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Don't Give a Damnnew
Hip-hop personas of pimps, drug dealers and thugs have become the modern-day blackface, MC Big Pooh says.
Orlando Weekly |
Makkada B. Selah |
10-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Go Figurenew
A filmed adaptation of a four-character play about math wizardry seems doomed to wallow in esoterica, but Proof is at its strongest the closer it veers toward the multiplication tables.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Proof, John Madden, James D. Stern
Gruel Intentionsnew
Well, he's got the dinginess down. In Roman Polanski's interpretation of Dickens' Oliver Twist, the London streets see hungry, unwashed masses taunted by nearby reminders of unattainable solvency.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski
Review of Film: The Greatest Game Ever Playednew
The prospect of yet another uplifting, history-based Disney sports drama sounds like enough to make a grown man pull his head off his shoulders, but this Bill Paxton-directed golfing memoir is surprisingly easy to sit through.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Saigon but Not Forgottennew
It's almost impossible to review a film like Winter Soldier in the traditional sense of the verb.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Bob Morris: Dead but Not Donenew
When people say they don't give a "flying fuck," typically it's just an expression. But it's explained plausibly as a water-slide activity in Jamaica Me Dead, the second installment of Bob Morris's Caribbean mystery trilogy.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
09-30-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Jamaica Me Dead, Lindy T. Shepherd
Review of Work: Portrait-Robotnew
There are moments on Portrait-Robot – near the end of "Ma Boîte à Musique," for example – that find French electronicist Bertrand Burgalat locking into a beat-centric Euro-funk that could have been nicked from Fatboy Slim or Beck.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bertrand Burgalat, Portrait-Robot
The Most Depraved Site on the Internetnew
Chris Wilson, the Florida man who runs a website that trades access to porn for gory shots of war dead, is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
09-29-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Uncle Sam REALLY Wants Younew
A young man, fresh out of college and delivering pizzas for a living, poses as a recruit to find out just how far the various brances of the military will go to sign him up.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
09-08-2005 |
War
Tags: recruiting
Shots: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-1972new
In a book filled with striking and provocative photos, perhaps the most striking and provocative is a shot of demonstrators behind a barricade during Nixon's 1969 inauguration.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Coversnew
Lacking focus, organization and in some cases clean artwork, this book comes off as a pet project undertaken by a New Wave nerd who badly wants to legitimize her 20-year-old record collection by turning the album covers into objets d'art.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
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
