Music machines
Ann Arbor bands build a sound and a solid market.
Found-sound orchestra
LSD, Mozart and Mr. Rogers in a radio collage
Camp Ticonderoga
With its gnarled wood and exposed beams, this camp is going for the hunting lodge in the woods-cum-sports bar look. The Wild Thang Special embraces venison sausage, buffalo balls, wild boar ravioli; there’s also alligator, emu and bear, some of which are delicious–and they don’t taste like chicken.
Angel Baby
The premise of this 1995 Australian movie is that Harry loves Kate and that they’re both, each in a singular way, as mad as proverbial March hares. Harry, played by John Lynch, he of the perpetual and sympathetic hangdog expression, seems the more stable of the two, noticeably childlike but, on a good day, presentable…
The Matchmaker
A romantic comedy may seem like a natural format for, say, Julia Roberts or Jennifer Aniston, but Janeane Garofalo? The comedienne best known for her grim countenance, deadpan delivery and cerebral asides hardly seems right. But as Garofalo proved in The Truth About Cats and Dogs, it’s precisely her gravity that anchors a featherweight comedy…
Alley Wonderland
If Alice had baggage, the pieces in this show would be it….
U-Turn
Oliver Stone, perhaps tired of historical revisionism, has decided to cool out his savage psyche and make what can best be called an “entertainment.” Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn), on the lam from the Russian mob in Vegas, blows the radiator on his steed and is forced through the dusty-looking glass of Superior, Ariz. After haggling…
Gang Related
Jim Belushi, what happened to your diet? Last time we checked in you were on a slimming regimen and they were giving you romantic leads, albeit in shitty B movies. But now that you’re starting to chow down again, it’s back to the not-so-beautiful loser roles of yore, all the same, all awful. In Gang…
The Quiet Room
Australian writer-director Rolf de Heer’s The Quiet Room is an effective tour-de-force for a 7-year-old actress named Chloe Ferguson, who spends the greater part of the film not talking — at least not out loud. At some point before the story starts, she has decided that the most reasonable and just response to her parents’…
