AltWeeklies Wire
First Shot: 'Disaster Movie'new
This week marks the release of Disaster Movie, the umpteenth genre parody from the Friedberg-Seltzer house of knee-jerk larfs. It should be our cue to bemoan the current state of big-screen slapstick, and to argue that if David Zucker could only get back on his game, he'd show these punks who built the Airplane they're all riding on.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-04-2008 |
Movies
First Shotnew
It’s official: Movies are still your best entertainment value. Especially if you stop counting everything else.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-31-2008 |
Movies
Batman and the Audacity of Hopenew
For a guy whose business card could read “Guardian of Gotham City,” Batman sure spends lot of time hanging around Camelot. Twice in the last four decades, an outpouring of Batmania has reflected the public’s desire for political renewal; the first time, as that dream collapsed, and now as its latter-day incarnation teeters on the precipice between victory and disillusionment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-24-2008 |
Movies
Cooper the Cobra Still Knows Where to Bitenew
Alice Cooper’s career longevity is a testament to the power of artistic detachment. Ever since he became one of the first celebs to check himself into rehab (back when it was still called “the asylum”), Vincent Furnier has realized that his livelihood and sanity depend on treating his ghoulish alter ego as a business tool to be trotted out when it’s expedient and sent straight back into the closet when it isn’t.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alice Cooper, Along Came a Spider
First Shotnew
Don’t you love it when a corporate Cyclops blinks? Marvel Films has reportedly reached a deal with director Jon Favreau for Iron Man 2, after having made some threatening noises that the sequel might be going on without him.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-24-2008 |
Movies
First Shotnew
So far, even this summer’s biggest box-office hits have appealed to specific viewer demos. Iron Man got the men. Sex and the City got the women. And Kung Fu Panda got the … plushies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: first shot, Steve Schneider
Oliver Stone Needs to Start Taking Some Libertiesnew
You've probably heard about W, Stone's upcoming dramatization of the life and times of our notorious outgoing president. And you may have heard that Dubya's hagiographers, having taken a look at some initial script pages, are dismissing the project as a fanciful cheap shot. But what has us perturbed is that it doesn't seem cheap enough.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-05-2008 |
Movies
First Shotnew
Reviews of upcoming movies, DVDs, video games and soundtracks.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-29-2008 |
Movies
Tags: first shot, Steve Schneider
First Shotnew
A decade ago, the big story was every studio's rush to acquire its own boutique indie imprint; now, with the battle of co-optation won and the concept of "independence" thus eradicated in the average moviegoer's mind, those same studios are dropping their junior divisions like they’re hot.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-22-2008 |
Movies
First Shotnew
Reviews of what to see, listen to and read.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-15-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: first shot, Steve Schneider
First Shotnew
What to see, listen to and read.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-08-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: first shot, Steve Schneider
"Dog Playing Poker": "Sketching For Fun and For Prophet," "Rush to Judgement," "Atomic Prom"new
AltWeeklies Award - Column
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
"Cold Cocked," "Pray Canst Thou Hear Me Now?," "More Letters from Harriet Miers"new
AltWeeklies Award - Column
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Give the People What You Wantnew
For Hollywood, a happy summer means freedom from choice.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-13-2007 |
Movies
Catch Him if you Can: A short dive into the bottom of Steven Spielbergnew
The Turner Classic Movies documentary Spielberg on Spielberg has two strikes against it from the very start, and they’re both right there in the title. To begin with, there’s limited value in having any artist handicap his or her own work; too often, he or she ends up displaying a blithe unawareness of failings everybody else has long since spotted. And intellectual rigor isn’t a quality one would automatically associate with Steven Spielberg, who has no serious challengers to his status as cinema history’s most monetarily successful middlebrow.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-05-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
