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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
'Martian Child' Rises Above Average Family-Positive Sweetnessnew
Director Menno Meyjes pulls an engaging film out of the potential claptrap, while also putting across a message about the beauty of nonconformism.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
'Deep Water' is About More than Sailing Around the Worldnew
Deeply researched and compellingly presented, Deep Water is as much about one man's misadventures on the ocean as it is about loneliness, desperation and the danger of dreams.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-25-2007 |
Reviews
'Rendition' Makes Points Often and Bluntlynew
But by crafting an intricate and engaging story out of this country's most despicable "weapon" in the war on terror, it's possible that its message may be more well-received than the dozens of damning documentaries that have preceded it.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Gavin Hood, rendition
Somehow 'Ira & Abby' is a Multifaceted Movienew
Ira & Abby is the story arc for the entire five seasons of Dharma & Greg compressed into movie-length form.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira & Abby, Robert Cary
'War/Dance' Tells a Poignant Talenew
The winner of the 2007 Sundance award for documentary direction, War/Dance is a powerful film about the plight of children in war-ravaged northern Uganda, where hundreds of thousands of children have been kidnapped or orphaned in a vicious conflict.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: War/Dance, Sean Fine, Andrea Nix
'View From a Grain of Sand' is Unapologeticnew
Weaving together the stories of three Afghan women (a doctor, a teacher and a social activist) who have sought refuge from war, political conflict and an oppressive regime, the film intermittently infuses the country’s history under three distinct leaders.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
09-27-2007 |
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'Strange Culture' Desconstructs Documentary Formnew
Lynn Hershman Leeson deconstructs the documentary form in Strange Culture, the Kafka-esque saga of Steve Kurtz, an artist whose work concerns biotechnology and GMO foods.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
09-27-2007 |
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'Prince of Peace — God of War' Asks Why Christians Support Warnew
While it may seem a distant, simple -- even annoying -- feast of hypothetical subject matter, the underlying question may be an open door into the religious right's base politics. Have they skipped Jesus and leapt straight to the Crusades?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
'Postcards From Tora Bora' Examines Kabul Then and Nownew
Kabul is a starkly different city than the flourishing, cosmopolitan center it once was. Osman’s film mixes childish cartoons with man-on-the-street footage to powerful effect.
Orlando Weekly |
Bob Whitby |
09-27-2007 |
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'New Urban Cowboy' Explores New Pedestrianismnew
New Urban Cowboy documents Michael Arth's valiant efforts and big dreams for the "neighborhood of the future" and provides a model not just of new developments, but new developers.
Orlando Weekly |
Ian Monroe |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Arth, New Urban Cowboy
'Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence' Explores Southern Paranoianew
What starts out looking like yet another story of a black man wronged by the racist powers-that-be in the early 20th-century Florida Panhandle emerges in the hands of director Jeffrey Morgan as a documentary that is as shocking as it is emotionally engaging.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
'The Great Match' Presents a Nonpatronizing One-World Themenew
The Great Match is about the attempts of three far-flung groups to watch the the final match of the 2002 World Cup, going through motions both comical and extreme in their struggle to see the game.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Gerardo Olivares, The Great Match
'Election Day' Eschews the Conspiratorial for the Obviousnew
Katy Chevigny's enlightening documentary eschews the pretensions of voter-fraud overstatement in favor of a real-time portrait of actual poll-station shenanigans.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: election day, Katy Chevigny
