“Hurl!”Tuesday 9pm, G4 We can all agree that boys are stupid, right? In case you need further proof, I give to you “Hurl!”, the new game show launched by G4, the TV network dedicated to videogames. “Hurl!” combines two incredibly stupid things—eating competitions and nausea-inducing physical challenges—to create a perfect storm of stupid…and a compulsively […]
“Hurl!”Tuesday 9pm, G4 We can all agree that boys are stupid, right? In case you need further proof, I give to you “Hurl!”, the new game show launched by G4, the TV network dedicated to videogames. “Hurl!” combines two incredibly stupid things—eating competitions and nausea-inducing physical challenges—to create a perfect storm of stupid…and a compulsively […]
Within the first five minutes of meeting Will Thomas, I’m convinced that the Daughtry fans at Monday night’s sold-out gig at The Paramount Theater will be all over him. Whether they mob him for his skill as a musician or for his uncanny similarities to Chris Daughtry is another matter entirely.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (PG, 140 minutes) The Pevensie kids return to the magical land of Narnia, only to find that 1,000 years have passed since their last visit, leaving Narnia a far different place than it was before. Wouldn’t you know it, an evil general has taken over the land and it’s […]
Movies playing in town The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (PG, 140 minutes) The Pevensie kids return to the magical land of Narnia, only to find that 1,000 years have passed since their last visit, leaving Narnia a far different place than it was before. Wouldn’t you know it, an evil general has taken over […]
In all honesty, Bastille Day has about as much to do with music as Amy “Crackhouse” Winehouse currently does. Come to think of it, the Bastille—a French prison during the reign of Louis XVI—might’ve made a nice rehab joint. The thing is, a good beat trumps a bad party, no matter the occasion. It holds […]
You may think you have a low tolerance for cute. But all your prejudices against Hello Kitty stickers, Precious Moments figurines, Anne Geddes photographs, interspecies snorgling (if you don’t know, you don’t want to) and Knut the polar bear have done nothing to steel you against the onslaught of adorability that is WALL-E. WALL-E is […]
“Greatest American Dog”Thursday 8pm, CBS A couple years ago, Bravo aired a show called “Showdog Moms & Dads.” It followed the lives of aspiring pet entertainers and their talented canines, and it was spectacularly crazy, climaxing with a harried Hispanic woman explaining to the cameras that her ill-tempered pet Chihuahua kept biting her in the […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Amidst the high-profile comic book movies flooding theaters this summer (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Dark Knight, Hellboy 2), there’s one more whose roots trace, rather quietly, back to the graphic novel format. Wanted is based on a six-issue miniseries by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones published in 2003. Admittedly, the movie version takes […]