“Little Spirit: Christmas in New York” Wednesday 8pm, NBC This new animated holiday special tells the story of Leo, a little boy from the Midwest whose family moves to New York City right before Christmas. Leo is taken aback by all the people, buildings, and sights and sounds, and ends up losing it a bit […]
Watching Steve Keene paint is a bit like watching the Ford Motor Company run in reverse. The goals are the same—a simple process and affordable products—but the assembly line is all screwy, as if Keene carelessly painted over it with images of Bob Dylan or John Coltrane or beer cans. In the Steve Keene assembly […]
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Bolt (PG, 96 minutes) In Disney’s 48th animated feature, a Hollywood dog who plays a canine superhero on TV, and thinks he actually is one, winds up in New York […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Let’s put the whole “one-horse open sleigh” and “making spirits bright” thing aside for a second and look at the rest of the verses for “Jingle Bells.” Want the CliffsNotes version? The man driving the sleigh picks up a gal, promptly dumps himself and his date into a snowdrift, gets laughed at by a stranger, […]
You’re wondering: Should Four Christmases have …and a Funeral in its title? Depends how exhausting you find holidays with the family to be. More exhausting than, say, movies about holidays with the family? Four-upping Meet the Parents, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon play Brad and Kate, a childless, unmarried, mutually self-satisfied couple who’ve been together […]
“Eight Crazy Nights” Thursday 5:30pm, MTV There are approximately five billion Christmas specials airing between now and December 25, but there are surprisingly few Hanukkah-themed projects to entertain the Chosen People. Back in his manboy heyday, Adam Sandler tried to make the Festival of Lights cool for his fellow Jews by giving us “The Hanukkah […]
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Opening Friday Bolt (PG, 96 minutes) In Disney’s 48th animated feature, a Hollywood dog who plays a canine superhero on TV, and thinks he actually is one, winds up in New York by mistake and […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
I didn’t need a strict press screening policy—no handheld devices with recording capabilities of any kind were allowed in the theater—to understand that the sacred purity of Twilight must not be corrupted. Adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling novel, which contains trace elements of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, not to mention a few archetypally ancient […]