Movies playing in town this week

(500) Days of Summer (PG-13, 95 minutes) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are a starry-eyed odd couple who go through a narratively chopped break-up. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 9 (PG-13, 79 minutes) Bumbling stitchpunks try to save themselves from robotic overlords. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 All About […]

Checking in with Chris Patrick

What are you working on these days? Currently I’m in rehearsals for David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross at Live Arts. I’m also back to work on a series of children’s novels, the first of which I hope to have complete by this time next year. [Editor’s note: Glengarry Glen Ross plays at Live Arts through […]

Does The Informant cooperate?

Officially, he was a “cooperating witness.” Nonetheless, here’s why the movie about Mark Whitacre is called The Informant! In 1992, Whitacre was an executive at Archer Daniels Midland Corporation, the Illinois-based “supermarket to the world.” His job was to determine why ADM’s production of ubiquitous food additive had faltered, and to do something about it. […]

They're just like us!

“Dancing with the Stars” Tuesday-Wednesday 8pm, ABC NEED MORE TV? Read Eric Rezsnyak’s fall television preview! Even juggernauts like “Dancing” need a little shaking up now and then. So look for four new dances in the mix—bolero, lambada, two-step and the Charleston (so topical!)—plus even more couples than usual (16 instead of 13). And what […]

Checking in with Cindy Leal

What are you working on? I just got back from Puerto Rico, but before I left I’d been working on a lot of dance improv projects at the [Twisted Branch] Tea Bazaar with a group of friends, and I’d also been doing a lot of solo work over the past year with music improvisers. I’ve […]

Got 99 problems, but is 9 one?

Here are nine things you might want to know about the recently released film 9. 1. There is no more reason to structure a review of 9 as a series of nine points of conversation than there is for the film to open nationwide on September 9, 2009 (09/09/ 09). Numerological profundity is less important […]

Movies playing in town this week

(500) Days of Summer (PG-13, 95 minutes) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are a starry-eyed odd couple who go through a narratively chopped break-up. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 9 (PG-13, 79 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Adam (PG-13, 99 minutes) The titular character (Hugh Dancy) tries to […]

All About Steve should've been about Sandra

It is reasonable to assume that the delay of All About Steve’s release, from late February to Labor Day weekend, is not a sign of studio confidence. But with Sandra Bullock resuscitated by The Proposal, officially the highest-grossing summer romantic comedy ever, and Bradley Cooper proven bankable by The Hangover, it’s now or never for […]

Music make you lose control

“Sons of Anarchy” Tuesday 10pm, FX “Anarchy” is loosely based on Hamlet, as it centers around the young second-in-command of a Northern California motorcycle gang who questions his allegiances—and his life—after his father dies and his ruthless new stepfather ascends to the crew’s leadership post. The show stars Brit Charlie Hunnam in the brooding prince […]

Movies playing in town this week

(500) Days of Summer (PG-13, 95 minutes) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are a starry-eyed odd couple who go through a narratively chopped break-up. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 9 (PG-13, 79 minutes) A group of creatures—human? Otherwise?—known simply as "stitchpunks" try to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, among machines that threaten to wipe […]