We were sort of blessed as moviegoers in 2012. It was a strong year, the first really strong year since the lockout, and that’s evident in the Original Screenplay nominees. I have an intense love/hate relationship with the two screenwriting categories at the Oscars, especially original screenplay. Sometimes it rewards bravery in style and...
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While millions of people saw Bond this weekend, I had an odd little experience of being in an almost empty theater on a Saturday while finally seeing Cloud Atlas. I usually like to see movies during the day to avoid big crowds, but I had figured, being a Saturday, it would be packed and...
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So it looks like Enzian lost their booking for Beasts of the Southern Wild to run with Moonrise Kingdom for a few more weeks because of its success. Beasts will open at the Regal Winter Park Village on 8/2 instead. As you were. Just a heads up that this is the last week for...
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This week in movies fucking sucked and I don’t want to talk about it. I stopped paying attention to Twitter and blogs on Friday morning, so this week is soft on links. When I went to sleep on Thursday night (well, Friday morning), the story was “unconfirmed shooting at Batman screening in Denver.” I...
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Pretty good weekend all around for movegoers. Ted and Magic Mike both cleaned up at the box office with entirely different demographics, and Moonrise Kingdom kicked enough ass at the Enzian to be held over. See it before its too late, seriously, and before the summer starts. The Amazing Spider-man begins its midnight screenings Monday night as...
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The most remarkable thing about film news this week, I think, was how boring it was — aside from Andrew Sarris dying, of course, which hurts my heart. Twitter and the blogs were flooded with remembrances of him to the point of becoming a din of quicksand. The most interesting posts about him were...
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter — Having kicked off Summer Failure Season with their Dark Shadows, Tim Burton and Seth Grahame-Smith reteam for an adaptation of Smith’s popular “inquiry” into one of the lesser-known aspects of Honest Abe’s life. This time, there’s another director — Timur Bekmambetov — running interference between Burton and Smith, and thus...
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In case you either live under a rock or on the rock, Henry Hill, the real life Brooklyn mobster who was the model for Ray Liotta’s character in the film Goodfellas, died this week. People seem to be remembering him more for the later, but let’s not forget the former. He was a mobster...
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I’ve been a few steps behind everything this week between setting up a new computer and the beginning of Euro 2012. Every year I bitch and moan about how horrible international football is, and about what a pain in the crack friendlies and qualifiers are (a high percentage of Arsenal players seem to come...
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Movie news seemed to take a bit of a deep breath to catch up after the madness that is Cannes finally finished. To kill the time, I finally caught Men in Black III. Oh boy. Chalk up another victory for infamous Hollywood Braincloud. The most interesting thing to come out of that will have...
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Lizz Winstead bites back Arts & Culture: The political pundit and creator of The Daily Show discusses the feminist elite, slut-shaming, and the difference between essay and memoir By Billy Manes 5/8/2013
Orlando City Soccer's goal rush News: The Brit, the Brazilian and their (not so?) crazy scheme to make Orlando soccer capital of the Southeast By Jeffrey Billman 5/8/2013
Attorney John Morgan backs marijuana legalization News: Local celeb-attorney is new chair of statewide marijuana advocacy organization United for Care By Billy Manes 4/24/2013
Fringe Fest 2013 shows Arts & Culture: Some choices for geeks, gamers, those who prefer to fly solo, kids, oldsters and more By Seth Kubersky 5/15/2013
Not to be upstaged Arts & Culture: The Free Outdoor Stage on the lawn at Fringe is not what you might expect By Ashley Belanger 5/15/2013
Food & Drink - Reader' Picks BOO 2012: Best Caribbean 1st Bahama Breeze, multiple locations, bahamabreeze.com 2nd Mama Millie's, 12273 University Blvd., 407-382-3570, mamamillies.com 7/18/2012