Movies playing in town
Movies playing in town88 Minutes (R, 108 minutes) Al Pacino plays a college professor who is given 88 minutes to solve his own murder. That’s pretty much the same plot […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Bright lights, same city [with gallery]
The Monty Montgomery that Charlottesville remembers is largely gone, and the calm figure in his place doesn’t show any links to the madman that once inhabited his body.
At last! Clooney in Leather!
George Clooney is often compared to Cary Grant. Yet, despite the similarities in style, Clooney has rarely ventured into the sort of screwball romantic comedies that made Grant such an […]
Worth your Schrute bucks
“Secret Talents of the Stars”Tuesday 10pm, CBS It’s no “Circus of the Stars,” but in these post-ironic times, it’ll have to do. A dozen or so marginally famous people will […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Movies playing in town
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) […]
Alphabet snoop [with video]
It’s a sick day, and Curtain Calls is sprawled across the sofa with ginger ale and crackers galore, malcontent for reasons beyond his grumbling, somersaulting gut.
Red hot poker
America loves to play cards. Hollywood loves to gamble. Over the years, and with increasing frequency, the movie industry has tried to exploit this by giving us films about card-playing: […]
San Francisco for the win
“The Real World Awards”Wednesday 10pm, MTV An entire master’s thesis could be (and probably has been) written on “The Real World,” analyzing its pop culture relevance as grandpappy to the […]