“Flipping Out”Tuesday 10pm, Bravo This show follows the fortunes of Jeff Lewis, an L.A. house flipper who buys undervalued properties, renovates them and then quickly sells them for millions of dollars. He’s also a major drama queen. Although his business ventures generate their fair share of sturm und drang, people really tune in to watch […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Movies playing in town Baby Mama (PG-13, 96 minutes) Tina Fey (“Saturday Night Live”) goes for big screen fame, starring as a workaholic single businesswoman who decides it’s time to have it all and spawn a kid. Sadly, her uterus isn’t in on the plan, and she’s forced to hire a surrogate mother in the […]
The term, in case you haven’t heard it, is “sweding.” It comes from Michel Gondry’s mostly ignored film, Be Kind, Rewind. It refers to the act of remaking something from scratch and in a ridiculously inexpensive manner with whatever is at hand. The Internet is rife with sweded films (Star Wars re-shot in someone’s garage, […]
The Heritage Repertory Theatre’s vacation from summer performances in 2007 may have been the quietest that Heritage artistic director Robert Chapel has been in his life.
“She’s Got the Look”Wednesday 10pm, TV Land I’m a sucker for a modeling show, and this one has an added heart-tugging edge. Forget those skinny bitches in their 20s; “She’s Got the Look” aims to find the next supermodel over the age of 35. Finally, our nation’s cougars get their due. But honestly, some of […]
Movies playing in town Baby Mama (PG-13, 96 minutes) Tina Fey (“Saturday Night Live”) goes for big screen fame, starring as a workaholic single businesswoman who decides it’s time to have it all and spawn a kid. Sadly, her uterus isn’t in on the plan, and she’s forced to hire a surrogate mother in the […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Milton was never supposed to take over Ben Jones’ life. Then again, these things sometimes happen with robots.
The ’50s had monster movies, the ’80s had slasher movies. So far, the 21st century hasn’t quite generated its own clearly defined subgenre of horror films (the “torture porn” category seems to have been thankfully short-lived). But at least we’re starting to see the lineage of what might be the scary zeitgeist of the ’aughts. […]