F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about a man who is born old and ages backwards has been in print for nearly nine decades. That’s a whole human lifetime, in which so much has happened that by now it seems perfectly fair for a film adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to change things […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about a man who is born old and ages backwards has been in print for nearly nine decades. That’s a whole human lifetime, in which so much has happened that by now it seems perfectly fair for a film adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to change things […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Many decades ago, when the movies still were young and naive, and the original version of The Day the Earth Stood Still wasn’t even a gleam in the robot Gort’s cycloptic eye, a Russian director named Lev Kuleshov put on a famous series of cinematic experiments. He took one straightforward shot of a movie star’s […]
“Momma’s Boys” Tuesday 10pm, NBC Ryan Seacrest, does your evil know no bounds? The self-styled heir to Dick Clark’s throne produces this new reality dating show in which 32 single women compete for the affections of one of three eligible bachelors. But there’s a catch: The boys are totally whipped by their mothers, and the […]
Live Arts’ current production of Sweeney Todd isn’t without its share of challenges. There are no visible set hands and no blackouts; the cast is nearly always onstage, involved, engaged. And it’s a large cast, filled with huge voices like Doug Schneider in the Live Arts Artistic Director John Gibson (holding razor) keeps the current […]
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Carmike Cinema 6 Bolt (PG, 96 minutes) In Disney’s 48th animated feature, a Hollywood dog who plays a canine superhero on TV, and thinks he actually is one, winds up in New York by mistake […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
So, apparently Chuck Berry did not get his sound from hearing Marty McFly substitute on guitar for Berry’s injured cousin, Marvin, at the November 12, 1955, “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance in Hill Valley, California. And apparently the birth of rock ’n’ roll has nothing to do with a time-traveling DeLorean, but instead with vintage […]
“Little Spirit: Christmas in New York” Wednesday 8pm, NBC This new animated holiday special tells the story of Leo, a little boy from the Midwest whose family moves to New York City right before Christmas. Leo is taken aback by all the people, buildings, and sights and sounds, and ends up losing it a bit […]