With a Chéri on top
It figures: Blockbuster season finally yields a movie for adults, and it’s a vignette from a bygone era about the inconstancy of beauty and the dissolution of youth. You can […]
Back to school
“Big Brother 11” Tuesday 9pm, Thursday & Sunday 8pm, CBS The twist for “BB11” is that the 12 original housemates were divided into four groups based on traditional high school […]
Capsule Reviews
Brüno (R, 88 minutes) Sacha Baron Cohen brings his flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion correspondent to the American masses. Larry Charles, who also made Cohen’s Borat, directs. Read C-VILLE’s full review […]
Brüno whips it good
So there he was, getting whipped by the dominatrix at that redneck swingers party, and suddenly the whole cultural moment was weighing on me, as if this were some perverse […]
One more chance
“Dark Blue” Wednesday 10pm, TNT It’s always good to see Dylan McDermott again; he remains likable even after that disastrous male “Sex and the City” show “Big Shots” a couple […]
Capsule Reviews
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 […]
Johnny Depp fights the power
On the last night of his life, John Dillinger went to the movies. It was the summer of 1934, and Dillinger, the accomplished bank robber and evasion artist, had just […]
Super Tuesday
“10 Things I Hate About You” Tuesday 8pm, ABC Family Ten years ago, the film 10 Things I Hate About You introduced America to budding film stars Heath Ledger and […]
Capsule Reviews
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 […]
Transformers: Robots too big to disguise
With that calamitous stateside civil war between shape-shifting space robots now a couple of years behind him, young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is off to college. It means leaving behind […]