It’s been almost a week since Lena Dunham’s Girls debuted on HBO. Girls, the story of a group of rich/upper middle class white girl post-grads living in Brooklyn who have yet to figure out their own lives, continues the deconstruction of the director’s own life that was started in her previous film, the polarizing...
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Chimpanzee — Reviewed this week. (PG) The Lucky One — Zac Efron plays a Marine in pursuit of the mystery woman whose photo gave him something to live for during his service in Iraq. And in case you were still wondering which demo this picture is aimed at, it turns out she works with...
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So, unless you’ve been living under a rock this week you probably already know that the Florida Film Festival is underway. It is, I believe, the biggest edition of the festival yet, and the handful of films I’ve seen while we were going through our reviews were all good. My picks for can’t-miss of...
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As Jon Stewart goes, so goes the nation. And when he says the media feeding frenzy over the George Zimmerman trial has begun, it truly has begun. Central Florida can now sleep soundly in its collective bed, knowing that the coming months will once again thrust us into the national spotlight 24/7 as a...
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The Festival of Light and Sound certainly hits a happy nerve locally with the throw-it-all-in kind of evening that’s becoming ever more accustomed to Orlando.
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Train A leaves the station traveling south at 220km/s. Train B leaves the station traveling north, also at 220km/s. When they meet in the middle, a miracle will happen. Only in a Japanese film could a math problem loathed around the world become the plot to hang a children’s adventure film on, but that’s exactly what...
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It took about an hour into An Affair of the Heart (12 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at Regal Winter Park; 9:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19 at Enzian Theater), DeLand director Sylvia Caminer‘s documentary/EPK on Rick Springfield and the surprisingly huge gaggle of devoted, middle-aged human-resources reps who follow him on land, sea and air,...
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Blue Like Jazz — This adaptation of campus minister Donald Miller’s soul-searching autobiography was dead in the water … until fans on KickStarter contributed more than $300,000 to get it completed. Hey, why do you think they call ’em “angels”? (PG-13) Bully — Reviewed this week. (PG-13) The Cabin in the Woods — Reviewed...
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Co-written, directed by and starring the stunning Nadine Labaki, Where Do We Go Now? (5 p.m. Sunday, April 22 at Regal Winter Park) taps into so many zeitgeist-y, late-night high-deas of how to fix the world – drugs, sex and soap operas? – and zigs and zags in tone so frantically, that part of...
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Yesterday, the joke of the day on Twitter (by comedian Rob Delaney as far as I can tell) was that The Social Network 2 would be about Facebook buying Instagram — the fake vintage photo app — and Wes Anderson would direct it. It was a good a joke, of course, even if it’s just a...
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