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Ghosts in the Machinenew
If you go to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's sex-offender registry, you'll find Curtis Talley listed as an offender living in Seminole County, but you won't learn that he died three years ago.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
12-01-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A Sukkot Fablenew
A rare glimpse into Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community, the morality drama Ushpizin sets forth the role of ritual in a strange and fascinating environment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
A Lowballernew
One day, Ryan Reynolds will land in a film that makes full use of his talent for conveying quiet, wide-eyed mischievousness.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Just Friends, Roger Kumble
Survival of the Speciesnew
Tanzania's Lake Victoria is teeming with Nile perch, enormous fish that make their way to the dining tables of millions of eaters per day.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
Slush Fundnew
It's perfectly possible to enjoy The Ice Harvest, just as soon as you recognize it as Harold Ramis's willful attempt to thwart every expectation he's built up in his career as a cineplex funster.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Harold Ramis, The Ice Harvest
Slender Vittlesnew
You couldn't cram another gimmick into Nine Lives if you doubled its running time and made the screen twice as high.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nine Lives, Rodrigo García
Schoolboy Turned Guerrillanew
Told from the perspective of a young boy coerced into militancy by an indiscriminately violent civil war that overtakes his never-named African country, Beasts of No Nation is far more than just a treatise on the far-reaching effects of war.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Fiction
The Nonagenarian and the Virginnew
Ten years is a long time to wait, and 115 small pages is something of an insult to the patient few still hoping to find resonance and relevance in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's increasingly repetitive oeuvre.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Fiction
New Frontiersnew
In his debut book, television host and documentarian Louis Theroux chronicles his follow-up encounters with the people who populated his BBC show Weird Weekends.
Orlando Weekly |
Louis Theroux |
12-01-2005 |
Nonfiction
Afro-Funknew
From the vintage-looking, low-budget album art to the vintage-sounding, low-budget grooves within, Daptone's modus operandi has been to evoke the thrill of finding ancient, obscure funk, without the messy waiting-around-for-30-years that the real thing requires.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Budos Band
Psychedelia Revivednew
The fine folks at Shadoks once again shine a light on a group that was obscure in the late '60s psych scene and is completely unknown today.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Time, Before There Was...
Feminine and Hostilenew
Libby Schaub is the type of girl who can drink everyone under the table while intentionally saying just the wrong things to the redneck at the bar, and her band is So I Had to Shoot Him.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
A Cultural Stewnew
Algerian singer/songwriter Souad Massi -- with her soft-focus beauty and acoustic guitar-based songs -- may, at first impression, seem like a sort of Middle Eastern Sarah McLachlan.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Another Kind of Dissatisfactionnew
If there's such a thing as laissez-faire funk, this reissue of Hot Chip's 2004 album proves that these London electro-weirdos excel at it.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hot Chip, Coming On Strong
Turkish Undergroundnew
If you've heard of Turkey's psychedelic rock scene, you might think that Erkin Koray was its alpha and omega.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
