Black Swan; R, 110 minutes; Vinegar Hill Theatre
Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, premiered locally at the Virginia Film Festival in early November, but returns in wide release to Vinegar Hill Theatre this week.
Scrooged, “Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade,” “Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol”
Scrooged Saturday 10am-6pm, AMC If your family is as sarcastic yet sentimental as mine, this 1988 masterpiece—aired all day by AMC—should provide appropriate background viewing as you unwrap presents and deliver thinly veiled personal attacks. There have been countless take-offs of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol over the years, but I’d argue that this remains […]
The Tourist; Pg-13, 103 minutes; Carmike Cinema 6
Early on they were saying Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron, to be directed by the maker of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
“Funniest Commercials of the Year,” “I Get That A Lot,” Santa Claus: The Movie
“Funniest Commercials of the Year” Thursday 10pm, TBS We’re a little over a week before Christmas, so you’re supposed to be out buying presents you can’t afford for people you don’t like (but you’re stimulating the economy, so consider it patriotic duty), or at friends’ holiday parties eating way too many snickerdoodles and becoming a […]
Checking in with Milo Farineau
I wish I had an original print from Ansel Adams. Back in the days of film, I started shooting a 35mm camera when I was 13
Tamara Drewe; R, 111 minutes; Vinegar Hill, opening Friday
For all the familiar ground it covers, Tamara Drewe is a welcome rarity. It’s a film about writers that’s not too inwardly verbal; a black comedy that’s not too cruel; an ensemble piece that’s not too diffuse; an adaptation of a graphic novel that’s not too callow; and, in fact, a mature film that revels […]
“Hookers: Saved on the Strip,” “Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2010,” “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to You”
“Hookers: Saved on the Strip” Wednesday 10pm, Investigation Discovery This new documentary series explores the realities of being a sex worker in Las Vegas. Annie Lobert worked The Strip for decades as a high-priced call girl. She got out of the business years ago, and now runs the organization Hookers for Jesus, which reaches out […]
Checking in with Denise Stewart
What are you working on right now? A few things. I have a one-woman show called The Secret Lives of Little Girls that opens at the Lee Street Theatre in Salisbury, North Carolina, in March. I’m doing rewrites on that to get ready. Then I’m working on a screenplay with a screenwriting group that has […]
127 Hours; R, 93 minutes; Opening Friday
In 2003, Aron Ralston got so far away from it all that he almost didn’t get back.
“Psych,” “Top Chef: All Stars,” “VH1 Divas Salute the Troops”
“Psych” is an amiable little procedural that has found its spot on the basic-cable line-up.