Capsule Reviews

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 […]

C-VILLE Minute! [with video]

  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.

Love is a Michael Cera mixtape

First, it must be understood that the Nick and Norah, proprietors of this infinite playlist, are of no discernible relation to Nick and Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammett’s novel The Thin Man, which became a series of six boozily banter-intensive movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy in the ’30s and ’40s. This has be […]

Super Thursday

“CSI” Thursday 9pm, CBS When it launched eight years ago, who’d have thought that “CSI” would become one of the biggest juggernauts in 21st century TV? But a juggernaut it is, spawning two successful spin-offs and standing largely responsible for CBS’ practically all-cop-shows-all-the-time line-up. Season 9 starts tonight, and change is in the air. In […]

Capsule reviews

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 […]

Great vengeance and furious anger

Is it weird that so many fall movies are turning racial charges into high concepts? Gary Fleder’s The Express could be just another college-football drama, except it’s about the first black man to win the Heisman Trophy. Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna could be a standard-issue World War II movie, except it’s about black […]

Second chances

“90210” Tuesday 8pm, CW We’re now a month into the new “90210,” and I remain conflicted about the show. On the one hand, I enjoy all of the adult characters, from OG West Bev kids Brenda and Kelly to the new versions of the Walsh parents, including Jessica Walters’ feisty grandma. (No, I don’t care […]