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Fuck Itnew
If you're determined to hear the word "fuck" a few hundred times in the course of 90 minutes, you can either ride a city bus shortly after school gets out or see this documentary.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: fuck, Steve Anderson
Looming Traumanew
The latest directorial outing for Dunne turns on a bold, brutal plot development some viewers will accept and others will consider an insurmountable speed bump.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Fierce People, Griffin Dunne
Stag Hagnew
Filmmaker Ben Meade has assembled an impressive collection of clips from classic stag films made between 1915 and the 1960s.
Orlando Weekly |
Bob Whitby |
03-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Stag, Ben Meade
Clash Consciousnew
As their tandem theatrical release demonstrates, Oscar's 2006 nominees for Best Documentary Short were united by themes of man's inhumanity to man.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-21-2006 |
Reviews
Frequently Staticnew
Their geek cred hammered by the putrid Matrix sequels, the Wachowksi brothers set their pens to adapting a seminal graphic novel and very nearly end up transcending mere entertainment in the process.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James McTeigue, V for Vendetta
Little Devilnew
"You will not like me," promises Johnny Depp's avowedly decadent Earl of Rochester in The Libertine -- only to swagger through a story that's positively jerry-rigged to earn our admiration.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Laurence Dunmore, The Libertine
Nudge Nudgenew
It's official: Michael Winterbottom makes the best cinematic whatchamacallits around.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Home Makeovernew
This movie is more noteworthy for the intimate suspense it brings to the subject of Israeli occupation than for any dramatic conclusion it chooses to reach.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Private, Saverio Costanzo
Patriot Gamesnew
If you're already well aware of what the military-industrial complex can do, you'll be tempted to see this documentary as a missed opportunity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight
Partay Monsternew
Perhaps only one man could pull off a movie as well-meaningly extraneous as Dave Chappelle's Block Party.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
A Russian Horrornew
This Russian blockbuster isn't as much fun as Constantine, but it has an imaginative streak that keeps it far above Underworld.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Night Watch, Timour Bekmambetov
Great Escapenew
The rags-to-riches basketball dream came true for Sebastian Telfair of Coney Island.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Sheperd |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Hock, Through the Fire
Witless Tediumnew
"From two of the six writers of Scary Movie 3," promise the ads, raising the possibility that we'll one day be sold a film "from two million of the six million monkeys who sat at typewriters and banged out Date Movie."
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Aaron Seltzer, Date Movie
A Satisfying Morality Playnew
Burials casts Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas ranch hand who loses his saintly Mexican buddy to the errant trigger finger of a brutal border guard.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Running Scarednew
Kramer's latest may disappoint folks who associate him solely with The Cooler, forgetting that he also happens to be the guy who wrote Mindhunters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
