Employing weddings to make women cry (Four Weddings and a Funeral, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Wedding Planner, The Wedding Singer, The Wedding Date) is a cheap and easy tactic. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. And yet, year after year, there they are, posters lining the hallways of […]
Employing weddings to make women cry (Four Weddings and a Funeral, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Wedding Planner, The Wedding Singer, The Wedding Date) is a cheap and easy tactic. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. And yet, year after year, there they are, posters lining the hallways of […]
“Moment of Truth”Wednesday 9pm, Fox I suspect that America will love this show, and that makes me deeply uncomfortable. “Moment of Truth” is already an international hit, and now Fox is bringing it to America. It’s essentially the game show from hell. Contestants are hooked up to a lie-detector machine and asked a series of […]
The board of the Festival of the Photograph functions a bit like the aperture of a camera, the part behind the lens that expands to capture more light.
Movies playing in town27 Dresses (PG-13, 107 minutes) Reviewed here. Playing at Regal Cinema Square 4 Alvin and the Chipmunks (PG, 92 minutes) Mere months after showing up in Underdog, Jason Lee signs on for yet another CGI decimation of a beloved childhood cartoon. Here he plays David Seville, adoptive "father" to three singing chipmunks. […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
“American Idol”Tuesday & Wednesday 8pm, Fox And so it begins again. The “Idol” machine has been getting some bad press lately, as several of its underperforming stars—Season 2 champ Ruben Studdard, Season 5’s Taylor Hicks and Kat McPhee—have been dumped by their labels, while last year’s Idol, Jordin Sparks, had the lowest-selling debut for a […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
If you’re a member of Writers Guild of America (WGA) East, there’s a good chance you’re chapping your knuckles in the cold, gripping a sign with a slogan scrawled in black marker…
Movies playing in townAliens vs. Predator: Requiem (R, 86 minutes) The cheapjack continuation of two once mighty franchises rolls on thanks to this budget-conscious follow-up to 2005’s AvP. Seems the warring Alien and Predator races have crash-landed in a small Colorado town, forcing the local residents to band together and defend themselves against extraterrestrial bloodshed. […]
Heeere’s Jackie! Archetypal film madman Jack Nicholson (pictured) and Morgan Freeman try to see how long they can go on playing themselves in The Bucket List. Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are recruited to play, more or less, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, a couple of terminally cute oldsters on a buddy-buddy wish fulfillment quest […]