Capsule Reviews

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel! (PG, 89 minutes) The Chipmunks flick that will likely appeal to the High School Musical crowd, thanks to the debut of the Chipettes! Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4   Avatar (PG-13, 162 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s featured review here. James Cameron’s opus uses brand-new filmmaking technology to tell the […]

A Single Man; R, 99 minutes; Vinegar Hill Theatre

It’s hard not to notice that A Single Man’s timing seems a little awkward.   For starters, it will inevitably be confused with the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man, and both movies follow horn-rimmed sad sacks who feel trapped in the peculiar quicksand of 1960s Americana.   Colin Firth navigates the simultaneous numbness and volatility that mourning […]

Michael Cera: Born to Revolt?

Before Youth in Revolt became a movie, it was the first book in C.D. Payne’s popular six-novel series, known collectively as The Journals of Nick Twisp. Its partisans likely will find the film disappointing, but the rest of us should have a good time.    Rebel without a clue: Michael Cera plays up his mean […]

Here we go again

 “American Idol” Tuesday-Wednesday 8pm, Fox The big news for Season 9 is, of course, the departure of Paula Abdul from the judging panel. The four-person panel definitely wasn’t working—a number of last year’s episodes ran over because of the judges’ ceaseless prattling—but Paula wasn’t the problem. She might have been totally incoherent and hopelessly uncritical, […]

Capsule Reviews

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel! (PG, 89 minutes) The Chipmunks flick that will likely appeal to the High School Musical crowd, thanks to the debut of the Chipettes! Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4   Avatar (PG-13, 162 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s featured review here. James Cameron’s opus uses brand-new filmmaking technology to tell the […]

Nine feels more like a three

First, an important disclaimer from the press materials: “The original 1982 Broadway production of Nine, nominated for 12 Tony Awards and winning five, including Best Musical, was directed by Tommy Tune, choreographed by Thommie Walsh, starred Raúl Juliá with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Arthur Kopit. The 2003 Broadway revival of […]

Homer run

“Cougar Town” Wednesday 9:30pm, ABC You can sneer at the title, but I actually kind of like “Cougar Town.” It’s totally unsubtle, but I think there’s something fascinating—and very real—about a sexy, unattached older woman trying to navigate the landmine-riddled modern dating scene. Plus, I like Courteney Cox in just about anything. (I even sat […]

Capsule Reviews

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel! (PG, 89 minutes) The Chipmunks flick that will likely appeal to the High School Musical crowd, thanks to the debut of the Chipettes! Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4 Avatar (PG-13, 162 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s featured review here. James Cameron’s opus uses brand-new filmmaking technology to tell the story […]