“90210” Tuesday 8pm, CW If you’re one of the legions who tuned in for last season’s premiere, and then promptly tuned out because it sucked, I urge you to give this Spellingvision redux another shot. Now in its second season, lessons have been learned, the cast has been tweaked and the show has become infinitely […]
(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 9 (PG-13, 79 minutes) Bumbling stitchpunks try to save themselves from robotic overlords. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Capitalism: A […]
First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. The Art Life Studio Recent works by Jill Baskin and Heather McNulty, 5:30-7:30pm. An image by Milenko Katic at C’ville Arts Art Upstairs Gallery “Patron Art Show: Everyone’s a Winner,” works by […]
(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 9 (PG-13, 79 minutes) Bumbling stitchpunks try to save themselves from robotic overlords. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 All About […]
What are you working on these days? Currently I’m in rehearsals for David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross at Live Arts. I’m also back to work on a series of children’s novels, the first of which I hope to have complete by this time next year. [Editor’s note: Glengarry Glen Ross plays at Live Arts through […]
Officially, he was a “cooperating witness.” Nonetheless, here’s why the movie about Mark Whitacre is called The Informant! In 1992, Whitacre was an executive at Archer Daniels Midland Corporation, the Illinois-based “supermarket to the world.” His job was to determine why ADM’s production of ubiquitous food additive had faltered, and to do something about it. […]
“Dancing with the Stars” Tuesday-Wednesday 8pm, ABC NEED MORE TV? Read Eric Rezsnyak’s fall television preview! Even juggernauts like “Dancing” need a little shaking up now and then. So look for four new dances in the mix—bolero, lambada, two-step and the Charleston (so topical!)—plus even more couples than usual (16 instead of 13). And what […]
What are you working on? I just got back from Puerto Rico, but before I left I’d been working on a lot of dance improv projects at the [Twisted Branch] Tea Bazaar with a group of friends, and I’d also been doing a lot of solo work over the past year with music improvisers. I’ve […]
Here are nine things you might want to know about the recently released film 9. 1. There is no more reason to structure a review of 9 as a series of nine points of conversation than there is for the film to open nationwide on September 9, 2009 (09/09/ 09). Numerological profundity is less important […]
(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 9 (PG-13, 79 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Adam (PG-13, 99 minutes) The titular character (Hugh Dancy) tries to […]