"Flash Gordon"Friday 9pm, Sci-Fi Network Sci-Fi found great critical and commercial success by reinventing ’70s cheesefest "Battlestar Galactica" into a smart, gripping space opera. Now it turns its attention to the even cheesier pulp property "Flash Gordon," but I’m not sure how you improve upon the 1980 flick featuring a buff, glistening Sam J. Jones […]
"Flash Gordon"Friday 9pm, Sci-Fi Network Sci-Fi found great critical and commercial success by reinventing ’70s cheesefest "Battlestar Galactica" into a smart, gripping space opera. Now it turns its attention to the even cheesier pulp property "Flash Gordon," but I’m not sure how you improve upon the 1980 flick featuring a buff, glistening Sam J. Jones […]
Curt's attempt to blend into the black box of the Hamner Theater for the 2007 Playwrights Conference was thwarted roughly 20 minutes into a reading of co-artistic director Peter Coy's A Shadow of Honor
1408 (PG-13, 94 minutes) Somebody found another unadapted Stephen King short story. By law they’ve all got to be made into movies before his death, so here we go again. John Cusack plays an author who specializes in debunking claims of the paranormal. To those ends, he checks into the infamously haunted Dolphin Hotel, whose […]
“Shark Week”Tuesday-Saturday 9pm, Discovery Channel Sometimes I feel like it’s always “Shark Week” on Discovery Channel. But that’s not a bad thing—once you start watching these oddly graceful killing machines it’s tough to stop. The programming for this 20th edition of “Shark Week” includes “Perfect Predators” (Wednesday), which examines how sharks evolved into 400 very […]
Art Upstairs “Restless Colors,” ceramics, drawings and paintings by Liliana Italiano, 6-9pm. BozArt Gallery “Associate Member Art Show,” works by various artists, 6-9pm. Café Cubano “The Sea,” oil paintings on canvas and board by Glen Baugley, 6-8pm. Cassis “Suggested Routes,” prints by Jessie Katz, 5-7pm. Fellini’s #9 “Birds and Landscapes,” photographs by Jack Wilson, 5:30-7pm. […]
"Damages”Tuesday 10pm, FX After a season-long guest stint on FX’s “The Shield” a few years back, Glenn Close has been given her own series by the wannabe HBO network. While starring in meaty TV dramas is a good career move for some big-screen actresses (like “The Closer”’s Kyra Sedgwick), Close just seems too classy for […]
1408 (PG-13, 94 minutes) Somebody found another unadapted Stephen King short story. By law they’ve all got to be made into movies before his death, so here we go again. John Cusack plays an author who specializes in debunking claims of the paranormal. To those ends, he checks into the infamously haunted Dolphin Hotel, whose […]
Ray Smith keeps a straight face without so much as a struggle as he says, "I'm not good at singing in front of people." Smith—a member of the