A cluttered desk…
Following the annual Virginia Film Fest luncheon…
Arts
A cluttered desk…
Kevin Everson talks festival hopes and upcoming shows
Following the annual Virginia Film Fest luncheon…
Passion for fashion
"Nip/Tuck"Tuesday 10pm, F/X Season 4 of this racy plastic surgery fest was such a disaster—dwarf sex, lobster babies, pointless Scientology storylines, organ-stealing prostitutes—that I’d all but written it off. The decision to relocate the whole show from Miami to Hollywood seemed a last, desperate gasp. But damn if it didn’t pay off: Two episodes into […]
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
30 Days of Night (R, 113 minutes) The hit graphic novel about a savage (but clever) band of vampires who emigrate to Alaska to bask in the extended darkness of the Arctic Circle’s sunless winter hits the big screen. Josh Hartnett (40 Days and 40 Nights) headlines as the small-town sheriff who tries to fend […]
Wall of stories [with video]
Thick trunked and limbless, a gray-brown tree reaches from floor to ceiling against…
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
30 Days of Night (R, 113 minutes) The hit graphic novel about a savage (but clever) band of vampires who emigrate to Alaska to bask in the extended darkness of the Arctic Circle’s sunless winter hits the big screen. Josh Hartnett (40 Days and 40 Nights) headlines as the small-town sheriff who tries to fend […]
Second chances
"30 Rock"Thursday 8:30pm, NBC I initially wrote off this "Saturday Night Live"-inspired sitcom after its fairly flat pilot. But then I caught a couple episodes toward the end of last season and discovered that it had matured into one of the most delightfully cracked-out comedies on TV. Tina Fey is so damned likable as put-upon […]
Home movies [with video]
Jeff Wadlow, a Charlottesville native and a member of the Virginia Film Festival's board of directors, takes pity on all of the teams involved in this year's Adrenaline Film Project, a 72-hour, hell-on-a-tripod film competition that he helped create in 2004.
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
30 Days of Night (R, 113 minutes) The hit graphic novel about a savage (but clever) band of vampires who emigrate to Alaska to bask in the extended darkness of the Arctic Circle’s sunless winter hits the big screen. Josh Hartnett (40 Days and 40 Nights) headlines as the small-town sheriff who tries to fend […]