Over the last decade or so, Will Ferrell has dug himself a very comfortable Hollywood niche. In his films, he invariably plays some sort of enthusiastic, well-meaning doofus toiling away on the lower echelons of some random career ladder. Ferrell surrounds himself with a collection of comic friends, all of which add their own improvisational […]
Angelo “The World of Silence,” recent drawings by Ana Marie Liddell, 5:30-7:30pm. Art Upstairs Gallery “Reflection,” paintings by Desmond Cormier, 6-9pm. Batteau Custom Framing Recent works in multiple media by Joanne Coleman, Judith Ely, Cayce Odom and Christine Rich, 5-8pm. BozArt Gallery “Car Bombs, Rubber Boots, and Other Forms of Resistance,” oil paintings by Kris […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Movies playing in town10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) is prevailed upon to rescue his tribe from a civilization of pyramid-dwelling slavers. Omar Sharif is in there, doing his best prehistoric work since The […]
“New Amsterdam”Tuesday 9pm, Fox This supernatural cop drama was initially slated as part of Fox’s fall schedule, but it got unceremoniously dumped to midseason before it ever aired. The show has a couple things working against it, specifically a no-name cast and a fairly out-there concept. It’s like something Anne Rice would’ve cooked up before […]
The shouts in St. Paul’s Memorial Church sound like a cross between ecstatic salvation and eternal damnation, but the man commanding the noise—Jason Kobielus, a lean, dark-haired third-year drama major at the University of Virginia—is almost completely quiet.
Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film, Rashomon, features one of the most borrowed/refigured/ripped-off/homaged plot structures in the history of movies. In it, a heinous crime is committed. Four people have witnessed the crime. Each one tells their own version of events. Each person has a different perspective on things. In the end, which version, if any, is […]
Movies playing in town27 Dresses (PG-13, 107 minutes) Jane (Katherine Heigl) is always a bridesmaid never a bride. Literally. She’s served as bridesmaid at 27 weddings. Now she’s being forced to do the duty at her own sister’s wedding. The worst part? Sis is marrying the man (Ed Burns) that Jane secretly loves. Yes, that […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
“Big Brother”Tuesday 9pm, Wednesday & Sunday 8pm, CBS Due to the strike (which is over! Yay!), CBS brought back its tacky summer reality staple early this year. The twist this time around is “’Til Death Do You Part,” meaning that the players have been grouped into couples via personality tests, and then forced to play […]