“Life” Sunday 8pm, Discovery In 2006, Discovery aired the BBC Natural History Unit’s sprawling nature documentary series “Planet Earth.” The 10-part program explored our global ecosystem by focusing each chapter on a different kind of habitat (grasslands, jungles, caves, etc.). No joke, it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Now […]
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 Worthington) sent to the […]
Let history handle the business of judging Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland against the other attempts. A more pressing question is whether Burton’s film will satisfy fans of his earlier work. Look at little Eddie Scissorhands, all grown up: Johnny Depp plays The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s CG-heavy take on the timeworn […]
“The Celebrity Apprentice” Sunday 9pm, NBC I swore off this show last season after Joan Rivers—who I love—inexplicably won, but goddamned Donald Trump has sucked me back in with this cast. Delightful ’80’s pop star Cyndi Lauper! Baseball star/cautionary tale Darryl Strawberry! Disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich! Hunkalicious wrestler Bill Goldberg! Surprisingly charming hairband refugee Bret […]
What are you working on right now? A photographer and musician, Aaron Farrington is a man of few words and many talents. Over the years, he’s shot musicians from Devon Sproule to the North Mississippi All-Stars. A couple of different things. I started working with Fenton Williams, the lighting designer for Dave Matthews Band. […]
This action comedy from director Kevin Smith, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as two NYPD veterans in search of a stolen vintage baseball card, used to be called A Couple of Dicks. Yes, that’s right. Cop Out is Kevin Smith’s first foray into full-fledged big-studio moviemaking (the studio being Warner Brothers). Word is that […]
“Parenthood” Tuesday 10pm, NBC Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same name, and unrelated to the original NBC adaptation of the movie from the ’90s, “Parenthood” follows the many offshoots of the Braverman family as they try to figure out their screwed-up lives without further screwing up their children. The cast is great: […]
What are you working on right now? I’ve got to finish up a film that I shot at Vassar College last March called A House in the North Country based on a play by a friend and co-writer Talaya Delaney. And then this spring break we’ll be shooting a feature up there in Poughkeepsie. Right […]
In Shutter Island, the locale in question is called Ashecliffe. It’s an asylum sequestered on a spooky, weatherbeaten island off the Massachusetts coast