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Hard-Edged Violencenew
Michael Mann reprises characters Crockett and Tubbs, this time with them posing as dope couriers to bring down a megacartel.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Miami Vice, Michael Mann
Flighty Aphroditenew
Is it Woody Allen's taste in women that’s his undoing, or merely the untenable positions he puts them in?
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Scoop, Woody Allen
Graffiti's Moralitynew
One man's street art is another man's vandalism.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Benjamin Morgan, quality of life
Punishingly Longnew
Who cares about consistency when you've got an ass with Goldie Hawn's DNA stuck smack dab in the middle of the frame in a laugh-free "comedy" about a houseguest from hell, right?
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Age Appropriate?new
Bypassing Tim Burton and heading straight into the realm of Stephen King, Monster House is rife with suggested murder, sexual innuendo and extremely adult revenge fantasies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gil Kenan, Monster House
Cross Purposenew
Admit it: You work crossword puzzles four, five, maybe even seven days a week, and you're worried you’re not getting any smarter.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Patrick Creadon, Wordplay
Afroreggae Music Helps Brazilian Native Escapenew
Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary drop us into the entrenched underworld of poverty and drug trafficking that lies in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shephard |
07-06-2006 |
Reviews
Arrgh You Ready For Some More?new
For a good while, Disney's Pirates follow-up seems like it's going to be one of those rare sequels that equal their predecessors in quality and enjoyment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-06-2006 |
Reviews
Sandler Knows His Audiencenew
Sandler once again caters to aging man-children who have inherited the responsibilities of the family breadwinner, yet whose classic-rock intake and coarse vocabularies remain unsafe for little ears.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-29-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Click, Frank Coraci
Relearning to Flynew
Five years in wait, Superman returns as our coping mechanism in a cape.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-29-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
Highly Anticipatednew
This collaboration between Jack Black, his School of Rock writer, Mike White, and Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess certainly doesn't equal the best moments of their respective oeuvres, but neither is it an outright atrocity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Nacho Libre
An Impressive Debutnew
Chinese filmmaker Xiao Jiang's extended flashback is about two cinema-crazed kids coming of age amid the communist revolution of the early 1970s.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Electric Shadows, Xiao Jiang
Too Many Cooksnew
If a film has two credited writers, that’s not necessarily a red flag -- but three can be a little suspect.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Donald Petrie, Just My Luck
A Ludicrous Updatenew
The only way to make this wholly unnecessary remake palatable would have been to up the camp factor into the red zone.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen
Fun Companynew
In the best Looney Tunes tradition, the humans in Pixar's newest are all self-interested idiots and the animals only surrender their natural moral high ground when they start trying to act like us.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
