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Sep 24-30, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 39

Movie: The Rundown

Our Rating: 0.00 An L.A. bounty hunter (The Rock) and his son (Seann William Scott) search for hidden gold mines. Also on the trail: a “half-crazed” Christopher Walken. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Lost in Translation

Our Rating: 4.00 “Lost in Translation” appears eminently capable of provoking that hoary old standby, the “mixed response.” The zero-attention-span set will pillory it because it’s deathly slow and has almost no plot to speak of, while the knee-jerk avant-gardists will proclaim it one of the year’s best because … well, because it’s deathly slow…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Duplex

Our Rating: 0.00 Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore play a young couple who turn to murder to nab an elderly woman’s apartment. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Under the Tuscan Sun

Our Rating: 2.00 You couldn’t cram more chick-flick manipulation devices into this thing unless you blew it up to 70mm. There’s the chocolate jokes, the funny gay pal and the pregnancy scenario (the latter two combined this time). But when they bring in a goddamned kitten, you have every right to throw up your hands…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Respiro

Respiro Studio: Sony Classics Release Date: 2003-09-26 Cast: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D’Agostino, Filippo Pucillo Director: Emanuele Crialese Screenwriter: Emanuele Crialese Music Score: John Surman WorkNameSort: Respiro Our Rating: 3.00 All Grazia wants from her Italian fishing village is to cut her some slack. A married mother of three living on an…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Rundown

The Rundown Studio: Universal Pictures Release Date: 2003-09-26 Cast: The Rock, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson, Dwayne Johnson Director: Peter Berg Screenwriter: James Vanderbilt, Kario Salem, R.J. Stewart WorkNameSort: The Rundown Our Rating: 0.00 An L.A. bounty hunter (The Rock) and his son (Seann William Scott) search for hidden gold mines. Also on…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation Length: 1 hour, 45 mintues Studio: FOCUS Features Release Date: 1900-01-01 Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Anna Faris, Giovanni Ribisi, Fumihiro Hayashi Director: Sofia Coppola Screenwriter: Sofia Coppola Music Score: Kevin Shields, Brian Reitzell WorkNameSort: Lost in Translation Our Rating: 4.00 “Lost in Translation” appears eminently capable of provoking that hoary old…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Duplex

Duplex Studio: Miramax Release Date: 2003-09-26 Cast: Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Harvey Fierstein, Swoosie Kurtz, Maya Rudolph Director: Danny DeVito Screenwriter: Larry Doyle, John Hamburg WorkNameSort: Duplex Our Rating: 0.00 Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore play a young couple who turn to murder to nab an elderly woman’s apartment. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Under the Tuscan Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun Studio: Touchstone Release Date: 2003-09-26 Cast: Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Dan Bucatinsky Director: Audrey Wells Screenwriter: Audrey Wells, Frances Mayes Music Score: Christophe Beck WorkNameSort: Under the Tuscan Sun Our Rating: 2.00 You couldn’t cram more chick-flick manipulation devices into this thing unless you blew it up…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Respiro

Our Rating: 3.00 All Grazia wants from her Italian fishing village is to cut her some slack. A married mother of three living on an island near Sicily, Grazia (Valeria Golino) is viewed by her community as manic-depressive — or some hazily understood variant thereof. “Either she’s too happy, or she’s too sad,” one relative…

Orlando Weekly Staff

A light to moderate chop

With a name that usually elicits the unversed to respond, “The Sea and what?” Chicago’s The Sea and Cake claims some of indie rock’s elite as founding and continuous members: Drummer John McEntire is a sought-after engineer/producer, twisting knobs for Stereolab, Trans Am and others, as well as being one-sixth of percussive post-rock progenitors Tortoise;…

Micky Michalec

Blessed cravings satisfied here

One of my favorite wandering places in Winter Park is Katmandu on Morse Boulevard, where I indulge my craving for tiny statues of Hindu gods. I have yet to discover which deity protects one from ice-cream addiction, because right next door is a superb repository of creamy confections, Herman’s Ice Cream Shoppe (122 E. Morse…

Joseph Hayes

Fall CD Preview

Let’s just get this out of the way. The record labels live for autumn. In the lead-up to the consumer gluttony called “the holiday season,” their intent is to fill up record stores with as many “must-have” titles as possible. What that means is that in addition to all the top-shelf “product” that keeps the…

Jason Ferguson

Screaming forward

Despite the band’s growing success within the hardcore and screamo circles, and despite earning overwhelming fan support both in the States and Europe, there was a time when Miami’s Poison the Well wasn’t appreciated back home. “Everyone hated us in Miami way back in the beginning,” says guitarist Ryan Primack. But the local disdain wasn’t…

Omar Perez

A light to moderate chop

With a name that usually elicits the unversed to respond, “The Sea and what?” Chicago’s The Sea and Cake claims some of indie rock’s elite as founding and continuous members: Drummer John McEntire is a sought-after engineer/producer, twisting knobs for Stereolab, Trans Am and others, as well as being one-sixth of percussive post-rock progenitors Tortoise;…

Micky Michalec

Another dirty cup of star ruckus

We should all be shot. Or, rather, taken out back, tied up to our trees, and whipped with our cable cords until not one of us can wrap our driveling mouths around the words Brad, Jen, Bennifer, Britney and/or any joke involving the term “Gigli.” Shame, shame on us. Watching the world curl over in…

Billy Manes

Character breakfast of champions

It’s a tough time to be a walking cartoon. But no one can say they didn’t see it coming. Almost two years ago, I took a trip to one of the theme parks to do my small part in bailing out the local tourist economy from its post-Sept. 11 torpor. I also wanted to see…

Steve Schneider

Don’t look first?

Arizona law treats selling, downloading, trading or buying child pornography as the equivalent of actually molesting a child, with a penalty of 10 to 24 years per count; multiple counts run consecutively, and two high-school teachers (convicted of photos-only, no child interaction) are now serving 200 and 408 years (the latter for having 17 photos)…

Chuck Shepherd

Coverage you can bank on?

Bill Hoffman, the general manager of WFTV-Channel 9, got an interesting call back in March. It was from guy named Frank Torelli, an investigative reporter with a website called Rip-off Report.com (www.badbusinessbureau.com). Torelli had some questions about the station’s philanthropic endeavor, 9 Family Connection. In particular, he was interested in the fact that Trans Continental…

Bob Whitby

The Orkin Scam

Collier Black’s eight-year nightmare began simply enough. In February 1995, he and his wife Peggie discovered a swarm of termites covering a 100-square-foot section of their dining room’s hardwood floor and pouring from a small exit hole in the wall. Like 100,000 other Florida homeowners with pest or termite problems, Black called Orkin Exterminating Company,…

Jeffrey C. Billman

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