horner WorkNameSort: Flightplan Our Rating: 2.00 Let’s extract a promise from all studios out to extract an honest dollar from us…
Cronicas
Cronicas Studio: Palm Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.cronicasthemovie.net/ Release Date: 2005-09-22 Cast: John Leguizamo, Leonor Watling, Jose Maria Yazpik, Alfred Molina, Damian Alcazar Director: Sebastian Cordero Screenwriter: Sebastian Cordero Music Score: Antonio Pinto WorkNameSort: Cronicas Our Rating: 4.00 As audiences at this year’s Florida Film Festival were among the first to learn, actor John Leguizamo…
BLUES HAWAII
As themes go, I happen to love Hawaiian – the tikis, Elvis and 1950s surfer images make me weak in the knees. When I heard about Kahuna Grill off South Orange Blossom Trail, I conjured images of a vintage beach hut arising out of the ocean of boring suburban edifices. I was hoping for Trader…
DECCAN DERRING-DO
Rise Label: Angel Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Rise Last year, Anoushka Shankar went into a recording studio to lend her sitar skills to a track by Delhi-based tablatronicists Midival Punditz. In and of itself, the occurrence wasn’t that odd. The Punditz album featured a variety of traditional Indian instrumentation laid atop futuristic beats, and Shankar is…
Prarie Wind
Prarie Wind Label: Reprise Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Prarie Wind As an album of quietly powerful songs about life and lost dreams, Prarie Wind encapsulates Young’s music in all its ragged glory … save the screeching guitar licks. “The Painter” defines the mood, with Young singing of the “long road” over steel guitar, organ and a…
Siberia
Siberia Label: Cooking Vinyl Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Siberia Very little in Echo & the Bunnymen’s 26-year oeuvre exists to suggest a dreamy glance upward; they grandfathered the mop-top mope, after all. But the optimism present on this latest release isn’t wholly out of form either. When Ian McCulloch howls the closing notes of “Stormy Weather,”…
Crime and Dissonanace
Crime and Dissonanace Label: Ipecac Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Crime and Dissonanace Is it possible, after something has been beaten into pop-culture uselessness by the hipsterati, not only to still love it but to expose people to new facets of its greatness? Morricone went through a supernova spell of cool a few years back: Dozens of…
MATCH GAME
I’m a 21-year-old straight guy with a boring, straight sex life. Until a few months ago when something terrifying happened. Back in May, I was contacted by somebody through Match.com. She claimed to be a grad student at my school. She had a very attractive photo, and we began IMing. She talked about how she…
Letters
CAN’T PLEASE EVERYBODY I have not often agreed with the content and tone of your column, but the Sept. 15 article on local music was hilarious [Notable Noise]. Sure! Go please everybody! It’s the first time I have ever heard you just give up, even if it was just a joke. Nothing against any of…
OPERATION OVEREXPOSED
In June 2004, James McGriff and James Carlies Jr. became two of adult nightclub Cleo’s best customers. They stopped by the Orange Blossom Trail strip club nearly every evening, often dropping $400 or more in a couple of hours, a healthy chunk of which ended up with dancers and waitresses as tips. They would buy…
NEW TALE TO TELL
The Great Pumpkin won’t be paying a visit to Colin Meloy this year. Yes, the lead singer and songwriter for the English-major-friendly band The Decemberists is praised as a gifted storyteller with a Beatles-meet-Sondheim songwriting sensibility, but the Great Pumpkin doesn’t care about those things. He only cares about an individual’s Halloween spirit. Judging by…
Ask Adrian
I saw Dry Sack on a wine menu. What is that? Although you may be wondering what a crass reference to the nether regions is doing wedged between port and cognac on your after-dinner wine menu, there’s a very simple explanation. Get your heads out of the gutter, boys and girls, and pay attention. Dry…
THE TV WITH TWO BRAINS
O, how I marvel at thee, TV! One moment, you’re giving us such pristine joys as Lost and Arrested Development; the next, you shove our faces in the rotting garbage piles of Two and a Half Men and Joey. You’re like my former bipolar lover, who would burst into tears every time we had sex.…
KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID
Though there are plenty of ways to make life simpler and greener, that doesn’t mean it’s easy or fun – at least at first. Most people could use some down-to-earth instruction in how to streamline the everyday flow of life and strengthen the bonds of community. The Simple Living Institute (www.simplelivinginstitute.org) will nurture such positive…
HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS
As the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival’s old-Hollywood take on Twelfth Night begins, the clown Feste (Andrew Shulman) seats himself in front of a projection screen and reads an RKO-derived set of opening credits. The names of the play’s stars and director Patrick Flick flash by, in a tone-setting show of black-and-white cheek. The action then turns…
THE GOOD FIGHT
Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando hosts an open house Thursday, Sept. 22, at its new, second clinic and administrative offices at 726 S. Tampa Ave. We talked with Sue Idtensohn, the president and CEO of PPGO, about the expansion and plans for future growth. OW: What does the opening of the new facility mean for…
Happytown
We at Happytown™ are big fans of all things nekkid, so we were pleased to stop in on the opening night of last week’s three-day Nude Nite art extravaganza and see the flag of figural representation flying high. In her attempt to remake the venerable exhibition concept as her very own, promoter Kelly Stevens appeared…
CHICKEN RUNS
SEPT. 13, 1:06 A.M.: A man was strolling past a popular fast-food chicken restaurant in the 1200 block of West Church Street when another man suggested, according to police reports, “if he wanted to hurry up and get anything from the store to hurry up and get it.” It was an offer too tasty to…
TARGET-RICH ENVIRONMENT
On a recently released videotape, a man believed to be American-born al-Qaida member Adam Gadahn warns of forthcoming terror attacks: “Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing,” the man on the tape says. Most intelligence analysts who have commented on the message have focused on the vulnerability of L.A., leaving some…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your adversaries may have a tough time of it in the coming days. I bet their schemes will backfire, their bad hair days will be frequent, their ignorance will be glaringly visible and the trouble they’ve caused will be punished. How should you react? Anything more than one hour of gloating…
DRUNK LIBERALS
Like it does with most good drunk liberals, philosophical socialism shoots from my dilated pores faster than you can say “Chappaquiddick.” So it should come as no surprise that I’m suitably, saucily gung ho about tonight’s excursion: a trip downtown to Room 3 Nine to join my lefty pals for some inebriated camaraderie in the…
Keller Williams, Mindless Self Indulgence, Horrorpops and more
Thursday • 22 KELLER WILLIAMS Although we’re still trying to figure out Keller Williams’ deal – he’s an acoustic guy who’s not a folkie, a bluegrass guy with nary a twang and a nonjamming fixture on the jam-band circuit – plenty of people seem perfectly content to be confused. His slow-burn popularity among collegiate types…
Notable Noise
In the past couple of nights, I’ve made my way to a few different nightclubs, both downtown and in the suburbs. One place – Toto’s Garage – was a smoky rockers’ bar, packed with loud conversations and louder music, while another – The Ghetto – was a more congenial (but equally loud) neighborhood bar. There…
BOOGIE NIGHTS IN BAGHDAD
“Abu Mustafa” (a nickname) is part of a small market of vendors of pornographic videos operating in Baghdad, according to an August Reuters dispatch, and sells about 50 DVDs a day, with movies from Lebanon and other Arab countries proving the most popular. “I tried lots of other jobs,” he said, but this was his…
