Computers can be fun. You can play Quake 4 on them. You can download porn on them. You can use them to communicate with friends halfway around the globe. But in order for computers to be even remotely engaging, you need to physically interact with one. Simply sitting and staring at a computer screen is […]
Computers can be fun. You can play Quake 4 on them. You can download porn on them. You can use them to communicate with friends halfway around the globe. But in order for computers to be even remotely engaging, you need to physically interact with one. Simply sitting and staring at a computer screen is […]
“Eli Stone”Thursday 10pm, ABC This new dramedy features a premise that could go very wrong very quickly, but its pedigree suggests that it could actually pull it off. Johnny Lee Miller plays Eli, a vicious, high-powered attorney who starts experiencing baffling visions, such as George Michael performing live in his living room (hey, it beats […]
Movies playing in town27 Dresses (PG-13, 107 minutes) Jane (Katherine Heigl) is always a bridesmaid never a bride. Literally. She’s served as bridesmaid at 27 weddings. Now she’s being forced to do the duty at her own sister’s wedding. The worst part? Sis is marrying the man (Ed Burns) that Jane secretly loves. Yes, that […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
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 […]