Checking in with Matt Thomas
I’m working on a lot of websites, which seems like a trend for me recently, gearing towards interactive stuff, web-based stuff.
Date Night; PG-13, 88 minutes; Regal Downtown Mall 6
They are, as she puts it, “just a boring married couple from New Jersey.” She first says it in a fit of agitation during one tense moment about midway through, then again, more calmly, and with some irony, as the action ebbs toward denouement. And of course there was evidence supporting her claim from the […]
“Glee,” “High Society,” “Romantically Challenged”
“Glee” Tuesday 9:28pm, Fox When we left the musical rejects of McKinley High last December, everything had been wrapped up nicely. The glee club won sectionals. Mr. Schuester discovered that his wife was a lying sociopath and hooked up with the adorable guidance counselor. Finn realized he didn’t knock up his girlfriend. And Sue Sylvester […]
Clash of the Titans; PG-13, 110 minutes; Regal Downtown Mall 6
When Ray Harryhausen first heard in 2006 that Clash of the Titans, the 1981 film that he stop-motion animated, was being remade, he had one thing to say: “Oh. I hope not.” Harryhausen’s contributions to the 1981 film, although impressive for being a more memorable performance than Laurence Olivier as Zeus, also had a way […]
Tiger by the tail
“Chopped” Tuesday 10pm, Food Network While we patiently wait for a new season of “Top Chef” (the next will be set in Washington, D.C.; in the meantime “Top Chef Masters” returns this week), we have “Chopped,” which is essentially “TC” for the ADD set. Each episode of “Chopped” features four different chefs, who are given […]
Checking in with Sharon Shapiro
I am currently working on a series of still-figure paintings and drawings that feature lather
Checking in with Robert Wray
Right now I’m working on the first draft of a play tentatively called “Seven Variations,”
Hot Tub Time Machine; R, 100 minutes; Regal Downtown Mall 6
Hot Tub Time Machine is a movie with the courage to ask, “Man, what happened to us?” and the honesty to answer, “Oh, that’s right: We came of age as acid-washed coke fiends during Reaganomics, heavy pastels and Poison concerts.” It’s a movie with the wisdom to remind us that those who don’t learn from […]
“V,” “America’s Next Top Model,” “2010 NCAA Championship Game”
“V” Tuesday 10pm, ABC “V” was one of the most anticipated new shows of last fall—it had such good buzz, in fact, that ABC bumped it up from a mid-season premiere so that it could air the first four episodes before winter hiatus. That may have been a mistake. The general consensus is that while […]
Greenberg; R, 107 minutes; Opening Friday
It’s not writer-director Noah Baumbach’s fault if Greenberg, about a guy named Greenberg, makes me wish for a movie called Zoidberg, about the friendless, incompetent, vaguely Yiddish, attention-craving crustacean physician from “Futurama.” “Oh, it’s all so complicated, with the flowers, and the romance, and the lies upon lies,” Zoidberg once lamented, sounding a note that […]