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LIGHTS OUT … EVERYBODY
Movies | 2/3/2005 | By Steve Schneider
HIDE AND SEEK (R) ALONE IN THE DARK (R) Moviegoing confusion hit an all-time low back in 2002, when The Mothman Prophecies and Dragonfly...[MORE]
KEEPIN' IT FAKE
Movies | 11/18/2004 | By Steve Schneider
Finding Neverland (PG) Being Julia (R) At a time when deconstruction and demystification are all the moviemaking rage, it's sweet indeed to celebrate the opening o...[MORE]
WE THE (CHOSEN) PEOPLE
Movies | 11/4/2004 | By Steve Schneider
Though it affords the Jewish community an invaluable opportunity to codify its image before the general public, the Central Florida Jewish Film Festival has always been at least as useful as a forum f...[MORE]
FRAMING THE DEBATE
Movies | 9/30/2004 | By Aaron Sagers
Somebody get George W. Bush an agent. Ever since Fahrenheit 9/11 became an overwhelming success at the box office, the president has played a leading (albeit unwilling) role in more movies than the G...[MORE]
ALL YOU ZOMBIES
Movies | 9/23/2004 | By Steve Schneider
Filmmakers Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg say they hit on the idea of lensing a zombie comedy while they were collaborating on an episode of the British sitcom Spaced. Wright was the director, Pegg was t...[MORE]
ENTER CAMERAMAN
Movies | 8/5/2004 | By Steve Schneider
When filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky and his partner, Joe Berlinger, agreed to document the recording of Metallica's St. Anger CD, they thought they'd be making a record-company-funded infomercial – a f...[MORE]
Two projectors and a microphone
Movies | 4/22/2004 | By Steve Schneider
Haack ... the king of techno 3 stars (NR) Breath control: the history of the human beat box 3 1/2 stars (NR) Experimental music and independent film go together like ... well, like a deg...[MORE]
Ashram to ashes
Movies | 4/22/2004 | By Steve Schneider
Cosmopolitan 3 stars (NR) If nothing else, "Cosmopolitan" deserves kudos for granting work to two actors always welcomed by discriminating viewers: Carol Kane, who sadly doesn't seem to end up ...[MORE]
Party Monster
Movies | 2/19/2004 | By Steve Schneider
(20th Century Fox Home Video; includes director/producer commentary, featurette, actor interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and interview with Michael Alig; $19.98) Released theatrically last year...[MORE]
Things you're not supposed to know
Movies | 1/29/2004 | By Jason Ferguson
What were they thinking? Did the folks at Disinformation (www.disinfo.com) really think that a pseudo-newsmagazine about chicks with dicks, time travel conspiracies and Kembra Pfahler's sewn-together ...[MORE]
Talkin' bout degeneration
Movies | 1/22/2004 | By Jason Ferguson
(Decasia: The State of Decay; Plexifilm; 67 min; B&W, 35mm, 1.33:1, Dolby 5.1 surround; includes interview with Bill Morrison and Michael Gordon; $24.95; release date: Jan. 27, 2004; www.decasia.com, ...[MORE]
Reel 'em in
Movies | 1/8/2004 | By Steve Schneider
What do hobbits, clownfish and accused child molesters have in common? They've all been singled out for praise by the Florida Film Critics Circle. As 2003 dwindled to a close, a voting body of 16 Suns...[MORE]
Semitically active
Movies | 10/23/2003 | By Steve Schneider
Just how crucial are politics to the Central Florida Jewish Film Festival? It's a loaded question to begin with, seemingly grounded in the tunnel vision that ties every aspect of the international Jew...[MORE]
"Pretty's" face
Movies | 8/21/2003 | By Steve Schneider
The concept of England as a sometimes-sloppy melting pot of cultures is still finding its way on film. Having addressed the subject in 1985's "My Beautiful Laundrette," director Stephen Frears returns...[MORE]
Caught on tape
Movies | 7/17/2003 | By Debbie Nathan
See movie review.David Friedman, aka Silly Billy, is New York's -- and possibly the country's -- most famous children's birthday party clown. Silly Billy has often been featured in fluffy articles, bu...[MORE]
Pink eye
Movies | 6/26/2003 | By Steve Schneider
If this weekend's first-ever GayOrlando Film Festival seems like an obvious idea, it took a few years to turn that no-brainer into reality. "I thought it was time for Orlando to have something like...[MORE]
Several-shooter theory
Movies | 5/29/2003 | By Steve Schneider
Though the pipe dream of our state pulling second to California in film production evaporated sometime back in the 1990s, an awful lot of Floridians keep calling "Action!" anyway. You don't introduce ...[MORE]
Cirque du Solaris
Movies | 11/28/2002 | By Steve Schneider
Slow, heady, picturesque and almost universally revered, the 1972 "Solaris" is hardly a film that cries out for a do-over. In adapting a science-fiction novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, Russian d...[MORE]
Flickin' it old school
Movies | 11/14/2002 | By Steve Schneider
One of the wittier moments in the new film "8 Mile" occurs when Caucasian rapper Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith (Eminem) is referred to disparagingly as "Vanilla Ice" for his intrusion on a predominantly black ...[MORE]
Living in the fear and now
Movies | 10/31/2002 | By Steve Schneider
For any horror movie to achieve true greatness, it has to conform to a phenomenon we'll refer to as "The Part Where." Somewhere within the film's narrative catacombs must lurk a singular thrill, a def...[MORE]