“Solid. Macho. Ridley Scott.” That’s what I said, with a shrug, to the expectant movie publicist on my way out of the Body of Lies press screening. The shrug wasn’t dismissive; I just couldn’t come up with anything else. I wasn’t even sure anything else needed to be said, by me or anybody. “Perfect,” she […]
“Project Runway” Wednesday 9pm, Bravo Thank Jeebus, it’s the finale. What a terrible, awful season this turned out to be. Before it even aired I was concerned at the quick turnaround after Season 4, and I was right to be. It’s clear that S5 was cast with rejects from the past seasons, and the lame […]
An American Carol (PG-13, 83 minutes) Director David Zucker of Airplane! fame and Scary Movie 3 infamy helms this tale of a Michael Moore-ish filmmaker (Kevin Farley) who crusades to abolish our July 4 holiday and is visited by spirits who try to persuade him that he’s an idiot. With Jon Voigt as George Washington […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column. *UPDATE (Tuesday, October 14): Paul Curreri’s performance at Gravity Lounge has since been cancelled. We regret the error.
If you attended this year’s Best of C-VILLE party at Rapture, you know that The Nice Jenkins, our house band for the evening, brought more rock than a marble quarry.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
First, it must be understood that the Nick and Norah, proprietors of this infinite playlist, are of no discernible relation to Nick and Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammett’s novel The Thin Man, which became a series of six boozily banter-intensive movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy in the ’30s and ’40s. This has be […]
“CSI” Thursday 9pm, CBS When it launched eight years ago, who’d have thought that “CSI” would become one of the biggest juggernauts in 21st century TV? But a juggernaut it is, spawning two successful spin-offs and standing largely responsible for CBS’ practically all-cop-shows-all-the-time line-up. Season 9 starts tonight, and change is in the air. In […]
Have you ever watched a windshield crack? Often, the break stems from one small, central hole—made by a bottle, a rock, a bullet.
An American Carol (PG-13, 83 minutes) Director David Zucker of Airplane! fame and Scary Movie 3 infamy helms this tale of a Michael Moore-ish filmmaker (Kevin Farley) who crusades to abolish our July 4 holiday and is visited by spirits who try to persuade him that he’s an idiot. With Jon Voigt as George Washington […]