AltWeeklies Wire
The C Wordnew
Host Jason Jones' pulverizing combination of belligerence and insane enthusiasm gives Craft Corner Deathmatch its torque.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
What's Your Favorite Layer?new
Director Matthew Vaughn (producer of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch) spins an involving underworld tale of deception and double-cross, relying on good old piss and vinegar to keep us invested in basic story elements that are more fun than novel.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Matthew Vaughn, Layer Cake
Yanking the Food Chainnew
Way before he had a presidential seal to lend him the veneer of diplomacy, Ronald Reagan called for America's blacks to quit moaning and realize how good they have it in the U.S. Substitute animals for people of color and you'll have the odd worldview behind Madagascar.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
You Really Got a Hold on Menew
A tough broad is a joy forever, as director Ruth Leitman reveals in her backward-looking inquiry into the distaff wing of America's favorite pseudosport.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Lipstick & Dynamite, Ruth Leitman
Cinderella Mannew
As Depression-era sports stories go, Seabiscuit is looking better all the time. Though terminally obvious, it was at least willing to take a stand on behalf of New Deal policies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cinderella Man, Ron Howard
The Honeymoonersnew
This ill-thought-out money grab pratfalls into the pit between reinvention and homage, then wallows there in a muck of trite situations and half-baked characterizations.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Schultz, The Honeymooners
Oldboynew
This South Korean shocker takes unabashed glee in heaping abuses upon Oh Dae-Su, a troublemaking womanizer who is tossed into a one-room detention chamber and held there for 15 years.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chan-wook Park, Oldboy
Rumba Fishnew
This documentary takes up the cause of diverting kids through ballroom dance with all the zeal of an inner-city politician crusading for after-school basketball leagues.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo
Let There be Raganew
Films set in India and Pakistan offer some serious issues as well as the expected melodrama.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider and Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Sex is Hell for Texas Teensnew
There is such a dire need to expose the utter failure of abstinence-only education that my hopes were high for a P.O.V. series documentary The Education of Shelby Knox.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
07-14-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Dream on Silly Dreamernew
This Florida Film Festival short-form documentary decries the gutting of the Walt Disney Company's hand-drawn animation division.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dan Lund, Dream on Silly Dreamer
The Animation Shownew
The movie's eager young contributors don't have nearly enough ideas of a narrative nature to justify their tedious displays of technical virtuosity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Palindromesnew
Pointing filmmaker Todd Solondz back toward the salad days of his Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness, Palindromes paints a fearlessly perverse portrait of a 12-year-old girl who desperately wants to get pregnant.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
Bird Brainednew
San Francisco's alternate-universe vibe pervades this documentary about Mark Bittner, a resident of the city's North Beach neighborhood who cares for some 45 conures that congregate in and around his cottage.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
The Children's Hournew
In Kore-eda's Nobody Knows (inspired by true events, it's said), the twilight zone of choice is modern-day Tokyo, where a quartet of siblings, none older than 12, putters around a small apartment, waiting for a mother who may never return.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nobody Knows
