Arts

"I am looking through images for this Charlottesville City schools website, compiling new pictures to go up on the site. I teach art to everyone at Clark Elementary and half the population at Greenbrier. This is my ninth year teaching."

“From writer-director J.J. Abrams,” the poster says in big letters, “and producer Steven Spielberg,” in letters just as big. That triumph of dual brand-identity marketing is the first thing people talk about, and Super 8’s salient feature.

“Wilfred” Thursday 10pm, FX Well, here’s something different. Elijah Wood stars as Ryan, a down-on-his-luck young man who finds help from an unlikely source: his neighbor’s dog, Wilfred. To everyone else Wilfred is a regular pooch. To Ryan, he is an Australian dude in a shoddy dog costume. He can talk, he can walk, he […]

  THEATERS: Carmike Cinema 6 (1005 Garden Blvd., 973-4294) Regal Downtown 6  (200 W. Main St., 979-7669) Regal Seminole Square 4 (2306 India Dr., 978-1607) Vinegar Hill Theatre (220 W. Market St., 977-4911)  

Maybe it’s to Woody Allen’s advantage that his golden age is presumed to be behind him. It makes it easy to accept this 75-year-old writer-director as a good-humored nostalgist who understands the basic problem with nostalgia: There’s no future in it.

“Jon Benjamin Has a Van" Tuesday 10:30pm, Comedy Central You might not immediately recognize H. Jon Benjamin, but he’ll probably sound familiar. The comedian has been getting steady voice-acting roles in cartoons for years now, on series as far back as “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist,” and as recent as “Bob’s Burgers” and “Archer,” where he […]

I was just walking my puppy, Ginger—a little boxer-beagle mix. We went jogging along the Rivanna Trail this morning, and now we’re headed back to the house.

"The Glee Project" Sunday 9pm, Oxygen Fox’s teen musical “Glee” continues to be a huge hit despite the fact that, after two seasons, any unbiased viewer could agree that it’s mostly awful. And since every modern American teen thinks that he or she has what it takes to be a star (and also deserves to […]

We have the X-Men franchise to thank for the last decade’s numbing proliferation of comic book superhero movies. And so we should hold it to a higher standard.

 It’s not the worst, as group-of-dudes comedy sequels go. We’re not talking Ghostbusters II here. But of course we weren’t talking Ghostbusters to begin with. We’re talking The Hangover. So this is a little weird: It’s like expecting more and expecting less at the same time. Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis take the […]