Movie: Wicker Park
Our Rating: 1.00 Being nonlinear means never having to make sense. Without its digressions and flash-forwards (and -backwards and -sideways), Wicker Park’s plot would barely fill two minutes of screen time. Josh Hartnett is an upscale retail drone who doesn’t get a reconciliation letter from his blond girlfriend (Diane Kruger), thanks to the doings of…
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND ENJOY
Around my house, going out for sushi is the equivalent of what “pizza night” was when I was growing up: a guaranteed night of relaxed semidecadence that finds my family gathered around a table noshing through a community platter of food. Thus, hearing the words, “Go eat some sushi and we’ll pay for it,” issuing…
Review – Vacant Lights
Artist: Organum
LET’S GET QUIZZICAL
Movie: What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Review – Wozzeck and Lulu
Artist: Alban Berg
Movie: Criminal
Our Rating: 4.00 The finest tribute I can lavish on this stateside remake of 2002’s Argentinean export Nine Queens is that it took me a full hour to remember I had seen the original – and reviewed it, no less. (Oh, the shame!) An even greater success on its own, transplanted-to-L.A. terms, Criminal details an…
Review – Walking with Giants
Artist: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Movie: Paparazzi
Our Rating: 1.00 The already indefensible vigilante genre gets degraded/updated to the Bush era. Wealthy, adored “action star” Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) becomes enraged when the press starts covering his every move; inevitably, some slimeball photogs cause Bo’s car to crash, knocking out his mousy wife (Robin Tunney) and putting his kid in a coma.…
Review – Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate
Artist: The Project Hate
Movie: Wicker Park
Our Rating: 1.00 Being nonlinear means never having to make sense. Without its digressions and flash-forwards (and -backwards and -sideways), Wicker Park’s plot would barely fill two minutes of screen time. Josh Hartnett is an upscale retail drone who doesn’t get a reconciliation letter from his blond girlfriend (Diane Kruger), thanks to the doings of…
Review – Loops From the Bergerie
Artist: Swayzak
GANG CRAZY
Movie: Gozu
LET’S GET QUIZZICAL
Movie: What the #$*! Do We Know!?
LET’S GET QUIZZICAL
Movie: What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Movie: Wicker Park
Wicker Park Length: 1 hour, 55 minutes Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Website: http://www.mgm.com/wickerpark/ Release Date: 2004-09-03 Cast: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger, Jessica Pare Director: Paul McGuigan Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce Music Score: Cliff Martinez, Liza Richardson WorkNameSort: Wicker Park Our Rating: 1.00 Being nonlinear means never having to make sense. Without its digressions and…
Movie: Criminal
Our Rating: 4.00 The finest tribute I can lavish on this stateside remake of 2002’s Argentinean export Nine Queens is that it took me a full hour to remember I had seen the original – and reviewed it, no less. (Oh, the shame!) An even greater success on its own, transplanted-to-L.A. terms, Criminal details an…
Winnie takes all
After the slap of Charley and too many hours in a powerless, mildewing kitchen, the sight of the lights aglow inside Winnie’s Oriental Garden drew us in like a magnet. Though dressed in post-hurricane attire, we were welcomed by the young host, who sat us out of sight of the main dining area (at our…
Movie: Paparazzi
Our Rating: 1.00 The already indefensible vigilante genre gets degraded/updated to the Bush era. Wealthy, adored “action star” Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) becomes enraged when the press starts covering his every move; inevitably, some slimeball photogs cause Bo’s car to crash, knocking out his mousy wife (Robin Tunney) and putting his kid in a coma.…
Review – Vacant Lights
Artist: Organum
Movie: Wicker Park
Our Rating: 1.00 Being nonlinear means never having to make sense. Without its digressions and flash-forwards (and -backwards and -sideways), Wicker Park’s plot would barely fill two minutes of screen time. Josh Hartnett is an upscale retail drone who doesn’t get a reconciliation letter from his blond girlfriend (Diane Kruger), thanks to the doings of…
