“Rosie Live” Wednesday 8pm, NBC Rosie O’Donnell has been itching to bring back the primetime variety show for about as long as I can remember. (Then again, she also used to openly lust after Tom Cruise and talk about taking over “The Price is Right,” so take that as you will.) Now she gets her […]
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 […]
Not to dog all over that lovely photo of Brad Pitt on our cover but, it being Thanksgiving and all, some holiday film fare is in order. Sure, some of you are practically aging in reverse over Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But the rest of us? Well, we have other Benjamins to […]
C-VILLE’s Steve Delgado took to the Downtown Mall to ask folks, "What do you want from Santa this year?" Revolutionary War re-enactor Joel Hendry, from Roanoke, portrays a soldier with many hats for the Jefferson Thanksgiving celebration. The two-day event, part of the Downtown for the Holidays’ weekend festival, began Friday, November 21 […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
What if, one time, when Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney made one of those “Let’s put on a show!” movies, the show they put on was a sex tape? O.K., now imagine, instead of Garland and Rooney in a glossy, golden-age MGM musical, it’s Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen in one of writer-director Kevin Smith’s […]
“Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” Tuesday 10pm, MTV I tried to resist, I swear I did. I find Paris Hilton as loathsome as the next basically functioning human being. But whilst flipping through the channels I came across a bunch of trashy young women pecking and scratching at one another, and I was hooked. The […]
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 85 minutes) A pampered pooch finds herself lost in Mexico and far from home. Disney provides the funding and Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, George Lopez and Salma Hayek provide the voices. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Bolt (PG, 96 minutes) In Disney’s 48th animated feature, a Hollywood dog who plays […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.