“So You Think You Can Dance” Wednesday-Thursday 8pm, Fox The frustrating fifth season comes to a close. I maintain that S5 had the most talented Top 20 ever—there was nary a bad dancer in the bunch (except poor, pathetic hip-hopper Tony). But somehow along the way we ended up with the least interesting Final 4 […]
“So You Think You Can Dance” Wednesday-Thursday 8pm, Fox The frustrating fifth season comes to a close. I maintain that S5 had the most talented Top 20 ever—there was nary a bad dancer in the bunch (except poor, pathetic hip-hopper Tony). But somehow along the way we ended up with the least interesting Final 4 […]
Aliens in the Attic (PG, 86 minutes) At a summer vacation house in Maine, a group of kids finds a group of aliens in the attic, bent on invasion and planet domination. High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale stars. Opening Friday Brüno (R, 88 minutes) Sacha Baron Cohen brings his flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion correspondent to […]
First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. BozArt Gallery Works from associate members of the gallery, 5-9pm C’ville Arts “Let the Games Begin,” creations by the Bead Brothers, 6-9pm Café Cubano “Transformation,” recent works by Flame Bilyue, 5:30-7:30pm Fellini’s […]
The funniness of people has been a subject of interest to entertainers for many years.
“More to Love” Tuesday 9pm, Fox From the creator of “The Bachelor” comes “The Fatchelor.” At least, that’s what my bitchy friends call this new dating show. In truth, “More to Love” raises some interesting cultural questions. While the “Bachelor” franchise has had 13 seasons (and five of its “Bachelorette” spin-off), the vast majority of […]
Aliens in the Attic (PG, 86 minutes) At a summer vacation house in Maine, a group of kids finds a group of aliens in the attic, bent on invasion and planet domination. High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale stars. Opening Friday Away We Go (R, 97 minutes) A stellar cast of understated comics provide advice to […]
It figures: Blockbuster season finally yields a movie for adults, and it’s a vignette from a bygone era about the inconstancy of beauty and the dissolution of youth. You can go ahead and assume the irony is deliberate. But even if you try to reframe Chéri as something like a modish cable-network provocation (say, the […]
“Big Brother 11” Tuesday 9pm, Thursday & Sunday 8pm, CBS The twist for “BB11” is that the 12 original housemates were divided into four groups based on traditional high school cliques: The Brains, The Athletes, The Populars, The Offbeats. Some of the sorting is specious—I don’t think Braden is popular with anyone, and for a […]
Brüno (R, 88 minutes) Sacha Baron Cohen brings his flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion correspondent to the American masses. Larry Charles, who also made Cohen’s Borat, directs. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Chéri (R, 100 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre G-Force (PG, 90 minutes) […]
So there he was, getting whipped by the dominatrix at that redneck swingers party, and suddenly the whole cultural moment was weighing on me, as if this were some perverse sort of movie-comedy apotheosis. The film, like that dominatrix’s breasts, is unmistakably unreal but ominously inflated. It’s unsettling to think that the inflation itself has […]