Review – Wozzeck and Lulu
Artist: Alban Berg
GANG CRAZY
Movie: Gozu
Review – Walking with Giants
Artist: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Review – Vacant Lights
Artist: Organum
Review – Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate
Artist: The Project Hate
Review – Wozzeck and Lulu
Artist: Alban Berg
LET’S GET QUIZZICAL
Movie: What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Review – Loops From the Bergerie
Artist: Swayzak
Review – Walking with Giants
Artist: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Movie: Criminal
Our Rating: 4.00 The finest tribute I can lavish on this stateside remake of 2002’s Argentinean export Nine Queens is that it took me a full hour to remember I had seen the original – and reviewed it, no less. (Oh, the shame!) An even greater success on its own, transplanted-to-L.A. terms, Criminal details an…
Review – Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate
Artist: The Project Hate
Movie: Paparazzi
Our Rating: 1.00 The already indefensible vigilante genre gets degraded/updated to the Bush era. Wealthy, adored “action star” Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) becomes enraged when the press starts covering his every move; inevitably, some slimeball photogs cause Bo’s car to crash, knocking out his mousy wife (Robin Tunney) and putting his kid in a coma.…
Review – Loops From the Bergerie
Artist: Swayzak
“Don’t fence me in”
The seventh annual Florida Film Festival got off to a deceptively mannered start last Friday night, as a crowd of well-heeled patrons and other supporters of the arts braved the sweltering heat to attend an opening-night gala and screening of the film “A Merry War” at Maitland’s Enzian Cinema. Skewing considerably older and more upscale…
ROCK DEAD, MALL EMPTY
It used to seem so easy in the ’80s: jelly bracelets and gelatinous roles, mall-life transcendence, tribal androgyny and the whiplash of the double-pretend-double-negative of your George Michael and O’Dowd looking gay, but certainly not being gay Ã? and then ultimately rising gay, alas. It was the beginning of the end of the world. And…
SIX FEET OVER THE TOP
My adoration of Six Feet Under has always been tinged with mistrust. I worried that its existential indecision would take a wrong turn, that I would sour on its inability to decide whether it is inspired by Deepak Chopra or Jean-Paul Sartre. Until now, the program has taken TV drama to new levels of introspection.…
NO, YOU SHUT UP
And furthermore, shut up, all of you who are telling musicians, actors, filmmakers, authors and such to shut up. “I paid to hear Don Henley sing, not to listen to his political views,” whines the ticket holder. “Who the hell does Sean Penn think he is, going to Iraq?” fumes the talk-radio guy. “Bruce Springsteen…
DADDY, I WANT A PONY
Among the ice cream flavors offered recently at Ice Cream City in Namco Nanja Town in Tokyo’s Toshima-ku (and posted on the website of the English-language Mainichi Daily News) are these: spinach, garlic, tomato, seaweed, oyster, red wine, goat, chicken, lettuce and potato, wheat, shark fin and something called “raw horse flesh.” EVERYBODY MUST GET…
CENSORED!
In late July more than 600 people showed up in Monterey, Calif., to speak at a Federal Communications Commission hearing on ownership concentration in the news media. The participants were a diverse group, young and old, activists and workers, but they had a single consistent message: The mainstream news media have been doing a deplorable…
The power of Winnie’s
After the slap of Charley and too many hours in a powerless, mildewing kitchen, the sight of the lights aglow inside Winnie’s Oriental Garden drew us in like a magnet. Though dressed in post-hurricane attire, we were welcomed by the young host, who sat us out of sight of the main dining area (at our…
WHAT THE FRANCES?
Happily, power did fail at the home of one Happytown™ correspondent, allowing said scribe to spend some quality time reading Jack London’s The Cruise of the Snark, but also forcing him to rely on the most pointless media outlet of all in a storm: the Orlando Sentinel. Daily newspapers are dying not only because they…
