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White Like Menew
Reporter James Carlson gets "embedded" with the National Socialist Movement and learns that Nazis like the Dave Matthews Band too.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
03-02-2006 |
Race & Class
A Touch of Geniusnew
Everything Warren Defever does is creative iconoclasm, and occasionally he hits on pure excellence -- like on Detrola.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Detrola, His Name Is Alive
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
Check-out Timenew
Simple-minded but sweet, this is an old-age tribute that doesn't press as hard on your gag reflex as The World's Fastest Indian.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Diary of a Mad Frenchwomannew
This film follows a story arc that, depending on one's perspective, is either a quaint relic of an alien culture or flat-out insane.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Frederic Fonteyne, Gilles' Wife
The Whole World is Watchingnew
Cache has every ingredient for art-house insufferability -- it's about upper-class Parisians, for starters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
A Lack of Visionnew
The British producers Gary Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay put together a project in Bombay that incorporates a 28-piece string section into their gauzy, downtempo lounge music.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bombay Dub Orchestra
Bonfire of Inanitiesnew
Gotta hand it to Julianne Moore -- she's turned in a piece of overacting even the Oscars would be embarrassed to honor.
Orlando Weekly |
Steven Schneider |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
Fang Versus Fictionnew
The death of beloved Munsters star and leftist rabble-rouser "Grandpa" Al Lewis cemented his standing as one mysterious individual -- especially if you took the time to cross-reference the many inconsistencies in his obituaries.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-16-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Most Unnecessary Remake?new
This familiar Stranger exhibits not a smidgen of awareness that its premise has been ripped off 500 times and parodied in three Scream movies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon West, When a Stranger Calls
The Pink Panthernew
Steve Martin's dreaded riff on Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau comes off like a Saturday Night Live skit from the late 1970s, when audiences showed up nicely toasted and a guest host could coast on the same wild and crazy schtick week after week.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Shawn Levy, The Pink Panther
A Commercial Contrivancenew
Don't expect the same kind of conservative backlash that has accompanied that other gay film currently in theaters -- this film offers nothing that will shake up our social mores.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
Shanghai Anxietynew
The final collaboration between Ismail Merchant and James Ivory isn't their absolute best effort, but as swan songs go, it's still a sight more auspicious than the last-ever Simpson-Bruckheimer picture.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
