What are you working on right now? Right now I am working on the new season of my online video puppet show, “Jigsaw.” I am hoping to do some preview episodes before the year is out, ramping up to season four, starting up in January. I’m also working on a few other undisclosed projects—I don’t […]
What are you working on right now? Right now I am working on the new season of my online video puppet show, “Jigsaw.” I am hoping to do some preview episodes before the year is out, ramping up to season four, starting up in January. I’m also working on a few other undisclosed projects—I don’t […]
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 […]
What are you working on right now? I just finished a huge collaborative project over at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, this deck of cards. We started with the idea of doing a Tarot deck, and that evolved into the idea of doing a deck of fortune-telling cards roughly based on the idea […]
Up in the Air has a marvelous premise. It says: Imagine getting fired—and not directly by your boss, but by George Clooney on behalf of your boss. O.K., not Clooney exactly, but close. It’s him playing the part of Ryan Bingham, roving downsizer, despoiler of livelihoods. “Career transition counselor” is how he’d put it, elaborating […]
“Crazy Christmas Lights” Friday 8am, TLC One of my favorite holiday activities is driving around, looking for ostentatious light displays. I’ve never understood how vomiting candy-colored bulbs all over your lawn shows off your love of Santa or Baby Jesus, but the more your home looks like a cathouse, the happier I’ll be. Charlottesville is […]
2012 (PG-13, 158 minutes) It’s the end of the world as we know it, and John Cusack feels fine. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Avatar (PG-13, 162 minutes) James Cameron’s opus uses brand-new filmmaking technology to tell the story of a Marine (Sam Worthington) sent to the planet Pandora on an undercover mission that […]
What are you working on currently? I’m working on my next book of poems, which may be called Wicked Bible. It takes its title from a famous edition of the Bible that left the word “not” out of the seventh commandment, so it says “Thou Shalt Commit Adultery.” Not sort of domestic adultery, but maybe […]
Just try not to think of Clint Eastwood’s new film as cultural colonialism, and everything will be fine. “Unconquerable” is what that title means, as in “Out of the night that covers me,/Black as the Pit from pole to pole,/I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul.” Written in 1875 by the British poet […]
“Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars” Saturday 9pm, BBC America In roughly two weeks the Brits will get to meet the new Dr. Who. We’ll get him in America eventually, a few months after the Christmas/New Year’s two-parter bids adieu to current series star David Tennant and replaces him with Matt Smith, who will play […]
2012 (PG-13, 158 minutes) It’s the end of the world as we know it, and John Cusack feels fine. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Armored (PG-13, 88 minutes) In this actioner from the director of Vacancy, Matt Dillon plays an armored truck driver who gets caught up in a big heist. Columbus Short co-stars. Playing […]