Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Orlando Weekly ’

In case anyone was still wondering after Shawshank Redemption adapter Frank Darabont shit-talked George Lucas over the decision to ax Darabont’s Indy 4 script, we finally have an answer to that long-festering question: “Is he insane?” We got the definitive, affirmative, no-bullshit answer today with the news that Darabont, creator of AMC’s The Walking...
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Looking for a place to dump all your old crap that you couldn’t peddle on eBay? DRIP, an Orlando-based performance art company who snagged not one, but two mentions in OW‘s Best of Orlando 2010, literally made a grocery list of random shit they need for their upcoming production, Riff. Yep, you heard me....
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When I spoke with Canadian singer-songwriter Lights Poxleitner (or Lights for short) last month, it was clear that she was, well, a little spacey. Lights, she of the popular name, didn’t always go by this alias. See, she legally changed her first name from Valerie to Lights a few years back. But little did...
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She’s pretty, she has a huge task ahead of her and she’s 100% doomed. No, not Buffy Summers, the titular hero of creator Joss Whedon’s über-revered (by me) camp film that became one of the greatest TV shows of all time Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I’m referring to Whit Anderson (right), the just-announced new...
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I never get tired of writing about the reaction I had the first time I saw Tina Fey, delivering a hilarious deconstruction of Hugh Hefner’s seven (eight?) then-girlfriends on “Weekend Update.” I felt then, and time has since confirmed, that we were witnessing a fresh talent single-handedly ushering in a whole new definition of...
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Here’s a fun quiz for a dull Wednesday: Which of the following quotes is from lamestream-cinema kewpie doll Jessica Alba, and which represents the thinking of Waiting for Guffman’s Ron “Lunt of Blaine” Albertson? A.     “Good actors, never use the script unless it’s amazing writing. All the good actors I’ve worked with, they all...
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As I droolingly mentioned in this week’s Selections (in print now! online eventually!), Enzian is hosting a screening this Saturday morning of Fritz Lang’s 1927 German Expressionist masterpiece Metropolis. “For science fiction film fans,” I slobbered, “Metropolis is the Galapagos Islands, and for cinephiles, is a vision quest, as the print being shown...
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Criterion pulled some serious ‘drop the mic and walk away’ shit this morning in reference to their upcoming Nov. 23 release of America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, an amazing-looking set that explores the revolutionary work of the BBS team – Monkeys inventors-turned-film gods Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner – in...
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All dates are subject to change. 11/3-7 – Orlando Film Festival (Plaza Cinema Cafe) 11/5 – Disney animation doc Waking Sleeping Beauty (Enzian) 11/7-9 – Central Florida Jewish Film Festival (Enzian) 11/12 – Dragon Tattoo and Played with Fire follow-up The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Enzian), financial meltdown documentary Inside Job (Winter...
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Run, don’t walk, to Bad Apple Comics across from the Florida Mall, as soon as humanly possible. Sadly, the shop around the corner is going out of business. Happily, that means EVERYTHING IN THE STORE IS 90% OFF. Everything. I just returned from a monstrous geekgasm there in which my $300 pile of loot...
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