AltWeeklies Wire
Why the Press Blackout?new
The shielding of this unspectacular but hardly disastrous comedy from critics shows that the studios can no longer distinguish between a good bad movie and a bad bad movie.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Zucker, Scary Movie 4
Humor is On-Targetnew
There are as many honest laughs in Chester's wild, queer romcom as there were in Wedding Crashers.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam & Steve, Craig Chester
An Outlaw Manifestonew
The famously chaste Michael Douglas reaches deep into his craft to portray a bigamist in a progressively preposterous Beltway thriller he'll one day remember as only a slightly superior career option to Basic Instinct 2.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Clark Johnson, The Sentinel
Magenta-State Movienew
Distasteful though it may sound, there's strong comedic possibility in grafting suicide-bomber politics onto the warbling self-promotion of the American Idol era.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Dreamz, Paul Weltz
Shock and AWWWWnew
Its basis in historical fact doesn't preclude Joyeux Noel from being a wish-fulfillment fantasy for our war-torn times.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel
Dizzoner the Mayornew
Keep telling yourself: It's really happening in America.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Curry, Street Fight
Intentionally Comatosenew
Fernando Eimbcke's new film captures Mexico City apartment dwellers in black-and-white.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-13-2006 |
Reviews
The Wildnew
The word "generic" is too specific for Disney's latest slab of stillborn computer animation.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Wild, Steve Williams
Uber the Topnew
This Holocaust melodrama spins a grabbily manipulative story without stopping to wonder if it isn't in poor taste.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Daly, The Aryan Couple
Tar Nationnew
Being a smoker is a lot like being a tobacco-industry lobbyist -- we both lie, and we both rationalize.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Dance of the Underdogsnew
The dramatic-feature equivalent to Mad Hot Ballroom finds heart in the tale of a bunch of at-risk New York kids led into self-esteem by an old-world dance expert.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Liz Friedlander, Take The Lead
Cradle Will Rocknew
What does it say that this South African export won for Best Foreign-Language Film when the similar but more shattering City of God didn't even place back in 2003?
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gavin Hood, Tsotsi
Devoted to Glibnessnew
The Tarantino school of filmmaking reaches its nadir -- one hopes -- in this initially promising mistaken-identity caper.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucky Number Slevin, Paul McGuigan
Shorts Galorenew
Advance PR to the contrary, Pixar's One Man Band is not included in the touring showcase of 2006 Oscar nominees -- blame ongoing rights issues for the sore-thumb omission.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Criminally Unfunnynew
Rob Schneider and David Spade welcome Jon Heder into the fraternity of comic actors who will never again enjoy a shred of credibility.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dennis Dugan, The Benchwarmers
