“Top Chef” Wednesday 10pm, Bravo A mere five months after it wrapped the mostly unsatisfying fourth season (although winner Stephanie is totally awesome), Bravo returns with the fifth installment of its top-rated food competition. This time the cheftestants will throw down in New York, so expect some of the Big Apple’s culinary staples to get […]
“Top Chef” Wednesday 10pm, Bravo A mere five months after it wrapped the mostly unsatisfying fourth season (although winner Stephanie is totally awesome), Bravo returns with the fifth installment of its top-rated food competition. This time the cheftestants will throw down in New York, so expect some of the Big Apple’s culinary staples to get […]
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 85 minutes) A pampered pooch finds herself lost in Mexico and far from home. Disney provides the funding and Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, George Lopez and Salma Hayek provide the voices. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4 Body of Lies (R, 128 minutes) Dude-tastic director Ridley Scott’s dude-heavy drama, based on […]
The crowd in UVA’s Olsson Hall for a recent “Rock & Roll Movie Night,” the local music
The two emcees of the Beetnix are in front of me and, at the moment, they can’t stop laughing.
As he’s aged and moderated his public image, Clint Eastwood has taken to directing movies with a certain unhurried, chivalrous confidence. When it charms, people call it “classical.” Otherwise, maybe the word they’re looking for is “fogeyish.” In the clunky, overlong Changeling, a true tale of child abduction, authoritarian corruption and maternal indignation in late-’20s […]
“Election Night” Tuesday, all major networks It feels like the current presidential election has been going on for as long as I can remember. And for good reason: The economy is in the toilet; we continue to be in two unending, expensive conflicts; the world kind of hates our guts; and we’re facing looming energy […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 85 minutes) A pampered pooch finds herself lost in Mexico and far from home. Disney provides the funding and Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, George Lopez and Salma Hayek provide the voices. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4 Body of Lies (R, 128 minutes) Dude-tastic director Ridley Scott’s dude-heavy drama, based on […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Not to be confused with Pride and Prejudice or with Hope and Glory, probably to be confused with many police thrillers of years and decades past, Pride and Glory is the new movie about a few of New York’s finest who fall from fineness. A drug bust gone fishily wrong leaves four cops dead and […]