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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 |
Reviews
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
Inverse Americananew
While the fluid collective of Chicago musicians known as Pinetop Seven has never exactly produced the happiest music around, this is their darkest and most moving record to date.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Pinetop Seven, The Night's Bloom
Funky Stewnew
The best thing about Belize City Boil Up isn't the fact that it shines a light on a woefully underdocumented (and equally underappreciated) music scene.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
A Rustic Personality Returnsnew
Although it's been 35 years since Vashti Bunyan last recorded an album, it doesn't sound as if a day has passed between that first disc (Just Another Diamond Day) and the new Lookaftering.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Vashti Bunyan, Lookaftering
A Playful Spiritnew
This full-length debut from Swedish ambientologist Henrik Jonsson is perplexing for a number of reasons.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
More Letters From Harriet Miersnew
Dear Macy's:
I recently purchased one of your high-quality microfiber sofas (model #4475-E) and I have to say that it is the best sofa EVER!
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
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 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
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
No Deal for the Uninsurednew
Two years ago K.B. Forbes, founder of an advocacy group for the uninsured called Consejo de Latinos Unidos, traveled from his California home to Orlando, where he set about shaming the area's two biggest health care facilities: Florida Hospital and Orlando Regional Medical Center.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
10-21-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
What's in a Word?new
On St. Valentine's Day, an amalgamation of religious groups calling itself the Florida Coalition to Protect Marriage announced its campaign to amend Florida's constitution to forever ban gay marriage.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-21-2005 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Making Kanye West Seem Quaintnew
P.O.S. knows how to catch you off-guard. You never know if he'll be swinging his ass off Twista fast, speaking asymmetrically in asides, jarring you with things said under his breath, or teasing you with long silences.
Orlando Weekly |
Makkada B. Selah |
10-21-2005 |
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