AltWeeklies Wire
Maximo Parknew
"Apply Some Pressure" is how you've heard of Maximo Park, if you've heard of Maximo Park at all. The song is that odd confection known as "the perfect single"; it's as catchy and uniquely memorable as it's perfectly representative of today's sonic-zeitgeist.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Maximo Park, A Certain Trigger
Shukar Collectivenew
A collision of deeply historical-sounding Romanian music and dubby, glitchy electronics, Urban Gypsy is a record that takes a while to wrap your head around.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shukar Collective, Urban Gypsy
Javier Garcíanew
Javier García's second album abandons pop polish for a much more substantial and adventurous palette.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 13, Javier García
Seven Outnew
When it comes to Las Vegas, here's something to remember: Elvis Presley ruined everything by making youth culture the defining barometer of popular music.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
L'Arc-en-Cielnew
For almost 15 years, this arena-rock band has been one of the 800-pound gorillas of the Japanese music scene, selling out huge venues across the country. Ever heard of 'em? Unless you're an anime fan or some unreconstructed Nipponophile, probably not.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: L'Arc-en-Ciel, Live in USA
Cinderella Mannew
As Depression-era sports stories go, Seabiscuit is looking better all the time. Though terminally obvious, it was at least willing to take a stand on behalf of New Deal policies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cinderella Man, Ron Howard
The Honeymoonersnew
This ill-thought-out money grab pratfalls into the pit between reinvention and homage, then wallows there in a muck of trite situations and half-baked characterizations.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Schultz, The Honeymooners
Oldboynew
This South Korean shocker takes unabashed glee in heaping abuses upon Oh Dae-Su, a troublemaking womanizer who is tossed into a one-room detention chamber and held there for 15 years.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chan-wook Park, Oldboy
Rumba Fishnew
This documentary takes up the cause of diverting kids through ballroom dance with all the zeal of an inner-city politician crusading for after-school basketball leagues.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo
Let There be Raganew
Films set in India and Pakistan offer some serious issues as well as the expected melodrama.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider and Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Sex is Hell for Texas Teensnew
There is such a dire need to expose the utter failure of abstinence-only education that my hopes were high for a P.O.V. series documentary The Education of Shelby Knox.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
07-14-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Dream on Silly Dreamernew
This Florida Film Festival short-form documentary decries the gutting of the Walt Disney Company's hand-drawn animation division.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dan Lund, Dream on Silly Dreamer
The Animation Shownew
The movie's eager young contributors don't have nearly enough ideas of a narrative nature to justify their tedious displays of technical virtuosity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Palindromesnew
Pointing filmmaker Todd Solondz back toward the salad days of his Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness, Palindromes paints a fearlessly perverse portrait of a 12-year-old girl who desperately wants to get pregnant.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
Bird Brainednew
San Francisco's alternate-universe vibe pervades this documentary about Mark Bittner, a resident of the city's North Beach neighborhood who cares for some 45 conures that congregate in and around his cottage.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
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