Gods, guns and guts in Angels and Demons
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Don't stop believin'
“Glee” Tuesday 9pm, Fox Please, God, let this be as good as it looks. “Glee” is a new musical comedy about a well-meaning high school teacher (dreamy Matthew Morrison, Broadway’s Hairspray) who takes over his school’s glee club in an attempt to return it to its former glory. Naturally the club is stocked full of […]
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17 Again (PG-13, 102 minutes) Just as he’s beginning to wonder how his life got away from him, a somewhat reluctant husband and father played by Matthew Perry discovers himself suddenly, mysteriously played by Zac Efron instead. He decides to spy on his kids by attending their school. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Angels […]
Girlfriends Past a bit haunting
Man haunted by exes. If this doesn’t sound like a terrific concept, go watch Fellini’s 8 1/2, or listen to a Leonard Cohen record. You don’t need me to tell you that would be time better spent than teasing out the meaning of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. For what it is—namely, a lame and awkward […]
You must remember this
“The Alzheimer’s Project” Tuesday 9pm, HBO Tonight sees the debut of the final part in this series, but you can catch all four segments on replay throughout the month on HBO and its various subsidiary channels. These documentaries explore Alzheimer’s from several different perspectives: what it’s like to actually have the disease, the changing medical […]
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Angels and Demons (PG-13, 138 minutes) Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns to the big screen to pursue another secret society—just replace “Opus Dei” with “The Illuminati.” Can he prevent a deadly terrorist act from devastating the Vatican? Opening Friday Earth (G, 99 minutes) For Earth Day, which is when it opens, this documentary grandly observes […]
Among the Woverines
How did it all start for Wolverine? Which came first: the lumberjack years, or the shady government experiment gone awry? Just when, exactly, did he “become the animal,” to borrow one associate’s phrase, and how much by choice? Perhaps most importantly, under what thrilling circumstances was he first seen from above howling his grief into […]
Designer imposters
“NCIS” Tuesday 8pm, CBS “NCIS” is one of those shows that all moms love. Ask your own; 2-to-1 odds that she just loves that Mark Harmon, and wishes that DiNozzo and Ziva would just get together already. The truth is, as far as procedurals go, “NCIS” does it right. The show has steadily increased in […]
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Battle for Terra (PG, 85 minutes) CGI aliens (including one voiced by Evan Rachel Wood) and humans (including one voiced by Luke Wilson) struggle with the big questions about the fate of Earth and other planets. Cutely. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4 Crank: High Voltage (R, 85 minutes) Carefully […]
Battle for Terra is human after all
Yes, Battle for Terra is just another CG-animated, science-fiction action fantasy. And yes, it does belabor its allegorical insistence that human beings are stubbornly imperialist and environmentally rapacious. It even has a Planet of the Apes sort of twist, but in this case it’s more like Planet of the Cute, Saucer-Eyed, Gravity-Defying Tadpole People. Creature […]