Movies playing in town88 Minutes (R, 108 minutes) Al Pacino plays a college professor who is given 88 minutes to solve his own murder. That’s pretty much the same plot as the 1988 remake of D.O.A. with a tighter timeframe, but we’ll let it slide. This time. Apparently, our man Al’s testimony helped send a […]
Movies playing in town88 Minutes (R, 108 minutes) Al Pacino plays a college professor who is given 88 minutes to solve his own murder. That’s pretty much the same plot as the 1988 remake of D.O.A. with a tighter timeframe, but we’ll let it slide. This time. Apparently, our man Al’s testimony helped send a […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
The Monty Montgomery that Charlottesville remembers is largely gone, and the calm figure in his place doesn’t show any links to the madman that once inhabited his body.
George Clooney is often compared to Cary Grant. Yet, despite the similarities in style, Clooney has rarely ventured into the sort of screwball romantic comedies that made Grant such an icon. His closest effort was Intolerable Cruelty, which failed to capture an audience, as most viewers mistook the Coen brothers’ over-the-top style for outright mockery. […]
“Secret Talents of the Stars”Tuesday 10pm, CBS It’s no “Circus of the Stars,” but in these post-ironic times, it’ll have to do. A dozen or so marginally famous people will amaze and astound you, and debase themselves for your viewing pleasure, as they show off talents other than the ones that made them, well, marginally […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Movies playing in town10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) is prevailed upon to rescue his tribe from a civilization of pyramid-dwelling slavers. Omar Sharif is in there, doing his best prehistoric work since The […]
It’s a sick day, and Curtain Calls is sprawled across the sofa with ginger ale and crackers galore, malcontent for reasons beyond his grumbling, somersaulting gut.
America loves to play cards. Hollywood loves to gamble. Over the years, and with increasing frequency, the movie industry has tried to exploit this by giving us films about card-playing: The Cincinnati Kid, California Split, Maverick, Rounders, The Cooler, Lucky You. Hell, even the last James Bond film managed to shoehorn in a pivotal Texas […]
“The Real World Awards”Wednesday 10pm, MTV An entire master’s thesis could be (and probably has been) written on “The Real World,” analyzing its pop culture relevance as grandpappy to the reality TV craze and its early focus on legitimate social issues facing late-20th-century youth, and then dissecting its descent into a televised Petri dish filled […]