What are you currently working on? Well, about 20 or so projects right now, including a series of imprints for this label called Tompkins Square Records up in New York City. They asked me to do a series of CDs focusing on under-anthologized, under-appreciated prewar blues and country artists, so right now I’m working on […]
What are you currently working on? Well, about 20 or so projects right now, including a series of imprints for this label called Tompkins Square Records up in New York City. They asked me to do a series of CDs focusing on under-anthologized, under-appreciated prewar blues and country artists, so right now I’m working on […]
It’s true: There is no reason for another Robin Hood movie. But of course the Hollywood tradition of Robin Hood movies is to keep making them anyway. So here’s Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, another of Scott’s bloated vehicles for the battle-action Russell Crowe. Stealing from the past to give to the present: Russell Crowe teams […]
“Lost” Sunday 9pm, ABC It’s the end for one of the most talked-about series of the past decade. Will the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 finally get off that literally god-damned island? Will all of your remaining questions get answered? Don’t count on that last bit; the producers have admitted that they simply won’t have […]
Alice in Wonderland (PG, 108 minutes) â¨Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Carmike Cinema 6 Babies (PG) This documentary looks at the first days of four babies in four far corners of the world. Vinegar Hill Theater The Back-up Plan (PG-13, 98 minutes) In this romantic comedy, Jennifer Lopez plays a single woman who wants to get pregnant without waiting any more to […]
To introduce us to its characters, Iron Man 2 does its requisite bit of forging and soldering. But it makes sense that this character-stuffed film begins at the Stark Expo. In the end—with all its fireworks, gadgetry and idol worship—it amounts to a Marvel Studios trade show. In the follow up to 2008’s first installment, […]
“Vampire Diaries” Thursday 8pm, CW Producers are teasing no fewer than nine cliffhangers for this season finale. Given that the show has an “Oh, shit!” moment every time it goes to commercial, I don’t doubt them. You can look forward to at least two major deaths, and given how often people bite it on this […]
I just finished a large painting commission inside the Darden School of Business. It’s sort of a continuation of my machine painting series
Maybe The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is such a sensation because it doesn’t want to seem sensational
“Saturday Night Live” Saturday 11:30pm, NBC Finally, proof that the Internet is good for something other than porn. A few months ago hipsters launched an online campaign to get comic legend Betty White to host “SNL.” More than 50,000 people got behind the movement, and it paid off: The 88-year-old former star of “The Mary […]