What are you working on? I’m the director of a program called the Voice Project, over at Fluvanna Women’s Prison. It’s a theater and writing program. I took over the reins about four years ago, as a drama therapist, and it started out with [inmates] creating their own productions based on their own life stories…We […]
One week after a performance with the jazz trio that bears his name, longtime local drummer Johnny Gilmore died after a fire broke out in the home that Gilmore shared with his father, Curtis. Three days after his death, musicians, family and friends gathered at Fry’s Spring Beach Club to honor the musician’s life with […]
Amelia (PG, 111 minutes) Hilary Swank embodies airborne Earhart in this fall’s hot historical epic. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Opening Friday Capitalism: A Love Story (R, 127 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (PG-13, 108 minutes) Suddenly, freak is chic. A young boy […]
Right now I’m working on making new music with my band while simultaneously working with Zack Orion from Casa De Chihuahua
A classic by all accounts, and an unimprovable symbiosis of form and content, Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s book Where the Wild Things Are ranks very high among “Oh no they didn’t” fodder for movie adaptation. But Spike Jonze is the director, and Dave Eggers is Jonze’s co-writer, and it’s not wrong to wonder what they […]
“Project Runway” Thursday 10pm, Lifetime We’re getting down to the nitty-gritty of the current season of everybody’s favorite fashion design competition, and due to its unique circumstances, things are a bit different this time. A lawsuit kept Season 6 off the air for nearly a year, but the three finalists’ collections did show as part […]
Amelia (PG, 111 minutes) Hilary Swank embodies airborne Earhart in this fall’s hot historical epic. Opening Friday Astro Boy (PG, 94 minutes) A sort of Pinocchio for the 22nd century, about a rocket child created in his father’s image who blasts off to save the world. Opening Friday Capitalism: A Love Story (R, 127 minutes) […]
(500) Days of Summer (PG-13, 95 minutes) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are a starry-eyed odd couple who go through a narratively chopped break-up. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Capitalism: A Love Story (R, 127 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (PG, 81 […]
Early on in Couples Retreat, Vince Vaughn’s character finds himself in a housewares store, where his young son has used a toilet meant for display only. “There’s not a lot to say,” Vaughn forthrightly tells a galled store clerk, by way of apology. That’s pretty much what it’s like to review Couples Retreat. When confronted […]
“Sherri” Tuesday 10pm, Lifetime I used to have an irrational dislike of Sherri Shepherd. I think it was because I just didn’t understand the decision to cast her on “The View,” especially since she came on at roughly the same time as Whoopi Goldberg, and I felt the two of them kind of cancelled each […]