AltWeeklies Wire
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
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
Way to Go, Ohionew
As a new report details massive Election Day failures, the state goes on vacation and the country ignores the lesson.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
07-15-2005 |
Politics
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
A Grand Tour of Midwest Summer Art Showsnew
This season's exhibits include a collection of outsider art and Art Brut at Buffalo Forum in Milwaukee, and a show of dead human bodies that have undergone a “plastination” process at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland.
Metro Times |
Nolan Simon and Rebecca Mazzel |
07-15-2005 |
Art
Tags: Cincinnati, 4 Under 40: Contemporary Michigan Artists, American Science and Surplus, and the Great Lakes Science Center’s Bodyworlds, Art Institute of Chicago show, Arts Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary, CUT/Film as Found Object, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michaël Borremans: Hallucination and Reality, Milwaukee Art Museum, Multiple Strategies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art’s great show, Out There: Landscape in the New Millennium, Toledo Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, with current art world darling Olafur Eliasson
