What are you working on right now? Well, I have a project with Hillary Fox, who is a local singer. We play soul and rock and country-type things, and we’ve been working on getting a repertoire with that. Otherwise, I’m always working on my own music. I have a strange project coming up with Mike […]
What are you working on right now? Well, I have a project with Hillary Fox, who is a local singer. We play soul and rock and country-type things, and we’ve been working on getting a repertoire with that. Otherwise, I’m always working on my own music. I have a strange project coming up with Mike […]
Mark Wahlberg produces and stars in the true story of Massachusetts pugilist “Irish” Micky Ward, a working-class junior welterweight who went pro in the ’80s with hit-and-miss help from his drug-addled half-brother Dicky Eklund—played with riveting, movie-stealing immediacy by Christian Bale.
“Jeopardy” Tuesday–Wednesday 7:30pm, NBC29 The eggheads at IBM decided to build a computer that can answer questions with the speed, accuracy and confidence of a human. Because they’ve apparently never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. To test said machine, dubbed Watson, they’re pitting it against two of “Jeopardy”’s biggest champions: Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. […]
What are you working on right now? A number of things. I just finished a radio piece with Jesse Dukes and Greg Kelly called “Bond Fire,” which we presented at “Let There Be Light” at PVCC. We had created a voicemail line and solicited stories about fire from various social networks. People would call in […]
“Mixed Signals” Tuesday 9:30pm, Fox Another international export, this new comedy is an American translation of the Israeli series “Ramzor.” (Doesn’t the original title make you think of some badass He-Man sidekick?) For such an exotic start the concept is rather mundane: Three lifelong friends cope with the different relationships in their lives. Mike (David […]
Does anybody ever get riled up about Foreign Language Oscar nominees? Haven’t we been taking that category for granted for a while now, counting on universal tales of triumph over adversity (Life is Beautiful), or “current events” with cosmopolitan airs (The Secret in Their Eyes), and never really getting around to watch them? Dogtooth, the […]
What are you working on right now? The Performers Exchange Project is looking to add a few gigs for our last performance, Our American Ann Sisters. We performed here, we performed it at the Hamner, we took it a few other places. We took it to the Catskills in New York, so we’re looking to […]
“Who Do You Think You Are?” Friday 8pm, NBC I very much enjoyed the first season of this genealogy-based documentary show in which celebrities learn about their ancestors. Did you know Sarah Jessica Parker’s great-great-something-or-other was one of the accused during the Salem Witch Trials? Well, you do now. This season we get to follow […]
There’s some kind of strange physics going on in The Rite.
127 Hours (R, 94 minutes) Danny Boyle puts his spin on the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah, and was forced to cut off his own arm to escape. Regal Downtown Mall 6 Black Swan (R, 110 minutes) Read the C-VILLE review here. Vinegar Hill […]