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Lying Downnew
Distributor ThinkFilm raised so much of a stink about its Where the Truth Lies receiving an NC-17 rating that one had to assume the movie was some sort of crusading artistic statement.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Resurrectionnew
A new, single-disc compilation from Dead Can Dance is not exactly a stop-the-presses moment, but Memento is nonetheless an interesting document.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dead Can Dance, Memento
Opening Doorsnew
Mr. Lif says the music and concepts on his group's first album are significantly toned down from the fiery politics of his solo LPs.
Orlando Weekly |
Makkada B. Selah |
11-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Being Arab in an Increasingly Hostile Worldnew
Infusing the personal into the political (or vice-versa), Ahdaf Soueif dances through the minefield of "Arab" identity in this remarkable collection of essays written over the past 20-plus years.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Mystifying Failurenew
Cleverly titled, interestingly premised and poorly written, Small Mediums at Large is as promising as it is frustrating.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Damage Donenew
Sex, drugs, murder, suicide ... the diary of this Hungarian author is a tale so sordid and depraved it seems very nearly a concoction of the writer's imagination.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Strangeness of the Sunshine Statenew
If you think Northerners believe Florida is fucked-up now, wait until you read a late 19th-century journalist's wide-eyed tales of alligator-hunting, "music-loving cows" and "weak-kneed Democrats."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
Department of Truthnew
Even when it's shot through with apology, a June-November romance like Shopgirl is full of unsavory implications.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
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 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
Tags: Chicken Little, Mark Dindal
The Global Villagenew
The delicious irony of this wonderful compilation of anti-globalism music and texts is that, without the acceleration of globalization over the past decade, the very logistics of uniting artists and writers from first- and third-world countries would have been nearly insurmountable.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
A Middle Pathnew
You haven't heard Isaac Hayes until you've heard Isaac Hayes sing "Baby I'm-A Want You."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
All the Ring's a Stagenew
AJ Gallant looks like a mean son-of-a-bitch. It's partly his barrel chest, his hefty arms, dotted with tribal tattoos, and the long ponytail pulled taut, leaving the shaved sides of his head exposed, but it's his eyes that do the trick.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
11-04-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
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 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
