AltWeeklies Wire
'Paprika': Narcissistic and One-sided Discoursesnew
Even when you're able to see someone else's dreams rendered well, they're still pretty boring.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paprika, Satoshi Kon
Jesus TVnew
Orlando's new starring role in the gospel of prosperity.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-17-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Catch Him if you Can: A short dive into the bottom of Steven Spielbergnew
The Turner Classic Movies documentary Spielberg on Spielberg has two strikes against it from the very start, and they’re both right there in the title. To begin with, there’s limited value in having any artist handicap his or her own work; too often, he or she ends up displaying a blithe unawareness of failings everybody else has long since spotted. And intellectual rigor isn’t a quality one would automatically associate with Steven Spielberg, who has no serious challengers to his status as cinema history’s most monetarily successful middlebrow.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-05-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Ratatouille': Skews to Jokes-for-all-agesnew
Unless your kids like to watch the Food Network or have a thing for the pudgy neighbor from The King of Queens, it's unlikely they'll connect with Bird's latest.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Bird, Ratatouille
'Evening': WASP-y Constriction and Spiritual Decaynew
When chick-flick cliches are utilized in a literary fashion by such a strong ensemble, those same elements make this a substantial and engrossing film.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lajos Koltai, Evening
A Mighty Filmmakernew
Michael Winterbottom keeps it real.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
06-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Not an Empty Moment In Itnew
The diminished expectations raised by the first two of this summer's big three "No. 3" films (Spider-Man 3 and Shrek the Third) may have something to do with why At World's End seems so successful.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-24-2007 |
Reviews
'The TV Set': The Wrong Biznew
David Duchovny, Justine Bateman, Ioan Gruffudd and Sigourney Weaver star in this biting look at the creatively draining world of TV sitcom production.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jake Kasdan, The TV Set
'The Ex': Consistent and Effectivenew
Zach Braff stars in this relationship comedy ... no, wait. Don't stop reading yet.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Ex, Jesse Peretz
'Away From Her': Delicate and Dignifiednew
Based on a Alice Munro short story, Away From Her is about a smart, middle-aged Canadian couple dealing with the inevitable drift that occurs when a longtime partner loses touch with the reality of the past.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Away from Her, Sarah Polley
I Love Television: Alec, the Best Baldwinnew
UPDATE! At press time it was revealed that Alec Baldwin allegedly left a voice mail for his 11-year-old daughter, calling her a "thoughtless little pig" -- the role of "Best Baldwin" will now be portrayed by his brother, Daniel.
Orlando Weekly |
Wm. Steven Humphrey |
04-30-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
I Love Television: Smallvillenew
Today we're going to talk about Smallville, and ... OH, STOP GROANING.
Orlando Weekly |
Wm. Steven Humphrey |
04-23-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
I Love Television: 'Drive' is EXTREMEnew
Speaking of DRIVING and EXTREME, there's this show debuting on Fox this week which is not nearly as EXTREME as Bruce Willis standing on the hood of bin Laden's flying Humvee and peeing all over his windshield -- but it's still pretty EXTREME. It's called Drive.
Orlando Weekly |
Wm. Steven Humphrey |
04-16-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
No Way to Pretty This Bizarre Picture Up
There are two upbeat components to this tragic story about a Lory Yazurlo, a fiercely independent woman left a quadriplegic after an accident in an 18-wheeler, who lives and works at her own pig sanctuary in Bunnell, Fla., on a 20-acre settlement from CSX.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
03-27-2007 |
Reviews
'There's No Enemy, There's No Victory'
Unsettled excels where many others have failed: The film draws complete pictures of the people on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict -- the surfer dude who doesn't want to leave, the mother of a soldier, the protest-ready "religious filmmaker."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Hootnick, Unsettled
