“The Riches”Tuesday 10pm, FXThis show is fantastic, but it stresses me out. The amazing Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver play Wayne and Dahlia Malloy, a married couple that are part of the Irish Traveler community. While fleeing their con-man tribe, they caused an accident that resulted in the death of Doug and Cherien Rich, a […]
“The Riches”Tuesday 10pm, FXThis show is fantastic, but it stresses me out. The amazing Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver play Wayne and Dahlia Malloy, a married couple that are part of the Irish Traveler community. While fleeing their con-man tribe, they caused an accident that resulted in the death of Doug and Cherien Rich, a […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
A single attendant opens the Corner parking lot at 9am every day, working the slow portion of the shift at the booth that stands watch over the asphalt tract behind the Satellite Ballroom.
There’s something wonderful about painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic biopic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But there’s also something vaguely frustrating in this soft-focus ode to imagination and French joie de vivre. Perhaps it’s simply a byproduct of the subject at hand, real-life Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a massive stroke, became completely […]
“Human Giant”Tuesday 11pm, MTV Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer are two of the more reliably funny contributors on VH1’s increasingly inconsistent “Best Week Ever.” The two of them, along with award-winning stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari, make up comedy troupe Human Giant. Giant is kind of the next permutation of the sketch show, very much in […]
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 […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
In 1989, Joel Jones worked for Crutchfield electronics company and lived with John Quinn, then the resident director of a new local drama troupe called Offstage Theatre.
Over the last decade or so, Will Ferrell has dug himself a very comfortable Hollywood niche. In his films, he invariably plays some sort of enthusiastic, well-meaning doofus toiling away on the lower echelons of some random career ladder. Ferrell surrounds himself with a collection of comic friends, all of which add their own improvisational […]
Angelo “The World of Silence,” recent drawings by Ana Marie Liddell, 5:30-7:30pm. Art Upstairs Gallery “Reflection,” paintings by Desmond Cormier, 6-9pm. Batteau Custom Framing Recent works in multiple media by Joanne Coleman, Judith Ely, Cayce Odom and Christine Rich, 5-8pm. BozArt Gallery “Car Bombs, Rubber Boots, and Other Forms of Resistance,” oil paintings by Kris […]