The $8,900 Receipt
Ah, “low budget”—the most bogus term in filmmaking! A phrase used as justification for a poor movie and as an obstacle overcome by a great film, one that runs the gamut from…
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The $8,900 Receipt
UVA’s most expensive romantic comedy
Ah, “low budget”—the most bogus term in filmmaking! A phrase used as justification for a poor movie and as an obstacle overcome by a great film, one that runs the gamut from…
Apa-told you once…
“From the guys who brought you The 40-Year-Old Virgin” is getting to be like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for comedy films. Judd Apatow has only directed one movie since The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but his name has been attached in one way or another to nine films since then, from Talladega Nights: The Ballad […]
Chung-chung!
“America’s Next Top Model”Wednesday 8pm, CW We’re down to our final six, and at this point we can call it: Cycle 10 is the best this show has been in years. That’s not to say that the girls are as pretty. In fact, Tyra selected some broke-ass bitches this time around. But jeebus, do they […]
Movies playing in town
Movies playing in town21 (PG-13, 123 minutes) Inspired by the book Bringing Down the House, this fact-based (let’s not go all the way to “true”) story introduces us to hotshot young M.I.T. student Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess, Across the Universe). Our boy Ben’s a math wizard, but he’s too poor to afford tuition. Enter evil […]
Video from Friday night!
Highlights from Friday night's C-VILLE-sponsored show, set to 6 Day Bender's "Best I Can."
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Win a ticket to Friday's concert!
This Friday, April 18, two of our favorite local acts hit the stage at Satellite Ballroom.
Numbered days
If someone started out by telling you that 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a bleak drama about abortion, shot in Romania and set during the Communist era, you’d probably avoid it like the plague. So, instead, I’ll start out by telling you that 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days captured the […]
Feeling the heat
“Top Chef”Wednesday 10pm, BravoWith last week’s stunning news that “Project Runway” is jumping ship to Lifetime (and seriously, how nuts is that?), Bravo desperately needs to keep its second-best reality competition at the top of its game. Thankfully, “Top Chef”’s fourth season is plenty spicy. Never have I seen a surlier bunch of cooks in […]
The boxer’s dream
Leslie Banta’s memory of her nightmare is very sharp, the details burned into her brain, possibly furrowed somewhere near those loops and wrinkles that inform her work as an artist. Her family had just moved from Montgomery, Alabama, to Tuscaloosa—the same city, it bears mentioning, where multimedia artist William Christenberry spent much of his adolescence, […]