Checking in with Meghan Eckman
I am doing corporate videos, I am working on my next film project and I am preparing the European festival launch for The Parking Lot Movie
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Going the Distance; R, 102 minutes; Opening Friday
Why is it so weird to see Drew Barrymore and Justin Long sharing a bong and making out? And humping on the kitchen table? And having relatively explicit phone sex? Is it just that such supercute people normally don’t do these things in cookie cutter romantic comedies? Is it because they’re together—or were, or will […]
“Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam,” “The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time,” “I Married the Beltway Sniper”
“Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam” Friday 8pm, Disney Channel It’s the sequel to the hit 2008 made-for-TV movie, which was itself a pale imitation of Disney’s wildly popular “High School Musical” franchise. Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers return as a bunch of musically gifted teens who geek out at band camp and get involved […]
Movies playing in town this week
The American (R, 105 minutes) An American assassin (George Clooney) heads to Italy for one last assignment in the latest flick by Anton Corbijn based on the novel by Martin Booth. Opening Friday Avatar (Special Edition) (PG-13, 170 minutes) If you didn’t get your fill the first time this mega-blockbuster came through, catch the film […]
Get Low; PG-13, 102 minutes; Opening Friday, Vinegar Hill Theatre
True story: Somewhere in the South during the Great Depression, an old man lived alone in the woods. One day, for reasons unknown, he decided to host his own funeral. Now he has a movie, Get Low, which asks, What makes a man a reclusive codger? How might he unbecome one? Will a clean shave […]
“She’s Got the Look,” “Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry,” “Weeds”
“She’s Got the Look” Wednesday, 10pm, TV Land TV Land’s modeling competition for women of a certain age (over 35, that is) returns for its third season. Original host Kim Alexis is out, replaced by omnipresent TV hostess Brooke Burns, whose pinched looks and irritating voice I’ve never appreciated. The judging panel’s biggest name, pioneering […]
Checking in with Browning Porter
I make my living as a graphic designer and I have several projects I’m finishing up, or gearing up to do.
Checking in with Sarah Cramer Shields
"I was photographing a portrait session and just playing and taking pictures of a little kid. So I was photographing little Stella."
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; PG-13, 113 minutes; Regal Downtown Mall 6
It’s like a comic. It’s like a vintage video game. It’s like every Michael Cera movie rolled into one big video for an innocuous Canadian indie rock band. It’s like the graphic novels of Bryan Lee O’Malley adapted by the director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and the funniest of those fake […]
“Melissa & Joey,” “The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town,” “If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise”
“Melissa & Joey” Tuesday 8pm, ABC Family Holy Winona Ryder! Looks like the ’90s really are back. Take this new sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”) and Joey Lawrence (“Blossom”) in an update of “Who’s the Boss?” with a dash of Raising Helen thrown in for good measure. Hart plays an aspiring […]