“Alice” Sunday 9pm, Syfy Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is super-hot right now, between the anticipated Tim Burton/Johnny Depp flick coming out next year and this mini-series premiering this week on Syfy. Much like last year’s “Tin Man” extrapolated from L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “Alice” uses many of the themes and […]
“Alice” Sunday 9pm, Syfy Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is super-hot right now, between the anticipated Tim Burton/Johnny Depp flick coming out next year and this mini-series premiering this week on Syfy. Much like last year’s “Tin Man” extrapolated from L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “Alice” uses many of the themes and […]
December 4 Art Upstairs Gallery An all-members show, 5-8pm. BozArt An all-members Christmas show, featuring works in multiple media, 5-9pm. The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative The “Anniversary Wall” is on display, 6-8pm. C’ville Arts “Just the Perfect Thing for…” an all-members show featuring handcrafted holiday items, 6-9pm. Charlottesville Community Design Center “Neighborhood ReGeneration,” a collection of […]
2012 (PG-13, 158 minutes) It’s the end of the world as we know it, and John Cusack fees 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. Opening […]
At last, the long-delayed, Viggo Mortensen-intensive adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, about a man and his young son wandering through a glumly gritty post-apocalyptic world, has arrived. Just in time for the holiday season! Here is a movie to remind you that you’ve got a lot to be thankful for. From Lord of the Rings […]
“Lock N Load” Wednesday 8pm, Showtime The hidden-camera series wraps its first season tonight with an episode about a Christian couple that loves its guns as much as the Lord, and a feisty senior citizen who owns a small arsenal of vintage firearms. The series follows charming gun store owner Josh T. Ryan, who is […]
What are you working on right now? I’m working on a new piece for my company that is just beginning. I recently got back from the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in September, and I was doing a lot of work with dance-theater integration, and how to look at them not as two separate mediums, but […]
2012 (PG-13, 158 minutes) It’s the end of the world as we know it, and John Cusack fees fine. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 The Blind Side (PG-13, 126 minutes) A troubled black kid (Quinton Aaron) from a ruined family gets taken in by a wealthy white Tennessee couple (Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw), whose […]
Not to be confused with 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, nor with 2112, the dippy and vaguely Ayn Rand-influenced but nonetheless ass-kicking hard rock album by Canadian power trio Rush, 2012 is a new disaster epic from disaster-epic enthusiast Roland Emmerich, and presumably the disaster epic to end all disaster epics. At […]
“Melrose Place” Tuesday 9pm, CW History has a way of repeating itself, and the execs at the CW are sure hoping that’s the case this week as Heather Locklear once again joins the cast of a ratings-deficient show called “Melrose Place.” La Locklear saved “Melrose” once, driving ratings through the roof when she came on […]
Galleries Art Upstairs Gallery 112 W. Main St. Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5pm. 923-3900. Through November 29: “From Sketch Book to Canvas,” mixed-media works by Barbara Wachter. BozArt 211 W. Main St. Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. Through November 29: “Toward the Light,” paintings by Phyllis Koch-Sheras; benefit “Art for Alzheimer’s” exhibition. The Bridge/Progressive Arts […]