“A Home for the Holidays” Tuesday 8pm, CBS Yeah, it’s a concert special, with performances by Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Gavin Rossdale, Jamie Foxx and Melissa Etheridge (not a bad lineup, really). But it’s also a special to bring awareness to the importance of adoptions, specifically through the foster-care system. As such, actors including Kristin […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
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 Bedtime Stories (PG, 99 minutes) Adam Sandler plays a storytelling uncle whose stories surprise him by coming true. A presumably family-friendly adventure-comedy co-starring Courtney Cox Arquette, Lucy Lawless, Guy Pearce […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about a man who is born old and ages backwards has been in print for nearly nine decades. That’s a whole human lifetime, in which so much has happened that by now it seems perfectly fair for a film adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to change things […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Many decades ago, when the movies still were young and naive, and the original version of The Day the Earth Stood Still wasn’t even a gleam in the robot Gort’s cycloptic eye, a Russian director named Lev Kuleshov put on a famous series of cinematic experiments. He took one straightforward shot of a movie star’s […]
“Momma’s Boys” Tuesday 10pm, NBC Ryan Seacrest, does your evil know no bounds? The self-styled heir to Dick Clark’s throne produces this new reality dating show in which 32 single women compete for the affections of one of three eligible bachelors. But there’s a catch: The boys are totally whipped by their mothers, and the […]
Live Arts’ current production of Sweeney Todd isn’t without its share of challenges. There are no visible set hands and no blackouts; the cast is nearly always onstage, involved, engaged. And it’s a large cast, filled with huge voices like Doug Schneider in the Live Arts Artistic Director John Gibson (holding razor) keeps the current […]
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. 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 by mistake […]