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Dizzingly Didacticnew
This film is from Tollywood, and therefore is capable of that peculiar feat of weaving a couple of choreographed numbers into a tale about Sri Lankan terrorism, guerrilla warfare, refugees' identity crises, adoption and heart-wrenching separations.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: A Peck on the Cheek, Mani Ratnam
Transcending Violence Through Artnew
Roving from one miserable refugee camp to another in the Republic of Guinea, a group of musicians transcends the horror of murder, mutilation and destruction through their art, which sounds like roots reggae.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
09-15-2006 |
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The Story of James Beveridgenew
Beveridge's The Idealist sets its observational sights on something resonant: the discovery of her own neglectful father by following the trails of film and travel that he left behind.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nina Beveridge, The Idealist
Romeo and Juliet in a Kitchennew
If Romeo and Juliet were set in the gross, dysfunctional kitchen of a drab Dutch hotel, it would resemble Schnitzel Paradise, albeit with considerably less humor.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-15-2006 |
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Knowingly Quirkynew
This film's slower and gentler moments expose it as a knowing injunction against a society that requires every American to be a winner, when simply being a human being used to be enough.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-17-2006 |
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Gleeful Anarchynew
Steve Pink and his crew of crazy coeds have come up with half of a pretty decent movie here.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Accepted, Steve Pink
Victory or Not?new
At long last, the gay community gets its very own coming-of-age sex comedy, >where it's summertime at San Torum High School, a place where absolutely everybody seems to be GLBT and a quartet of queer pals resolve to lose their anal virginity by Labor Day.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Another Gay Movie, Todd Stephens
Catholic-School Lesbian Romancenew
This film simply gives us a story of sparks between a hot young poetry teacher and a new student who arrives in her care bearing a liberated attitude.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Katherine Brooks, Loving Annabelle
Openly Insecurenew
This film gives us a pudgy and plain mound of sexual awkwardness in the body a 12-year-old, who is convinced that is he is the cosmic double of a ponytailed, space-hopping TV femme fatale.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
08-17-2006 |
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Queer as Filmnew
Like all miracles, Camp Out struck me out of the blue with the innocence it chronicles as a group of gay teens learn about themselves at a Christian summer camp.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
08-17-2006 |
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A Charge to Keepnew
The real inconvenient truth: the corporate/legislative axis can crush any innovation it wants to -- no matter how beneficial that innovation might be.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-10-2006 |
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No Surprisesnew
Step right up and reacquaint yourself with every dream-in-my-heart, rhythm-in my-steps cliche ever committed to celluloid.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Anne Fletcher, Step Up
A Million Little Questionsnew
Based on a nonfiction book by Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener is a tale of horrendous and perhaps fabricated personal travails.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-03-2006 |
Reviews
Fantastic?new
A cast of losers discusses the fate of a fish-girl out of water -- said discourse entails reciting ludicrous fairy-tale names in voices better suited to MAD TV's Mrs. Swan.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
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Homeroom Princesses Seek Revengenew
If Mean Girls was the high-school movie for college students, then Tucker is the high-school movie for middle schoolers.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Betty Thomas, John Tucker Must Die
