“30 Rock” Thursday 9:30pm, NBC The Emmy winner for Best Comedy two years running finally starts Season 3. When last we saw sketch-show writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), a Mexican cheese puff-induced pregnancy scare left her longing for a baby, and she started thinking about adoption. Meanwhile, network boss Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) abandoned the […]
“30 Rock” Thursday 9:30pm, NBC The Emmy winner for Best Comedy two years running finally starts Season 3. When last we saw sketch-show writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), a Mexican cheese puff-induced pregnancy scare left her longing for a baby, and she started thinking about adoption. Meanwhile, network boss Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) abandoned the […]
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 […]
Besides the flaming spatula tattoo on his leg—a blue, perforated menace of eggs, surrounded by a cloud of fire
Thursday 10/30 The first day of the Virginia Film Festival is always a toss-up—jump right into silver screens and a popcorn diet, or pace yourself for the weekend and hit the opening night gala at the UVA Art Museum instead? ($75, 10pm). Why choose at all? Catch either Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman’s hard-won, […]
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What we have with Appaloosa is a faithful adaptation of Robert B. Parker’s 2005 novel, directed by Ed Harris and co-scripted by him and Robert Knott. It’s Harris’ second film as director and certainly a departure from his first, 2000’s Pollock. Harris and Viggo Mortensen play two transient 1882 lawmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, […]
“Stylista” Wednesday 9pm, CW Remember how much you loved The Devil Wears Prada? The producers of “Top Model” and “Project Runway” hope you do, since they’ve basically copied it whole cloth for this new reality competition where aspiring fashionistas compete to win a job at Elle Magazine. The Meryl Streep to their Anne Hathaways is […]
An American Carol (PG-13, 83 minutes) Director David Zucker of Airplane! fame and Scary Movie 3 infamy helms this tale of a Michael Moore-ish filmmaker (Kevin Farley) who crusades to abolish our July 4 holiday and is visited by spirits who try to persuade him that he’s an idiot. With Jon Voigt as George Washington […]
For all of his luck managing artists like The Clash and signing musicians to the Charisma Records label, Peter Jenner
“Solid. Macho. Ridley Scott.” That’s what I said, with a shrug, to the expectant movie publicist on my way out of the Body of Lies press screening. The shrug wasn’t dismissive; I just couldn’t come up with anything else. I wasn’t even sure anything else needed to be said, by me or anybody. “Perfect,” she […]