Let’s put the whole “one-horse open sleigh” and “making spirits bright” thing aside for a second and look at the rest of the verses for “Jingle Bells.” Want the CliffsNotes version? The man driving the sleigh picks up a gal, promptly dumps himself and his date into a snowdrift, gets laughed at by a stranger, […]
Let’s put the whole “one-horse open sleigh” and “making spirits bright” thing aside for a second and look at the rest of the verses for “Jingle Bells.” Want the CliffsNotes version? The man driving the sleigh picks up a gal, promptly dumps himself and his date into a snowdrift, gets laughed at by a stranger, […]
You’re wondering: Should Four Christmases have …and a Funeral in its title? Depends how exhausting you find holidays with the family to be. More exhausting than, say, movies about holidays with the family? Four-upping Meet the Parents, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon play Brad and Kate, a childless, unmarried, mutually self-satisfied couple who’ve been together […]
“Eight Crazy Nights” Thursday 5:30pm, MTV There are approximately five billion Christmas specials airing between now and December 25, but there are surprisingly few Hanukkah-themed projects to entertain the Chosen People. Back in his manboy heyday, Adam Sandler tried to make the Festival of Lights cool for his fellow Jews by giving us “The Hanukkah […]
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Opening Friday 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 and […]
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I didn’t need a strict press screening policy—no handheld devices with recording capabilities of any kind were allowed in the theater—to understand that the sacred purity of Twilight must not be corrupted. Adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling novel, which contains trace elements of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, not to mention a few archetypally ancient […]
“Rosie Live” Wednesday 8pm, NBC Rosie O’Donnell has been itching to bring back the primetime variety show for about as long as I can remember. (Then again, she also used to openly lust after Tom Cruise and talk about taking over “The Price is Right,” so take that as you will.) Now she gets her […]
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Opening Friday 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 and […]
Not to dog all over that lovely photo of Brad Pitt on our cover but, it being Thanksgiving and all, some holiday film fare is in order. Sure, some of you are practically aging in reverse over Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But the rest of us? Well, we have other Benjamins to […]
C-VILLE’s Steve Delgado took to the Downtown Mall to ask folks, "What do you want from Santa this year?" Revolutionary War re-enactor Joel Hendry, from Roanoke, portrays a soldier with many hats for the Jefferson Thanksgiving celebration. The two-day event, part of the Downtown for the Holidays’ weekend festival, began Friday, November 21 […]