HOT FUZZ
Heathrow cafe is everything a brekkie joint should be
DO YOU KNOW JAX?
On the northern periphery of Edgewater Drive sits a College Park stalwart serving up unaffected, no-nonsense fare, though Jax 5th Avenue Deli & Ale House forgoes the grease for filling multilayer sandwiches. And after that big honkin’ jar of gourmet pickles is plonked down on your table, how can you not sink your teeth into…
2 Days In Paris
2 Days In Paris Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films Rated: R Cast: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg Director: Julie Delpy WorkNameSort: 2 Days In Paris Our Rating: 3.50 Adam Goldberg might be the most annoying actor on the planet, but thankfully his co-star in 2 Days in Paris is Julie Delpy, one of the smartest and loveliest…
3:10 to Yuma
3:10 to Yuma Studio: Lions Gate Rated: R Cast: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale Director: James Mangold WorkNameSort: 3:10 to Yuma Our Rating: 1.50 Critics love to unfairly compare movie remakes to their source material, whether that material be literature or movies made in the recent and not-so-recent past. 3:10 to Yuma probably won’t have to…
Shoot ‘Em Up
Shoot ‘Em Up Studio: New Line Rated: R Cast: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci WorkNameSort: Shoot ‘Em Up Our Rating: 3.00 Shoot ‘Em Up is a wildly stylized B-film that draws heavily upon influences like the spaghetti Western, Hong Kong cinema and even Frank Miller’s comic-book series Sin City. But never once does it take itself…
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
The Wind That Shakes the Barley Studio: IFC Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Ken Loach is asking a lot for audiences to accept the Irish Republican Army as misunderstood freedom fighters. It’s not that he leaves us in the dust while forming our sympathies in The Wind That Shakes the Barley’s…
Franz Kafka’s The Castle
Franz Kafka’s The Castle Studio: Kino WorkNameSort: Franz Kafka’s The Castle Michael Haneke’s vision of Kafka’s unfinished tome may be one of the purest literary adaptations ever filmed. Haneke is such a slave to the source material that the result is an almost anti-visual exercise in book-to-screen translation. Rarely does a dialogue-free scene go by…
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema from 1928-1954
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema from 1928-1954 Studio: Kino WorkNameSort: Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema from 1928-1954 This second compendium of short films from the collection of film archivist Raymond Rohauer includes works by art-school favorites Stan Brakhage, Willard Maas, Marie Menken and Jean Isidore Isou, among others. As a whole, this program shows less imagination than…
B.F.I.
B.F.I. Label: Ninja Tune Length: EP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: B.F.I. It almost always holds that if a record comes with a great story, the music on that record will only be half as interesting without the story. BFI was recorded ‘in the late ’60sâ?� by three brothers in Southern California. It was, as…
Ripe
Ripe Label: New West Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Ripe Ben Lee is a youthful popster of 28 who sings in a clear, earnest tone about everyday love and pop culture in a likable way. ‘Likableâ?� only crosses over to cloying and obnoxious when he repeats his choruses to the point where it…
Kemialliset Ystävät
Kemialliset Ystävät Label: Fonal Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Kemialliset Ystävät If Caroliner Rainbow had recorded The Faust Tapes in Finland and in the future, the result probably would not have sounded like the work of Kemialliset Ystävät. But when it comes to music as individualistic and unbound by genre as that created…
A
A Label: Kemado Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: A Turzi ‘ the group centered around French frontman/singer Romain Turzi ‘ aspires to a state of perpetual locomotion. Indeed, this debut chugga-chugga-chugs forward as unceasingly as the Krautrock inspiring it. Inky, rhythmic religiosity begets the keyboard orgasms on ‘Alpes,â?� and the furious…
PARADISE LOST
;In 1875, New Yorker George Colby and three spirit guides hiked through the brush and muck of Central Florida until they came across a serene place of rolling hills and ponds. Colby was a spiritualist – someone who communicates with the dead through mediums and séances – and he wanted to establish a spiritualist camp…
THE RACE QUESTION
Is the city of Apopka racist? That’s the accusation made by Excel Development LLC, a black-owned company represented by attorney Juan Lynum, the son of Orlando city commissioner Daisy Lynum. On July 2, Excel Development filed a lawsuit that claimed, “`The` city has unlawfully discriminated in land use and permitting of development based on race.”…
RAW CINEMA
OK, Hollywood hotshots, try this — you’ve got nine days to complete a direct-to-video action film, shot entirely on location. You’ve got one camera, two lights and a small crew to feed and shelter. Sometimes the electricity goes out and you’ve got to crank up a gasoline-fueled generator to power your equipment. Your lead actor…
DO YOU KNOW JAX?
