“Whatever, Martha”Tuesday 9pm, Fine Living Martha Stewart gets more than her fair share of crap. She’s derided for being an imperious bitch and, yeah, there was that whole insider-trading thing. But she’s done her time, and frankly, I like her sheets and towels. She’s a savvy businesswoman, and the best way to get back at […]
“Whatever, Martha”Tuesday 9pm, Fine Living Martha Stewart gets more than her fair share of crap. She’s derided for being an imperious bitch and, yeah, there was that whole insider-trading thing. But she’s done her time, and frankly, I like her sheets and towels. She’s a savvy businesswoman, and the best way to get back at […]
Babylon A.D. (PG-13, 90 minutes) It’s the dystopian future. Michelle Yeoh is a nun looking after a young woman who might have a deadly virus, and Vin Diesel is a mercenary looking after himself. Many explosions may change that. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Bangkok Dangerous (R, 110 minutes) Danny and Oxide Pang remake their […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.here
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Admit it: Sometimes it’s hard to know what wave of feminism we’re in. So let’s take a break from trying to figure out whether John McCain’s choice of running mate makes him seem shrewdly progressive or just a degree less insultingly desperate than if he’d attended the RNC in blackface. Let’s step away, once more, […]
“Fringe”Tuesday 8pm, Fox Things look rough for the “Dawson’s Creek” alums right now. Katie Holmes is getting bad buzz for her Broadway debut. The Beek may be at a soup kitchen near you. And poor Pacey Whitter himself, Joshua Jackson, seems doomed with his latest project, this sci-fi drama from J.J. Abrams (“Lost,” “Alias”). Essentially […]
Donkeys get a rough break in Aesops fables—they’re animals of constant work, long suffering and little compensation.
American Teen (PG-13, 101 minutes) What it is, folks: A filmmaker follows a few high school seniors through their final year and various social groups. Take a break from “The Hills.” Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Babylon A.D. (PG-13, 90 minutes) It’s the dystopian future. Michelle Yeoh is a nun looking after a young […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Assuming our intelligence can be trusted, the way Traitor came to pass is this: Steve Martin, while in the throes of Bringing Down the House, had an idea for an espionage thriller. (In retrospect, it’s easy to imagine how, during that particular production, his mind might have wandered.) It involved an undercover U.S. military operative […]