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, […]
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 […]
“Project Runway” Wednesday 9pm, Bravo Thank Jeebus, it’s the finale. What a terrible, awful season this turned out to be. Before it even aired I was concerned at the quick turnaround after Season 4, and I was right to be. It’s clear that S5 was cast with rejects from the past seasons, and the lame […]
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 […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column. *UPDATE (Tuesday, October 14): Paul Curreri’s performance at Gravity Lounge has since been cancelled. We regret the error.
If you attended this year’s Best of C-VILLE party at Rapture, you know that The Nice Jenkins, our house band for the evening, brought more rock than a marble quarry.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.