On the northern periphery of Edgewater Drive sits a College Park stalwart serving up unaffected, no-nonsense fare, though Jax 5th Avenue Deli & Ale House forgoes the grease for filling multilayer sandwiches. And after that big honkin’ jar of gourmet pickles is plonked down on your table, how can you not sink your teeth into…
BLISTER
;Today my head explodes. ;Having just survived a series of night terrors involving the skeleton of Amy Winehouse attached to the skeleton of me arguing about the value of onion rings in a strip-mall Burger King – there was no value, we toothlessly concurred – it’s safe to say that the ear-like pressure gauges astride…
SAVAGE LOVE
Lost in the oohing and aahing over the outing of another socially conservative lawmaker — something that no longer surprises me — is the fact that there was an undercover police officer in a bathroom at the Minneapolis airport specifically for the purpose of rounding up men looking for sex. This concerns me. Why shouldn’t…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES (March 21-April 19) A few years ago, the Cambodian government decided that the country’s karaoke bars had become hotbeds of vice. To suppress their evil influence, the prime minister called out the army’s bulldozers and demolished them. Keep that in mind as an example of how NOT to proceed in the coming week. While…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
In October, the Kurt Cobain film About a Son will see limited theatrical release; the DVD drops early next year. Culled from over 25 hours of recorded interviews with Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad, the film is an artistic autopsy that will feature Cobain’s meditations on his own life, a framed self-portrait of sorts that examines…
CULTURE TO GO
;Don’t forgetaboutit; ;Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq;debuts 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 ;HBO;www.hbo.com; Everyone should see Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq James Gandolfini’s exceptional and deeply upsetting series of interviews with Iraq war veterans. And I do mean everyone: those who abhor the war, so they can appreciate the immense courage and sacrifice…
HAPPYTOWN
;From the Here We Go Again Desk comes this item about Winter Park artist/troublemaker Don Howard. Last time Howard graced this column’s pages, it was due to the fact that some ignorant wingnut found Howard’s Mayan-influenced artwork satanic and wanted it removed from view at a local Bank of America [Happytown™, July 1, 2004]. ;;This…
POLICE BEAT
AUG. 25, 12:16 A.M.: A Christian center in the 2000 block of West Central Boulevard fell victim to godless fingers early this morning. After the suspect or suspects smashed and crawled through a window, they apparently deemed the Bibles, plastic rosary necklaces and Bible-study snack foods unworthy of taking. But a trio of CD players…
MAIL SACK
;Praise Canada ;Billy Manes: I just read your article about the single mother trying to get food stamps and health care [“Don’t get sick,” Aug. 30]. I feel really bad for this lady because I just went through the same situation. I had the same job for 8 and a half years (I’m 27 years…
INCIDENTAL COMMERCE
Akron/Family bassist Miles Seaton is settling into life in Williamsport, Penn. He’s not there for front-row seats to the Little League World Series but because two of his bandmates, guitarist Seth Olinsky and drummer Dana Janssen, have returned here, as the financial realities of living in the Big Apple meant less time to spend working…
TWO NEW TAKES ON DISNEY
As the hordes of tourists recede with the dying summer, the theme parks suddenly remember those of us who actually live in Orlando. The next three months are by far the best time of year for locals to visit the attractions, with shorter waits and special events to complement the falling humidity. Unfortunately, Disney hasn’t…
