Arts

In Shutter Island, the locale in question is called Ashecliffe. It’s an asylum sequestered on a spooky, weatherbeaten island off the Massachusetts coast

 “The Marriage Ref”  Sunday after the Olympics, NBC Can someone please explain to me why America still likes Jerry Seinfeld? He was always the least entertaining part of his eponymous sitcom, and since that ended he’s mostly been known for acting like a smug, entitled jackass. And yet, NBC is counting on his new show […]

  Alice in Wonderland (PG, 109 minutes) Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover and Alan Rickman  star in director Tim Burton’s take on Lewis Carroll’s fantasy classics. Opening Friday   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 of a Marine (Sam […]

I do have a lot of original songs that I’ve worked on over the years, and I’ve got a newer band that I hope to work with in the studio soon.

A man discovers that he’s a wolf. Hey, it happens.    But The Wolfman’s first problem is how long it takes him to discover it. Lawrence Talbot, a 19th-century American stage actor, returns to his troubled family life in England after his brother goes missing. Relations are strained further with his father and brother’s fiancée […]

“16 and Pregnant”  Tuesday 10pm, MTV   One of the more controversial entries in MTV’s reality programming is “16 and Pregnant,” about young mothers-to-be, which begins its second season tonight. There are two ways to think about the show: First, it’s deplorable because it exploits minors during the most stressful months of their lives, while […]

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 An Education (PG-13, 100 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Avatar (PG-13, 162 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s featured review here. James […]

I’m working on a play that’s based on a work of art I did several years ago called “Mapping the Dark: A Museum of Ambient Disorders.”

What a quaint little picture this is. From Paris with Love is an R-rated movie for the person you were before you were old enough to get into R-rated movies. A throwback to a time when all an action thriller had to do was dispense with menacing minorities by the dozen; when all an American […]

 “Past Life”  Tuesday & Thursday 9pm, Fox On the one hand, kudos to Fox for not using “Idol” to try to launch another terrible reality show. On the other, this new drama is yet another procedural. However, it has a twist: it’s about a pair of odd-couple investigators who look into crimes that may involve […]