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Dreary, With Occasional Outbursts of Humornew
Scuttling his reputation for liveliness, Gore Verbinksi proves that following a fictional TV weatherman around a secondary market can be as dull as the real thing.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
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Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
A Fable Gone Sci-Finew
Here is yet another movie that lays the groundwork for being one type of entertainment and abruptly becomes something else entirely.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
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Tags: Chicken Little, Mark Dindal
Gentleman's Seasnew
A lot of us have long thought that Jeff Daniels was an innocuous onscreen presence, and now it's time to take it all back.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
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Spill the Weinsteinnew
My Big Fat Independent Movie is a pleasant surprise, if only because a handful of seemingly credible reports had indicated the film was the Antichrist.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
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Tru Colorsnew
With the concepts of artistic representation and exploitation becoming hopelessly blurred, the need for Capote couldn't be more compelling.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
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Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Kidnappednew
This is the story of seven strangers picked to live in a house … but only for a few hours, thanks to inhaled poison that's rotting their bodies from the inside.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Saw II, Darren Lynn Bausman
Getting Back in the Gamenew
This dewy story of a girl and her horse has its snout stuck on Page One of the family-flick playbook: Well-meaning dad does something to disappoint his sensitive kid; kid bolts from the room in tears; they reconcile a few scenes later; repeat as necessary.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
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Where Rivers and Gurus Convergenew
This documentary about a massive yet surprisingly unknown spiritual gathering shows 70 million enlightenment-seekers arriving in Allahabad, India, where three holy rivers (one of which is a mythical, nonphysical river) converge.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-21-2005 |
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U Got the Looknew
It's not often you feel compelled to recommend a film almost entirely on the basis of its art direction, but that's the case with MirrorMask, luscious evidence that the look of modern fantasy cinema can amount to more than bald-faced Tim Burton swipes arriving 15 years after the fact.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave McKean, MirrorMask
Black and White and Red All Overnew
George Clooney's sophomore directorial outing, Good Night, and Good Luck, could be the soberest look a former TV star has ever taken at the medium that put him on the map.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
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Hustle and Flownew
Damn the national consensus that Florida is a freak state -- we're just special. And one of the things that make us so special is the flow of natural waters through our unique geography of underground caverns.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
10-21-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Go Figurenew
A filmed adaptation of a four-character play about math wizardry seems doomed to wallow in esoterica, but Proof is at its strongest the closer it veers toward the multiplication tables.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Proof, John Madden, James D. Stern
Gruel Intentionsnew
Well, he's got the dinginess down. In Roman Polanski's interpretation of Dickens' Oliver Twist, the London streets see hungry, unwashed masses taunted by nearby reminders of unattainable solvency.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski
Review of Film: The Greatest Game Ever Playednew
The prospect of yet another uplifting, history-based Disney sports drama sounds like enough to make a grown man pull his head off his shoulders, but this Bill Paxton-directed golfing memoir is surprisingly easy to sit through.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
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Saigon but Not Forgottennew
It's almost impossible to review a film like Winter Soldier in the traditional sense of the verb.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
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