AltWeeklies Wire
Home Makeovernew
This movie is more noteworthy for the intimate suspense it brings to the subject of Israeli occupation than for any dramatic conclusion it chooses to reach.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Private, Saverio Costanzo
Patriot Gamesnew
If you're already well aware of what the military-industrial complex can do, you'll be tempted to see this documentary as a missed opportunity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight
Dog Playing Pokernew
We reaffirm the innocent right of UAE companies to guard America’s borders -- a right routinely granted to nations like Great Britain and Japan without the whiff of protest.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Commentary
Partay Monsternew
Perhaps only one man could pull off a movie as well-meaningly extraneous as Dave Chappelle's Block Party.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
A Russian Horrornew
This Russian blockbuster isn't as much fun as Constantine, but it has an imaginative streak that keeps it far above Underworld.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Night Watch, Timour Bekmambetov
Witless Tediumnew
"From two of the six writers of Scary Movie 3," promise the ads, raising the possibility that we'll one day be sold a film "from two million of the six million monkeys who sat at typewriters and banged out Date Movie."
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Aaron Seltzer, Date Movie
A Satisfying Morality Playnew
Burials casts Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas ranch hand who loses his saintly Mexican buddy to the errant trigger finger of a brutal border guard.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Running Scarednew
Kramer's latest may disappoint folks who associate him solely with The Cooler, forgetting that he also happens to be the guy who wrote Mindhunters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
Check-out Timenew
Simple-minded but sweet, this is an old-age tribute that doesn't press as hard on your gag reflex as The World's Fastest Indian.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Diary of a Mad Frenchwomannew
This film follows a story arc that, depending on one's perspective, is either a quaint relic of an alien culture or flat-out insane.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Frederic Fonteyne, Gilles' Wife
The Whole World is Watchingnew
Cache has every ingredient for art-house insufferability -- it's about upper-class Parisians, for starters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
Fang Versus Fictionnew
The death of beloved Munsters star and leftist rabble-rouser "Grandpa" Al Lewis cemented his standing as one mysterious individual -- especially if you took the time to cross-reference the many inconsistencies in his obituaries.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-16-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Most Unnecessary Remake?new
This familiar Stranger exhibits not a smidgen of awareness that its premise has been ripped off 500 times and parodied in three Scream movies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon West, When a Stranger Calls
The Pink Panthernew
Steve Martin's dreaded riff on Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau comes off like a Saturday Night Live skit from the late 1970s, when audiences showed up nicely toasted and a guest host could coast on the same wild and crazy schtick week after week.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Shawn Levy, The Pink Panther
Shanghai Anxietynew
The final collaboration between Ismail Merchant and James Ivory isn't their absolute best effort, but as swan songs go, it's still a sight more auspicious than the last-ever Simpson-Bruckheimer picture.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
