Highlights for the 2010 Festival of the Book
Trying to visit every event at the 16th annual Festival of the Book is a good way to get your eyes strained and your ankles sprained, so C-VILLE put together […]
Checking in with Brian Wimer
What are you working on right now? Wimer’s Mantra, a full-length horror film with a Buddhist twist, won Best Picture at last year’s annual Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville. […]
Green Zone; R, 115 minutes; Carmike Cinema 6
“Too soon?” we worried when director Paul Greengrass brought out United 93 in 2006, five years after the fact. Not so, it turned out, but there’s no getting around the […]
The facts of “Life”
“Life” Sunday 8pm, Discovery In 2006, Discovery aired the BBC Natural History Unit’s sprawling nature documentary series “Planet Earth.” The 10-part program explored our global ecosystem by focusing each chapter […]
Capsule Reviews
Alice in Wonderland (PG, 109 minutes) Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover and Alan Rickman star in director Tim Burton’s take on Lewis Carroll’s fantasy classics. Opening Friday Avatar (PG-13, […]
Alice in Wonderland; PG, 109 minutes; Carmike Cinema 6
Let history handle the business of judging Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland against the other attempts. A more pressing question is whether Burton’s film will satisfy fans of […]
“The Celebrity Apprentice,” “The Pacific,” “America’s Worst Driver”
“The Celebrity Apprentice” Sunday 9pm, NBC I swore off this show last season after Joan Rivers—who I love—inexplicably won, but goddamned Donald Trump has sucked me back in with this cast. […]
Checking in with Aaron Farrington
What are you working on right now? A photographer and musician, Aaron Farrington is a man of few words and many talents. Over the years, he’s shot musicians from […]
Cop Out; R, 110 minutes; Regal Seminole Square 4
This action comedy from director Kevin Smith, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as two NYPD veterans in search of a stolen vintage baseball card, used to be called A […]